Deconstruct old clothes and turn them into catwalk pieces
Cover off “something borrowed” by walking down the aisle in a recycled wedding dress. It will keep your carbon footprint light and fluffy and your wallet with a few pennies left in it.
For East Londoners, Junky Styling are specialists at creating something new from recycled clothing. They can either scour second hand shops and jumble sales for you to find beautiful pieces of lace to make your dream eco-dress or alter and re-fashion a piece of clothing you bring in. Run by Annika Sanders and Kerry Seager and a team of designers on Brick Lane, they’re immensely creative and admirably unpretentious. They’re not wedding specialists, but sometimes that can be a good thing. Here’s some they made earlier…
A little bit of rouging and a buttoned off-shoulder cowl neck
Recycled wedding dress by Junky Styling. Groom, bride's own.
Layers of vintage lace add interest to a simple silhouette
Vintage lace gets a make-over
Shortening an old wedding dress gives instant modernity.
Take a wedding dress, then shorten, add ruffles, and voila. Your wedding dress = pimped.
And if you’re really really on a budget, you can always fashion a wedding dress out of old white T-shirts…
A few T-shirts, some sewing skillz and by golly, that's your wedding dress sorted.
Click here to see instructions
Credit crunch bride 
All my sisters used my mom’s wedding dress for their wedding except me as I am plus size. Recycling wedding dress is not terrible if your mom’s wedding gown still look contemporary after 30 years. LOL
great idea to wear other dresses. It’s tough out there. Gotta save every penny you can.