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?

1600

£100 on my wedding dress. I have lots of designer items including bags worth over £2.5k but for some reason I really could not see any point spending much at all on a dress I'd only wear once. Plus I've never bought into the whole 'princess fairytale' wedding hype so was immune to getting sucked into the expensive wedding dress shops.

Made to measure corset was about £90 and linen skirt about £80 I think. Shoes about£120. All in buttery cream and bronze.
Jewellery made my me with cream pearly seashells bought in the sale as crap costume jewellery and re-strung.
Bouquet from my garden made by my mother.
I changed into combat trousers around midnight with my corset. Lol.

Mine was about £70, reduced from 300 in Monsoon. The first dress I tried on and I just couldn't get it out of my head.

I tried on lots of v expensive dresses but either felt too trussed up (Suzanne Neville corset job) or too unstructured and low cut (Packham).

I also spent £90 on a white dress from French Connection to wear to our legal ceremony.

As I saved so much cash by buying a cheaper dress I splurged quite a few hundred on a lovely silk jersey designer dress after the wedding which I've worn about 8 times in two years which for an occasion dress is pretty good I think!

mine cost £545 exc hoop and alterations in 2008. I was on a serious budget at the time and stalking ebay but tried mine on in the shop and fell in love with how it made me look and feel. I scrimped and saved to pay for it. I still think it was a lot of money for something that got worn for one occasion and keep contemplating having it made into a christening gown as a heirloom, its a shame its going to waste stuck in the attic.

About £2k Sassi Holdord made to measure & really beautiful. Luckily my parents were paying & didn't have a set budget so we just trawled wedding shops until I found 'the one'. Shoes, veil, tiara, gloves were another £500. Oh what I would do to have that sort of cash handy now..,

£50 bias cut silk crepe from Monsoon, reduced in the sale from £350 because someone had got foundation all over it when trying on. I took a punt on a decent dry-cleaner getting it out, which they did! I really wanted a slinky, 1930s style bias cut one and even 2nd hand by a designer called Christiana Couture were over a grand, so I happily compromised.

But we spent a grand on DH's suit - very classic, two sets of trousers, Church's shoes, two ties, two shirts, the lot. It was sensible because bad tailoring looks awful, worse than a cheaper dress, and he still wears that suit now, almost 10 years on, whereas my dress just sits in a box. It made for comedy on the day though - my outfit cost £75 if you included the LK Bennet wedding shoes from Ebay, while his outfit was £987.

I was not a good Bridezilla. I was far more neurotic about baby equipment though - daftly so, in retrospect.

Jenny Packham £1800

£3k Reem Acra-sold it on eBay afterwards for half. I miss it though.

found mine in a bag a friend was taking to the charity shop ! It was really nice though

Another one here who would not recommend Emma Roy, as other posters have said they are lovely (and remembered my name) up until I paid then were the most unhelpful rude pople you could come across!
I had a Maggie Sottero dress too and loved it! I paid just over £1100 and was married in May.

£172. Made it myself from cream raw silk. You can still (just about) get the pattern here

I ended up with three of the dratted pattern, an 8-10-12, a 14-16-18 and a 20-22-24 as one bm swore she was an 18 but in their sizings turned out to be a 22! (The other two of us were 12s)

I spent £40 of the sum on some astonishing lace for the top decoration. The silk and lining were only about £120, and I will forever be glad I did a mockup first.

£90 made to measure from China through eBay (risky i know but it is gorgeous luckily and fits like a glove!) plus £10 for local lady to take my measurements - its quite princessy (not at all what I thought I would like before I started looking) and I will be walking down the aisle in it in just over 3 weeks time!!

£180 from House of Fraser, in Kaliko. It was a top and skirt and absolutely gorgeous.

On my wedding day I kicked through the hem with my pointy toed wedding shoes and then a friend accidentally burned a hole through the top layer of the skirt with a fag. No regrets: it was a fab day and it doesn't fit my massive carcass now anyway it's not like I'm going to wear it again.

Monsoon, £180 plus another £150ish on alterations and having a matching tulle shrug made by the local wedding dressmaker shop.

My mum paid £2k
But we didn't have a price in mind just waited til I found one I really liked.
Bought my rainbow shoes in sale though only £30 in John Lewis!

£250 in 2002.

Avoid Wedding Belles in Pyle near Swansea! Cows!

£1050 plus £300 for tiara, veil and alterations. It's a Maggie Sotterro and the boning just makes my waist look amazing.

Final alterations next week and I finally get to show it off in just over 6 weeks!!

Tip - do go to lots of shops and try on, even if way above your budget. I originally avoided satin and thought I wanted chiffon but soon changed my mind once I tried it on.

£1800 in 2002

Still love it!

10 years ago. It was £55, reduced from about £150. I got it in the BHS sale. Nvere been to BHS before or since, but was very pleased with it.

I thought mine was quite cheap but I'm obviously delusional reading the first lot of posts... about £1,500 I think including bolero. Shoes were on top.

That was in 2009. Agree with advice to try on lots and above all don't go in with a preconceived idea of what you will have. I know sooo many people who tried on dresses they would have never shortlisted for style only to find they looked amazing in them.

£800 five years ago. By Christiana Rossi. I adored it and still do

£300 from a boutique in Liverpool, in 2000. It is a cream shift dress with sort-of applique in various shades of gold and cream on the front, which has been slashed to show the underneath layers. It was exactly what I wanted. It lives in my wardrobe now, having been worn twice since the wedding: once for Ascot and once for a vv posh theatre trip. I can't remember how much the boots or the headband that went with it were. My pointless pashmina thingy that I left in someone's car was a present.

DH's outfit cost more than mine. He still wears the boots occasionally. I think his younger cousin still has the £££ velvet blazer somewhere.

Dress would have been around £800 and veil £200 but as my mum owned the wedding dress shop I got them for freeeeeeeee.

My mum also knew the designer, Amanda Wakely, so my dress had a few differences to the original design, suggested my me and okayed by AW (though if not I'd have had the seamstress make they changes). A year after the wedding, when my daughter was born, Amanda kindly sent a gift.

I needed about 4 fittings because, without trying, my weight started seriously dropping off directly before my wedding (oh how times have changed).

Meant to say 9 years ago.