These Charmin Toilet Paper Wedding Dresses Are Actually Pretty Amazing

Make all the jokes about toilet paper wedding dresses you want (because, well, there are a ton of options), but the 11th Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest presented by Cheap Chic Weddings and Charmin was on a whole other level than your standard make-a-toilet-paper-wedding-dress-as-quick-as-you-can bridal shower game. Case in point: 10 finalists (out of 1,500 entries) with all kinds of design backgrounds got to carefully pack up their hand-made toilet paper gowns and compete at Kleinfeld Bridal in New York City for a chance to win $10,000 -- and have Kleinfeld make the winning creation into a real wedding dress!

The stakes were high, and judges Mikie Russo, wedding planner extraordinaire; Terry Hall, Kleinfeld's Fashion Director; Mara Urshel, Kleinfeld's co-owner; Velvet Gogol Bennett, Senior Communications Manager for P&G North America Family Care; and sisters Laura Gawne and Susan Bain, Cheap Chic Weddings co-founders, had their work cut out for them.

Using only toilet paper, glue, tape and a needle and thread, here's what we saw:

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by South Asia-meets-Western style

Created by: Susan Masarek-Wilson of Oaklyn, New Jersey

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 12 rolls of Charmin Basic and nine rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by a love of nature

Created by: Judith Henry of Woodland Hills, Utah

Number of toilet paper rolls used: Eight Mega Rolls of Charmin Basic and Charmin Ultra Strong combined

Fun fact: If you look closely enough, you'll see two birds nested inside the headpiece!

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by pops of violet

Created by: Julie Haas of Stockton, Illinois

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 10 rolls of Charmin Basic

Fun fact: This dress not only has a removable skirt, but a removable purple sash too.

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by classic design, elegance and sophistication

Created by: Antonia Araujo of Carrollton, Texas

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Number of toilet paper rolls used: 11 rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by breast cancer awareness

Created by: Frank Cazares of Anaheim, California

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 28 rolls of Charmin Basic

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by a garden full of white rose petals

Created by: Mimoza Haska of Surfside Beach, South Carolina

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 32 rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft, Charmin Ultra Strong and Charmin Basic combined

Fun fact: The designer burned the tips of the "petals" to capture the stage when petals start drying on the tips.

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by a gilded garden

Created by: Katrina Chalifoux of Knoxville, Tennessee

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 26 rolls of Charmin Basic and one roll of Charmin Ultra Soft

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by Bridal Fashion Week and The Knot

Created by: Carol Touchstone of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 74 double rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft and Charmin Ultra Strong combined, plus a partial roll of vintage pink Charmin

Fun fact: This dress features total of 460 hand-cut flowers.

This toilet paper wedding dress inspired by a tuxedo jacket

Created by: Donna Pope Vincler of Brentwood, Tennessee

Number of toilet paper rolls used: 22 rolls of Charmin Ultra Strong, Charmin Ultra Soft and Charmin Basic combined

Fun fact: The halter tuxedo jacket and train are both removable.

And the winner is...

The snazzy tuxedo gown!

Donna's daughter Aubrey modeled the gown. And when Donna won, she got a little teary-eyed -- so it's a good thing that there was a ton of TOILET PAPER right in front of her to dry her eyes. Just kidding -- Donna, you're a DIY wedding dress wizard and we're bowing down to you.

And here's the back of the dress too:

So whimsical and fun, right?

The second (far right) and third (far left) runners-up also smiled pretty in their TP finest.

Congratulations to all of the 10 finalists!