She won’t play loose with your money, but this financial analyst and her landscape contractor husband have a bit of a wild side. After Zachary proposed to Breanna beside the couple’s desert dirt bike, they whisked 125 guests to the Old Mining Camp for a taste of the real wild, wild west.

“We are not very fancy,” Breanna said, “and when we have an open weekend we are usually in the desert. I also knew that no matter what, we wanted our guests to have a great time.”

The bride stumbled across the Indio, California’s Old Mining Camp online and booked it site unseen, she said. “The location was very brown due to the wooden buildings and the desert sand backdrop, so we needed some color to make things stand out. I started with the color green, because we planned on trucking in a bunch of plants that we were going to put in our landscape after the wedding. Later, I added purple.”

Breanna said, “The venue had so many things to do that we felt we did not need much in the way of décor. There was gold panning, a shooting range, horse shoes, darts, pool, a mine to walk through, a hay bull to rope, s’mores making over a fire pit, and more.”

The couple even incorporated their lifestyle into their vows, as Breanna said to Zachary, “I vow to fish with you in any sea, race with you across any desert, camp by your side no matter how cold. But most importantly, I vow to be faithful to you, to support your dreams and your many endeavors, and to love you with all that I have.”

Breanna told Pretty Little Weddings, “It may seem like we had this really strange wedding and that we are a little odd but we are very much like everyone else. We like to have a good time, go on adventures and enjoy life. We wanted our wedding to be nothing different than our real lives. We found a very unusual wedding site and we turned it into a fun venue that created memories for not only ourselves but our guests as well.”

“P.S.,” Breanna said. “Etiquette, schmeditiquette. We did do a lot traditional things, but we threw in non-traditional things as well. Don’t let etiquette stop you from being creative. If you want to pull a rubber chicken out of your dress before the garter, then go for it!”

If you’d like to see more of this incredible wedding, check out the couple’s wedding video. And bring tissues.

Alina and Nico are a cost-conscious couple. They bonded over thrift shopping, snagging steal after steal at their favorite second-hand store—so it was only appropriate that the pair pledged to spend the rest of their lives together in the place they had made so many other deals.

“As I walked by the jewelry case, a very sweet associate named Shannon said, ‘Hey Alina, you should take a look at our rings. I’m sure there is one with your name on it,’” Alina said. “I walked back and took a look at the rings that she took out of the jewelry case.”

Then, Alina said, “there it was, at the back of the ring tray. A white box with ‘Alina’ written on it. Nico grabbed the box, got on one knee and asked me to marry him.”

The couple wed six months later at the ranch where Alina grew up. “It was most cost effective, first of all, and we went as thrifty as possible in all areas,” Alina said. “I definitely wanted our wedding to be unique, thrifty, handmade, and meaningful. Because Nico and I love thrift shopping and got engaged in a vintage store, I wanted to incorporate that theme throughout our wedding.”

The bride ran “items that were found at thrift stores” down the length of several long tables, including “colored glass of all heights and styles, vintage books, old bottles, ceramic birds and music sheets,” she said.

“Also,” Alina said, “after finding the great postcards on eBay, I tried to incorporate them throughout the wedding. They were used as an alternative to the guest book, our table numbers, the back of our programs and as a theme for our thank you cards.”

Alina handmade fabric flower boutonnieres, tissue paper lanterns and fan programs. Nico carved the couple’s silhouettes out of wood. And Alina’s mother sewed overlays for each of the tables.

“Allow special people to help with things,” Alina said. “It means a lot to them and will mean a lot to you, too.”

Lindsey and Kris met at a Cinco de Mayo party nearly three years ago. So when the couple began their search for a “fun location with a lot of color and interesting visual backgrounds,” photographer Heather Banks of Eclectic Images suggested a Mexican restaurant and the idea made perfect sense, Lindsey said.

“We are very goofy together and love to have fun,” Lindsey said. “We joke around a lot, and try to find fun interesting things to do together. I think the location of the engagement session showed this because all the places we took pictures in were bright and cheery.”

La Condesa had “several rooms with funky backgrounds, and we had the afternoon to wander around the restaurant in between their lunch and dinner crowds,” Lindsey said. “I also wanted the pictures to be like art, and I think Heather captured that wonderfully. I can’t wait to hang up the pictures at our house!”

I wasn’t a believer until my own mismatched bridesmaids were forced into a half dozen unflattering dresses and soon, the appeal of David’s Bridal became clear. Women aren’t built the same—so why should their dresses be?

David’s Bridal offers myriad bridesmaids dresses that can be mixed and matched to suit any size or style. A traditional bride can dress her maids in ball gowns, while a trendy girl can experiment with the company’s bold floral prints. There’s no shortage of unique bridesmaid dresses there.

At Pretty Little Weddings, we especially appreciate that sizes range from 2 to 26, leaving no bridesmaid uncovered.

A few of our favorite styles, courtesy of David’s Bridal.