Bizarre Wedding Dresses That Guests Still Can’t Forget

When we see a bride all ready for her big day, we normally think, “beautiful,” “breathtaking,” “blushing bride.” But we look at this bride posing in her ombre orange dress and her bright orange veil, and a different set of words comes to mind. Suddenly, all we can think of is “Fanta,” “Orange Crush,” “Sunkist,” “Orangina.” And here’s the thing – orange is the color of joy, but we don’t feel joyful looking at that dress.

We look at some of the wedding dresses on this list and we genuinely have no idea what to say. We wish we could have a chat with the bride, or actually, we wish we could have a chat with the people who created some of these gowns, because we feel like it would be fascinating to hear them explain their creative process. Check out this wedding dress (?) for instance.

When choosing their perfect wedding dress, many brides tend to go for classic designs, and they look for inspiration in women of timeless beauty and style such as Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Jackie O. And then, there are the brides who want to make a statement, and they wear something like this. We were confused by this design at first, but doesn’t it remind you of something that Cher would wear on a red carpet?

Designers often take inspiration from nature when they’re creating something new, and they end up coming up with gorgeous items that are almost like an homage to our world’s flora and fauna. Unfortunately, designers don’t succeed every single time, and their final product might end up looking more like mockery. We can imagine the reaction from the poor peacocks whose colorful feathers were plucked for the making of this wedding dress.

Even if you’ve never watched the reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, you’re probably familiar with its characters, particularly Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and her mother June “Mama June” Shannon, and you’re aware that they have a, err, peculiar sense of style. Check out the outfits that Mama June and Sugar Bear wore to their wedding in 2013. It’s camouflage and neon orange, and that’s a color combo we had definitely never seen in a wedding.

Some brides are willing to do anything to make their wedding day an unforgettable experience, and if we showed up to a wedding and saw the bride wearing this “dress,” we surely would not forget that day – we would forever remember it as the first time we went to a wedding and we didn’t have any wedding cake. Seriously though, what are people thinking? That poor woman’s forearms are covered in icing.

A person’s wedding day is something they’ll remember for the rest of their lives, so when it comes to attire, many people tend to go for the classics so they won’t feel embarrassed looking at or showing the photos to family and friends in the future. We wonder how this bride will feel when she looks at this 50 years from now, and she tells her grandkids, “this is how nanna looked on her wedding day, doesn’t she look pretty?”

It’s tradition for brides to wear a white dress to their special day, but just because they’re wearing a dress that’s white like most brides do, it doesn’t mean that their dress can’t be unique, or memorable, and a true representation of who they are. This bride, for instance, is wearing white from head to toe, but her outfit is absolutely one of a kind because it is cat-themed.

We wish we had more information about this dress right here, because it looks so interesting. It seems to be made from all sorts of materials that you don’t usually see in a wedding dress. Paper? Plastic? Cellophane? And all that volume! We don’t know why, but this makes us think of mysterious deep-sea creatures, like a giant jellyfish that’s very wet, and yet at the same time, very flammable.

We often hear the phrase “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” but if we were to follow this advice, this article would be just a long sequence of images, and that’s not what we’re getting paid to do. Good lord, where do we even start? This dress makes us think “Pretty in Pink,” “Little Bo-Peep,” and “My Fair Lady,” all mashed into one, but not in a good way.

Planning a wedding can be extremely stressful for a bride, which is why when the big day comes, wedding planners and the bridal entourage tend to just agree with everything the bride says and wants, because all that matters is keeping her as happy and relaxed as possible – you don’t want a bride to have a frown on in her wedding pictures, right? We can see how the conversations probably went during this particular wedding.

Fashion designers are always experimenting with new materials, which is great. It’s through their constant experimentation that we discover fabrics that are longer-lasting, easier to work with, and better for the planet, so we praise their creativity and their constant search for the next big thing. However, their experimentation doesn’t always lead to the best ideas. A wedding dress made entirely out of what seems to be old newspapers?

When people see a beautiful bride all ready for her big day, they usually say something inspiring like “she looks like an angel,” or “she looks like a princess.” When people look at this particular bride, we can imagine them saying that “she looks like the sun,” not because she gives us warmth and is essential for life on earth, but because looking directly at her can cause serious eye damage or blindness.

Do you ever look back at pictures of your younger self and cringe at how weird you used to look and how seriously you used to take yourself? Do you remember fighting with your parents when they told you to wear “normal” clothing, and how you used to say “It’s not a phase, mom, this is who I really am”? How did that work out for you? We wonder how this young couple will feel when they look back at this picture many years from now.

We’re puzzled by the thought process of brides such as this one, who chose to wear a very un-modest outfit to their wedding day, but still cover their arms with long gloves. No one’s gonna be staring at their forearms. This bride didn’t even go for a wedding dress, choosing instead a wedding crop top and mini skirt set with plenty of bling, a statement garter, and is that an embroidered star covering her belly button?

Some of the wedding dresses on this list have too little fabric, but some of them have way too much. Take this creation, for instance. This is one of the wedding dresses shown by the brand Viktor & Rolf at the Spring 2011 Paris Fashion Week, and it is the very definition of “too much.” The dress is as wide as the catwalk, for crying out loud. We wonder how they even got the model in that thing.

People would usually expect a bride from a noble family to wear a traditional wedding dress, but Lady Mary Charteris, from the Scottish noble Charteris family, clearly doesn’t care about what people expect of her. For her wedding in 2012, she didn’t go to Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, or any of those established designers adored by high society – she went to Pam Hogg, who’s known for having dressed Lady Gaga on numerous occasions, and that says something.

