How much is your dress costing?

i've got dress (£650 down to £100 in sale) , shoes (special 2 pairs for £5), tiara, (£5 closing down sale)jewelry (£3 closing down sale),veil (£15 bhs half price sale), undies(£5 primark), stocking (£3.00 bhs sale), and stole (£10 bhs sale) all for £143.50 think i'm doing fantastic already lol.
also bridesmaids got 3 adults dresses from bhs for £25 each, shoes 4 pairs for £10, kept a pair for myself lol,
stoles for only £1 each yes £1,
3 flower girls dresses bhs £12 each and shoes bhs £3.60 each........i love sales.
1 bride ridesmaids and 3 flower girls all for a whopping £279.30.

ive also done all my favours flowers and doing my balloons myself
think i'm having a "cheap" wedding but it will look expensive

oh also got 3 bmw's for hire all day for £50 each,
its not what you know its who you know lol.


so how is everyone else doing?


the big question is:-

do you really need to spend £1000's to make your day look expensive?

i've got dress (£650 down to £100 in sale) , shoes (special 2 pairs for £5), tiara, (£5 closing down sale)jewelry (£3 closing down sale),veil (£15 bhs half price sale), undies(£5 primark), stocking (£3.00 bhs sale), and stole (£10 bhs sale) all for £143.50 think i'm doing fantastic already lol.
also bridesmaids got 3 adults dresses from bhs for £25 each, shoes 4 pairs for £10, kept a pair for myself lol,
stoles for only £1 each yes £1,
3 flower girls dresses bhs £12 each and shoes bhs £3.60 each........i love sales.
1 bride ridesmaids and 3 flower girls all for a whopping £279.30.

ive also done all my favours flowers and doing my balloons myself
think i'm having a "cheap" wedding but it will look expensive

oh also got 3 bmw's for hire all day for £50 each,
its not what you know its who you know lol.


so how is everyone else doing?


the big question is:-

do you really need to spend £1000's to make your day look expensive?



[Modified by: futuremrsdevine on 13 March 2010 11:30:28 ]

Wow, you have done really well. I brought my dress yesterday, it is a ex sample dress, nothing wrong with it. £830 down to £400.
Very exciting.

bargins are the best i love them...lol
i just like to share with people the cheapest options....
good luck on your day
x

wow, you have got some bargins well done you xx

forgot to add that got both our rings for ...........£9 saved £80 in littlewoods looked for voucher codes online.

the rings are both tungsten
mine 5mm and his 7mm and they are solid

Hi,
My dress cost £699 and my shoes £30. It's feeding everyone that's costing us £1000s! x

Wow you have done so well I am so impressed!!! I got my dress second hand for £350 (would have been £850 brand new) got a veil and tiara for £30 and my bridesmaid dresses were £40 each from BHS, got a flower girl dress second hand for £13 and the pageboy outfits secondhand for £33 for two, my shoes were £9 in primark so I got a spare pair of flats for £4 and my corset, thong and garter came to £8 in primark. My ring was expensive as it needed to be made to fit my engagment ring but we got it for £250 but H2B's only cost £5 from Argos (he just wanted a stainless steel simple band!) so it evened out! My friend is a florist so is doing the flowers at cost for us and my other friend is doing the photo's so is only costing us £15! Def don't need to spend a lot to make it a special day!

Wow you have done so well! What time of year to manage to get everything in the sales?

I got my dream dress as ex sample - down from £1260 to £499. Managed to get venue for 2010 prices even though it's not till 2011. Also my friend's hubby is filming wedding for us for nowt! That's as far as I've gotten so far.

Been on the hunt for bridesmaid's dresses and hadn't thought to try BHS till you mentioned it in your post - just been onto website and found exactly what we were after and in budget! Thanks!

wish i could of got a bargain like yours i payed £1200 for my dress,

like jo73 too its feeding everyone that costs the most!

well done on the bargains! nice to see a fellow primark shopper. lol.

my dress cost £250 (marshallward), shoes £25 (ebay), bra £18 (marks and sparks), knickers £4 (primark), stockings £7 (marks and sparks), petticoat £25 (ebay), necklace £30 (debenhams), headband/tiara £5 (bought from a lady here!), dolly bag £5 (ebay), hair pins £2 (ebay), bridesmaid dresses x 6 with marching stoles £25 each (ebay). i thought i'd done well for bargains! good effort! xx

same as some of you got family friend as photographer and thats her wedding present to us, thought that was nice.
i said to h2b i was waitin til after christmas there to then look for bridesmaids and flower girls but got them boxing day so soon as sales started i was there lol.

our venue has 2 halls first for meals,45 4 course meals adults and 7 children, 2nd for reception hold 180 ppl, dj and all decor done except balloons is costing us £850
cousin doin the filming so thats free too,
and im also getting cake from asda, well my little brother is paying for that and i'l just ad ribbon and flowers to it.
got 8 bottels of champagne as well from teco for £50 should have been over £100 was in "better than half price" deal.

kilts for h2b 2bm and h2bs godfather costing us £220 for the full outfits.
also paid for fob suit, waistcoat and cravat and shirt got them all for £35
and mob dress and bolero jack down from £150 to £50 then was in half price sale for the weekend only so got it for £25.

omg i've done really well havent I?

i dont realise how good ive done til i write it down lol.

I somehow managed to fall in love with the cheapest dress in existance £350 brand new!!!! I had so much left in the budget I've been able to customise it and still have change lol!!!!!

that was what i thought when i got mine brand new it was only in the shop 2 weeks then they had a big clearence sale and marked all wedding dresses down to £100 as soon as i seen it i knew i wanted it so bought it straight away.

omg lol you really are doing great.

my dress was £875, tiara £65, veil £135.

When i fell in love my dress i never looked at the price, i was just happy to find the perfect dress.

Does your venue price include food? If it does, that is really cheap. Feeding our guests is the most expensive thing for us.

kirsty x