I just wanted to say that this dress and the color are gorgeous on you. Your skin tone and hair color, your jewelry, everything works very well together. You look beautiful.
The nice thing about making ones own dress is that you can have it in any colour you like; be daring. 
As it is, the dresses that Cranach painted tended towards red & gold, and green was another popular colour at the time for that style of dress. My wife decided that she wanted ivory & gold and adapted the design.
A couple of years later she made a faithful reproduction of the “Lotto dress” (while I was away on business for a few months – she went a little nuts).
Thank you.
I should note that the downside of making ones own dress is that it can lend considerable additional tension to the occasion… particularly when the groom discovers on the wedding morning that the dress is still in a rather large number of pieces on the lounge floor :eek: (Bride and attendants were still sewing at the hairdresser’s later that day).
Mmmmm-Mounties…
I was married in 1995, I can’t find any pictures of similar gowns and I don’t even know if my scanner works anymore, but suffice it to say it had all the hideous features:
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[li]poufy shoulders[/li][li]lacy, sparkly sleeves and mandarin collar[/li][li]shiny satin skirt[/li][li]long, long train with lace insets[/li][li]Butt bow[/li][/ul]
It was the wedding gown version of a bathroom with foil flocked wall paper. And, yes, it was topped with a headpiece with giant back of the head pouf that looked like it would get dried on eggs off my skillet.
Meanwhile, although my wedding was around Halloween, after it stopped raining it was hot and humid and I sweat like a bastard.
And, no, it did not cost less than $100 or something. Oh, no indeed.
I’ve seen a couple which look like mine, but here it is:
My first dress, from 1992, was a lace Victorian style thing with a high neck and hankerchief hemline. I have pictures somewhere - not electronically, however. (And I’m not sure I’d want to reveal myself in them with the late 80’s eyeglasses and hair…)
Mine was pretty… casual.
It was an O’Neill - 3mm.
My wife’s dress was a Maggie Sottero design, Felicity, though she didn’t have the optional lace sleeves on it. Some anonymous and anonymized photos of the wedding here. That dress looked absolutely incredible on her. Of course, I’m biased 
That is amongst the sexiest wedding photos ever! Where is that guy’s hand going? 
Since you said kimono, look up Ellen Terry. She was a stage actress in the late 1800’s-early 1900 & was photographed in several beautiful kimonos (her dress of choice for leisure.) William Morris was “doing” at the same time & his stuff is incredible. Between those two you might find something you want to emulate.
I got married wearing jeans. Went to the State Fair afterwards - my wedding cake was deep-friend cheesecake! 
It suited us perfectly.
Given that the thread was started in 2008, I hope that the OP found a dress long ago, and is happily married.
I find the idea of deep-fried cheesecake disturbing, yet intriguing.
I got married in February 2010. I fell in love with a dress online at David’s Bridal. Went to the store with my mom, tried on 10+ dresses (it was so much fun!) and left with the dress I had found online. It cost around 600.00 but it was another 200.00 for the alterations. Absolutely loved the dress, it fit beautifully. Not sure what FB has done to make it impossible to share a single public link from an album - so here’s the whole wedding album:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1280864307334.2039942.1401845193&l=4e04c20c0e&type=1