I stumbled across a gown online and fell in love with it, problem was it was way out of my price range so I started looking for a similar style that I could afford. My parentsknew about the gown I loved and surprised me by taking me to a salon to try it on, telling me they would pay for it as contribution toward the wedding my FI and I are paying for ourselves. In April 2012 my parents put $300 down as installment toward the $1,800 gown. Then, this morning my father dropped on me that he would not be contributing toward the gown. I'm crushed, I had paid $100.00 toward the gown a month after the first deposit since I received a call saying a payment hadn't been made that month, my parents yelled at me for making the payment saying they would handle it and my mom put $50 toward the gown the month after that. They haven't made any further payments toward the gown and now don't intend to. Overall $450.00 has been paid so far and I had taken my gown out of our original budget since I believed my parents were paying, my original budget was $1,000. Do I just walk away at this point from my dream gown or scrounge and purchase it? I had planned for a photobooth, I can cut that out of the wedding saving $800 that I can now put toward a gown. In additon to being crushed about the gown, I am extremely angry with myself for being selfish and believing they were going to actually give me such a generous gift.
