Cheap
Wedding Dresses:
How to Score a Cheap But Gorgeous
Wedding Dress
Get set to get
gorgeous, without getting spendy!
For many women,
the idea of paying a huge sum of money for a dress they'll only wear
once, and for a few hours at that, just doesn't make sense. Everyone
has their own attitude towards this, and fortunately, regardless of
how much or how little you want to spend on your wedding dress,
there's a dress out there for you. If you're on the hunt for a cheap
wedding dress, we've got money saving secrets to share with you.
So now let's take
a look at how you can score a stunning but inexpensive, not cheap,
wedding dress, shall we?
Okay, okay, for
the sake of clarity, we are going to call these Cheap Wedding Dress
Tips even though we promised never to use THAT word again, but this
will be the LAST time!
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #1
Hunt around on the
the online auction site Ebay. There are almost always truly stunning
wedding dresses up for sale there at super-cheap prices. Some of the
dresses have been worn, and some may even be brand new (wedding got
cancelled, etc). Even if the dress has already been worn, its not a
big deal, after all, it will only have been worn for a few hours, so
that's hardly used at all! Start watching the auctions now and be
prepared to watch regularly until you find a dress you love.
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #2
Find a fabulous
looking full length bridesmaid dress you love, and order it in white
or ivory. Or for that matter, order it in a color if you want - these
days color is "in" for wedding dresses. Just because a
dress is called a "bridesmaid dress" does not mean you
couldn't wear it as a wedding dress! Whose to stop you? And who will
ever know the difference. You see, the minute you call something a
"wedding dress", the price soars right up. There are plenty
of stunning bridesmaid dresses that will easily pass for a wedding
dress - and cost you WAY less, simply because they are tagged as
bridesmaid dresses, not wedding dresses. Here's a further tip - you
might not want to let the staff in the bridal salon know that you are
buying the dress as your wedding dress or they are apt to start
coming up with all kinds of interesting extra charges to tack on to
your order so that they can make more money off of you. They're also
likely to start drumming up excuses as to why it cant be worn or
purhcased as a wedding dress, so just keep that part to yourself.
Tell them you're buying it to attend a gala or a fund raiser or
something of that sort.
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #3
Browse through the
formal gowns sold around Prom season or even the holiday season in
stores like Sears and JC Penny (their prices tend to be terrific on
evening gowns), and as suggested above, see if you can find something
in white or ivory, or follow the modern trend and go with a color for
your wedding dress. Again, because its a "prom" dress or an
"evening dress", and not a " wedding dress", it
won't have the ridiculous price tag. You can find awesome, amazing
dresses that will make you look like a knock-out on your wedding day,
and no one will ever know that the dress is not
"technically" a wedding dress!
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #4
Buy a very plain,
inexpensive wedding dress (or a plain white or ivory evening gown at
Sears, Target, or from the bridesmaids or prom collection), and then
add your own embellisments such as glimmering sequins, crystals,
beads, appliques, etc. If you are worried about doing this yourself,
you can send the dress to a seasmstress to take care of it for you -
in total it will still cost you mere fractions of what a similar
wedding dress would cost you if you ordered it from a designer or
manufacturer. Study pictures of wedding dresses from the current
lines to get an idea of the different types of accents and
embellisments being used in bridal wear, then use your imagination on
how you can add such embellishments to a plain white gown to give it
that super-pricey designer look.
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #5
Hire a seamstress
to make your dress. Bring a picture from a magazine of the dress you
want and ask the seamstress to quote how much she would charge to
re-create it. Often you can save 50% or more off of what it would
cost you to order the dress from the manufacturer.
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #6
Watch for big
wedding gown sales in your local area. Keep an eye out for ads for
"blow out sales" in the local paper. Sometimes you can
score deals of up to 75% off the retail price at one of these sales.
Cheap
Wedding Dress Tip #7
Rent your wedding
dress. Many cities have wedding gown rental shops where you can rent
a dress worth a thousand dollars for a couple of hundred bucks. This
lets you have your cake and eat it too! Look awesome and feel
fabulous wearing amazing, expensive wedding dress, but pay only a
fraction of what the dress costs because its a rental. Wedding dress
rental shops have tons of styles and sizes to choose from, so that
chances are excellent that you'll find a dress you LOVE. You're only
going to wear the dress once anyway, right? And truth be told,
regardless how setimental you are, chances are you'd rarely ever at
your dress again, so do you really need to be able to keep it? You
may be better off having pictures of you looking awesome on your
wedding day wearing the dress of your dreams, than having a cheaper
dress you loved less gathering dust in a box under your bed for the
next 30 years!
Now that you know
the secrets to scoring a cheap wedding dress, we're not going to use
that word anymore. What word? CHEAP.
Let's face it -
you don't want a "cheap wedding dress". What you want is a
gorgeous, stunning, classy wedding dress... at a super-low price. You
may even want an inexpensive dress, but you don't want cheap!
The word cheap has
negative interpretations. It implies a lack of quality, class, or
style. This is your wedding we're talking about, right? Its got to
have class, its got to have style (as we've demonstrated in our tips
above, class and style don't have to cost a lot). So forget
cheap! What you're looking for is an inexpensive, not cheap
wedding dress! If you think "cheap", you'll have a
"cheap" mind set, and that is the image that will
ultimately be reflected at your wedding. You don't want that.
It's all in the
attitude. Instead, think class act, ultra stylish combined
with super-savvy shopping skills, and no one will ever guess
how little you paid. Remember, cheap is an attitude, its a
state of mind - and so is style.
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