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50 Brides That Embraced A Different Look On Their Wedding Day
A wedding dress not only makes the bride look and feel pretty. It’s a chance to express individuality, creativity and sometimes even to pay homage to family tradition. Some brides opt for DIY wedding dresses – it’s cheap, personal and definitely unique. Thrifty brides know where and how to find unconventional wedding gowns without breaking the bank.
Some brides on this list even decided to trade a wedding dress for a wedding suit. However, what ties all of these pictures together is that all of the looks are in some way unconventional. Be it color, shape or style. So, dear pandas, upvote your favorite unique dresses and leave a comment under those that left the biggest impression. And check out our interview with the Rock n Roll Bride magazine editor Kat Williams to learn more about unconventional wedding dresses!
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#1
A Part Of Me Was Worried I Would Regret Not Wearing A Dress For Our Wedding. Needless To Say Once We Got The Photos Back I No Longer Cared About The Dress
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#2
Decided To Photobomb My Wife During Our Wedding Photoshoot Last Month
#3
Floral Wedding Dress: What Bouquet Should I Get?
#4
Heard Such Kind And Helpful Thoughts When I Posted About Wanting To Wear A Red Dress. Here’s How It Turned Out
#5
My Wedding Dress Didn’t Arrive In Time So I Wore My Mom’s 1960s Wedding Dress And It Was Perfect For Our Backyard Ceremony
#6
I’m So Excited About My Wedding Dress, I Feel Like A Fairy
#7
Traditional Wedding Of A British-Ghanaian Couple In London
#8
My Colorful Wedding Dress. Fabric From Ghana, Dress Custom-Made In Kenya
#9
My Green "Wedding" Dress. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You What To Do - Do You With Your Wedding
#10
Wedding Dress With Gold-Work Embroidery
#12
My Mother (The Sewing Queen) And My Mother-In-Law (The Crochet Queen) Made My Wedding Dress
#13
Traditional Slay: Bridal Attire Of The Fulani Women, West Africa
#14
My Totally Non-Traditional Totally Awesome Dress. The Giant Purple Skirt Was Removable For Dancing, Underneath Was A Silk Sheath With Short Mermaid Train
#15
Tie-Dye Wedding Dress
#16
I Designed It, And My Mom Made It. I Couldn't Be Happier With The Way My Unconventional Dress Turned Out
#17
I Finally Got The Pictures Back From My Wedding A Few Months Ago And Just Wanted To Share My Non-Traditional Wedding Dress
#18
Bride In India
#19
Our Super Mario And Rainbow Unicorn Wedding. We Decided To Have Some Fun With Our Wedding Reception. Our Wedding Party Was All In Rainbows Too
#20
Ghana, West Africa. Ghanaian Weddings Are Famous For Their Colorfulness
#21
Lucky To Witness One Of Two Japanese Wedding. This One In Particular Appeared Right Before Me
cerinamroth 3 years ago
This will probably be at Itsukushima Shrine. We saw a beautiful traditional Japanese wedding ceremony there too, as almost all visitors will. It is a holy spot for Shinto and very popular for weddings.
#22
My Custom Dress Is Ready. Can't Wait To Try It On
#23
I Made A Non-Traditional Wedding Dress
#24
My Photos Finally Came Back. This Is Me And My Best Friend Since We Were Toddlers
#25
My Dream Wedding Dress
#26
My Pakistani Wedding Back In May
#27
Just Had To Share My Dress. Wish I Could Wear It Every Day
#28
Photos From My Winter Wedding In Teuta Matoshi Dress
If you are thinking of getting a non-white dress trust me you won't regret it! I was anxious at first but once I had the dress I selected the color palette to work around it and it all fell into place so well!
The dress is from Teuta Matoshi, I did the custom sizing and it was a perfect fit, the only alteration needed was the length (too long). They even did some customization to the dress for no extra cost, like adding a modesty panel to the corseted back and making my husband a pocket square that we didn't end up using. Would definitely recommend buying from them.
#29
We Did It
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
I love a short wedding dress, possibly because I know I’d trip over a long one!
#30
Traditional Wedding Dress Of North Caucasian People. It Was Heavy And Very Beautiful
EmbersAreOut 3 years ago
Would it be wrong for someone of a different culture to wear a similar dress?
#31
Our Gothic Queen Katie Looking Stunning In Her Bespoke Charcoal And Slate Grey Gown
#32
My Wedding Dress
By far my biggest dye project. Rit dye on pure silk chiffon and then hand-dyed opals to sew on the said dress (rit again) looked so good in the sunlight and I love how it turned out. Thanks heap for your advice over the past 2 years.
