wedding dresses, how much will you be spending?

ncv2

Hello,
I bought my dress at a sample sale in the US, I am American and the wedding is where I am from. I spent $1000 on a $5000 dress. It is 100% silk satin and a designer gown.
The same gown here would have cost a great deal more.

IWantToBeFree_2

My dress was £705, but if you add in the alterations, petticoat hire, underwear, shoes, tiara and veil it comes in at well over £1,000. Worth every penny too.

picklepick

For those with a low budget, have you tried an Alice James dress? I tried a couple on in a shop near me (Manchester) that were £450 or maybe lower in the sale. They were beautiful, just like any popular designer but at a fraction of the cost. Try googling her. Theres quite a few stockists but id recommend the shop i went to in manchester, near the arndale centre. The staff were amazing! Hope that might help someone

Alleycat

My chinese (millybridal) one cost £250 but it didn't fit and there were 'issues' so I managed to get a refund and then bought the most gorgeous dress (best I have tried on and actually loved) for £400 including bolero.

So glad the milly one went wrong actually as when I tried it on it was so hot and heavy that I loved my new emergency dress even more.

Ruthie5

Mine is £135. It is a tea length bridesmaids dress that is being made in ivory, and I've ordered it from the US.

SugarSpun

Mine was £90 including shipping, and alterations (needed to be shortened) an additional £15. My husband's dinner jacket cost more, but my dress was a miracle of engineering (I was 4 1/2 months pregnant and nobody could see so much as a bulge around the middle) and looked like it cost a fortune. In the UK the fabric alone would have been around £75-80, never mind the work in making it.

nat82

£120 custom made by a lovely dressmaker! If we were going for the big wedding then my £1500 designer dress was going to be ordered from Landy for £180.

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

im paying £450 on my dress (well my dad is!)

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.graceandlace.co.uk/images/romantica-monte-carlo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.graceandlace.co.uk/romantica/romantica-wedding-dress-1.html&usg=__eDxoSvmFJSnJE3oswF0vM53EYu8=&h=601&w=430&sz=33&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=4bLc4OwH5VM1BM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dromantica%2Bmonte%2Bcarlo%2Bwedding%2Bdress%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

^^ thats it (although i still need to lose some weight to look like that in it! lol )

shelovestobuystuff

Mine is £100 if I match the off the shelf measurements,£150 for made to measure.I was looking at various options including having something unique designed costing about £1,200 but found my perfect dress in the end.

Herbiecat

mommyme wrote: »

im paying £450 on my dress (well my dad is!)

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.graceandlace.co.uk/images/romantica-monte-carlo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.graceandlace.co.uk/romantica/romantica-wedding-dress-1.html&usg=__eDxoSvmFJSnJE3oswF0vM53EYu8=&h=601&w=430&sz=33&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=4bLc4OwH5VM1BM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dromantica%2Bmonte%2Bcarlo%2Bwedding%2Bdress%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

^^ thats it (although i still need to lose some weight to look like that in it! lol )

Funnily enough Mommyme I was looking in the window of our local wedding shop yesterday and the manequin was wearing your dress. I thought how lovely it was.

Chris x