Eccentric Bridal Gallery - Crazy Designer Wedding Dresses

I usually admire people who think outside the box. It's great to be creative. But how far should we go with fashion? Should we follow the Fashion Muse all the way over the top? Or should we try to keep a balance between creativity and common sense a little bit when it comes to bridal designs?

I am a big fan of Givenchy, but after seeing this wedding dress, my loyalty to them has shaken quite a bit. Imagine how distracting this gown would be at the altar. Some guests might be questioning, "How come the bride is wearing a swim cap?" or "Why does she use her car's air bag as her dress train?"

I understand that Riccardo Tisci, the current Givenchy's chief designer, is obsessively fascinated with the gothic fad and space-age minimalism, which praises simplicity of design. This ghastly wedding dress, nonetheless, epitomizes neither the goth culture nor the minimalistic trend. But rather, it just minimizes the bride's beauty.

Since when is draping a bright yellow apron around your wedding gown considered "high fashion"? And what's that on her head? Is it just my insane imagination or is she really using a rag doll as a hair ornament?

The woman in this picture by no mean looks like a jubilant bride, but a desperate housewife who has lost her mind while making stew in the kitchen, so she puts on her old wedding dress, wraps an apron around her waist and ties her kid's toy to her neck, dreaming of the carefree days when she used to be single and wishing she had never gotten married. Maybe Reem Acra designed this wedding dress to warn all the bride-to-bes that this could be their possible future.

This retro-fashion bridal gown reminds me of no earthly bride but Dame Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love. Yves Saint Laurent wedding dresses are usually famous for their glamorous and refined elegance, but this one is far beyond that. The word "graceful" is yet inadequate to describe it. This lustrous silvery gown is so majestic and queenly that no typical bride deserves to wear it in her wedding.

The only three good reasons to wear this dress would be: First, you work at Disneyland; second, you are older than sixty; and third, it's Halloween.

The groom needs not to worry; no one would dare touch his bride. She has her prickly dress as her shield. In this wedding dress, she would remain safe and untouched. And is that long disheveled cloth on her head supposed to be a veil? Or are there just so many insects at the wedding that she needs to shroud herself in a mosquito net?

I spent quite some time contemplating the idea behind this wedding dress and finally realized that it's really sublime. The rough, thorny, fuzzy gown is a perfect epitome of the typical married life itself. Quite a subtle way to prepare those dreamy and overly optimistic brides for stark reality.

Balmain's bride has only prickles, but this one literally has a shield. It is as though getting married is like going to war. Who knows? Behind that shield, she might be holding a dagger.

This bridal dress by Jean Paul Gaultier proves that once you are a famous designer, no matter how aberrant or absurd your ideas are, there will always be room for you on high-fashion runways.