Need An affordable wedding dress? Here Are The Winning Tips You Need
Getting married is expensive.
Well, not getting married.
Getting married in itself consists in walking into a government office with a
couple friends and your partner and signing a document. It’s all the pomp and
circumstance that tends to come with it, in the form of a public marriage
ceremony, that is expensive. And few parts of that ceremony can be as stressing
and expensive as the bridal dress itself.
The bride’s dress is, for most
people, the center of attention during the ceremony and posterior gathering, so
it’s not surprising brides often get so stressed over it. To help you with that
stress, however, we have gathered a small list of tips to get the best dress
you can without breaking your bank.
Look beyond bridal dresses
The first tip is one of the
biggest ones: You don’t necessarily need a bridal dress from a dedicated store
that carries a huge price because it’s “bridal.” While you naturally may not
want to wear your auntie’s floral dress to your wedding, there are plenty of
dresses that aren’t specifically made for brides but can still look the part.
You’ll likely have to make some
sacrifices, naturally – non-wedding dresses, for example, don’t tend to have
many embellishments. But in an era where brides go for the traditional less and
less, there are plenty of other dresses that could look the part without breaking your bank.
Think outside the color
White dresses are more expensive,
plain and simple.
While most brides wouldn’t be
caught dead in, say, a black wedding dress (although wearing one would
definitely make your friends remember the dress,) other colors, like a light
pink or blue can look great while costing much less than their white
counterparts.
Buy floor models
Floor models of clothes are often
cheaper than warehouse ones, since these are exposed to the elements and
customers of the store. The detail here is that in the vast majority of cases,
these models will be pristine, since stores tend to want to display perfect
versions of the models they sell.
This leads to a simple way to buy
your bridal dress, which is getting the floor model. Now, you can’t just walk
into a store and demand to be sold the floor model, but clothing shops, and
particularly bridal ones, often run sales on all floor models when it’s time to
showcase new merchandise. Make use of them for the needed savings.
Buy off-the-rack
Getting a dress that fits
perfectly or almost perfectly from the get go means you’ll get to save money in
adjustments – and depending on how many changes you need, these adjustments can
be quite costly.
You might not be lucky enough to
have a dress fit perfectly off-the-rack, but there’s a huge difference between
having to shorten a part a tiny bit and having to basically re-do the whole
dress. If possible, buy something that already fits your size.
Rent a dress
This clearly isn’t what most
brides dream of, but to be fair wedding dresses aren’t precisely something you
can casually wear after the wedding, and if a couple decades down the line you
suggest that your daughter or granddaughter wear the same dress you did you’ll
likely get an eyeroll followed by an annoyed sigh.
So think outside what’s usual.
Chances are your husband-to-be is either wearing something he already has
(because men can do that) or… renting a suit. You can rent a dress, too, as it
turns out. Rent
the runway is one of the sites offering this service, and there might be
places in your town offering it too.
Conclusion
If renting doesn’t quite work
out, you can also look for a second-hand dress. As long as it is pristine no
one will know, and you’ll be able to save money on it. It’s not what you
dreamed of as a child, but it works just as well anyway.
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