There are few wedding dress styles more modern than the mini! Ideal for high fashion, low key weddings, hot and tropical beach weddings or flirty, informal affairs at the registry office the mini wedding dress can also be worn time and time again at all kinds of parties and occassions. Another bonus is that they often come with mini price tags! Here are three great mini wedding dresses from Oli.co.uk
The Ultimate Wedding Sale offers brides in the UK some of the best dresses and the biggest discounts. Being held at seven locations around the country on June 14th, the show includes designer wedding dresses, shoes, tiaras, veils and other accessories at slashed prices.
Some designer gowns are as little as £99
The dresses are high quality, and not second hand. They may be window samples, show stock or promotional gowns, and specialist staff are on hand to measure you and recommend gowns.
Tickets are free, but the events are normally very busy, so be sure to book now.
Hugh Parker has contributed a great article on how to get some popular designer weddings dresses as worn by the stars in celebrity weddings for less.
Read the article here.
The latest fashion craze to hit the internet is a clothes swapping site called Big Wardrobe. This site lets users list unwanted items of their wardrobe to be swapped or bought by other users. We’ve all fallen self-delusional shopping myths such as ‘It will fit perfectly after my diet’ or ‘I will get so much use out of this, even though it doesn’t go with the rest of my clothes,’ and every one of us has at least one item that we have bought purely because ‘it was a bargain.’
Now you can swap these mis-purchases with people who will actually wear them, and what’s more, they can send you an item of their own unusued wardrobe to fill the gap. There are some good items listed, and when I searched I found a never-worn Maggie Sottero wedding dress, so pop on over and have a rummage.
www.bigwardrobe.com
If the current economy has given you a dose of the wedding budget blues, then take heart that there are plenty of creative ways to save money on your big day.
Perhaps one of the most extreme is to make your dress out of toilet paper! Each year, Cheap Chic Weddings run a design contest with the challenge of making a wedding dress out of nothing but toilet paper and glue. The results are surprisingly impressive each year.
This year’s winner out of 564 entries from around the world, was a creation by Katrina Chalifoux of Rockford, Illinois, who’s layered frills design has a distinctive flamenco flair.
The dress has a textured flower pattern that is made of moulded paper. So if you are feeling creative, and have a few hundred rolls of toilet paper and extra time and patience, you could end up saving yourself hundreds.
Just hope that it doesn’t rain on your wedding day!
Check out the winners from previous years.
