Money back for wedding dress

summerspring

Is the OP ever going to return, do you think :rotfl:

jaylee3

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

No, most people save hard for these things. Yes, there are people who max their credit cards out and spend money they really don't have, but for the main, people save, and for some people holidays are their one big extravagance.

What a load of rubbish. This may have been the case 30+ years back, but not now. No way. Not in most cases.

What planet are you living on? The majority of people take stuff on finance and credit. It's just people won't admit it/refuse to acknowledge it, and are in denial.

As Thrugelmir said, why do you think so many people are in such severe debt these days?

skintchick

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

That's why ppl should hire wedding dresses rather than actually buying them. You only wear it once anyway & then it's stuck in a box for years. Or in this instance not worn at all.
When we married 10 years ago, my dress was hired from a bridal shop. A lot cheaper at £195. Can't understand why ppl pay obscene amounts of money for a dress when you can hire them for much less & still look radiant on the day.

Would rather loose £195 rather than £1000.

I could only get the style I wanted by going to a designer and even then I had to make alterations to her original design (all because I wanted some little sleeves! Crazy but I could not get little sleeves on a dress anywhere - it was all strapless and "just wear a bolero") so I would definitely not have been able to hire what I wanted.

Also, I want to hand my dress down as I was always upset my mum had just chucked hers out. I think of it as an heirloom. One day it could be another wedding dress, or Christening gown, or even just a lovely evening skirt,but I like to think of it carrying on it some incarnation down the generations.

jaylee3

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

That's why ppl should hire wedding dresses rather than actually buying them. You only wear it once anyway & then it's stuck in a box for years. Or in this instance not worn at all.
When we married 10 years ago, my dress was hired from a bridal shop. A lot cheaper at £195. Can't understand why ppl pay obscene amounts of money for a dress when you can hire them for much less & still look radiant on the day.

Would rather loose £195 rather than £1000.

There is no necessity to hire a dress. Just buy one - for a reasonable price (like less than £300.) No need whatsoever to pay a stupid amount.

Anything over four figures is just showing off. And I know that for a fact, because when people DO spend this much, they just HAVE to tell you!

skintchick

jaylee3 wrote: »

Anything over four figures is just showing off. And I know that for a fact, because when people DO spend this much, they just HAVE to tell you!

Lol. On here, people are more likely to tell you it cost a tanner or they made it out of old tea-towels!

Most people I know don;t have a clue what my dress cost, but I mentioned it on here because it was relevant to the discussion.

Georgiegirl256

jaylee3 wrote: »

What a load of rubbish. This may have been the case 30+ years back, but not now. No way. Not in most cases.

What planet are you living on? The majority of people take stuff on finance and credit. It's just people won't admit it/refuse to acknowledge it, and are in denial.

As Thrugelmir said, why do you think so many people are in such severe debt these days?

Ok, I'll rephrase that. The vast majority of my friends and family never take things on finance or credit.

I and they are not in denial. I guess it all depends how you're brought up? Cut your cloth to meet your means etc? If I couldn't afford something I wouldn't buy it unless it was a neccesity.

We don't even have a credit card anymore.

Person_one

jaylee3 wrote: »

What a load of rubbish. This may have been the case 30+ years back, but not now. No way. Not in most cases.

What planet are you living on? The majority of people take stuff on finance and credit. It's just people won't admit it/refuse to acknowledge it, and are in denial.

As Thrugelmir said, why do you think so many people are in such severe debt these days?

Why do you think you know so much about everybody else's life?

Tiddlywinks

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

That's why ppl should hire wedding dresses rather than actually buying them. You only wear it once anyway & then it's stuck in a box for years. Or in this instance not worn at all.
When we married 10 years ago, my dress was hired from a bridal shop. A lot cheaper at £195. Can't understand why ppl pay obscene amounts of money for a dress when you can hire them for much less & still look radiant on the day.

Would rather loose £195 rather than £1000.

I don't know about anyone else but when I bought my wedding dress the last thing on my mind was 'oh, perhaps I should hire one instead - just in case we never make it down the aisle!'

I bought my dress because I absolutely loved it and I had the money to buy it - my life, my money, my choice.

thorsoak

skintchick wrote: »

I could only get the style I wanted by going to a designer and even then I had to make alterations to her original design (all because I wanted some little sleeves! Crazy but I could not get little sleeves on a dress anywhere - it was all strapless and "just wear a bolero") so I would definitely not have been able to hire what I wanted.

Also, I want to hand my dress down as I was always upset my mum had just chucked hers out. I think of it as an heirloom. One day it could be another wedding dress, or Christening gown, or even just a lovely evening skirt,but I like to think of it carrying on it some incarnation down the generations.

You might it wonderful to hand on your dress to a future daughter ....but a daughter might not want today's fashion! In the 60's I could have worn my mum's dress from the 30s (would have fitted into it) but chose not to - and in the 90s my Dd decided that she too wanted something different . So now we have dresses covering 3 different decades ....wonder if any of the Dgds will fancy any of them ?

Peter333

Person_one wrote: »

Why do you think you know so much about everybody else's life?

I think this comment could be aimed at many people on here.

Many posters on here talk as if they know everything, and as if they know more than the person they're speaking to.

In fact, I find this on a few forums that I go on.

And the people who accuse other posters of certain things are usually guilty of these things themselves.