To ask how much your wedding dress cost?

[Ambrosius]

Because I can't find the bloomin' Weddings topic!
I'm getting married sometime next year and I have no idea how much anything costs.
So go on how much was yours?

£750 - 5 years ago. Mine was an Alfred Angelo.

£125, 13 years ago. DH's suit cost about a grand . I'd pick the same one again, though, it was exactly what I wanted.

Oddly enough, my dd's communion dress cost exactly the same 4 years ago...

£2500 and I travelled to NY to try it on, had my heart set

Oops hit post too soon

Had my heart set on it so I was totally worth it.

£3,300! Was hand made by Stephanie Allin in Mumbles, Swansea..
I don't know what madness went through my mum's mind when she decided that was the dress for me but there you go.

Have a sneaking suspicion that it looked like I was trailing a quantity of lace doilies behind me, and that I looked as stout as a wardrobe in it...

£1250 for the dress (La Sposa - Fez) another £70 for the shoes and another £200 for the tiara and veil. Very expensive for something you only wear once, but I felt amazing and loved every minute of it and DH nearly cried when he saw me and then couldn't stop grinning like a loon so it was worth it.

This was in 2010.

£1000 ten years ago! Can't believe I spent that much!

Wedding 1 - in 2005 - just over £1000. gorgeous bodice with fishtail skirt.

Wedding 2 - in 2010-£40, from Monsoon in jan sale - also gorgeous halterneck.

Loved both dresessed, gave first one to cancer research, really hope they made a fair bit from it.

2nd one sold on ebay - made £82 (the orginal full price of the dress was £120 - but it was a good profit for me).

I know wish so (now i have a dd) that I had kept it.

I can honestly say the cost of the wedding does not affect how much you enjoy it ot how much it means. Focus and the 2 of you not the flashy must have stuff.

We were moving as expats to the US so had to get married in a bit of a rush so just used a monsoon dress I had recently bought. I think it was about £80-100. It was beautiful but not that weddingy. This was a about 20 years ago.

1500, 4 years ago

I plan to spend about £300 max

moonbells weirdly that is the picture I gave to the dressmaker and said 'like that, but with this, and not that, and all that bit in lace...'

Actually by the time I finished I think the only thing that was the same was the line of the skirt and the train

£3300 last year. It was an Ian Stuart. I justified the big spend by convincing myself I'd sell it afterwards. But I just can't bring myself to.

Pictures on profile.

£90. It was a childs bridesmaid dress from BHS (age 13-14!) Tis in a carrier bag in the bottom of the wardrobe (I think)

Mine didn't need altering but I had to pay about £300 for the hoop amd veil

Mine was £900 reduced from £1250 last year. They didn't charge any extra for alterations.

My shoes and tiara were £60 each and my veil was my something borrowed from a friend.

I love my dress, even if it's about 50 times more expensive than anything else I own. Luckily my mother paid for half of it or I'd never have been able to afford it!

Mine was just under £20. As I had to ride a horse in it, I knew I would never get it clean again. it was lovely!

Spent £150 on duchess silk and sparkly bits. £16 for paper pattern. My brilliant Mum spent a month sewing it from scratch. It had three layers of corsetry, sticky out princess skirts and associated habidashiral wonderfulness.

£2500 ten years ago and stunning but don't believe anyone who tells you that you'll get half back on eBay if you sell it. I didn't and hoped I would.

$5000. Hated it, and it was ruined by due transfer from the red velvet upholstery hope the dining chairs at the reception. Binned it.

1500 pounds in 1997. I also spent 300 pounds on a bespoke page boy outfit for our 18 month old ds1. Which was particularly stupid as it was bespoke when he was measured for it, and 3 weeks later he had grown an enormous amount and it was too bloody small!

I always said I would sell it, but it's still at my mum's in a wardrobe. My veil is here in the US and my dd plays dress up with it, along with my wedding shoes. I really like that, and I hope she remembers is as something a bit special.

Mine was, I think, £375 back in 1994, in the sale. Mum didn't want me to get the first one we saw, so I put it on reserve and we went up to London to look at more - found a nicer version in real silk but it cost £2000, so went with the first one. Didn't then get to use it until 2007 (I Just Don't Care) - it still fit but as I was pg, I needed a couple of side panels put in to expand the bodice to fit my pregnant tum. Cost about £20 to alter (friend who is a tailor did it).

I still have it - didn't want to part with it the first time around - some people thought I was strange and should have got rid of it at the time of first breakup, but it was my dress that I loved so I wanted to wear it at my wedding, whenever that came about. And if it hadn't, I would have dyed it greenyblack and worn it for other things (may still do that...)

As others have said, you can spend as little or as much on your dress depending on whether you have a set design/designer in mind, or are happy to scout through chazzer shops/ebay/high street stores to pick up a bargain.

I wore my mothers dress, which was handmade for her way back when. There were some alteration costs, not sure how much. My big sister wore my grandmother's dress when she got married. It was nice to pay a bit of a tribute to my parents, wear something far more beautiful than I suspect I would have been likely to find, plus avoid what for me would have been a fairly hideous experience of wedding dress shopping.

We did spend a fair bit of money on dh's suit, but he did wear it again on many occasions until it no longer fit.