#33
Ordos-Style Mongolian Wedding Head-Dress
#34
Please Excuse My Messy House, But My Custom Black Wedding Dress Came In The Mail Today. I Can’t Wait For My Fiancé To See It, So I Had To Share It Somewhere
#35
Traditional Style Of Bride Dress In Takasuda
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
I love seeing the wedding attire from different cultures on this thread! Stunning!
#36
I Crocheted My Own Wedding Dress. 21 Days, 121 Hours, 79,000+ Stitches
#37
Found My Indian Wedding Dress! It Was The Most Sparkly Outfit They Had In The Store
Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago (edited)
I'm having a severe bout of ADOS > Attention Deficit Oh Sparkles!
#38
Update On The Grey/Blue Dress: Got Married
#39
Halloween Wedding. Under 10k. Who Says You Can't Have Creepy, Cheap And Nice Things?
#40
Something A Little Different, My Modern Cheongsam, A Traditional Chinese Wedding Dress, That I'll Be Wearing Down The Aisle
#41
My Unconventional Wedding Dress, I Seriously Love The Train
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
If I had the figure and the man, and the desire to get married, I would totally pick this dress!
#42
I Got To Go To A Traditional Korean Wedding Today At The House Of Changwon
#44
An Unconventional Wedding For An Unconventional Couple. We Got Married 11 Days Ago And It's Been Amazing So Far
#45
Black Wedding Dress Is The Move. So Happy In Love With My Metal Man
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
Looks more dark blue than black to me, but still gorgeous, whatever the colour!
#46
Full Moon Union Under The Blue Moon Of All Hallows’ Eve
Ari Maranichi 3 years ago
All hallow's eve is the Catholic name for Halloween. It was originally called that and the point of the holiday was to dress up to scare away demons before All Saint's day, which is November 1st :)
#47
I Was Set On A Green Dress, And I Am So Thrilled With The Choice I Made
#48
I Found My Dress! Not Your Typical Wedding Dress But I’m Getting Married In Southern Germany So Why Not
#49
My Dream Dress
#50
The Black Wedding Gown And A Matching Bat Veil I Made For My Friend's Halloween Wedding
#51
We Got Tired Of Postponing So My Dad Married Us In His Backyard With My Siblings Still In Their Pajamas On Christmas Morning
It was a team effort and only cost us around $300. Not what we had dreamed about, but it was perfect for us.
#52
Black Wedding Dress. I Thought I'd Share A Different Dress Approach
#53
I Saw This Dress As An Ad, And Haven’t Been Able To Shake It From My Mind. I Ordered It When It Went On Sale And Burst Into Tears When I Put It On
Not traditional, but the only one for me.
#54
Any Ideas What Bridesmaids' Dress Color Should Fit To This Wedding Dress?
#55
My Wedding Dress Came In Today And I Truly Could Not Be Any Happier With It. I’m So In Love
#56
Just Wanted To Show Off My Dress From My My Wedding Inspired By Harry Potter. Can You Guess What House I’m In?
#57
This Is A Sign For You To Get A Colorful Wedding Dress. 2 Years On, I Still Can't Imagine A Better Dress On Me
#58
Said Yes To This For My Indian Wedding Ceremony
#59
Just Wanted To Share My Wedding Veil With You All
Moosy Girl 3 years ago (edited)
It’s lovely. Why did you put the Jurassic Park theme on it tho? >.>
#60
Absolutely Thrilled With My Pink Dress
#61
We Did The Damn Thing! $6700 Micro Wedding. Dress, Boa, And Earrings $800 (I Used Shoes From My Closet, Hemmed The Dress Myself)
Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 years ago
$6700 doesn’t sound that micro to me, my whole wedding was less than £1500 and I thought that was a lot!
#64
My Pale Blue Dress For Our Outdoor Wedding
#66
I Wanted Color, And Fell In Love With This Chotronette Couture Dress. Some HOA Found A Veil In The Exact Shade Of Champagne As The Bodice
#69
Rainbow Wedding Dress
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
*squeals* It’s a good thing this was at the end of the list when I read it because if I got any more excited I’d probably have a heart attack. But seriously I want this dress, I’ll just wear it to work, no marriage needed.
#70
We Did It
#71
Found My Black Wedding Dress. Strike Bridal Bar In Milwaukee. Studio Levana
#72
Our First Anniversary Is Coming Up, So I Wanted To Share My Unconventional Pink Dress From Fairy Tong London
#74
It's Accidentally Giving Brandy Cinderella
#75
Time For The Longest Of Naps
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What do you think ?
Sarel Seerower 3 years ago
The traditional dresses from other countries aren't different in those countries
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
You're of course absolutely right but I was glad they were included here because I was not at all familiar with some of them. They look stunning and of course very different from the western centric "white dress".
