Dress for under 600 euro...??

CYBER GIRL

getting married in 2013, just trying to have a look around at styles and i want to visit a few places. I have no clue where to go. I will try the Oxfam store but apart from there and the high street stores like coast and monsoon is there anywhere else that sells wedding gowns for under 600 euro???

tinkerbell

There's also the Barnardos store in Dun Laoghaire - I didn't try there but I have read good things about it on the Weddings Online forum.

Monsoon have beautiful dresses though that are great for a small budget - the most expensive one is around £300.

woodchuck

My sister got a very reasonably priced dress in a wedding/formal dress shop in Liffey Valley (sorry can't remember the name!). They had a sale on at the time so it was only about 200-300euro, but even aside from that I think at full price they were still cheaper than most.

beamgirl

I got mine on a sale in a bridal shop for 500 and they had cheaper. Just keep an eye out for the sales

banshee_bones

Butterfly Bride in Blackrock are currently having a sale, no idea of the prices but it might be worth a look? I think Debenhams do wedding dresses aswell?

Moonbeam

I think the shop in Liffey Valley is gone.

Look at the sample dresses in bridal shops,you are buying from the rail but they are way cheaper like can be 2k cheaper.

headmaster

I don't know the name of the place but there's some great dresses at a bridal shop in Claregalway. I've seen a dress that was bought there for less than €200, brought to a dressmaker, touched up a bit, and was a class outfit. The total cost was all in for €350 and some people had it in the €2500 to €3000 price range. It can be done and shows the massive amount of money that can be saved.

Monife

tinkerbell wrote: »

There's also the Barnardos store in Dun Laoghaire - I didn't try there but I have read good things about it on the Weddings Online forum.

Monsoon have beautiful dresses though that are great for a small budget - the most expensive one is around £300.

I went to Oxfam. Complete waste of time. No one professional to help you choose or fit you, you have to do it yourself. Dresses are quite dated and naff. Not a great selection. Also, the room where you try them on was a mess and dirty. However, Barnardo's had a lovely section (alas very little in my size size 18) but they had a good few in the normal sizes and a proper tailor person to fit you and help you choose and the room was much nicer.

I got my dress in Baldoyle Bridal Outlet, it was 875euro (and then 220 for alterations, source your veil online, much cheaper) but they had a HUGE selection, lovely room and there were loads of dresses on sale (mine wasn't).

Shivers26

Sample sales in the bridal shops!

If you check out as many bridal shops as possible in your area and follow them on Facebook, many of them will update there when they are having sample sales and you could grab a great bargain!

Birdie086

Shivers26 wrote: »

Sample sales in the bridal shops!

If you check out as many bridal shops as possible in your area and follow them on Facebook, many of them will update there when they are having sample sales and you could grab a great bargain!

That is exactly how a friend of mine got her dress at a price of 250euro(5 yrs ago though), she was on a majorly strict budget , she is 2nd youngest in a family of ten, she managed to put on a three day affair(the groom in english and all his relatives had to looked after) for about 12,000 in total.

greeneyedspirit

headmaster wrote: »

I don't know the name of the place but there's some great dresses at a bridal shop in Claregalway.

It's called Mozarina Bridal

I got my dress in the sales, 300 quid. less than 100 for alterations.
Hit the sales, you might be lucky

Betty Draper

Monsoon sell cheap wedding dresses

kandr10

I had the same experience as above in Oxfam. Very 80's style dresses and kinda grubby.

Hickeys are good too since you can buy off the rail or have one made up.

John Mason

Littlewoods sell dresses

FeeMc

was gonna say monsoon, but also I heard there's a place in Donnybrook that does dresses from 399 - not sure if that's always or a special offer. they only have off the rack so theyve some 'cheap' ones. Also, have you thought about getting one made? no idea how much that'd be but surely not much more than 600? depending who you get

kittyo

Try the Bridal Outlet in Baldoyle. Ordered mine there about a month ago €550.00 and not even a sample dress. Lots of the dresses there are very reasonably priced.

newtothis

Try http://www.sarahsbrides.com/ all her dresses are between €200 and €600, no more then that.

bills

I think debenhams do wedding dresses or certainly dresses that could be used as a wedding dress.
Also, check out this website for secondhand dresses- www.sellmyweddingdress.net

CYBER GIRL

can i just say a huge thanks to all of you who replied, you are all legends., That place in donnybrook is marian gale, going to head there, the outlet, oxfam, barnardos and i was in monsoon today.

missmoo

check out the buy and sell on weddingsonline, if you're not adverse to a second hand dress, there's so gorgeous one for sale:)

banshee_bones

Let us know how you get on! Best of luck with search

caddy2

just wondering, i know it would be nice to have the dress organised and that but would you be afraid that your taste or size might change between now and 2013? dont know about anyone else but the kate midleton dress has swayed my idea of a wedding dress

TheDriver

try ebay, lots on there from chinese knock off merchants, people seem happy enough with them

CYBER GIRL

caddy2 wrote: »

just wondering, i know it would be nice to have the dress organised and that but would you be afraid that your taste or size might change between now and 2013? dont know about anyone else but the kate midleton dress has swayed my idea of a wedding dress

Hi, yeah i have lost 2 stone so far and plan to loose at least 3 more hopefully by then but i just wanted to get the ball rtolling and have a look around, i have never tried on a wedding dress so i have no clue what looks good!

banshee_bones

Op, Butterfly Bride in Blackrock are having a sale at the moment and I saw two gorgeous dresses in their window, one was 400e and the ther 500e

http://butterflybride.ie/