Is It Cheaper To Have A Wedding Dress Made?

Many brides believe that one way to go to get a wedding dress cheaper is to pay someone to make one for them. Depending on what they want, the wedding dress could be less expensive than buying a designer dress and potentially around the same price as buying a discount wedding dress, but cheap wouldn’t be a way to describe these dresses.

The biggest issue with having a wedding dress made is the time it will take someone to actually make the dress. If you’re lucky, you might find someone willing to work on a dress for $25 an hour, but even that will run the price up fairly high if you pick a pattern that has a lot of intricate items on it. For instance, just stitching some seams on a satin dress won’t take too long. But add some beading and possibly a button up bodice and time starts to add up.

The next issue is what your dress will be made out of. You’re probably not picking silk organza, but even satin can be kind of expensive if you need a lot of it. Also, many independent designers hate working with satin because it’s a stiff material and wrinkles easy.

Having said that, if you’re not looking to go the traditional wedding dress route then it may be possible to go inexpensive. Some wedding dresses look more like dinner dresses anyway, and if you go that route, it gives you a lot more flexibility in what you might want to get and still not stress your pocketbook too much. Even here, though, you can’t get too intricate because that’s where wedding dress makers go crazy with all the details they have to work through.

So, if you’re looking for cheap, having a dress made won’t get there. If you’re looking for designer without the super expensive price, then you’ll save a lot of money.

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