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Suffice it to say, not every bride wants to go along with the status quo. They don’t all believe in the concept of “white is purity” in regards to their wedding dresses. What some brides do to add some life to their wedding dresses is usually add some kind of sparkle or embroidery to it. However, as we’ve gotten into the 21st century, brides are coming up with some very unique and different ideas for how to express themselves with their wedding ensemble. Here are five relatively strange ideas we have seen.
1. Fictional characters on your wedding dress. As you can see from the image, some women have decided to honor some of their favorite fictional characters by having their images and colors somehow interwoven into their wedding dresses. It may be hard to believe, but there are wedding dresses out there that would remind you of superheroes, characters on TV shows, and even things such as zombies and vampires. Quite often grooms will find a way to match up with the bride, but that’s not always the case. Then again, sometimes it’s the groom who’s gone strange and the bride stays traditional.
2. Go electric with your wedding dress. Sometimes sparkle just isn’t enough to highlight a wedding dress, so some brides have taken to having lights somehow embedded into wedding dresses. Of course the problem would be having a way to power the lights in the dress, but enough brides have figured out how to overcome that issue so that they can stand out even more than they already will on their wedding day.
3. How about some feathers with your wedding dress? A growing trend seems to be adding some kind of feathery materials, including feathers themselves, to parts of the wedding dress. What we’re also starting to see more often are multiple colored feathers all over the wedding dress, which includes having a wedding dress totally made out of feathers. Sure, Bjork took some heat when she showed up at the Academy Awards wearing a swan dress, but most brides will forgo having the birds heads attached their wedding dresses.
4. Maybe show your patriotism with your wedding dress. Nothing screams patriot more than having your wedding dress designed like an American flag. Actually, that’s not necessarily true. Some brides have had their wedding gowns designed to look like military uniforms. Some have had their wedding gowns designed to look like their state flags, or even flags from countries that their families have come from. There have even been wedding gowns that have added different types of military armaments onto their wedding dress; patches, not actual grenades, guns or bullets.
5. Flowers? Why not! It’s hard for most of us to imagine it, but one can actually have their wedding dress totally made out of flowers. On the TV show Project Runway, one of the assignments the designers were given was to make ballroom gowns out of flowers. What some did was make the shell of a dress and then add flowers to the dress. What others did was figure out a way to actually so flowers and leaves together to make the dress. Either way, if it can be done with the ballroom gown, then why couldn’t it be done with a wedding gown? As a matter fact it has been done; we just haven’t been able to find out if the bride had to be watered before the wedding.
