at least you can wear it again
my dress can only be worn for one day. which is why I'm ebaying it immediately after the wedding. I did ponder wearing it for my sister's weding as it is a wedding dress after all, but fear that she would not see the funny side.
( ascorbate, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:28, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yeah it'll last me a lifetime, depending on waist girth

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:29, Reply)

my mrs found a dress she liked for £1200
I felt bad hammering home to her that she herself had said she wasn't going to spend anywhere near that on a dress.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

That's part of the problem I reckon.
We see all this impressive sparkly shit and go 'Ooh that's nice, I want it, screw the price, it makes my hips look FANTASTIC!'
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I HAVE NEVER TRIED ON A WEDDING DRESS

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:38, Reply)

Too late Noel, too late
Who's a pretty Noel?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:40, Reply)

that's cause you just bought it and wore it on the day

(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:41, Reply)

your loss
I have only tried on one, but it was the one I wanted
( ascorbate, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:52, Reply)

I found one I liked for £600
and mr vit c has insisted I get it - he says he wants me to get the dress I want (within reason of course) and not to buy some cheapo one, then regret it. I thought £200 was reasonable for a dress. We argued a lot about it actually! But when I tried it on - well, I'm picking it up at the end of June I think... It's the most expensive item of clothing I will ever own, albeit only for a short time.
( ascorbate, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I'm of the same opinion as your bloke
want her to look great, but it won't take £1200 to do so. she's planning to sell it too, but you'd still only get half of it back, at best.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:43, Reply)

I think I'm going to make my own dress
so it'll only cost the price of the fabric and steel and shit, which should be under £100. It might fall apart on the day though, which would be embarrassing.

I just made my first steel boned corset and it makes my boobs look amazing. By amazing it means it looks like I actually have some.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:58, Reply)

POIDH

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:09, Reply)

God you're such an Internet Online Perv!
Seconded!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:11, Reply)

haha
Amorous Badger would smell the fear of acceptance and be over here in a shot to discredit me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:12, Reply)

hmmm, good point

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:16, Reply)

I can't see myself getting married
but the cost of the proceedings will depend entirely on whether I have managed to get into the career I want. If I have then it will be a big fancy horrible one. If I haven't then I'll have a tiny wedding with just the people I want there and very cheap.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:44, Reply)

I think everyone is forgetting the price of the divorce.
They aren't cheap either.
( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:08, Reply)

hitmen are cheaper

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:10, Reply)

I wouldn't get divorced
if I pick the right person, and it all goes wrong then we will spend silent years hating each other and living in seperate wings of our house and having occasional icy encounters, until a charming young gardener makes us realise that we are indeed the ones for each other. Then when he leaves for university, we'll realise it was only an interlude and drift away from each other again
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:10, Reply)

Is this a book?

( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:11, Reply)

no
it's the delirious ravings of a diseased mind
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:13, Reply)

I'm getting one I can wear again.
I tried on a bunch of "proper" dresses in wedding shops, all of which were very expensive (£1500 minimum), or not terribly nice (£600 minimum). I swore very loudly that I would never spend as huge a sum of money as £1500 on a dress.

So I decided (egged on by my mother, who forced me to use her dressmaker instead of one of my choice) to get one made for me, in a colour that's not white, and in a style where it will be easy to take off the train and get it resewn into a cape to cover the shoulders. Something I can wear to balls and the opera etc.

Having been pressganged into using this dressmaker (who, to be fair, is fairly awesome), it's going to come out, including material, boning etc, at: £1500.

Erk.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:55, Reply)

If you can use the dress again then that's good.

( girlinthehole, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:01, Reply)

farking hell
I tried on one which would have been £900, really liked it, but went for a simpler version of it - £1500 was initially 1/4 of the budget for our whole wedding! (it's now more like 1/5, prices keep hiking everytime the folks we speak to find out we're coming from the UK)
( ascorbate, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:03, Reply)