how much did you spend on your wedding dress?

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Only like the expensive dresses! how much did you spend and do you regret it?

£1250 for a bespoke house of mooshki tea length dress

Your Qn isn’t about the cost of the wedding dress then. It’s more about what’s a reasonable amount to spend without feeling the potential for regret (either way).

In terms of your (household) financial position - £40k in savings but what’s the state of play re mortgage; pensions; etc. How long does it take you to earn the £15k overall for the wedding?
Id ask what is your wedding budget overall; and then maybe you trim some items to fund the dress vs the honeymoon, et, if that’s your top priority.

1987 £1100. I must have lost my mind when I look back on it. I did have a well paid job, but even so…..

I got married in 1999 . At the time it seemed that wedding dresses started at around £500 and they largely looked cheap, not particularly well made. To get something special was much more expensive. Anyway, I didn't have that kind of money to spend so I went out to buy a beautiful evening dress that wasn't a traditional wedding gown.
I ended up in Monsoon, who had just brought out an off the peg wedding dress. My mum asked me to try it on and I ended up buying a raw silk, ivory dress, very simple design but (to me) very pretty, for £160. I spent more on the underwear and shoes than the dress.

Anyway, my point is that a dress doesn't have to be expensive to make you look and feel beautiful. Be willing to try on lots of different styles at various price points. I went through a phase of watching all those wedding dress shows and tbh I often liked the less expensive ones more than the really spendy ones. But if the one you fall in love with, does happen to be expensive, so long as you aren't sacrificing the rent to buy it, it's okay to spend the money. Don't feel guilty about having something lovely - it's your wedding!

£500 plus alterations in 2011 - I recently donated it to a charity that does a pop up sale of prom and wedding dresses. Still married and very happy.

I think it was something around £700 ish. But my parents bought it. It was a beautiful dress and it looked great, but I don’t care much for fashion. I might have felt differently if I’d had to pay for it myself.

Great idea to hire the dress, only need it once.

My wedding dress was £100 from a boutique.

About £1000, but it was lovely!

Good lord!

Mine cost £800 and it was worth every single penny

Mine was £180 from ebay. Would have been £1,500 new! Cleaned it in my washing machine on delicate wash then sold it for the same price afterwards :).

Spend the money on the dress and don’t spend any on favours, balloon arches, sweetie station, themed hen party, any personalised tat etc that you see on instagram.

£30 on sale in coast. But I did a micro 2+2 wedding and everything including the meal came in at £300.
So you could say I spent 10% of the wedding budget on the dress.

Clothes aren't something we spend a huge amount on, furniture on the other hand we do. We have 3 items that were £1000 a piece, we could have gotten similar items cheaper if we went elsewhere or by getting second hand but these were the items we really liked and wanted. We could afford to buy them so we bought them.

We all have our things where we want to not have to compromise on and if you can afford it, you don't have to justify it to anyone else

£50 on fabric for the amazing Bombay stores in 2000

Yay I can finally tell my story 🙌

I wore a dress that cost about 40 pound at my wedding as I kid you not the night before my wedding my 3k dress disappeared from my mother's house. To this day I have no idea where it went but a theory that I can't prove.

It was a gumtree like listing my sister found

Had mine made for me in 1991. £693.

@Howolddoilook2026 who do you think took it?

£800 in 1996, according to google that £1661 in today’s money.

£300 on my first one, off the shelf from Debenhams. I loved it.

£85 on eBay for my second one. Very different to the first one. Also loved it.

I enjoyed wedding dress shopping a lot! I wouldn't have spent thousands on a dress but can understand why people do. Horses for courses.

Wow! What an absolute nightmare. Well done to your sister for finding one on such short notice.

Little DD took a pair of scissors to my second wedding dress and snipped up the sash to make bandages for her doll. Finding a replacement sash was a pain but nothing like a whole dress gone!

£1800 in 2006. I felt beautiful

£1500 plus alterations in 2020. It was a perfect dress for a day that was smaller than planned due to covid.

Had it dry cleaned and now in a box in a cupboard. A child later so would never get back into it.

Thought about selling it but not sure whether too or not.

£150 in the sales in the 1990s. Donated to charity along with the bridesmaids' dresses and posies.