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I was just reading something on 2000dollarwedding.com (don't ask me why, i am supposed to writing a report for my internship) and there was discussion about cost of dress and the writer said to think about how long we are actually wearing our dress for and then how much it comes out to per hour. And of course i had to calculate mine.
i did the calculation by adding the total i spent on my dress including alterations, then divided by the number of hours i actually wore the dress. so like from the moment you put it on (for me this was 2 hours before the ceremony) until the moment you take it off.
So WITH alterations I spent about $1825 and had it on for a grand total of 8 hours. Which means my dress cost me about $228 per hour...... holy moly! maybe i will redo that calculation after i sell it and see what the difference is! (and add in the hour or two i spend wearing for pre-BBQ pics at my AHR).
So, how much is YOUR dress per hour?!
Um its $1000 shipped to Aus, I would say around $100 alterations, so I will be wearing it from around 1.30 to 11.30pm, so thats 10 hours so $110 an hour. Not too bad :)
I never really thought of it this way, but it makes sense. Mine ended up being about $130 per hour. The gown was $1100 on sale with $300 in alterations...totalling $1400 and I wore it for 11 hours. Not too much in the grand scheme of things, considering people pay $100+ for lessons (i.e. golf, tennis, etc.) around here! 
If I actually made that calculation and looked that number in the face...no. No I refuse! I'm just going to think of the overall joy the dress will bring!
Huh.... my dress was $575 plus $75 for alterations. I wore it for about 11 hours.... so it was about $60 per hour.
I'm torn between 2 dresses, and I just did a ballpark figure for alterations ($350). If I wear it for 6 hours one will be $375 and another $420. ¡Ay dios mío! Let's hope I wear one much much much longer
My dress was $99 on sale (Originally $649) and alterations were $50. So $149. I will wear it from 10am-4:30pm (We are having a lunch reception) So that is 6.5 hours... so 149/6.5 is roughly $23 a hour. That's not bad at all to me!! I wish I made $23 a hour at my job lol :)
Ouch that is scary. Mine was $472.73 per hour! But I loved every minute of it :)
Haha, what a fun question!
Let's see....my dress, including alterations, was roughly $1,400.
I got dressed at about 5:00pm, and took it off at 3:00am. So, 10 hours = $140 an hour. Not bad!
....But considering my mom paid for it, it was free for me ;-)
I never thought about it this way…
My dress was $800 after taxes but before alterations. I’m hoping my alterations aren’t crazy and I only need a hem and bustle so I’m going to ballpark a guess of $150 for those bringing the grand total to $950. I plan to get in my dress around 3 pm for pictures and our reception ends at 11 leaving me wearing it for approximately 8 hours. 950/8= $118.75 per hour. Not too bad but still more than I would have liked to pay. Oh well, can’t put a price on looking awesome (hopefully).
such variety! however, after seeing all the responses, i realize the author who made me think to do this does not have a valid point. let's say i spend $5000 on a wedding dress, but have 2 reception (DW and AHR). And wear it for 10 hours each time, so that $250 per hour. Can i really say its then justifiable to buy it over someone who has one reception for 6 hours and pays $2000 - so $333 per hour!
@Purpleunicorn- I agree, but I do not think you can justify splurging on your dress. I did and I love it, but don't try to get my to justify my spending I don't think I'll be able to.
mine comes out to about $312 an hour. With alterations it was 2500, and i will be wearing it for about 8 hours
I like this! My dress was $769 after alterations. I'll have it on from 2pm-12am, so $76.90 per hour, AND if I add in the hours I'll have it on for my TTD sesison the cost per hour will drop to $54.93 per hour. Quite the value if I do say so myself!
