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Hi Ladies,
I'm looking for some input on the cost of your dress in comparison to the total cost of your wedding. You don't need to give exact numbers if you don't want, you can give a percentage instead.
Thanks!
5% for just the dress, I've heard rule of thumb is your entire bridal "look" should be 10% of the budget.
We allocated 10% but I found The Dress at a fraction of my budget, so... 2.7%.
Fingers crossed if all goes well with my replica dress it will be about 2.5-3% of the total budget. :)
Our budget was $5000 but I ended up getting a $2000 dress. Things have changed since then... Our budget is more like $10,000 now...
I was prepared to spend almost 10%, but I found a dress I loved that came in at about 3% of our total budget. I was glad to allocate that money to other things--the dress was important to me, but I knew it wasn't the *most* important thing to me.
Mine was 12%...It cost as much as the venue, but isn't really throwing anything out of whack.
The actual dress was 6%, but my total bridal look was 13% when you factor in undergarments, alterations, jewelry/accessories, shoes, veil, cover-ups, hair, and make-up for the wedding day and the day-after photo shoot.
My dress is 4% so far without accessories or alterations, assuming we stick to budget.
When all is said and done (dress, accessories, alterations), it'll be 4% of my overall budget.
Technically mine is 6%, but i put 1/2 down on the dress and then a girl in my office had the same dress in the same size and she just handed the dress to me for free! I'm still out the 1/2 i put down, so that will just go to cover the bridesmaids dresses.
Mine will be around 1.25%, but not exactly sure since we haven't planned the whole wedding yet!
I didn't plan for the dress to cost that little, but I fell in love with a sample gown that was 75% off normal retail value.
My dress was 4% alterations included. I found a goregous sample dress for about 95% off, and had the dress altered a size smaller to fit me. It was absolutely beautiful and so glad I didn't spend a ridiculous amount on my dress :)
My dress was just under 5%, and my shoes, hair and makeup + dress were exactly 10% of the budget (total budget $6000, dress was $280).
Mine was about 6%, including a custom hem to hollow length (many layers on a shortie meant hemming would have been a nightmare!)...and was so worth every penny!
3.5% excluding alterations, accessories (but I'll be borrowing at least the veil, so that will keep costs down some)
Oh wow, I guess I'm on the high end. 12%, our budget is just over $8k and my dress is about $990. Our budget is pretty unusual in all areas though.
My dress alone without alterations and accessories, is 3.33% of my budget (approximately).
10% of the total budget not including alterations and accessories. Kind of makes me cringe when I think of the price tag but since I plan on getting married only once, it's worth it. =)
$900 on the dress before alterations (which should be minor) and a $4,000 wedding budget. Yeah I know.
Mine ended up being about 18% of the total budget. I found the dress when we had a much bigger budget. We spent about $5500 total and the dress was about $1000 with alterations. Oh well, I did love my dress. :)
4.3% - without shoes/accessories on a $6500 budget.
6.3% - with shoes/accessories
Just bought my dress, I'd say it will be about 10% of the wedding budget. Having said that, the money for the dress isn't coming out of our budget, I'm planning on paying for it myself.
20!!! I really wanted a designer dress, and worked around that. That was my one "must have" (since my husband was for sure already mine and I was already his)
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