How much do wedding dresses roughly cost?

[justanotheryoungmother]

Just that really?

How much do the average not-really-cheap-but-not-mega-money ones cost?

[PinkDucks]

£1.8k for Ronald Joyce dress + alterations which were another £200
£160 veil
£20 shoes

Far more than I intended to spend. Although I did love the dress I still wonder if it was worth it. Luckily the dress was a gift but still a lot of money I think.

[Hugepeppapigfan]

£1550 for the dress
£150 Veil
£60 shoes

[ItsChristmoose]

I'd say £500-£1200 is the normal range people pay when not trying to seriously budget on the dress.

[Praisebe]

My wedding is costing 5k max but the dress is £500 and £100 each for the bridesmaids to choose a dress. Don't understand weddings that cost more than that

[crow2018]

Mine is £1200 without alterations

[mumof2sarah]

They range so differently. There's a shop called wed2b which have gorgeous dresses in upto 599 (that's the dearest one they have) if you're looking at saving money OP x

[Whisky2014]

I got mine yesterday for 1100 in sale but was 1500. Ronald joyce

[MaidenMotherCrone]

First wedding £125 in the sales from Monsoon. Sold it for £150

Wedding next June, bespoke, £400 (£250 to make and £150 for fabric, Possible extra £30-£40 for lovely buttons).

If I were young and slim again I'd be having a dress made by Firefly Path, no idea of cost though. Like this.

[Lollyb86]

Got mine brand new from China on eBay £12.99

[MuseumOfCurry]

Mine was about $5,000 in 2001. Vera Wang. I love it but I haven't laid eyes on it since, it's in a preservation box. It's aged well in the pictures.

[RaindropsAndSparkles]

1991. £750. Was about £500 something off the peg but had it made to measure. It was perfect and felt just right. I tried on many more at Harrods and Droopy &Brown and just kept going back to it. My budget was £1200 so I guess I hit lucky it was Roland Joyce. Veil, headdress and shoes came to about another £200. Still in cupboard wish it still fitted.
      
      Looks v dated now.

[sycamore54321]

The high street dresses in the under £300 mark are often beautiful but they are nearly never "wedding" dresses. What I mean is they don't have the features that are almost exclusively associated with weddings, particularly the hem lines as they will nearly never have a train. the shops seem to keep them in that crossover wedding / pale-coloured formal dress category. If that is what you want, then there are many beautiful choices.
If however you want a "weddingy" wedding dress with a train, possibly very full skirt, etc, then it's a pretty big price jump to close to four figures for most brands. What is missing in the UK is the type of wedding dress shop taut you get in Usa (David's bridal) or the continent (Tati Mariage in France for example) where you can buy a weddingy dress with all the bells and whistles but off the rack at a more modest price, somewhere in the £200 - £500 bracket. I bought mine for £200-ish in such a shop some years ago and walked out of the store with it there and then.

I think many less expensive proper wedding dresses are wildly overpriced. Silk for £1500 is better value to my mind than polyester for £800.

[Samoyedydog]

Also my veil was £25 and my shoes £15 which are ones I can wear again. I did spend £48 on a tiara though but I just fell in love with it.

[Samoyedydog]

£47 off eBay never worn and then paid £90 for alterations. I just couldn’t bring myself to spend £££££ on a dress I’d only be wearing once 😱

[CaseStudyResearch]

Bought mine yesterday, was supposed to be 2.8k but got them down to 1.8k including alterations. They will be fairly significant alterations too, making a boat neck into a V and a high back into a V too.

I just fell in love with Pronovias Atelier dresses! I'm not going to have a veil, will just get some sparkly flats from the high street and might spend up to £100 on a hair piece. So all in, under 2k.

My sister bought hers for £800 but spent a further £800 on alterations and about £300 on veil & shoes.

[mrsRosaPimento]

£449 from wed2be. It was beautiful. I felt amazing.

[shhhfastasleep]

£120 from Cancer Research. The designer donated unsold dresses and it fit me like a glove as well as being the exact style I wanted.

[Hillingdon]

Sample from a designer who worked from her house in Kew. It fitted and she couldn't make it any more due to fabric unavailability so she gave it to me for half price (£450).

[seven201]

Mine was an ex sample in 2014. Was £1200 (but I needed to re-see a lot of beads myself) but would have been £3.6k new (way way over budget, I was aiming for 1k max).

[BusterTheBulldog]

I also have my dress hung up and out at the moment, I love to look at it still!

[BusterTheBulldog]

Mine was £3160. I had no intentions of spending that much though, was just going to get something for £150ish from monsoon / phase eight. Had a lovely wedding dress boutique by me thatvhad gorgeous window displays so really wanted to try on there ‘just to see’. Fell in love with first one I tried on (though I reckon I tried on 100+ after that in various shops) and ended up not being able to get past its perfectness.

As others have said don’t forget alterations, I had hem and elastic threaded trough waist of dress and was still £350! Plus then veil, shoes, head piece etc and all adds up...

[Ilovelampandchair]

Between £500-£2000 would be the norm I think. You can get something weddingy for £500 but won't have much choice. The majority of dresses I saw were between £1000-1800. Mine was £1400.

[mellongoose]

Bought a couple of weeks ago....£400. Eeeek!!

[Orangebird69]

First wedding - Justin Alexander, £1250.
Second wedding - Ghost Gisele, £200.

Totally depends on what style/day you're having.

[elQuintoConyo]

€100 ebay. Vintage 50s. €45 alterations and a whopping bloody €90 dry cleaning bill! Nearly died, but kept my poker face

Bridal shopping wasn't for me and neither are white (ivory champagne cream beige whatever) dresses. Mine wasn't white.

My best friend found a pronovias one she liked, bought material for €180 (shot silk and antique lace) and the seamstress made it for €200, including veil.

Both of ours are in boxes on top of the wardrobe. I've been married 7 years, best friend 8. Don't know what to do with my dress...