Wedding outfit for my mum

[Skinheadmermaid]

I'm getting married in a few weeks and my mum is panicking about what to wear. She has quite an ethnic, glamorous style but her dresses tend to end up as tablecloths/curtains after she has worn them once!
Shes size eighteen and doesn't have much money. I wondered if anyone could suggest somewhere she could look? Shes tried all the supermarkets.

What's her budget and what length hem and sleeve does she want?

any good?

Oh the monsoon dress is lovely Tethers, thats just her style. Not sure we can afford it though. My own wedding dress was £30, thats about the limit.

What about something from East? £30 will be pushing it but they usually have a sale on about now.

This Sainsbury's dress is very similar to the Monsoon one.

Or you could have a look on ebay for this sort of style.

That sainsburys one is lovely, MrsCakes.

How about eBay?

Another nice one here

And here

Ooh - yes tethers, or this one. In fact there are quite a lot of Monsoon frocks in a size 18 on ebay at the moment, definitely worth a browse.

Or Anna Scholz from Simply Be

How about a dress agency or posh charity shop? I bought both my outfits for my children's weddings from dress agencies and sold them to another one afterwards.

Maxi dress

Another maxi

There are loads of fab outfits on eBay for weddings. I have just completed a whole matching outfit of "new" or "worn once" for my 2 summer weddings. Compared with the total original cost of £400, I have paid a total of £90 for dress (new) bolero jacket ( worn once to a wedding) shoes (unworn in box) bag (used once) and fascination ( unused)
I plan to wear it to the two weddings and resell it as "worn to 3 weddings only".