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The daughter of a Chechen oil oligarch has got married in a stunning £240,000 wedding dress. Student Elina Bazhaeva, 21, married entrepreneur Bek Ali Khan Mamakaev, 25, in the city-state of Monaco in a showstopping glittery wedding dress and a huge train. The eye-catching ensemble was made by Lebanese fashion designer Zuhair Murad and cost 20 million roubles (£242,000).  Read more: Daily Mail

The most exciting thing about a wedding is probably the white wedding gown chosen by the bride. It should fit perfectly and she should look extravagant in it. But what if the traditional wedding gown is replaced by a painting? Body painting of the wedding dress is the new ‘in’ thing for this wedding season. Instead of buying expensive gowns and spending so much time in every boutique, it is easier, less expensive and super creative to get married in a body painting wedding dress. Read more from sooziQ

By Arianne Brown, KSL.com Contributor   |  Posted Jun 9th, 2016 @ 9:11am WOODLAND HILLS — Toilet paper is one of life’s necessities, but it serves another purpose for one Utah woman. She uses it to make beautiful wedding dresses. Judy Henry, a 68-year-old grandmother from Woodland Hills, is a top 10 finalist out of 1,500 entrants nationwide for the annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest Presented By Cheap Chic Weddings and Charmin Toilet Paper. Henry said she has been sewing since she was old enough to tether a sewing machine. She has also been using toilet paper, including tearing out pages of old Sears or Penneys catalogs to use as toilet paper in an outhouse in her backyard farm in southern Utah, for many years as well. So, when the link for the contest popped up on her computer last summer, she said she just couldn’t get the idea out of her head. Read more from Utah KSL.com