Offbeat Bride profile questionnaire

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Thanks for your interest sharing your wedding with offbeatbride.com!

If you'd like to share your story with the thousands of amazing, independent women who are planning offbeat weddings, just answer a few questions below.

First, a couple important guidelines. Submissions not following these guidelines will be deleted.

Your wedding pictures must be on Flickr, and they must be public! Be sure to add 'em to the Offbeat Bride Flickr pool. Here's how.
Give complete answers to all questions, but each answer is limited to 250 words or less.
We can't profile you until AFTER your wedding happens. Please do not fill out this questionnaire until you've had your wedding, gotten all your pictures back, etc.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:
We can only feature a very small portion of the bride profiles that are submitted. We love reading every single bride profile that we receive, but we just don't have the bandwidth to feature all of them. Also, please understand that it can take us several months after submission for profiles to publish. If you want to know more about how we pick which weddings to feature click here.

1. Your name and occupation:
Just your first name is fine. Required Question

2. Email (and website if you have one): Required Question

3. Offbeat groom/partner's name:
Name and occupation.
Required Question

4. If you're a member of the Offbeat Bride Tribe, please give us your profile URL. (DO NOT just answer "yes" or give us your username. We need your URL so we can link to your profile page!)
Required Question

5. Location of wedding:
Be specific, ie not just city and state, but venue such as "Friend's back yard in Seattle, WA." Include the URL for your venue if you have one!
Required Question

6. Date of wedding:
Required Question

7. Your wedding in 7 words or less:
For example, I would describe my wedding as a hippie/raver forest freak-fest. Required Question

8. What made our wedding offbeat:
Now you get more than 7 words. :) Did you buck tradition? Save a fortune? Strip it down to the bare minimum? Go all-out wild? Scare your family? Tell everyone a few key things that made your wedding truly yours. Required Question

0/250 allowed words.

9. Our biggest challenge:
Be as specific as possible, and most importantly: share how you dealt with the problem. Exercise some tact here and assume that if you write about a specific person (family member, whatever) they will somehow inevitably read it. Be constructive and tactful!
Required Question

0/250 allowed words.

10. My favorite moment:
What sticks out in your mind as your favorite moment from your offbeat event? Required Question

0/250 allowed words.

11. My advice for other offbeat brides:
What tips do you have for other nontraditional types planning their weddings? Bonus points for something OTHER than "Do what you want." ;)
Required Question

0/250 allowed words.

12. Care to share a few vendor/shopping links?
Readers ALWAYS want to know where brides got their dress/outfit so be sure to include that -- but also include links for accessories, decorations, vendors, whatever. Be sure to include URLs!

0/250 allowed words.

13. Please give us a link to a photoset of your 50 best wedding photos on Flickr.
If you don't have public pictures on Flickr, we can't profile you! Please limit your photoset to 50 pictures or less and do not just give us your Flickr username. We need a full link so we can link to your photos!
Required Question