Where To Find Cheap Wedding Dresses

If you don't want to spend too much more on your wedding dress, read on! There are lots of places, where you might want to spend more money on your wedding. You might want to spend more on a DJ, the reception or get more beautiful flowers. This means cutting on some other expenses, and your wedding dress might be one of them. Don't worry, as you can still purchase a beautiful, elegant wedding dress even if you have a budget.

Here are some ideas for you and some places to look to save money on your wedding dress:

- Your Mother's Wedding Dress. Some brides love the dress their Mom wore when she got married, and choose to use again, when they get married. If you love your Mom's dress, and she is going to let you wear it, you are in luck. All you might have to pay for are some alterations and cleaning, instead of paying for a whole new wedding gown.

- Clearance Racks and Sales at Bridal Stores. Bargains are everywhere; remember to look for them and to ask for them. Many retailers discount items at the stores from time to time, and bridal stores are not an exception. Look for clearance racks at bridal stores, ask about when sales are - you might find out that your perfect dress there is on sale right now!

And do look at the department stores even if you are looking for something a bit more formal. You never know what you can find sometimes.

- Sales and Clearances at Department Stores. Especially if you are looking for informal wedding dresses, department stores might be a great place to look. Sometimes special occasion dresses get discounted a lot, and you can buy a very pretty wedding dress for under $100.

- Online Stores and Sales. Search for wedding dresses online, including online web stores and auctions. Sometimes you can get a much better deal online, then you would ever find at stores.

Good luck with finding that perfect dress. Once you have an idea about the dress that you are looking for, as well as the price range you are willing to pay, you should be able to find that perfect dress.

Cheap Wedding Dresses Do Not Necessarily Mean Poor Quality

Your wedding day is undoubtedly one of the most important days of your life, but it can also be one of the most expensive. For the bride perhaps the most important item on the shopping list will be her wedding dress and with an increasing number of high quality but relatively cheap wedding dresses on the market today it is possible to have the dress of your dreams without breaking the bank.

For many people a wedding dress should be a traditional full length white gown, symbolizing the bride's pure heart and innocence, complete with veil and train first popularized by Queen Victoria when she broke with the royal custom of marrying in silver and chose a white gown for her marriage to Prince Albert. This started a craze which continues today with many brides choosing white or a variation of white such as cream, eggshell or ivory.

Today however we see two major shifts taking place when it comes to weddings.

The first is a return to pre-Victorian days when brides married in simpler dresses of just about any color that took their fancy, except for black which was associated with mourning and red which was worn only by "ladies of the night". This also means often dispensing with the veil, which is said to symbolize virginity, and the train which is very much a trapping of royal weddings and emulates the peacock, which was formerly seen an a royal bird.

The second is a move away from the church wedding towards weddings held in a wide variety of venues, including the increasingly popular beach wedding.

As a result not only do brides now have a much wider choice of color for their wedding dress but, more importantly, dispensing with the veil and train and the need for a full length dress now means that brides can choose from a range of far more simple wedding dresses. For the cost conscious this is great as informal wedding dresses are also considerably cheaper than the full traditional white wedding outfit.

One other important point here is that the move away from the full white wedding gown also means that it is no longer necessary to purchase your dress from a specialist bridal outfitter who, not surprisingly, will charge a premium simply for the service that is provided or for the name or brand that you are buying. It's a bit like a pair of running shoes – you can buy two virtually identical pairs of shoes and pay ten times more for one pair than for the other simply because it carries a brand name.

There has never been a better time to shop for your wedding dress and the choice available to you today in terms of color, style and supplier is vast. It's no longer that difficult to find reasonably cheap wedding dresses and still end up looking like a million dollars in the dress of your dreams.