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!

I wore an ' occasion dress' from. Dorothy perkins. £50. No regrets whatsoever.
I wouldn't feel comfortable in a traditional dress tbh
Wear what you want

I wore black full tulle skirt with lace top, a leather jacket and doc boots. Don't regret it for a second.

I wore a lace cami top and beaded/ embroidered skirt. No regrets, it was an excellent look.

I kind of regretted going for a traditional one because I didn't want to keep it and it is just stuck in a suitcase at MIL's house going mouldy, I don't want it cluttering up my house but she won't donate it (and we live so far apart it's not worth shipping it) so 🤷‍♀️

If I'd gone for a non traditional dress I could have kept it as an evening dress.

It does look lovely in the pictures, I'm just not sure it was worth the money!

Yes I did. We had no money at all. I was on a low salary and dh was a student. I bought a dress in the Monsoon sale. It was smarter than normal daytime wear but nothing special. I wish I’d bought something a bit nicer, but not an actual wedding dress because that wasn’t ‘me’ at all.

I don't think a big white dress is all that traditional. I have photos of both my grandmothers wearing a suit (or 'costume' as it was then) and hat, and my grandfathers looking very dapper in smart suits and hats. This was in the 1930s.

I got married in non-traditional wedding dress and don't regret it all all. It was the middle of winter so the dark colour I chose was perfect. My mum was very put out that I wasn't wearing white though.

I wore a red and gold dress. Don't regret it for a minute - I look soooo bad in white

I wore a bronze beaded evening dress. No regrets from me. 🥂

No, because then you'd be like 127 years old or something

I was a student and I'd saved enough to buy a dress but couldn't find anything I really liked and I was reluctant to spend the money. I got married in a pink and white cotton summer dress which I went on wearing for several years until it was relegated to dc's dressing up box. That was 50 years ago. I still don't like dressing up, and I've never regretted it. ( the dress and the marriage!)

I also had a registry office wedding in my 40s. I opened my wardrobe and decided what dress to wear 10 minutes before we had to set off. I plumped for a pink summery dress from Principles, it had cost 10 pounds reduced from 35. No regrets, I'd rather spend money on home improvements.

I wore a black satin dress that I already owned (but hadn't worn for ages) with black boots and sparkly tights. Very small registry office wedding. It was very 'me' and I don't regret it at all! I would have felt ridiculous in a big white princess style dress (particularly with DH next to me in the hoodie he chose to wear 😆)

I wore a long orange dress I got in Portobello road. Cost about £20, 25 years ago. Earlier that day I had been looking at Monsoon and more traditional stuff with my Mum.

I was 33 and had a 3 month old baby. Fairly small registry office do. Never regretted it. Actually several people asked what ‘designer’ it was.

In 1994 I bought my bottle green Laura Ashley dress in my lunch hour.

Wedding #1 XH - i was v young and got railroaded by my mother into having a dress she'd made rather than ''going out and wasting money'' I regretted it. (but then i regretted the whole thing).

Wedding #2 to DH (10 years ago now!) i wore a gorgeous white strapless bridal dress with satin ribbon corset lacing all the way down my back to my bum and a beautiful 'fish tail' with layers of heavy lace which kicked out as i walked 😃 No regrets.

No I love it . I meant to buy a new non white dress but couldn't find one that didn't look Bridesmaidy. I ended up wearing a dress I already owned full length slim navy with red gold flowers and pattern kind of 1940s style . Flowers to match. So much more me than a white dress.

Wear what makes you feel a million dollars ❤️. It doesn't matter anyway because you'll have that glow!

Picture?I love a good dress 👗 peak

I wore a second hand silver dress, leather jacket and sparkly converse. I had beautiful irregular choice glittery ones but only managed down the ailse in them (chronic pain) . My bridesmaid wore cream dress, leather Jacket and dm Boots. Our wedding was very very alternative and memorable and I wouldn't change a thing about it. Do what you want. We had no financial help, but I can imagine others putting pressure on in that instance.

Thanks everyone! Some lovely stories and all of your outfits sound fabulous.

I'm not sure why it's causing me so much worry! Even though I've never been someone who dreamed of a big white wedding or even really wanted a white dress I guess part of me feels a little sad it won't happen if that makes sense. I think it's probably just pre-wedding jitters.

I am a very anxious person anyway and would have been happy to elope. This registry office event is our compromise and I feel very nervous so maybe I'm focusing on the dress as a displacement activity!

The only things I regretted were things I didn’t really care about/felt pushed about. All the original stuff was the best.

No, but I didn't have a traditional wedding. We eloped.

I wish I had gone for more colour. I designed mine and had it made, it was lovely and a pale gold colour but I never would have ordinarily worn that colour so no idea why I chose it.

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