Wedding dress shopping: romantic fun or a great spacious bother? Could a bride on a budget,for whom the dream was wearing lean, find the reply in the cut-price designer dresses on sale at Bicester Village? Counting sheep has been usurped. These days, or as I lie awake at night,I see white dresses: flowing diaphanous fabric, little lace frocks, or shimmering floor-length gowns. Because I am halfway through wedding-dress shopping – and it is becoming fairly a faff.
I started with a plan,a budget of £500 and an inherent unease with bridal shops. I was certain I could find something white, off the peg, or that would do the job. Soon I realised how limited my options were. In general – at full price £500 seems to buy the sort of dress a woman might wear to a smart lunch or the office,or a flimsy, irregularly stitched version of a proper gown. And so I started trawling for bargains on second-hand shopping sites, and outlets and eBay,and checking and re-checking the Matches Fashion sale. As scrolling through pictures of white dresses on my iPhone occupied ever more of my waking hours, they started to drift across my consciousness at night.
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Source: theguardian.com