Gone are the days of the traditional white wedding with a long, flowing white wedding dress, three-tier white wedding cake and a white car to match. Today, brides are moving towards the unique for their wedding day; this is especially apparent with the all-important dress!
The fact that most marriages now take place in a venue other than a church means that brides don’t have to be quite so restrained when it comes to their attire. Short dresses, trouser suits, bright colours, and the downright loopy are all common sights; and in many cases, the dress is kept secret from everyone until the big day.
So what unusual styles are brides making popular around the UK today?
1950s
The 1950s swing dress has become a highly popular wedding dress choice of late. Cut right on the knee, it seems the more petticoats a skirt has underneath, the better. And some brides take the 50s theme that little bit further with embroidered ‘tattoos’ from the era adorning the skirt of their dress. For example, one haute couture designer carefully embroiders swallows and hearts with angel wings around the bottom of the skirt, in a very similar style to the tattoos of the time.
Vintage
Flapper dresses, lace bodices, boned corsets – they’re all vintage ideas but surprisingly they’re all being incorporated with growing frequency into the wedding dresses of today. Vintage dresses are very stylish, elegant and ladylike, making them perfect for a bride’s big day.
Coloured
More and more brides are choosing coloured gowns for their wedding day, simply because they can. Deep reds, purples, and even blacks, are becoming popular colours of choice, with bridesmaids and flower girls now wearing white. A lot of brides give their hens a hint at the style/colour of their wedding dress with their hen party bags, creating a colour theme similar to that of the wedding. Others like to keep the colour of their dress a secret until the last minute though – just so they really make an entrance to remember!
Gypsy style
If you’ve ever seen ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’ you’ll know how outrageously large gypsy style wedding dresses are, but strangely this has only endeared the style to brides across the UK. Some of the wedding dresses on the TV programme weighed over 20 stone and, unbelievably, a lot of non-gypsy brides are now opting for the same giant size dresses. Even though these wedding dresses are virtually impossible to move in, sit down in or go to the toilet in, they are still the dress of choice for many. And some brides go as far as to have miniature replica dresses made for their daughters or flower girls.
Completely loopy!
The wedding dress styles mentioned above are quite normal but occasionally, brides like to make their wedding day completely unforgettable with what can only be described as a loopy wedding dress! How about a dress made entirely from bubble wrap (seriously, we’re not joking!) or one made of weaved wild flowers? What about a peacock feather wedding dress or a vampire outfit complete with fake fangs, cape and rubber bat? These are all real examples of wedding dresses that have been worn around the UK and no doubt there are hundreds more out there – each as jaw-dropping as the last. Again, brides with loopy ideas like to hint at their wedding day ensemble with the items they include in their hen party bags, so if you’re thinking of wearing something a bit out of the ordinary then this is the perfect way to get your hens guessing and the tongues wagging.
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