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, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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)