Designer Wedding Dresses

Most brides dream of walking down the aisle in a glorious creation that has the guests gasping in awe at the beauty of the bride and her gown. While off the rack wedding dresses can be quite lovely, there is just something about designer wedding dresses that captures a bride’s imagination. Unfortunately, there is also something about the price tag on designer wedding dresses that can drain your bank account.

Stars and celebrities model fabulous designer wedding dresses on their big days and often wear not one, but two designer wedding dresses. Usually, a bride will wear one fabulous dress when she walks down the aisle and change into a different dress for her reception. This is often the case when the dress the bride wears down the aisle has a long train that is not removable and the brides wants a gown with more movement for dancing at the reception.

So, how much do designer wedding dresses run these days? Well, of course, it all depends on exactly how the dress is constructed, who designed it and in some cases, who the bride happens to be. It is reputed that the dress Donald Trump’s bride walked down the aisle in during their recent nuptials cost anywhere in the neighborhood of $100,000 to $2000,000; a mere pittance to the groom. The dress was a strapless Christian Dior concoction featuring a 13 foot train and the bride, a former model, showed off the stunning gown on the cover of Vogue magazine. The gown contained more than 300 feet of fabric and reportedly weighed some 50 pounds. The second gown worn by the bride was designed by Vera Wang and was a much slimmer design, created from tulle. Vera Wang, of course, has earned a well known reputation in her creation of designer wedding dresses. She has designed wedding dresses, as well as special occasion dresses, for some of the most well known stars and celebrities.

Vera Wang’s designer wedding dresses are some of the most beautiful out there. A simple and elegant Vera Wang dress with a petal or mermaid skirt will cost about $3,200 to $3,700. Vera Wang designer wedding dresses with more detail and fuller skirts will, of course, come with a higher price tag. A sculpted Vera Wang ball gown style wedding dress comes with a price tag of $5,700. Carolina Herrera is also well known for her bridal collection. Carolina Herrera wedding dresses, at retail, typically cost between $4,600 to $5,800.

A great way to find out what is happening in the fashion world of designer wedding dresses is to browse through any bridal magazine or book yourself a seat at a bridal fashion show. While designer wedding dresses typically do cost well into the thousands, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars if they are custom made; some retail chains do offer deeply discounted designer wedding dresses. Online auctions and consignment shops may also be a great way to obtain designer wedding dresses at a fraction of the original cost.

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