Everyone knows the stereotype of the bride in the long flowing layer cake of a wedding dress that is just typical of every wedding. You can’t dance in it, you can’t really sit in it and you definitely can’t wear it more than once and every bride has one almost exactly like it! White, lacy and frilly! Yuck! What about those of us who like a little flair in our life though? What about those of us who don’t need to follow the crowd and just go with what we like? Well, we pick a wedding dress that breaks the mould, that’s what we do.

We have our weddings barefoot on the beach in a gauzy white dress that blows around us in the warm ocean breeze with the groomsmen in khaki shorts and white dress shirts, all that white and sand and grey and blue making for spectacular wedding pictures. We have our weddings in tents in the backyard with flowering bushes growing right next to our reception area creating a scent no air freshener in the world could match and we march down that bougainvillea petal strewn aisle in the strappy little white number that caught our eye at the mall last month but never found the right place to wear to, until now that is.

The best part about the casual wedding dress is that they can be worn again rather than packed with mothballs and left to molder in a closet somewhere until twenty years later your daughter or daughter-in-law has to gently break it to you that she can’t wear your dress because she has her own ideas on what her dress should look like. Your wedding dress doesn’t languish in the corner like a relic; you can wear it again and again to restaurants, on that cruise you and your husband take for your fifth anniversary, to your son’s christening, wherever and whenever you do you’re reminded of the most special day of your life.

You can still have your wedding in a church if you feel a need to include a religious ceremony aspect to it and you can wear the same casual wedding dress there as well. Granted your wedding isn’t a time to skimp on prices because it’s not like you’re going to have another one, but think about how much more inexpensive it would be if you have a tight budget to buy a more casual dress. The really important thing is that your wedding dress tells everyone who you are, be it princess style or a peasant blouse over a gypsy skirt. Express yourself, this is your day; don’t let anybody tell you, you have to be formal with it. If you’re uncomfortable, it will show, be yourself and you will be even more radiant than any thousand dollar dress can make you.

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