designer dresses

Would you splash out on a designer wedding dress?

I'd like to say "no, it's all about our love for each other, not what we're wearing" but i also think that if it's the biggest day of your life, why not celebrate in style ;) 

I read an article about a woman who spent £25,000 on her wedding dress!! Which is simply ridiculous. She claimed she gave up 'her' honeymoon for the dress. Selfish or what?

To each to their own, but I wouldn't. Regular wedding dresses are expensive enough, and look amazing, so I'll be sticking with that. I don't want to still be paying my wedding off in years to come because of a crazily expensive dress.

Ive actually seen some really nice simple wedding dresses from monsoon and thats only 100 or so! Why not save if its nice!

I agree. Monsoon do make some lovely dresses actually. It shouldn't be about the price. It should be about if you feel comfortable in it

As if! I didn't even know Monsoon did wedding dresses. What are they like?

Simple, but elegant. Obviously as it's high street, some look cheaper than others. But look at this one for example:

Oops! Not a brilliant picture...

looks very elegant and not cheap at all - although obviously we can't really see the detail! is it just plain?

Wow I'm going to have a look in there. What's the price range like?

I think the most fatal mistake to make is allowing the dress to wear you. If you can make an entire ensemble look 300% more expensive than it is just by what youv'e pieced it with, then you know youv'e pulled it off.

I think many ladies out there just don't give themselves enough credit, and throw as much money as they can afford on this impressive dress (which everybody sees first instead of the bride herself), and often miss the mark completely because it's just not totally... "Them".

I agree DizzyBride. Those dresses on Gypsy Wedding are the perfect example! You can't even see the bride for all that material!

Can you imagine dragging yourself around, they only wear it for like 5 minutes at the ceremony and HAVE to get changed or not move at all in the wedding reception! so stupid

The thing is, after following in total awe of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, I realized, that yes your'e both totally right about the impracticality of the sheer enormity of the dress, and every detail of the wedding for that matter.

However, the penny dropped that these girls have no identity whatsoever (not to sound harsh!). They are still very immature and naive, and therefore haven't fully developed as an individual yet. They have no independance, and their intelligence level is majorly kept at age 11-13 because that's when they are pulled out of school usually.

Of course they want to look like a Shakira Barbie princess doll! And the dress size is just a (for want of a better word!) childish competition between weddings. They all go to each others do's, and apparently there's an average of 12 weddings a year. So the flamboyancy makes perfect sense, phenomenal amounts of money are thrown at these weddings... But, it does goes to show you can't buy taste :/

Really interesting points- and I agree! And yes, you're right- you can't buy taste! This dress in particular hideous! 

It's mad how much certain wedding dresses can cost, yet some look awful and don't look anywhere near what they're worth.

Lol yeah, and i'll sound like my foremothers (and I don't care, they were clever divas!) "If there are people silly enough to keep paying those prices, then why will they ever charge less?" oh, and a good one is- "It's nothing without the stuffing" Which is true, YOU make the dress, not the other way around.

Yeah but it's nice to have a pretty dress, surely a pretty dress can make you look good or bad.  So I think it's a bit of both.

I got my pretty dress for £60, new. The point being, is that it doesn't have to be an overstated designer dress to make you look amazing