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.

#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 Traditional Wedding Of A British-Ghanaian Couple In London

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#3 Wedding Dress With Gold-Work Embroidery

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#4 The Black Wedding Gown And A Matching Bat Veil I Made For My Friend’s Halloween Wedding

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#5 My Colorful Wedding Dress. Fabric From Ghana, Dress Custom-Made In Kenya

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#6 Lucky To Witness One Of Two Japanese Wedding. This One In Particular Appeared Right Before Me

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#7 Black Wedding Dress. I Thought I’d Share A Different Dress Approach

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#8 My Pakistani Wedding Back In May

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#9 Heard Such Kind And Helpful Thoughts When I Posted About Wanting To Wear A Red Dress. Here’s How It Turned Out

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#10 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

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#11 Decided To Photobomb My Wife During Our Wedding Photoshoot Last Month

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#12 My Green “Wedding” Dress. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You What To Do – Do You With Your Wedding

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#13 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

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#14 Floral Wedding Dress: What Bouquet Should I Get?

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#15 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

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#16 My Mother (The Sewing Queen) And My Mother-In-Law (The Crochet Queen) Made My Wedding Dress

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#17 My Photos Finally Came Back. This Is Me And My Best Friend Since We Were Toddlers

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#18 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.

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#19 My Totally Non-Traditional Totally Awesome Dress. The Giant Purple Skirt Was Removable For Dancing, Underneath Was A Silk Sheath With Short Mermaid Train

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#20 I’m So Excited About My Wedding Dress, I Feel Like A Fairy

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#21 Ghana, West Africa. Ghanaian Weddings Are Famous For Their Colorfulness

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#22 My Dream Dress

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#23 I Designed It, And My Mom Made It. I Couldn’t Be Happier With The Way My Unconventional Dress Turned Out

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#24 My Fun, Unconventional Wedding Dress

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#25 Just Had To Share My Dress. Wish I Could Wear It Every Day

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#26 Tie-Dye Wedding Dress

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#27 Finally Posting My Vintage Pink Silk Butterfly Kimono Dress

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#28 My Dream Wedding Dress

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#29 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.

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#30 My Unconventional Wedding Dress, I Seriously Love The Train

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#31 Fiber Optic Wedding Dress

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#32 We Did It

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#33 We Got Our Dream Halloween/Black Dress Wedding

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#34 Our Gothic Queen Katie Looking Stunning In Her Bespoke Charcoal And Slate Grey Gown

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#35 It’s Accidentally Giving Brandy Cinderella

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#36 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

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#37 Halloween Wedding. Under 10k. Who Says You Can’t Have Creepy, Cheap And Nice Things?

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#38 Bride In India

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#39 My Custom Dress Is Ready. Can’t Wait To Try It On

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#40 Traditional Slay: Bridal Attire Of The Fulani Women, West Africa

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#41 Full Moon Union Under The Blue Moon Of All Hallows’ Eve

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#42 Found My Black Wedding Dress. Strike Bridal Bar In Milwaukee. Studio Levana

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#43 I Crocheted My Own Wedding Dress. 21 Days, 121 Hours, 79,000+ Stitches

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#44 Said Yes To This For My Indian Wedding Ceremony

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#45 Ordos-Style Mongolian Wedding Head-Dress

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#46 Traditional Style Of Bride Dress In Takasuda

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#47 I Got To Go To A Traditional Korean Wedding Today At The House Of Changwon

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#48 An Unconventional Wedding For An Unconventional Couple. We Got Married 11 Days Ago And It’s Been Amazing So Far

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#49 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.

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#50 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.

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#51 Our First Anniversary Is Coming Up, So I Wanted To Share My Unconventional Pink Dress From Fairy Tong London

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#52 Any Ideas What Bridesmaids’ Dress Color Should Fit To This Wedding Dress?

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#53 Absolutely Thrilled With My Pink Dress

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#54 Update On The Grey/Blue Dress: Got Married

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#55 My Pale Blue Dress For Our Outdoor Wedding

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#56 I Finally Got The Pictures Back From My Wedding A Few Months Ago And Just Wanted To Share My Non-Traditional Wedding Dress

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#57 Dress Is Finally Ready

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#58 Rainbow Wedding Dress

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#59 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

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#60 I Was Set On A Green Dress, And I Am So Thrilled With The Choice I Made

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#61 We Did The Damn Thing! $6700 Micro Wedding. Dress, Boa, And Earrings $800 (I Used Shoes From My Closet, Hemmed The Dress Myself)

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#62 We Did It

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#63 I Found My Dress! Not Your Typical Wedding Dress But I’m Getting Married In Southern Germany So Why Not

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#64 Found My Indian Wedding Dress! It Was The Most Sparkly Outfit They Had In The Store

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#65 Said Yes To The Red Dress

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#66 My Wedding Dress Came In Today And I Truly Could Not Be Any Happier With It. I’m So In Love

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#67 Time For The Longest Of Naps

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#68 Traditional Wedding Dress Of North Caucasian People. It Was Heavy And Very Beautiful

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#69 Black Wedding Dress

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#70 Something A Little Different, My Modern Cheongsam, A Traditional Chinese Wedding Dress, That I’ll Be Wearing Down The Aisle

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#71 Black Wedding Dress Is The Move. So Happy In Love With My Metal Man

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#72 My Very Non-Traditional Dress

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#73 I Made A Non-Traditional Wedding Dress

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#74 Just Wanted To Show Off My Dress From My My Wedding Inspired By Harry Potter. Can You Guess What House I’m In?