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"Can’t buy me love"... but you can, in theory
at least, buy your perfectwedding day . Unfortunately, if
you’re like 99% of the population, money is
an issue and if you want that perfect wedding day, you have
to decide on a budget - and stick to it. Nowhere is this
more applicable than the wedding dress.
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Caroline Parkes - Once-in-a-lifetime
from £100 on The Dressmarket |
There are few things you can be
sure of in any wedding, but one thing that you can be is that,
modern or romantic, your dress will be the one thing that
everyone will focus on as you walk down the aisle.
This precious and symbolic item will play one of the most
important parts in this most important of days. Your wedding
dress should be as unique and special as you are, and you
should feel like a million dollars when you have it on.
Your wedding dress will probably be the most expensive item
you will ever buy and becasue of this - not to mention its
symbolism - it’s not surprising that the wedding dress
is the most important single element to every girl when she
is planning her wedding. |
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dress is certainly one of the most enjoyable and exciting
parts of the wedding preparations, it is seldom if ever
easy – and what fun would it be if it was easy?…
The style, the silhouette, the cut, the fabric all have
to be just right so that the dress fits you like a perfectly?
And no matter how many designs and styles you may consider
your final decision will rest on one factor alone: your
budget.
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It’s lovely to spend
hours browsing dresses in magazines and on the Internet
but realistically, the first thing you should do is to decide
on your budget. After that decision has been made you can
look at dresses in that price range.
Doing otherwise is really just wasting time and could lead
to dissatisfaction. The sooner you start looking at what
you can afford, the longer you will have to find the perfect
dress. The fact is, ladies we can’t all wear Vera
Wang – but the fact is, too that we can all look good!
The cost of your wedding dress can vary enormously,
depending on the style of the wedding and also the content
of your purse and your taste.
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Augusta Jones
£500 on The Dressmarket
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Try to find the right
balance and don’t lose sight of the fact that it is
the dress of a unique day. The dress must be stunning but
also comfortable and a pleasure to wear.
Remember: The perfect dress isn’t necessarily the most
expensive; it’s the one which makes you look as good
as you can and which makes you feel most comfortable in it.
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Jenny Packham - 'Desire'
£450 on The Dressmarket |
It’s every bride-to-be’s fantasy to have a private
fitting in a Paris, London or New York atelier but the reality
is more likely to be that you are on a tight or fixed budget
and the dress of your dreams is more than a little out of
your price range.
If you have to have that designer dress, websites like The
Dressmarket now give you options the didn’t exist
even a few years ago. On the site you have access to dozens
of once-worn (sometimes never worn) dresses from the world’s
leading designers at prices that mean that a Vera Wang dress
suddenly does become possible.
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Using the Dressmarkett
is an excellent and cost-effective way to buy a once-in-a
lifetime designer dress at a fraction of the original price,
usually in perfect condition. Of course, once the day is
over, a good dry cleaner will restore a wedding dress to
its pristine condition and you can re-sell the dress on
The Dressmarket and recoupe much of your original outlay.
That’s why you will find that most sellers in our
site have had their dresses dry-cleaned for this very reason.
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| The beauty of this approach is
that you can, for example buy a £2000 Vera Wang Dress
for £1,000 and then sell it for £500. Thus you
can have the dress of your dreams for £25% of the original
price. This of course means that suddenly, you have the choice
of spending anywhere between £500 - £1500 on your
Honeymoon or on other areas of the wedding – or indeed,
not to spend it at all. |
Catherine Walker- 'Bespoke'
£1200 on The Dressmarket |
