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?

Mine was a tenner in the sales

Another Emma Roy, Edinburgh customer here. Pretty hideous service from them...there's the old crone who mans the door/sits at the desk as you walk in and seemingly 'vets' you before you're even allowed to touch a dress, and then there's the goth like youngsters (no offence to goths, just seems a strange place to want to work in) that 'assist' you in the 'glamourous basement' (ie. bowels) of the shop. Never at any stage was I meant to feel remotely special or excited about buying my wedding dress. I wish I'd gone elsewhere.……

Having said all that, I also had a Maggie Sottero dress which was just gorgeous and which I loved the minute I tried it on. Cost £500, and that was 7 years ago. Worth the dour service and experience sort of

£75.00 Monsoon 2012. I love it

£700 and I was told this was very cheap compared to some. Chose it purely on the fact it made me look the thinnest - rather than on the cost and it so happened it was the cheapest I tried on.

BellaOfTheBalls heh. That's funny. I altered mine a bit too, but not too much. Stitched a lot of lace applique on both the front and the back, more than the pattern suggested, and had a lace-edged cathedral veil.

I was after a dress with long sleeves since we were getting married in October. This was early 2004, and absolutely nothing had sleeves. I saw this one, and despite looking for several more weeks, couldn't get it out of my head. It was a bit like shoe shopping. You always end up with the one you saw first. I did think of putting on full sleeves but in the end went for the simpler solution of buying some wraps for us all.

Needless to say I loved the Duchess of Cambridge's dress and veil.

Mine was £960 before alterations, bought in January this year (married in June).

Wasnt intending to spend anywhere near that much but fell in love the moment I put it on. At 5ft11 and size 24, anything that made me feel close to attractive is worth every penny though. It doesnt happen that often.

£650 down from £1600 Amanda wakley dress I got from the wedding dress sale at the thistle hotel marble arch wedding dress sale which they hold annually.

The alterations done by a lovely shop just off oxford street for £150.

If you can get to a sale like this I think they're good.

Also try Google "swoon wedding dresses" they do v reduced samples, seconds and second hand.

Shoes £11 debenhams as they ones I bought from the rainbow wedding shoe range in john Lewis just wouldn't break in.

Jewelry and hair dodah from wedding shoe I got bridesmaid dress from.

I only had a maid of honour and a small child bridesmaids so spent c.£320 on adult and £8 in monsoon sale on child.

Good luck - choosing a dress is so hard. Try to to let ppl saying spend more/less get this/that lead your choice.

£1400 for my dress, it was Charlotte Balbier - Arianna in pale gold and I bought it because it made me look like Belle from Beauty and the Beast :)

Before seeing it I didn't want a big princess dress, I wanted an understanded vintage lace number. Once it was on, couldn't take it off!

*not to

My dress material was £80, a friend who worked in a small wedding dress workshop made it for nothing. My tiara cost £50 and I got the shoes off eBay for £8.

£800ish I think, in 2007. Shoes were a tenner though!! (mind you I did lose a heel at the end of the night so good job

It didnt look much on the hanger- in fact i didn't even pick it to try on, it was the assistant who brought it out after she had seen me in a few dresses and suggested it. She was a star - i bought it purely for the gasp and gawp from my mum as i exited the changing room (she is impossible difficult to impress). I loved every minute of dress shopping and don't regret spending that although i clearly never will again!! At the time we could afford it, we had a teeny tiny mortgage and no kids, and I felt amazing all day. OP hope you have a great time choosing

£600 - handmade, custom, silk and french lace dress

£1460, but I negotiated it down from £1700, lots of lace and tulle in mine.

Always negotiate on anything wedding related: wine, flowers, dresses etc, we got money off lots of things. Good luck with youre dress hunt.

Sorry, this was 2011, I was married in May this year.

Ultimately about £0

I'd decided on a £200 debenhams one as they are v. nice but still wanted the "Bridal Salon" experience with my DM and DSis (maid of honour), went to a local posh store and absolutely fell in love with one of the dresses. It was beautiful. Cost about £600 which was not bad really for a wedding dress but rather more than I'd budgeted. Went away feeling a little crushed, trying to work out if I could re-jig the budget whilst googling for the best price for that dress, found one on eBay. One one of that dress available on all of eBay, it was in my size and it was based in the same town. Went and tried it on, then bid for it and won - at £150, was thrilled!!

Then, despite wanting to keep it forever and ever and see my as-yet-unborn daughter get married in it eventually convinced myself to sell it. Spend about £25 getting it drycleaned and then sold it on eBay for £175 - total cost to me = £0!!

I fell in love with <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=benjamin+roberts+603&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&authuser=0&biw=1024&bih=1015&tbm=isch&tbnid=35XZ0m7Lcl4b0M:&imgrefurl=www.specialdaze.com/StarBuys.htm&docid=kG-spI1h1RRlvM&imgurl=www.specialdaze.com/images/603.jpg&w=410&h=560&ei=mtI0UOpJ85vUBe-kgMAG&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=525&vpy=113&dur=1490&hovh=262&hovw=192&tx=87&ty=144&sig=110118714065256870265&page=1&tbnh=173&tbnw=146&start=0&ndsp=27&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0,i:80" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Benjamin Roberts dress But it was discontinued around the time I started looking for dresses, although I don't think I would have had it as it was £1100 new and we were on a budget!
By some miracle, I found a lady selling the exact dress second hand in my size for £350 on sellmyweddingdress.com.
It fitted like a glove and it was absolutely perfect. She also gave me her cathedral length veil for free.

So, my dress cost £350 second hand in 2009 - but everyone who I know who has got married recently has spent £700-£1000 on their dress. I think around £1000 is quite normal now, if you are buying from a bridal shop.
It might be worth looking on google to see if there are any bridal dress warehouses in your area. (sell discontinued/ex sample dresses)
My mum and a friend of mine have recently bought their dresses for less than £400 from a place like this near Leicester where they had hundreds of dresses!

Keepthechange - that was my dress too!!!!!!! . Love love loved it
Didn't pay £1100 for it though, was about £800 new - maybe it was a sale? Can't remember.
Still sitting in a box in a cupboard in my house. If I'd known I could have got £350 for it I might have gotten the thing repaired....

Mine was £500 plus £200 for the alterations (I had the style of the back changed). I loved it.

I have just seen the most beautiful wedding dresses reduced to £67 in the Monsoon sale this morning and if I were getting married again (I wish) that's what I'd get.

100GBP, Oxfam Bridal, 100% silk designer :)

£200ish from eBay, new, 3.5 years ago.

£130 from Coast, it wasn't a proper wedding dress, just a dress I liked :)

joanna - really?

Good fucking grief. Just clicked on Joanna's "friend"'s choices.
I think I'd rather wear actual clothes if I ever got married again.

?1,650 in 2008.