Various online shops abound with opportunities for a cheap wedding dress. Locating a winter wedding dress or plus size wedding gowns require a little more perseverance, but the lower demand for these items tends to keep the prices low.

A Cautionary Tale

A lot of Bridezilla stories have roots in a friend or family member overestimating their tailoring ability, and creating a generous but misestimated offer to sew a bridal gown from scratch.The consequence can be an embarrassingly poor fit, the inexpert seamstress sensing imposed upon, and in numerous cases, a lasting rift between good friends.

My Bride to be friend chose a sexy strapless bridal gown which complemented her buxom figure. The dress was part of an ensemble including a lace jacket which would provide a little more modesty, but $800 for the jacket alone seemed excessive.  I suggested that my 21-year-old daughter, who makes her own clothes, could make the jacket for $200.That constituted my first error.  

Once the bride turned up for the fitting, she did not bring the wedding dress (which was at the bridal shop being altered, so the jacket was outfitted over her street clothes.My daughter finished it the day before the wedding, and it turned out to be so large and poorly fitting that the bride began to cry and threw it aside.  My daughter had already cached and spent the bride’s check, and made the excuses that she had never worked with lace before, and that the bride was at fault for failing to bring the wedding dress to the jacket fitting.

She wore wedding dress without the jacket. I caught a bridesmaid’s gossip that she was concerned that the bride would pop out of the top of her gown. At my boyfriend’s encouragement, I ended up writing the bride a check for $200. It is difficult to specify who was at fault, but for the interest of a friendship I valued, I took on responsibility.

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