“When I said I was going to paint my wedding dress, I was surprised no one tried to steal all my paint and hide it until after the big day,” Linko wrote in a blog post. “But white is not allowed in my closet…so I had to. Really, I think it has just gotten to that point where people know the art in me cannot be contained. Color color color! EVERYTHING!”

At first, she planned to stitch dyed pieces of lace to the dress, but that didn’t go as she envisioned.

“As I laid it on the dress, it just did not look how I wanted. Instead of a fade from one color to the next, it just looked like patchy flowers that were messy and hard to even see,” she wrote.

“I was fed up with all these tests and fails, so I just took my airbrush I had been using to get nice fades of color on the flowers and just sprayed it, and kept spraying it more and more,” she said.