(Closed) Poll: Who paid/is paying for your wedding dress?

• panda_bear3
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: October 2016

My mom paid for my dress and veil as a gift to me. We are paying for 99% of the rest of the wedding ourselves. 

• princessbride1989
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: April 2016

• ana2017
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: January 2017

• is_a_belle
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: September 2008

My Dad gave me some money for our wedding, but I used my own money to purchase my dress. No pay, no say and all that. My dress cost $550 at David’s Bridal and I loved it! 

• ninacorrine
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: September 2016

My fiance is paying for everything wedding dress, destination wedding, e rings cetera. .. the only thing I’m paying for is his wedding band.

• MrsCassie
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: July 2012

I bought my wedding dress, hubby and I paid for the groomsmen’s tuxes (bought them for them to keep), the bridesmaids dresses, my parents gave us $5k which paid for the rest. 

We are going to do a vow renewal, just the two of us, and I plan on buying myself another fun dress for that. We were broke kids out of college when we got married, and are now established professionals with fullfilling careers in the professions we obtained degrees in. It’s a bit silly, but I feel more “me” now than I ever have, and more confident and pretty than ever, so I told hubby I want a renew with a new dress and all, he told me it was a bit ridiculous but if it makes me happy, we can do it.  🙂 

• zoey0317
• 5 years ago

• ladyvictoria
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: April 2016 - Manhattan, NY

• kellyrnh
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: August 2016

I was planning on paying for my dress. Found one for $400 and found out that day that my grandmother was paying for half, so it was a great unexpected surprise.

• VictorianChick
• 5 years ago

I’m paying. My mom thinks she is getting a say, but she is wrong.

• kelmpm7809
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: July 2017

My grandma paid for my dress. Her mother paid for my mothers wedding dress and my grandma was very excited to buy it for me, I thinnk it is a nice family tradition that has been established. My grandma didn’t give me a budget but I told her I could not spend more than $3,000 on it if I were going to buy it myself and since she was buying it I would feel bad. She was surprised she thought it would cost much more. haha I guess I got really lucky with that. But I fell in love with a dress that was $2100, which I am so glad that I will have plenty of money for alterations 🙂 

• doeyedone
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: August 2016

I’m a much older bride than you and am buying my own dress. My fiance is also pitching in. My dad and step mom want to help but I didn’t want them setting budget boundaries.

• sansarose
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: June 2016

I’m 29 and financially independent from my parents, so I was initially planning on paying for my dress, but Mom went dress shopping with me, and really wanted to pay for it.

The dress we both fell for turned out to be more expensive than either of us expected, so we compromised- I put the funds I’d been planning to use anyway toward it, and Mom covered the rest. It was very sweet of her!

• fittinginthatdress
• 5 years ago

When time comes and we start planning our wedding, SO’s parents will most likely offer to contribute financially. Personally, I would prefer to pay for everything myself, so my SO and I would have final say in everything and not feel like we owe someone special treatment. However, given that this form of gift is fairly common in his culture, I will defer to SO when deciding how to finance the wedding. I know for sure that my parents will not contribute at all despite being well-off; it’s completely out of the question in our culture. If you can’t afford to have a wedding, you can’t have a wedding (but then on the flip side it is more than socially acceptable to live as commonlaw partners for years and have several children together, and then later – once you’ve saved up – have your dream wedding).

As for my dress, I want to pay for it myself 100% and I’ll be shopping for it alone, as is common in my culture, so my parents and siblings will not be seeing the dress before the big day.

I don’t have a specific budget in mind, as I’ll have my dress designed to fit my exact specifications.