to ask how much your wedding dress was?

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Just that really....and where did you get it from?

About £150 I think (including veil) 27 years ago.

£162 from wed2be in 2016. £150 for the dress and £12 for a jewelled applique from ebay. I'd fallen in love with the jewels on a belt from wed2be at £65 but I didn't want the belt part.
Off to ebay I went and I found the exact same piece without the belt for £12 and I sewed it on myself

Mine was £1750 including veil and alteration. It was by Melissa Sweet from David's Bridal in London. It was beautiful, my parents paid for my dress so I was lucky!

£375 from local wedding shop.
27 years ago!!

£9.99 off Amazon. DH wore a band tshirt.

£650 23 years ago, from Laura Ashley. Loved it, totally unsuitable though for the hottest day of the year back then. Still hanging up at DMs, dress has lasted far longer than the marriage, sadly!

Mine was £750. It was the dress used in the photoshoot back in the day, when models weren’t quite as stick thin as they are now. 20 years ago and if fitted me perfectly. It should have cost about 2.5k. I’d probably get one leg in it now.

£2075 Sofia Tolli from Confetti and Lace 4 years ago. Loved it then and still love it now.

£400 online from needle and thread, they had just branched out into bridalwear so it was a steal as similar styles now (2 years later) are more like £1000!

£699 from Wed2Bast year - this is it: www.wed2b.co.uk/divine

£60 from ebay - loved it and didn't spend the whole day worrying about whether wine was spilt on it (which it was in the evening!!)

£60 from Monsoon sale.

2009
I think it was £1200
Benjamin Roberts

£50 from Etsy, 2005.

£800 to buy but I was incredibly lucky that the dress I wanted was for hire and so it was £400 with all the adjustments included plus the benefit of not having to pay £100 to have it dry cleaned and store it afterwards.

About £1500 with belt, veil, alterations etc. I had some cap sleeves added to mine. It's by white rose.

I was only engaged for 14 weeks, and struggled to find anything off the peg (was fairly skinny back in 2015!) so designed my own and had it made by a very talented wedding dress seamstress. My parents paid, it cost £1400 which I still think was an absolute steal for the quality/fit/uniqueness!

£12k. Pnina Tornai. My MIL had the wedding of her dreams...
Sold it for £5k last year and donated the money to McMillan nurses.

@scienceistruth thank you! I was very pleased with it on the day :)

£8,000 Bond Street, three years ago.

£4.5k

I did a (crappy) sketch of what I wanted (I can't draw to save my life) and took it to a talented local dress designer who then made a proper drawing of the dress (taking lots into account I hadn't thought of).

That got jointly "finessed", then I picked my fabric.

She made up a tulle copy of the dress for fitting/pattern etc so we could make adjustments and when that was done she made the final version in silk.

Not cheap - but I got exactly what I wanted - and loved the whole process.

I had looked at pre-made dresses but couldn't find anything I liked at all - at any price.

Loads of strapless numbers or "princesses" dresses but I was channeling Mortitia Adams - no, not black (I went for a pale silver in the end) but think high collar with a deep v front, long draping sleeves and integral train.

After the wedding I took it back to her and had it altered again (taken to mid calf length and the sleeves made 3/4 sleeves).

I worn it about 20 times (to other weddings etc) and still love it.

Expensive yes - but I'm terms of price per wear probably a lot less than many other dresses.

My best friend made it from a very large piece of rolled up old lace I bought at a flea market in south west France. I was going to use it for lace panel curtains until she saw it and told me how old it was and suggested she made the dress from it.
I had a picture of the kind of thing I wanted. She made it as our wedding present. The fabric cost me about £40. It is lovely, very plain and a simple cut, no faff or flounce, or boning or bits just the fabric and a satin band around the waist that turns into a flat bow at the back and it is a great sort of oyster colour. The lace had to be washed and washed to get it perfect.
It is in a dress bag in a wardrobe in a spare room.

£50 in 2002. It wasn't a dress though, it was a suit. I didn't used to do dresses back then. I think it was probably from Evans. I bought my husband's suit in Ciro Citterio and I think that was about £60. I actually spent more on DS's three piece suit, I think it was about £100. He looked so fucking cute in it though!

£2600, it was a one off Ian Stuart and I adored it. Never have I felt so beautiful in my life!

Can't remember if it was £670 or £770, got it in 2005 from Francesca