Wedding Dress

strandedj
strandedj Posts: 128
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Just saw a thread on whether to sell a wedding dress. I thought it might be fun to see how much people spent on their dresses. I married nearly 28 years ago, a shotgun wedding so to speak. My wedding was put together fast and my dress was somewhere around 200 dollars.
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  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    My wife's was around $200 and beautiful too! We even took it on the cruise for one of the formal nights. It was awesome! The whole wedding was around $5000, we did GOOD considering we had around 150 people.

    JM
  • Ekoria
    Ekoria Posts: 262 Member
    Mine was reduced from £600 to £300. It was beautiful, I didn't buy it just because it was cheaper, I just happened to love the reduced end of the line dress :)
  • rossi02
    rossi02 Posts: 549 Member
    My dress was priced around $250. Once allerations, shoes, vail and jewlery were added in, it rang up the total to about $350.
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    Got married at the Justice of peace :) lol
  • POKlink
    POKlink Posts: 19
    Mine was $250, and I actually got it brand new off ebay. After being bombarded with a crazy sales lady at Davids Bridal, I wasn't too excited about dress shopping anymore.
  • cindylou617
    cindylou617 Posts: 51 Member
    $100 on my white one and $75 on my red one! :drinker:
  • StrengthIDidntKnow
    StrengthIDidntKnow Posts: 543 Member
    I think mine was around $850.
  • angeldaae
    angeldaae Posts: 348 Member
    Mine was custom made for me by a former Project Runway contestant and it cost an arm and a leg.

    But it was gorgeous. :happy:
  • jporte
    jporte Posts: 164 Member
    Wow I thought mine was fairly inexpensive it was $700 15 years ago.....I had really liked a very similar one but it was $1300 and I didn't want my parents to have to pay that much so I was pretty happy when I found it for $700....I don't want to say how much the wedding actually cost...but my parents took out a big loan.
  • mayerel
    mayerel Posts: 254 Member
    $900 for me. In my neck of the woods, that's down right cheap!
  • strandedj
    strandedj Posts: 128
    Sounds like everyone so far got some real deals!
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Well I feel kinda dumb lol. I bought a Vera Wang Grecian style gown for $642 dollars. I am getting married next year. It was the only thing close to what I wanted though. But I will actually wear it again as it can easily be worn as something other than a wedding dress, I would wear this thing around the house lol

    here is the link, it's the top one. Don't quite know why she appears that tall though lol

    http://www.smartbrideboutique.com/blog/grecian-wedding-dresses/20110815/742/
  • La_Amazona
    La_Amazona Posts: 4,855 Member
    $1500.. i'm divorced now and am trying to get rid of it. beautiful dress though!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Never been married, but my best friend has been twice (and working on the second divorce). She spent $750 on her first dress and less than $200 on the second.
  • amosjo
    amosjo Posts: 10 Member
    I don't remember the exact price, but I wanna say around $80 or so. Sheplers.com. LOL Small wedding, and I didn't care about being a princess. Just wanted to get married as cheap as possible. :) Plus, I was broke.
  • sjmgde
    sjmgde Posts: 381 Member
    My dress was $350 and go tmy shoes at payless for$10 bucks. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED my dress. No i do not knwowha to do with it. WOuld like to be able to fit in it again.
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    I paid $500 for my dress and around another $200 for my veil and tiara and I thought my dress was beautiful! We only spent about $5000 total on our wedding and this was 6 and 1/2 years ago


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  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    My first wedding... the dress was $700. Marriage lasted 18 months.

    My second " wedding " - the dress was $200 or less and we're going on 5 years :-)
  • NYCDutchess
    NYCDutchess Posts: 622 Member
    I had 2 dresses and they each cost $300.00
    After the wedding I turned one into 2 Christening blankets and threw the other out. lol...
  • JanetLM73
    JanetLM73 Posts: 1,226 Member
    I had such a small wedding, got married at city hall. I think my dress (which was not a wedding dress) was about $175.00. Our son was 4 at the time, he walked the rings down which was nice, we were saving for a down payment for our house which was a bigger priority to us.
  • strandedj
    strandedj Posts: 128
    RDalton nice wedding dress and pics!
    NYCDutchess, I like the Christening blankets idea, maybe I can use my dress for that!
  • Pakitalian
    Pakitalian Posts: 218 Member
    Mine was custom made as well.. pics are in my profile. I didn't pay for it, as in our customs, the groom's family pays for the bride's dress. I think it was around $350. It was red, considering it was a Pakistani style wedding, that is the custome color. Our weddings are 3 days and we have a dress for each day. I have one day still left to do, which we will do with my husband's family when we get to go visit them.
  • MelMoly
    MelMoly Posts: 1,303 Member
    $75 lol my entire wedding was like $2,000 we did everything ourselves and food was the most expensive out of it all! Haha

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  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    $75 lol my entire wedding was like $2,000 we did everything ourselves and food was the most expensive out of it all! Haha

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    you look beautiful! The only think I would change about my wedding dress is I would make it strapless lol
  • mrs_schultz2012
    mrs_schultz2012 Posts: 395 Member
    mine was $500...getting married in September (pics on my profile if interested :smile: )
  • AmberLee2012
    AmberLee2012 Posts: 540
    Mine was $1,500, however the boutique was closing and I got it brand new at half off.
  • jmelyan23
    jmelyan23 Posts: 1,648 Member
    Mine was $600.
  • Jreneewright
    Jreneewright Posts: 87
    my dress was 1400 dollars when i fell in love with it! I picked it out and then they put it on the end of season sale and so i bought it off the rack for 400 :-) which made me love it more! but i would have def spent the 1400 cause i knew that dress was mine the moment i put it on!!
  • shanny72mc
    shanny72mc Posts: 11
    I was married in 1995 and my dress including veil was around $800. I still have it up in my attic. My hubby said I should sell it since I will never use it. I hold onto it for sentimental reasons!
  • exdisneychick
    exdisneychick Posts: 47
    I don't remember the exact price, but I wanna say around $80 or so. Sheplers.com. LOL Small wedding, and I didn't care about being a princess. Just wanted to get married as cheap as possible. :) Plus, I was broke.

    Same place I got my dress and it was about the same price as yours in 1995 when I bought it. Its known as the dress from hell! We actually had to take it all apart and put it back together. The right and left sides were different sizes, one sleeve was 2 inches longer than the other, and the outer lace layer was much smaller than the underside.. I returned it after the wedding and got all my money back!

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