Wedding dress

[LilMissHissyFit]

I can recommend this company
http://www.zinniabridal.com/
fantastic quality, a friend bought one, I was sceptical but honestly I would never have known it didnt come from a bridal boutique.

If you tried on styles like a dress you fancied from here I think you'd get a good idea what you chosen design would look like 'on'
They offer returns too so if you dont like it you can return it.

 

[moonsi til]

A friend of mine bought a lovely dress from monsoon for it.

Or you could hire one - Mrs Vipper did and it cost around £250, I think. And then another £300 when we lost the deposit due to a fag burn in the train. Maybe not then....

Monsoon have beautiful dresses....I was a bridesmaid at a friends wedding last year so did loads of wedding window shopping and I 'swooned in Monsoon'. Prices were in the £100 -£350 range. Shoes for weddings...thats another money spinner...........

 

[Cloo]

Just remembered, I nearly bought from Glove http://www.glove-design.co.uk/ who offer a basic selection of tops and bottoms made to order that they customise for set prices. You can get a lovely outfit from £200-300. They're based in Guildford.

 

[suitgirl]

i've decided i want to buy a non-weddingy wedding dress, preferably a colour rather than white / ivory - and i dont want to do the whole fittings & alterations business, i want one off the rail. so i found an irish wedding forum, posted a question about where to buy and now have a list of shops around dublin where i'll get an affordable off-the-rail dress. I'm much happier with that prospect - cos loads of my friends have said the women in bridal shops are horrible bitches - a bit like the fake tanned ladies who work at cosmetics counters in department stores!!

a few people have said to try bridesmaid dresses too - they can be as beautiful as wedding dresses, but less stiff & structured, more simple...and alot cheaper.

good luck badger kitten!! would love to see a pic when you get yours! you will find one soon & it will be fabulous....

 

[Pieface]

One thing to remember is that when I'm being a hard bastard, and whatever, or we just had a row, or I'm a bit pissed off with her, there are three things that make me melt (in order of effectiveness).

(1) the photo album (cost £2500)
(2) the wedding dress (she doesn't wear it of course - cost £900)
(3) Our Stefana or Stephana or Stephania (depends on the translation - cost £90)

I don't understand this post really.

But anyway - £2500 for a photo album?? What the fuck? Did you get to keep the photographer afterwards too?

 

[Cloo]

But anyway - £2500 for a photo album?? What the fuck? Did you get to keep the photographer afterwards too?

I think that's for photos and albums, but even then, that sounds pricey for just pics. I've certainly heard £800+ for all your photos (on top of the fees of 800-1200 for the day) .

Hopefully we're getting a mate of gsv's brother over to do it, as he did for gsv's bro (excellent pictures). He'll not charge, but just need his flights from Israel and a few days board paid for... all of which will cost about a quarter of a usual photographer and pics - plus he'll give us all our photos on disk for nowt.

In this day and age, if you don't want to splash out, with digital, there'll be enough good photos around. But you do want to think carefully about it - my bro's wedding photographer was shite and so we barely have any photos from it, which is a real shame.

Anyway, as you were, wedding dresses....

 

[Pieface]

800 - 1200 quid I'd want a cameraman and a digibeta kit filming the lot

Anyway - yes, frocks....

 

[nonamenopackdrill]

Yeah, we splashed out on photos because we didn't want a video. Hired the kodak wedding photographer of the year (we didn't know this at the time, we just hired the bloke who seemed to take a hundred times better photos than anyone else).

 

[butterfly child]

I think someone once said they knew a fab dressmaker who did a corset, skirt and stole for under £500 which would be a joy but I can't find the thread...

*flaps*

Flap no more.. that was me, and she was called Sophie Jonas.

 

[Pieface]

Yeah, we splashed out on photos because we didn't want a video. Hired the kodak wedding photographer of the year (we didn't know this at the time, we just hired the bloke who seemed to take a hundred times better photos than anyone else).

And whenever you fight you look at the pics and it's ok again?

 

[alien nation]

Don't think I will bother with more than c. 10 photos done by a pro but will encourage guests to take pics and send the best ones.

Check out photographers now too. I had to book ours 9 months in advance and it was just a registery office wedding

Some photographers charge a set price for attending a wedding with x number of photos, others charge per photo (and album).

 

[rennie]

I found mine in a vintage store.