@PurpleUnicorn: Well, turns out mine will be $495/hr. Eek. Idk for some reason I like the grand total better, though its also quite high. I will be in it for atleast 11 hrs though...
mine was $98 +$600 in alterations = roughly $700. And then add 7 hours for ceremony and reception + 5 hours pre ceremony pictures + 5 hours day after pictures = 17 total hours in the dress (for legitimate things... I have worn the dress secretively many times before). So 700/17= $41.18 per hour. I am okay with that! lol
@MrsMcGyro: lol, i agree it is. but i guess that value got determined by all the responses here!
question is then, what IS a good value of cost/hour for a wedding dress?
if we think about a winter jacket for example, we probably get for it nothing over time! like 0.000000something that it doesnt matter anymore!
@roxy821: oh i *try* to justify my dress splurge by saying i am going to sell it! LOL. And I am, i just don't think the money i will get back will justify what the left over i am still out is!
without alterations my dress was $280. Seeing as I will probably be wearing my dress from at least 10:00am until midnight, my dress will cost me around $31 an hour.
Mine was 87.53 an hour so not to bad. 
. Now to see how much it will cost me to get it cleaned and pressed again is the next question.
my dress ($1100) with alterations ($50) = $1150.
I wore it from 12pm - 1am = 13 hours
1150/13 = $ 88.46 per hour :D
my dress was 1101$, ball parking 150$ for alterations, I figure I'll be wearing it about 14 hours (reception doesn't end until 3am), so about 89$ per hour.
I haven't done alterations yet, but so far its $79.50 an hour. Not too bad so far.
@PurpleUnicorn- Mine was a custom made gown and the odds that it will be the perfect fit for someone else is slim, so I'm not selling it and it's in a bag in my basement lol. I guess I'll make some christening outfits out of it and make myself feel better.
@bebefly: Reception doesn't end til 3am?! Can I come, pretty pleeeease!
$1059 including alterations.
-12 hours of in Michigan
-6 hours of wear for pictures back home in Louisiana and the reception here.
$59 per hour! I did better than I thought!
My dress was about $1250 including alterations...I put it on at about 4 PM (2 hrs before ceremony) so I was wearing it for 8.5 hrs (actually more like 10 since after we left our reception we were lost for about 1.5 hrs)
So per hour w/o getting lost was $147.06 and with getting lost (still wearing the dress once we got to our hotel) was $125 per hour! Not too bad!
I'd say... since the wedding isn't here yet, I'll wear it for at least 10 hours... so that would come to around $15.42 an hour. Which isn't too bad, all in all.
Of course, it's also a dress I can wear again, so... definitely worth it in the long run!!!! LOL!
I wore the hell out of my dress, lol! I had two 2-hour bridal shoots(one was a friend needing portfolio work), I spent seven hours in my dress on the wedding day, and six more hours of day-after session photos in Paris and Venice, so that equals 17 hours. I got my dress used for $800 and spent $50 on alterations. I wanted to spend under $1,000 for it, so I was ok with that.
I spent $50 per hour of wear. :-)
Haha my fiance keeps reminding me about the cost/hour on the wedding day. He thinks just about everything is a splurge.
I spend $425/hour but i definitely think that it will be worth it. I was very frugal (in my opinion, not fiance's) in some other areas so I could splurge on the dress.
mine is a chinese knockoff, so cost me £100, i will wear it from 1pm til maybe midnight.....so thats 11 hours..... £9 per hour! ($15)
I'm estimating about 8 hours in the dress, so It will end up costing roughly $215 an hour. Honestly it's better than I expected.
Mine was $571.43!! Yikes! I'm glad I didn't do the math before the wedding, although I'm not sure it would have changed anything. I loved my dress.
So with alterations my dress is approx. $1,700.00. My wedding hasn't come yet, but we have pre-ceremony photos, so I'm going to say I put the dress on around 2pm. Our reception goes until 9pm. Plus we have an after party which I have yet to decide whether I will wear my dress or a cocktail dress too, so here we go:
From 2pm till reception end 9pm: That's $242.80/hour
With after party included say we end at 2am (total 12 hrs): that is $141.60/hour
WOAH.
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