u/eirenii

I got married in July and thought I'd share my wedding outfit with you! I'm nonbinary and was really worried about how I'd get something I could feel myself in, as everything formal almost always leans overtly masculine or feminine. I ended up loosely designing what I wanted myself and went to a local dressmaker, who was an absolute gem, to have it made!

• We had orange and purple as a general colour theme
• I based the jacket design on some traditional Greek mens' jackets (cause that's part of my life + heritage), which feature these huge cape-like sleeves.
• We experimented with getting my embroidery designs onto it as the traditional stuff is covered in embroidery (but I don't have the budget to get anywhere near that amount of embroidery done), managed to do it using InkStitch
• I had a circles&squares motif throughout the wedding (circles for him as a railway engineer, so wheels and gears, squares for me as an artist/architect, so windows and picture frames) which I used for the big embroidery pattern and then next to the little monogram embroidery (E+R)
• The material is a "wine" deadstock wool
• The buttons are vintage British Rail buttons (the gold means inspector grade, he tells me)
• The orange shirt I found in a vintage shop in Cologne for €12, didn't have time at the time to even try it but knew I'd regret it if I left it, miraculously it did fit when I got back to the UK and I got it altered. It's a shot fabric of gold-coloured metal and red silk and gives the most amazing iridescent orange effect
• The boots were Insanely expensive but honestly fully worth it, from a German shop called Trippen (click the 3rd photo to see). For someone who p much only shops in charity (thrift?) shops and therefore £20 is usually a big haul, I'm still reeling...
• The earrings I made out of scrap leather pieces in 20minutes the morning of the wedding (none of the earrings I had were quite cutting it, and I'd had a brainwave overnight), painted white using posca pens and the edges painted with a copper signwriting paint we'd used elsewhere for the wedding We had our wedding at a museum near us based in a factory built in 1720 and it was amazing.