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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nTraditional wedding dresses are great, gorgeous, fantastic even, but they're not for everyone and that's cool. It's your day and you should feel like you, even if that means wearing a pink strapless jumpsuit instead of a long white gown. Here are 10 things to consider before you commit yourself to all that tulle.\n\n1. The wedding industry is kind of a scam.The people in the wedding industry know that you are more willing to drop major bucks on your wedding than on any other day in your life and they are not ashamed to exploit that fact. It's not just that wedding dresses are expensive, it's that the markup is so ridiculous. In fact, put the word \"wedding\" in front of just about anything \u2014 from the dress, to the cake, to the venue \u2014 and the price instantly skyrockets. Its just capitalism, but it sucks. You shouldn't have to pay more for a dress just because you want to wear it on a certain day.2. You'd probably rather wear something from a designer you actually care about than .If you're going to spend a small fortune on a dress, why not spend it on Lanvin or Chloe or Chanel? Forget about those random bridal people you never heard of or cared about until you got engaged. Take that money and just buy yourself the most awesome dress you can find from someone you're actually really into.\u00C2em&amp;gt;Lanvin;\u00C2\u00A0Erdem;\u00C2\u00A0Herve Leger3. Literally anything can be a \"wedding dress.\" You just have to get married in it!Jumpsuits, suit suits, mini dresses, even overalls can work. Just slap on a veil, grab a fistful of flowers and you're good to go. \u00C2\u00A0\u00C2\u00A0Gucci; ZAC by Zac Posen Fall 2014 Runway; DKNY, $395.4. You really don't want your wedding pictures to look like stock photography.Even when you have a good photographer, wedding photos can all start to look the same after a while and those big white dresses have a lot to do with that. Do you really want your wedding photos to look like they came with the frame?\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n5. Storing a big poufy skirt for the rest of your life is a real bitch.You don't want to hand over half your closet space to a dress you know you will never wear again, do you?\n\n6. You wear color IRL.Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, and Reese Witherspoon wore pink at their weddings. Ellen Pompeo and Shenae Grimes wore black. Amber Tamblyn wore yellow. Dita Von Teese, purple. Colors are cool. So are prints for that matter. If you'd wear them IRL, there's no reason you shouldn't wear them at your wedding.Catherine Malandrino, $425; Nicola Finetti, $505; BCBGMAXAZRIA, $5287. You may not be having a \"wedding dress\" wedding.Big,traditional wedding dresses are great if you're having a big, traditional wedding, but they can feel a little out of place outside of a formal situation. \u00C2\u00A0Ball gowns on the beach? Awks. Bridal bikinis? FABULOUS! Maybe with a great cover-up for the ceremony?\u00C2\u00A0Chloe, $420; Milly, $350; Norma Kamali, $4708. You're not a Disney princess and you're good with that.Disney princesses are great and all, but\u00C2\u00A0they've got their own problems\u00C2\u00A0\u2014 evil stepmothers, magic spells, a life that peaks at 16 (the list goes on). Besides, don't you want to look like you on your wedding day? A nicer, more dressed up version of you, but still you.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n9. You'd like to be able to dance/walk/breathe at your wedding.There's a trend right now of having two wedding dresses \u2014 a long, traditional one for the ceremony and a shorter, less bulky one for the reception (you know, something you can actually move in). But why? If a dress is too uncomfortable or awkward to be worn for even a whole day, that should tell you something. Just go for the second dress. You know you want to.\u00C2\u00A010. Carrie Bradshaw did it and looked awesome.Carrie realized that she just wasn't a traditional kind of woman and decided that getting married at City Hall in a retro, full-skirted white suit was really the way to go. She looked damn good both ways, but she looked more at ease in the suit \u2014 more like herself. Big is still an ass hole, though. Bastard. I can't believe she forgave him.\n\n\u00C2\u00A0Photo Credit: Twentieth Century Fox, Getty Images, Disney, HBO FilmsFollow Charles on Twitter.Do you have fashion or style questions? Submit them\u00C2\u00A0here\u00C2\u00A0or tweet our Style Editor directly\u00C2\u00A0@charlesemanning.\u00C2\u00A0Related Stories:The 26 Best TV &amp;amp; Wedding Dresses of All Time18 Makeup Mistakes Brides Make\u00C2\u00A018 Most Iconic Dresses in the History of Film"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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