 

[Dubversion]

looking at their website, they're a bit fancier than they were 3 years ago - dunno if you'd get much for £500 now!

is Prangsta the shop that looks semi-squatted down in New Cross near the Tavern? i used to go to weird parties round the back of that row of places./

 

[nonamenopackdrill]

And whenever you fight you look at the pics and it's ok again?

No, just that it's really nice to look at the pictures.

I'll say anything when I've had a drink, won't I? That was a ridiculous post.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

We paid £1300 for our wedding pics too, ours was a former photographer of the year too and he was cheaper than some of them in our area.
Im glad we did, our pics are stunning. But then thats Mr Fits job too and he wanted quality( and hes a harsh critic of his own work) so the guy did it mates rates.
BUt yeah book ahead, dont think just anyone will be able to take fab pictures and dont go thinking you will get it done cheap if you want decent pics.
My mate paid £275, slagged us off blind for spending loads and then hated every one of the crap pictures she got from her 'photographer'

Mrfit did her a set of wedding pics too ( while her 'photographer objected to him being there constantly)Thank god he did.....

 

[Pieface]

I'll say anything when I've had a drink, won't I? That was a ridiculous post.

ah - I always forget to look at the time on them. For some reason you don't come across as one of the alkie posters on here.

 

[Tank Girl]

is Prangsta the shop that looks semi-squatted down in New Cross near the Tavern? i used to go to weird parties round the back of that row of places./

I think so, I've not been to the shop - ask aurora green, she knows them I think.

 

[nonamenopackdrill]

ah - I always forget to look at the time on them. For some reason you don't come across as one of the alkie posters on here.

You don't know me very well then!

 

[Dubversion]

I think so, I've not been to the shop - ask aurora green, she knows them I think.

ah, it is them then, i'm pretty sure.. crazy american lady on a motorbike

 

[ddraig]

is Prangsta the shop that looks semi-squatted down in New Cross near the Tavern? i used to go to weird parties round the back of that row of places./

yep it is them lot, used to be 'kaos kit' nextdoor as well

 

[Rohen]

Im going to regret saying this but I have a pretty decent digital camera and tripod so Im available I may even buy a new flash gun and a zoom lens as my laptop has not been able to get its data recovered and so Im going to treat myself for having lost all my stuff and I suppose God has purged the decks so that I can start afresh with my laptop and contacts.

In anycase I will give you a pressie before hand...

 

[Celt]

Thanks for all the good suggestions...if anyone has a good designer/corsetiere in London please PM me, I will try fairy Gothmother as well and pop down Fonthill as it is 5 mins away...it is a right faff all this dress stuff isn't it?

I think I will try Debenhams and BHS etc as well, I can't see the point in the Great ProNuptia Rip Off scam.

It depends if you are wanting to do the tradtional white/cream

My friend got married last year in a gorgeous pale blue /silver dress, it was described as a prom gown,was full length and had a lightweight stole of the same materieal, the same design was in the bridal deptartment in cream but at double the price. My friends wedding was a wedding in her 40's and the colour of this dress the silver made her grey hair look fab (I know it sounds inlikely but her hair is so grey it was almost white and she looked stunning) - her dress in the sale cost her £40.

My neice is getting married in July in Gretna green and couldn't wait to get her dress booked she has hired it - we will see how it works out, but the dress she chose last week won't be let to anyone else before that and as she is having a party/reception back home in Norfolk with her friends when they return the hire shop has said she can keep it for that and wear it again if she likes.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Some very cunning suggestions, thanks suburbanites.

I am seeing a lady in Enfield who loves making corsets, and I am popping into Fonthill at the weekend, and I am going to avoid orange-faced sales harridans like the plague...

 

[Rohen]

Well I went and bought a zoom lens 70-300 and a flashgun

Heres the first decent picture I took it from 20foot so please don't think I was standing next to the dog to take it

So the offer stands BK

 

[HeroineSheep]

I think M&S are soon to start a range of nice wedding dresses for about 100 quid.

I am now quite worried by the fact that I know that

*goes back to well worn place on the shelf*

 

[Looby]

I think M&S are soon to start a range of nice wedding dresses for about 100 quid.

I am now quite worried by the fact that I know that

*goes back to well worn place on the shelf*

Yeah, I saw that in a magazaine yesterday. Apparently they are lovely too.

 

[Louloubelle]

I'm not the best photographer in the world, but I'm not bad and I'm happy to take some photos if you would like me to and if I'm not working on the day. I don't have a pro flash system though so I can only take them in good natural light.