Picking Dresses For Your Bridesmaids - Some Advice

When you’re a bride on a budget you need to find cheap bridesmaids dresses. Going the usual route will set you back at least £100 per bridesmaid and that’s not including accessories or flowers! If you are willing there is a way for you to have the wedding of your dreams even at a wedding castle. A destination wedding including a wedding castle is not as expensive as most people would think.

Ask your bridesmaids to help out

The best way to keep your budget low is to ask your attendants if they will pay for the dress themselves. For some, perhaps this is a little cheeky, but if you don’t ask you don’t know and it could save you fortune.

Some brides get around this one by allowing their attendants to choose and wear their own dresses. They got a dress they liked and could it wear again and again. I got happy bridesmaids and saved myself a couple of hundred quid.

If your attendants aren’t willing to help out, then suggest they pay for their shoes, accessories and any dress alterations. These little items all stack up and so you can save there.

For greater flexibility for your maids, just buy them the fabric and get them to get the dress made. They can then choose a style they like and have a dress to wear again and again – that way they won’t mind paying for the dress to be made. It would be a great idea if at all possible toget the bridesmaids together to onsider whether their chosen stles compliment each other and most importantly you the bride. The bridesmaids appreciate their own body shape and are probably most qualified to know what design would look best on them.

Ebay, ebay, ebay!

Another way is to try eBay for bridesmaids dresses. A resourceful tool filled with bargains, but beware, it maybe hard to find identical dresses in the various sizes you need. The stores on eBay will help you out here as they’ll hold stock in various sizes, rather than the auction sellers who only have one item to sell. Do not be afraid of Hong Kong vendors. You just need to allow yourself enough time for the dresses to be made up in the correct sizes. You could ask a vendor to make different styles and sizes out of the same fabric. You can ask the Vendor to post you a fabric sample. They are there to help.

Consider getting the dresses made
Alternatively, find a seamstress and get the dresses made. You can then control the cost a little more by choosing a cheaper fabric. All you need to do is find a pattern and off you go. You can also get the same fabric used for wedding chair sashes or used to decorate the head table too.

Buy second hand dresses
As mentioned elsewhere in the site, there are plenty of dress agencies that sell dresses.

Go get them girl. We hope you have the wedding of your dreams wherever it be at a wedding castle or the village hall.