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Affordable and COLORFUL custom wedding dresses from Wedding Dress Fantasy

New Jersey’s own Wedding Dress Fantasy is a colored wedding dress lover’s dream come true! They carry wedding dresses in over fifty colors in sizes 0 – 40 and they’re all fully customizable!

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Mary & Stephen’s friend-made forest camp-out wedding

You’ve seen this wedding teased once before as we all drooled over Mary’s incredible custom dress. Now we get to drool over all the rest of this amazing forest wedding!

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Half wedding dress, and half wedding pants

In response to my post last week about what to wear if you don’t want to wear a wedding dress or a suit, a commenter named Amanda sent me photos of her wedding outfit — half wedding dress, half pants. The outfit was designed and sewn by a local seamstress, and if you’re a bride who can’t decide, there’s a LOT of inspiration here…

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Monica & Paul’s traditional wedding with a broken arm

The first thing everyone notices is my green and black dress. I designed it and my friend Rachel made it, as well as all the bridesmaids’ dresses. Also coordinated to my dress was my cast I had on my left hand/arm that covered my left ring & pinky fingers! I fell and broke my hand exactly two weeks before the wedding! The designs on it were a coordinated effort from my dressmaker and a haunted house airbrush artist, with a matching “bracelet” made by yours truly.

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Trish & Patrick’s tattooed, gothic, rockabilly, metal funfest!

The offbeat bride: Trish – graphic designer Her offbeat partner: Patrick – technical operator Location & date of wedding: Wandsworth Town Hall, London UK — 14th November 2009 What made our wedding offbeat: We didn’t have a lot of cash, and we didn’t want a shiny ‘perfect’ day. We wanted to get married with all […]

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Suzie & Martin’s Moulin Rouge meets Dr. Who Vienna wedding

The offbeat bride: Suzie, kindergarten teacher and student (and OBT member “Suzie Müllner“) Her offbeat partner: Martin, electrician and photographer Location & date of wedding: 8th district of Vienna — 24.07.09 What made our wedding offbeat: We decided to forget about this traditional Austrian wedding stuff, because that’s not really us. So, the location was […]