Luxury Weddings
willthiswork
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How much was your dress?




... and what did you do with it after?
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Re: How much was your dress?
First wedding: over $4K (don't remember exact cost and mom paid for it) and sold it on eBay afterwards
Second wedding: $275! I had it custom made by a seamstress. After my first wedding, I didn't see the point in spending thousands on a dress again. It's sitting in my closet right now. I am thinking of having it dyed so I can wear it again, but I need to lose some steroid weight first :-/
ETA it's in my closet waiting to be cleaned and preserved.
My dress was $1700, but it had been discontinued, so the shop sold me the floor model for $1300 including cleaning AND alterations to take it from a 12 to a 6. I couldn't believe i liked that dress the best even though i had tried on multiple dresses in the $3-4k range. i lucked out.
To be fair, i then bought a crystal belt that was $800, and a $350 veil (that my mom insisted on and i only wore for the 20 minute ceremony).
The dress has been cleaned and preserved and is in a box in my guest room closet.
What? This makes no sense. Designers set suggested retail prices, the suggested price is $1800. This doesn't change when a salon is fancy or not.
First you say your dress was over 3k and now you are saying its $2300? Something is fishy here.
What exactly is your point? That I'm making up a wedding? That I'm a big lying liar? Ok.
You are wrong. There might be a suggested retail price, but shops charge whatever they want. I had never looked up the price of this dress because I had never seen it, but like I said, the 2 other dresses I tried on were a few hundred (one of them almost 5) over the price I had seen online. I only even saw those prices because I was looking the dresses up for sizing info.
Further, the dress my bridesmaids chose can be purchased for $160 at Madame Bridals online or $175 at bridesmaids.com. I have either visited or called at least 8 shops here and none will sell it for under $250.
I did not pay for the dress so I simply answered what I was told. I had no reason to look it up after it was already purchased. I still don't care or see why this is such a scandalous mystery. I love my dress and my mom had a great time spending whatever she did on it. Retail price or not. If I wanted to lie I would have researched a more expensive dress.
I'm other news, I'm not really engaged and I'm 14. And a squirrel.
I dont care how "luxury" of a wedding you are having, its still ridiculous.
Mine is Alvina Valenta 9307. Love it! Alterations will be 600 flat fee.