Is it madness to spend £1200 on a wedding dress?

[katierocket]

it kind of goes against everything I said I'd do but I've fallen in love with it.
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tell me to pull myself together and spend the money on something else.

If it's "the one" and you can afford it, then definitely go for it. Luckily my "the one" was £800 but honestly, i would have paid £1600 if that was how much "the one" cost (and I couldn't actually have afforded £1600). PS, you obviously like fairly unusual wedding dresses, have a look at Pronovias dresses, they're all a bit different and fab.

Not mad on the VW outfit on the 'hanger', although I am sure that it might look wonderful on. A friend of mine had a VW wedding dress and it did transform her figure from good to utterly amazing! That was custom made, however, and cost £6,000 fifteen years ago...

How about having a look at this corset site? Their stuff looks really beautiful and I think that it would be relatively easy (and cheap) to get a matching skirt made. Plus it is all custom fitted for you.

Only £370. www.eternalspirits.com/?q=node/9344

£325 www.eternalspirits.com/?q=node/10709

Patsy

It loooks like it was made from Laura Ashley curtains (IMVHO).
DH asked what tog rating it was? (scuttles off b4 some1 hits me for being horrible, but he really did ask it)

Never thought I'd say this about VW, but I love it! The whole outfit that is.
If you can afford it and it suits you, buy it!

well? did you buy it?

I have friends who divorced partly because of the stress of paying their debts off

debts incurred by 'wedding of a lifetime'