Load More Replies... Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
So many beautiful dresses worn by people expressing their individuality. No need to follow the original influencer, Queen Victoria, who started this trend.
Alexandra 3 years ago
Sigh. I wish I had been more adventurous when I got married or that I could get married again (to the same guy of course).
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Go mad on your next big anniversary then - it's never too late!
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Piitaaraq Vaisanen 3 years ago
This Saturday i was guest at a Vietnamese wedding (16th september) and was wearing my traditional Greenlandic Inuit Formal attire .. but it got really really hot at the reception, so i changed to a black shirt with a red tie. The grooms brother didn't recognize me and was giving me the evil eye (they look very much alike) .. he approached me with a "you don't belong here" look in his eyes .. me thinking quick asked "so, you're the younger or older brother to (grooms name)?"
Cassie 3 years ago
Even as late as the 50s, women in western cultures often just wore the fanciest dress they owned or a fancy dress that mimicked current casual fashion. The "traditional" white wedding dress only traces back to Queen Victoria and the Industrial Revolution. Basically, it was a seed planted by a queen actually marrying for love rather than just some political deal who wore a white dress and an orange blossom wreath instead of her crown to be demure for her new husband at a time when Europe was experiencing and economic boom and more of the working class could afford to buy a dress that would only be used for a single purpose. Additionally, Victoria encouraged her daughters to also wear white for their weddings and they were the first of the royal family to be so heavily photographed and shared in mass media. The seed had been planted at that point, but it didn't take full root until after WWII when everyday wear became a little more risque and not really appropriate for formal events.
Jude Laskowski 3 years ago
Many post-war brides just didn't have the money for a fancy dress that they would never wear again. Weddings might be at home with just relatives and close friends.
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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
The Indian/Pakistani dresses were very common. Beautiful but that's how it is in most weddings.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I really liked my aunt and uncle's wedding outfits 409771_376...e35681.jpg 
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
I just think everyone should wear whatever they feel fabulous in when they get married or whenever, really...
Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
I’m starting to regret not getting a black dress for my Halloween wedding. Though we’re changing into costumes!
Petra Schaap 3 years ago
hmmm... theres more brides than pictures here, get your facts straight lol. I really liked the special dresses.
Sarel Seerower 3 years ago
The traditional dresses from other countries aren't different in those countries
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
You're of course absolutely right but I was glad they were included here because I was not at all familiar with some of them. They look stunning and of course very different from the western centric "white dress".
Load More Replies... Rachel Ainsworth 3 years ago
So many beautiful dresses worn by people expressing their individuality. No need to follow the original influencer, Queen Victoria, who started this trend.
Alexandra 3 years ago
Sigh. I wish I had been more adventurous when I got married or that I could get married again (to the same guy of course).
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Go mad on your next big anniversary then - it's never too late!
Load More Replies... Piitaaraq Vaisanen 3 years ago
This Saturday i was guest at a Vietnamese wedding (16th september) and was wearing my traditional Greenlandic Inuit Formal attire .. but it got really really hot at the reception, so i changed to a black shirt with a red tie. The grooms brother didn't recognize me and was giving me the evil eye (they look very much alike) .. he approached me with a "you don't belong here" look in his eyes .. me thinking quick asked "so, you're the younger or older brother to (grooms name)?"
Cassie 3 years ago
Even as late as the 50s, women in western cultures often just wore the fanciest dress they owned or a fancy dress that mimicked current casual fashion. The "traditional" white wedding dress only traces back to Queen Victoria and the Industrial Revolution. Basically, it was a seed planted by a queen actually marrying for love rather than just some political deal who wore a white dress and an orange blossom wreath instead of her crown to be demure for her new husband at a time when Europe was experiencing and economic boom and more of the working class could afford to buy a dress that would only be used for a single purpose. Additionally, Victoria encouraged her daughters to also wear white for their weddings and they were the first of the royal family to be so heavily photographed and shared in mass media. The seed had been planted at that point, but it didn't take full root until after WWII when everyday wear became a little more risque and not really appropriate for formal events.
Jude Laskowski 3 years ago
Many post-war brides just didn't have the money for a fancy dress that they would never wear again. Weddings might be at home with just relatives and close friends.
Load More Replies... BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
The Indian/Pakistani dresses were very common. Beautiful but that's how it is in most weddings.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I really liked my aunt and uncle's wedding outfits 409771_376...e35681.jpg
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
I just think everyone should wear whatever they feel fabulous in when they get married or whenever, really...
Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
I’m starting to regret not getting a black dress for my Halloween wedding. Though we’re changing into costumes!
Petra Schaap 3 years ago
hmmm... theres more brides than pictures here, get your facts straight lol. I really liked the special dresses.
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