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Wedding dresses for women who don’t like wedding dresses

Upon becoming engaged three-and-a-half years ago, I immediately began thinking about the style of wedding dress I wanted to wear. Since I am most positively not one of the dreaming-about-weddings-since-I-was-a-little-girl kind of woman, I was totally unprepared for what was to come.

The wedding dresses I initially tried on at a few local bridal shops were, on the whole, dreadful. Stiff and uncomfortable with exaggerated proportions, weighed down with extensive beading and detailing, and as expensive as a semester in graduate school (which, frankly, sounded more appealing to me than a princess-y dress I’d wear only once). I already knew what I wanted: something simple yet unique that made me feel beautiful, but still made me feel like myself. I also wanted something reasonably comfortable that I’d be able to dance in, because the thought of not being able to dance at my own wedding was downright depressing.