How to find your cheap designer wedding dress!

You just have to have a cheap designer wedding dress, you have dreamt of nothing else for weeks and spent ages looking over pictures of designer wedding dresses. The hunt is now on, I hope you have left yourself plenty of time! Searching for your designer look, probably started in the many wedding magazines or visits to the local wedding shops. You know exactly the dress or designer that you want but it currently will cost you thousands! Aaaahhh!

First, don't panic, this will require a lot of searching but it will be worth it. Take a visit to the wedding dress shop that you have seen the dress at, try it on to make sure it is the one that you want. It is worth asking at this point if there is any discount, especially if you are looking at buying your veil or tiara or shoes at the same shop. Be brave, they can only say no!

If the shop is not offering a discount, walk away to think about it, hundreds or thousands over the budget may not be worth the extra financial stress later.

With the details of the dream dress from the shop you can now search online for a better price. Online shops can give better prices as their overheads can be less, however you can't obviously try it on. Have a look at secondhand dress sites as some brides will sell their dress soon after their wedding day and normally at least a third off the original price. Try looking for designer dresses on as you can normally grab a bargain.

If you are small you have a good chance of grabbing a bargain of a cheap designer wedding dress in the sales. Most are a size 8 or 10 but always worth having a look, take a friend with you so that they can run back and forth from the changing room for you as sales can be very competitive and fraught! Some brides even wear their swimming costume so they can get changed in the store, anything for a cheap designer wedding dress!

As well as the sales keep your eye out for sample sales and bargain basements. Wedding stores will advertise these in the local press and online, you could save a fortune but you have to be prepared to be ruthless!

For more cheap designer wedding dress ideas take a look at our wedding dress section.

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