Dude.
I like you, Offbeat Bride, I really do. But sometimes I feel like, if I see another wedding post title that reads something like “Tammy and Wynette’s Burton-esque Voodoo Pirate Steampunk Neo-Victorian Goth Mustachioed Rockabilly Anime Tetrus Folk Freak Festival!”* I will scream.
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* Yeah, I know, coming on the heels of the “everyone is OK” post? But all this stuff truly is OK. It’s just that sometimes these descriptions get a bit …much. You know? Or am I just going crazy over here?
God, I am sooo on the same page as you. I don’t think I even know what a steampunk is. As far as I can discern it involves alot of decorating with sprockets. Offbeat Bride was the first wedding blog I started reading, I posted on their ning site, I was really into it. Then I started to really feel like I wan’t offbeat enough because I wasn’t having live birds in my hair. Good for them for being themselves, but some of these wedding genres seem a bit contrived.
On steampunk: ME NEITHER. Frankly, I had no idea there was a such a thing until I saw it on Offbeat Bride. Maybe they are wistful for the good old days of the industrial revolution?
Yeah, I’m with you. It feels like some try too hard to win the “offbeat” award.
I’m glad there’s a space like offbeat bride, because what on earth did steampunk girls do with themselves (besides run screaming from the Kn*t) before Ariel got started?! And I love the creativity and excitement they all have about finding each other. But I, apparently, am far more visually traditional. (And by visually traditional, I clearly don’t mean the soft-focus-look and rose-bouquet charm.) I just mean that I’m intellectually offbeat from the comfort of my Anne Taylor Loft work suits.
Becca – me too!!! visually traditional is exactly the phrase I’ve been looking for.