So, does that mean Offbeat Bride’s work is done? Is that it? Time to just fold it all up, and call it quits? Mission completed, see y’all later?
Now it’s not only accepted that your wedding will reflect your personality, it’s almost assumed that of course you’re going to have some references to your favorite bits of pop culture, or the place where you had your first date, or that song your dad used to sing to you.įor the most part, these days people understand that having an offbeat and authentic wedding is an option-even the more conservative folks who think Offbeat Bride is tasteless and “tacky.” Alternative weddings have permeated American culture so deeply that even the most mainstream wedding media covers nontraditional wedding trends and nonwhite wedding dresses barely raise your mom’s eyebrow. One remarkable wedding industry shift is that, well, we kinda won the war against wedding homogeneity. More joyfully, marriage equality is now legal across the United States-and in Canada, Australia, and the UK, too! Offbeat Brides of all orientations and identities can now marry their beloveds all over the world.… Yes, we still have a ways to go, but the political and legal progress of marriage equality in the past decade has been monumental.
(And here I thought I was fancy for asking my wedding guests to upload their wedding photos to Flickr…)
(Aww, cute!) Now, we all deal with ubiquitous smartphone use, wedding hashtags, app push notification overwhelm, and navigating social media etiquette faux pas. Back then, you felt high tech if your wedding favors were a CD-ROM of wedding songs that you’d downloaded from a questionable online source. Technology has advanced in ways that, even as a nerd back in the mid-2000s, I never could have imagined. went on to spawn several other web publications, and in my attempt to sell a few copies of a book, I accidentally founded a media company that’s kept me busy for almost fifteen years. For me, the little website I launched to promote my book tour ended up becoming a global wedding planning resource that’s been used by 50 million people over the past twelve years. Needless to say, a LOT has changed since Offbeat Bride’s first edition. A time before most of us knew the word “cisgender.” It was a time when many of you reading this may have been teenagers! A time when having a website for your wedding was still a new and nerdy idea-I mean, you had to hand-code it! It was a time when marriage equality still felt like a distant, rainbow-striped dream in the hearts of progressive Americans. It was the time of Friendster and Myspace. W HEN I SAT DOWN TO WRITE O FFBEAT B RIDE IN 2005, IT WAS A DIFFERENT era. INTRODUCTION How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bride
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