absolute bargains! what have you got?

Emmylou_2

Aaaaaaargh! My dress is never going to fit. I got a bargainous corset (from corsets-uk via Facebook) which slims my waist/back etc by five inches. The dress now fits me round the middle but is still four inches apart over my boobs! I've lost nearly 5 stone over the past 18 months but my actual boob (IYKWIM) hasn't changed size - I've dropped from a 46 back to a 36 and the cup has gone up from a D/DD to an F.

So - I've got to decide whether to get the back altered (it's currently a zip) to a lace-up style or just bite the bullet and buy another dress (and sell this one).

Norton_Blade

What with buying a house, our wedding was always going to have to be a budget do. With Ebay and mates rates, we've managed to get everything we want and not spend a fortune.

Ebay bargains - Dress (should have been £600, won it for £135 and it fits as though it was made to measure), shrug (£20 when similar ones in Debenhams are £60), petticoat (£19 instead of £35 at places like Honeypie boutique).

Mates - cupcakes (£100 for 100 and stand hire, they normally charge £140 for the cupcakes and £40 for the set-up and hire), photography (£400 for two photographers over multiple locations and albums, half their usual price), venue (free hire of the room seeing as I work there), make-up (free... a mate of my Mum is doing it in return for an invite to the reception), hair (free.. my Mum is doing it).

Other than that, I've bought glass bowls for my sweet buffet from a local charity shop at £1 each and they look lovely. My flat ballet pumps for the evening I bought from Tesco kid's section (which goes up to an adult size 6) for £5. And I used a Travelzoo voucher to book half price spa treatments the day before the wedding so I'm not totally stressed out!

bubbles0169

Lots of lovely bargains ladies well done!
Emmy lou that weight loss is FANTASTIC well done, its such a shame it won't fit after all that
Before u buy a new one ask around seamstress first though xxx

sharpee

I had seen some lovely purple glass candle holders but at £4.99 each I refused to buy them.

Popped back into the store this weekend and they'd been reduced to £1.49!:j:j:j

So instead of spending £60 they cost me £18!!:T:T:T

split_second

bride2be2012 wrote: »

Oh I do love a good bargain!

My dress is an Alfred Angelo, brand new on eaby - was £599, I got it for £100.
Photographer is a friend as is doing as a disc only package at a discounted price.
Cake is being made by my mums friend, she used to do it for a living until she took early retirement at the start of the year, but has said she'll still do mine!:j so that will be at cost.
Bubbles that look like champagne bottles from Poundland
Making my own Save The Dates in MS Publisher. May make the rest of the stationery as well.

I think that's it at the moment!

i'm doing my own save the dates too, i have bits and pieces of experience doing business cards and the like, i'm basically using publisher to send the info to the printer, i rip everything out and do my own from the start lol

laurarobby

my dress £300 i tried loads on and fell inlove with one that was £1200 then when to another shop and tried this one on (even though i didnt want to as i loved the other one) but i did it and before it got fastened up i was in love!
my shoes should of been £70 and got them for £50
im doing all my stationary on vistaprint so just paying postage
got my bridesmaid dress from janenorman for £38
i feel like i have loads of bargains iv got lots of glassware from carboots for my candy buffet too!

purple.sarah

Emmylou wrote: »

Aaaaaaargh! My dress is never going to fit. I got a bargainous corset (from corsets-uk via Facebook) which slims my waist/back etc by five inches. The dress now fits me round the middle but is still four inches apart over my boobs! I've lost nearly 5 stone over the past 18 months but my actual boob (IYKWIM) hasn't changed size - I've dropped from a 46 back to a 36 and the cup has gone up from a D/DD to an F.

So - I've got to decide whether to get the back altered (it's currently a zip) to a lace-up style or just bite the bullet and buy another dress (and sell this one).

Congratulations on your weight loss but it sounds like you are naturally busty so it's definitely time to look at changing the dress to fit you. I would get some prices before making a decision, get some quotes for altering your dress to a lace-up style, see how much dresses like yours are selling for second-hand to see how much you could expect to get back if you went that route and browse dresses for sale to see what you would be able to afford. Good luck!

susannthe3cs

Bridesmaid dresses cadbury purple satin maxi dresses in January sale at newlook £14
Faux fur wraps for bridesmaids £6 each light in the box
Pageboy suits £23 childrenswear.co.uk
Am hoping I'm on a roll

*wiggers*

I bought my dress, veil & shoes all from the same bridal shop in a sale they had on for one weekend only when i was visiting my parents up north, which was lucky! even more lucky that my mum bought them for me

Dress - £100
Veil - £35 (reduced down from £180!!)
Shoes - £5

*Scottish*Lass*

My friend's getting married in November and we've managed no end of bargains!

*Her dress was reduced from £899 to £350 with free alterations

*My dress cost £10 from ebay!! Got it on Best Offer, had been on for £40, then £30 then was on for £15, I put in a best offer of £10 and got it! Plus
£2.99 p&P

*Her satin boots were half price, so £30 instead of £60

*My red satin pump style shoes (which match the dress colour exactly) were reduced to £3 in Primark

*I'm making the favours, cost for 100 plastic bags, 100 red organza bags, poppy seeds to fill the 100 plastic bags, 100 small packs of love hearts and making 100 labels with a poem on them has been just under £20 altogether.

*I designed the wedding invites on Vistaprint with a picture of the church they're getting married in, 80 day & 30 night for £17 odd.

*She's making the cake herself at a cost of less than £10 per tier (4 tiers)

*Her MILTB used to be a florist and she's doing the table decorations at a cost of £4 each all in, only need 8

*HTBs suit was £40 from Matalan

*My dad's doing the pro-am photography for free

*The table cloths were £2 each and organza table runners were £1.50 each

*Mr & Mrs sign for top table £3.95

*Postbox for cards £5.69, ribbon to decorate £1.00

*Spandex chair cover for bride & groom £8 for 2, chair sashes for their chairs £1.98 for 2

Ebay is a god send for a wedding on such a tight budget as my friends. That and a bit of dedication to hunting down your deals!