A Cheap Wedding Dress Does Not Have To Mean Poor Quality

The choice of wedding dresses available to the bride nowadays has never been greater and, as you will see from this article, you can pick from a wide range of cheap wedding dresses without having to compromise on quality.

Your wedding day is obviously one of the most important days of your life, but it can also be one of the most expensive days in your life. For the bride possibly the most important thing on the shopping list will be the bridal gown and with a growing number of good quality but relatively cheap wedding dresses available nowadays you can have the dress of your dreams without spending an arm and a leg.

For a lot of people a wedding dress ought to be a traditional full length white gown, which symbolizes the bride’s purity of heart and innocence, complete with train and veil originally brought to popularity by Queen Victoria who broke with the royal custom of getting married in silver and picked a white dress for her wedding to Prince Albert. This began a craze which continues today with many brides picking white or a variation of white such as eggshell, cream or ivory.

Now however we see two significant shifts taking place when it comes to weddings.

The first is a return to pre-Victorian days when ladies married in simpler dresses of almost any color which took their fancy, except for black which was worn for mourning and red which was worn only by 'ladies of the night'. This also means usually abandoning the veil, which is thought to be a symbol of virginity, in addition to the train which is a trapping of royal weddings and which emulates the peacock, which was historically viewed as a royal bird.

The second is a move away from the church wedding towards weddings taking place in a wide range of venues, including the now popular beach wedding.

As a consequence not only do brides now enjoy a far wider choice of color for their wedding dress but, more importantly, doing away with the train and veil and the need for a full length dress now means that brides can pick from a range of far simpler wedding dress. For the cost conscious this is great news because informal bridal gowns are also considerably less expensive than the full length traditional white wedding outfit.

Another important point is that the move away from the traditional white wedding dress also means that you no longer have to purchase your dress from a specialist bridal outfitter who, not surprisingly, will charge you a premium price simply for the service which is provided or for the name or brand which you are purchasing. It is a little bit like a pair of training shoes you can purchase two more or less identical pairs of shoes and pay seven times more for one pair simply because of its brand name.

There has unquestionably never been a better time to go shopping for your bridal gown and the choice available nowadays in terms of style, color and supplier is huge. It is no longer that difficult to find reasonably cheap bridal gowns and still end up looking like a million dollars in your dream dress.

Author: Donald Saunders

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