What Not to Wear to Your Wedding

1 Leather Jackets

Items like leather jackets seem so on-trend one year . . . and so not the next, especially when details like zippers and embellishments see a switchup from season to season.

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2 High-Low Gowns

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While Whitney Port made the "mullet" style seem chic, we can't help but get flashbacks to Dooney & Bourke bags and other aughts trends upon spotting this silhouette. Stick to something classic instead, saving you from that cringe years down the road.

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3 Flower Crowns

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Boho babe or not, a head full of flowers is definitely a trend of the moment. Leave this piece to the festival crowd and go with your good ol' veil — at least for the ceremony.

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4 Colored Gowns

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All those "rules" about when not to wear white, and you're going to skip out on the one time you're in the clear?!

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5 Wedding Shorts

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Are you really ready to pass up your one opportunity to rock the most extravagent outfit of your life — a poufy gown, a crown, tons of jewels — for something so casual?

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6 Patterned Gowns

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It may be cute that Angelina Jolie wore her children's doodles as she wed Brad Pitt, but somewhere down the road, we predict at least one member of her brood saying, "Mom, really?"

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7 Capes

Wedding-related events and rehearsal dinners? Go for it. The actual vows? Well . . . that's an awfully big risk to take.

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8 Body-Baring Numbers

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There's a time and a place for showing a ton of skin, and that time and place probably isn't in front of your grandma.

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9 Feathered Headpieces and Hats

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Carrie Bradshaw's gown may have been gorgeous, but face it: the first thing you saw was that distracting headpiece, which turned out to be a bird.

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10 '80s-Style Headpieces

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This one deserves its own category, simply because seeing such extreme headgear always makes us giggle. Even if your Friends fandom or '80s obsession is through the roof, this is certainly something you'll look back on and roll your eyes at. Leave it where it belongs: in the past.

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11 Poufy Shoulders

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We get it: you're a princess. But oversize sleeves plus a ballgown totally enters cupcake territory.

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12 Superlong Trains

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You may be treated like royalty as you walk down that aisle, but long trains and veils don't exactly translate well for the average wedding. Someone's going to have to pull a Pippa Middleton and then bustle you up for hours before the reception. Such a hassle.

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