If you wore a non-traditional wedding dress did you regret it?

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I'm getting married next month and still haven't got a dress. I've seen one I like - it's blue silk- but I'm not sure if I should go for something more traditional. We're having a small registry office wedding and both in our 40's if that makes a difference!

The only thing you 'should' do is what feels right for you, what makes you happy. Blue silk sounds lovely! Congratulations!

I regret the dress and flowers I kind of got steamrollered into, do what makes you happy!

I regret the traditional that I went for in the end.

I wore a cream midi cocktail sheath dress from keen Mullen with a big fur stole (hot married in Vegas!) and I don't regret a minute.

Wedding photos are spectacular and I've gone on to wear the dress to weddings and black tie events.

I got married in a dark red dress , more like a posh frock than wedding dress. I think it was from Debenhams.
No regrets at all , lace and frills just isn't me .

I also had a Vegas wedding (24 years ago😱) I wore a sparkly red evening gown with a wrap and vintage hair comb, I don't regret it at all I could never see myself in a white traditional gown .

Got married in a grey tweed skirt suit. No regrets.

I had a tea length dress. I do sometimes wonder if I should have gone for something... bigger? But the dress was so me.

I wore a knee length blue and red summer dress. I don't regret it. Was late 20s.
Me that is. not the decade.

Nope, despite having a traditional church service wedding, I wore a deep blue velvet dress, fitted heart neckline bodice, long tapering sleeved, floor length. Loved it, and it meant I could wear it again (can't get into now due to the chubster factor, but DD wants to wear it for her leavers do in a few years time)

Long, black crushed velvet dress. Got rid of him 23 years ago...still have the dress though, no regrets.

I wore a cream knit dress, with an amazingly stylish knitted cream coat that I found in a charity shop. It was lovely. No regrets.

Do it. Do what you want. It's your wedding. I got married in a bottle green velvet medieval-style number. I loved it then and I love it now.

Nope! I got married in a pale pastel trouser suit (church wedding) and I loved it

Wear the dress that captures your heart!

I am going for something "traditional". But I think that wearing white only became a thing after queen Victoria, and if so, it's probably more traditional to not wear white!

Black sixties style dress that had a cream off the shoulder belt with black diamantee hat and diamantee silk heels no regrets, do regret first marriage and hated the dress I had which was traditional. Yours sounds lovely

First wedding was a traditional dress and tiara hated both. Second wedding was a white evening dress from Debenhams and I loved it, no regrets at all

I married DH second time around, at a wedding which sounds just like yours - 24 family and friends at our local register office We also were both in our 40s at the time. I wore a short, gold satin dress with matching bolero style jacket, matching shoes and small bag, but wore white roses in my hair and carried a small bouquet of them too.

Wear what feels right to you. Have a lovely day.

We had a very small register office wedding, largely to avoid the traditional fuss. I wore a red crepe and silk dress and I loved it. This was 30 years ago.

My wedding dress is purple and a replica of one in a film. I regret nothing, I still think it's the most gorgeous dress.

Name change for this!

I had a fabulous electric blue dress with a train, first (and only, so far!) wedding, Church, early 20s. I'm quite plain and tomboyish dress sense usually but I regret nothing. It was incredible.

Early 2000s,. a white trouser suit from Debenhams with a pink blouse from H&M. Register office. No regrets. I've never been one for dresses, really.

I love the dress I wore.

my DH who fully signed off on the non-traditional dress and even helped me pick it out, still occasionally shows me pictures of fluffy white wedding dresses that he thinks would look good on me nearly 20 years later.

He truly believes in having an egalitarian marriage where I am free to make my own choices and I love him for that. The reality though is that I didn’t care about the dress that much. Had I realized it mattered to him, I have no doubt I could have found something I loved that was fluffy and white. I wish I had done that for him. It would have been such a tiny, meaningless thing for me personally.

No regrets! I’d never hankered after a white wedding so I was very happy with my non-trad colour.

I wore a gorgeous summer dress. My wedding photos have dated far less than those of friends who married at the same time but in white, traditional dresses.