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Let’s talk about offbeat wedding dresses — how to shop for one, how to buy one, how to deal with decision fatigue or wedding dress regret. Also, be sure to check our posts about offbeat wedding dress shopping and browse some of our fave dressmakers

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Colorful, stunning, and totally non-boring maternity wedding gowns (yep, they exist!)

If you’re a pregnant bride looking for a maternity wedding gown, you maaaay just be really tired of looking at boxy, white, and boring dresses right about now. Googling for dresses brings up some heinous options, I know. But fear not! I have done the due diligence to find the most colorful, most ethereal, most bohemian, and most glam maternity wedding dresses to style that baby bump on your wedding day. There’s literally ZERO reason not to look banging as a pregnant bride.

Let’s get to shopping for your own stunning dress…

Inspiration for wedding dresses & accessories

Tame your grabby hands while we share this show-stopping wedding fashion inspiration

I wanted to end the year with a bang and pull together some of the BEST wedding fashion inspiration we could find from some of our best and most stylish vendors. They decided to blow our ever-loving minds with stunning dresses, dapper AF suits, handmade crowns, masks, custom suits, hand-painted shoes, dresses made from vintage tablecloths, and even dinosaur purses.

I’ve got some serious grabby hands going on for these dresses, suits, and accessories. It’s time to feast your eyes on this smorgasbord of fashion…

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Dark Garden Corsetry: not all dark, and not just corsets!

Despite their name, San Francisco’s legendary Dark Garden Corsetry isn’t dark at all — it’s a gorgeous light-filled space — and it’s NOT just about corsets. They’ve got bras and dresses and accessories and and and SO MUCH EYE CANDY.

Since I already have a Dark Garden corset, on my most recent visit I decided to poke into their NON-corsetry products, and dear lawd…

These dream-worthy Disney-inspired gowns make us believe in fairy tales again

These dreamy Disney-inspired gowns make us believe in fairy tales again

Disney Style just shared the Paolo Sebastian Spring/Summer 2018 show collection of Disney-inspired gowns and we were floored. They’re all subtle nods to Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, and even a Jasmine-like pantsuit. There’s so much gorgeous embroidery and detailing and I want to WEAR IT ALL.

Halloween wedding fashion

A huge bunch of Halloween wedding details to inspire the monster inside

It’s our FAVORITE time of year: Halloween wedding season! Never do we get to see the level of hilarity, absurdity, spookiness, and sheer dark glam as we do in these fall months.

We tapped into our network of Offbeat Vendors to see if we could roundup some fresh and new Halloween wedding details to share for inspiration in these last few weeks before your own Halloween wedding… or just for your enjoyment of the spooky and macabre…

Our favorite red wedding dresses of all time

14 of our favorite red wedding dresses that keep us bloodthirsty for MORE

I love when jewel tones return for the fall and winter seasons. Rich reds, violets, greens, and blues are the BEST. We’re doing a little bit of a shout-out to red wedding dresses to welcome the cooler temperatures. We dug into our red dress archives for some of our very favorite red wedding dresses that keep us bloodthirsty for more. Let’s see what ruby tones await us…