From gothy to fancy, black wedding dresses are badass

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Who needs a white wedding dress when you can wear a black one?! I don't want to hate one the lighter end of the wedding dress spectrum, but as someone who eloped in a black dress, I like my frocks dark!

Here are a few of our favorite black wedding dresses — and we'd love to see more!

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Steph and Mark's New Zealand wedding was pretty fantastic for several reasons (rockabilly theme! red details!) but chief among them is Steph's black dress. A-mazing!

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This Monique Lhuillier V-Neckline Tiered Trumpet Gown has cobalt blue undertones, perfect for your dark blue and black goth wedding.

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Kristen and Jet both rocked black at their zombie Halloween wedding in May 2013.

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This lacy black gown runs up to size 14 and is also available in red.

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Krysten donned this incredible black and white dress in her New Orleans elopement.

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Manda's full-length black gown is AMAZING — as was her afternoon nightclub wedding in Australia!

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This 50's style full-length black satin gown comes in sizes extra small to 5X, and the price is between $57 and $120. SCORE.

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One more from the archives, because I'm pretty sure you can never go wrong with a birdcage veil, dinosaur, and amazing black dress.

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