We don’t mean to offend the designer who created this piece, because this idea of a dress inspired by a beautiful flower is quite nice and well executed, but we just re-watched the Shrek movies, and all we can see now when we look at this picture is the onion carriage that Fiona and Shrek use to go on their honeymoon in the first film and then to travel to Far Far Away in the second film.

Did you know that Kid Rock and Pam Anderson had a total of four wedding ceremonies in 2006? They first started dating in 2001, got engaged the following year, and split in 2003, but when they got back together in 2006, they went all in. They had four wedding ceremonies that year, but the only one people tend to remember is the first one, because it was so “Kid Rock and Pam Anderson.”

Many brides began dreaming about their special day when they were little girls, imagining what it would be like to wed the love of their life in a beautiful ceremony, with a flawless dress, and all eyes on them. Yes, some brides crave that attention, and they won’t let anyone else steal their thunder. Even if that means wearing an outfit like this, which we have to guess weighs a couple of dozen pounds.

When English media personality Katie Price got married in 2005, she made a deal with a magazine, which covered the ceremony and essentially paid for the whole thing. She went all out, and spent around one million pounds – that’s more than one million dollars – to get the wedding of her dreams. She looks happy, but many people looking at this photo now would laugh, because of how far the groom and the bride are standing from each other.

We get that people who have been dreaming about their perfect wedding their entire lives would want to have a say in the process, including the creation of the outfits they’ll be wearing on their big day, but we get the feeling that maybe they should leave it to the pros. This woman says she “personally designed” this dress which was then made “by one of New York’s upcoming designers” and she’s not exactly being listed as Vogue’s most fashionable brides of all time.

You may have noticed that most of the photos on this list weren’t taken at church, and we think it makes sense. When people marry in a religious ceremony, they tend to stick to more traditional attire, and this is not a compilation of traditional attire. We were utterly confused by this image, because this seems like a very serious religious ceremony, and yet, the bride is wearing… that thing she’s wearing.

There’s something about this image that just screams 1960s couture. We’re pretty sure if we look this up online right now, we’ll learn that this dress is from a haute couture collection from some fancy French maison, and it took months to finish, because there are only like six old ladies in the world who still master this particular knitting technique, and four of them lost their sight as they were working on this gown.

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So apparently the story behind this image is that this lady is an award-winning sheep breeder who loves her animals so much, when she got married she wanted to include them in the ceremony somehow. She designed her own wedding gown, and surprise surprise, the gown was made with wool. Not just any wool – the wool from her favorite sheep, Olivia – she’s a Lincoln Longwool, a breed developed specifically to produce heavy, long, and lustrous fleece.

Wedding dresses are traditionally made with fabrics such as chiffon, organza, charmeuse, satin, lace, and tulle, because they are all delicate and graceful, both words usually associated with wedding dresses. They also look expensive, so they make any bride look like a million bucks. This dress right here is not made from any of those materials, but it does look precious, if you look at it in the context of what happened in 2020.

The 1980s is always the decade people like to mock because of its wacky fashion, but have you taken a good look at what people used to wear in the 1990s? Like, a really good look? If not, we recommend that you do, because it is a truly humbling experience. Start with the biggest celebrity weddings of the 1990s, and you’ll understand where we’re coming from. Case in point – Celine Dion.

Some brides want to be fashionable and trendsetting, while others prefer to rely on the proven winners, looking at the most beautiful dresses from the past few decades in search of something that they can use now. Usually, when brides look for vintage silhouettes, they go for something from the 1950s or 1960s, which are references in bridal style. This bride, however, apparently was inspired by the 80s – the 1880s, that is.

Ok, we are actually quite impressed that whoever designed this dress was able to create a pretty silhouette for it. We would have thought that a dress made out of balloons would look like, well, a giant balloon, and that’s not the case here. That’s some serious balloon modeling skills. Imagine the type of balloon animals this person can create! But anyways, we digress. What were we talking about?

This dress didn’t look so bad when we first laid eyes on it. It’s white. It’s long. It seems to cover enough of her body that people wouldn’t feel uncomfortable looking at her in church. But then we started noticing the details. What’s up with the wings and the feathers? We wouldn’t have anything against them if this was a costume of some sort. A cosplay, or maybe something she’s wearing at Halloween.

We don’t understand fashion shows. We thought the whole point of a fashion show was for designers to present the public with their main ideas for the season, and give a little preview on what customers can expect to see in the stores during the upcoming season. However, sometimes we look at pictures from fashion shows, and all we can think of is, “What the actual heck?” Seriously, designers, what are you doing?

This is one of those dresses that we know were probably created by a fancy French maison, and it represents this or that, and it was a shift in the way fashion was viewed and therefore it is iconic and revered by critics and stuff, but bottom line is, this is a wedding dress. Would you wear it? We wouldn’t. This is an expensive dress we wouldn’t want to buy even if we could afford it.

Is this what Poison Ivy from the DC Comics would wear to her wedding day if she ever decided to ditch her regular green outfits for a traditional white gown? We all remember Uma Thurman looking amazing in green when she portrayed the character in the 1997 movie Batman & Robin, so we’re not sure if that would be the best choice for her, but it’s nice to have options, isn’t it?

Everything about this picture screams “Expensive!” to us. Look at the details on the wall. That’s some old money stuff right there. We can immediately tell when we don’t belong somewhere, and we don’t belong in this image. But let’s focus on that wedding dress, shall we? This seems to be part of a fashion collection of some sort, and while we’re sure this outfit is beautifully crafted, we’re a bit confused by it.

We admire how crafty some people are. We all know that one person who is talented and resourceful, and when faced with a challenge, they quickly improvise, adapt, overcome. The designer behind this dress, for instance, apparently ran out of fabric when they were creating a wedding gown, but they didn’t let it stop them. They used whatever they had at hand, and that “whatever” happened to be a bunch of diapers.