Designer Wedding Dresses: Finding Dresses Online on a Non-celebrity Budget

Top 3 for 2006 most popular designer wedding dresses are from designers Vera Wang, Elie Saab and Pronovias according to http://www.onewed.com/dresses/ and other top designers are listed including: Angel Sanchez, Ristarose and Justina McCaffrey. Other than the right guy, the right dress is pretty much 2nd on the wedding dream list of every little girl. Now, unless you are snagging a rich guy or have made your fortune by the time you can hear your wedding bells begin to chime softly in the distance; your designer taste may have to be tempered by your non-celebrity budget reality, unless of course there is a way to satisfy both. Is there a way to have a designer wedding dress and keep within a practical budget? Let's find out, shall we?

If you are like me, buying online can be exciting; the hunt does not hurt your feet, and you can get a lot done in an afternoon online. My first stop in my search for designer wedding dresses, was to look for these designer names and see what popped up. Here is the Vera Wang Website: http://www.verawang.com/ here I learn that you cannot purchase a bridal dress through her Website, only by visiting a Vera Wang store or boutique. I also found out that Vera Wang worked at Vogue and Ralph Lauren before starting her own label in 1990. According to http://www.bridecouture.com/vera-wang-wedding-gown.html "Vera Wang recently started a bridal gown line that starts at just over $2000.00, it is rare to find one of her wedding gown designs for less than $5000.00". O.K., so she only makes one of a kind gowns that celebrities love to wear to feel special on their big day. So someone with a budget below $1,000 could not buy an original, at least not direct from the designer herself. What about buying from another retailer online? On the Bride Couture site I found two Vera Wang Bridal Gowns selling in the catalog for under $900. One has a retail price of $4,990 and the other $3,200. I could buy either gown, right there online, one for $699 and the other for $899. The Bride Couture site boasts that their designer gowns are all 50 - 75% off regular designer prices. I wondered if I could find any of my other designer names that were on my list on this site. I found both Pronovias and Justina McCaffrey on Bride Couture as well. I found 7 bridal gowns by Justina McCaffrey with sales prices ranging from $899 to $1,890 that had regular prices ranging from $2,150 to $4,000. There were three Pronovias gowns on the site ranging in sales price from $599 to $3,290. Their regular retail prices ranged from $1,800 to $6,200.

I would have to do further digging online, to see if I could find any designer wedding dresses by Elie Saab, Angel Sanchez or Ristarose. Elie Saab has a website: http://eliesaab.com/ His website is hard to see as it has a black background with white lettering that for me, was very difficult to read. I did find an article about this Lebanese Designer at this url: http://impressions-ba.com/features.php?id_destination_info=10&id_feature=10130 which was just a fascinating read. I enjoy finding out about who these top designers are, where they come from and where they got their start in the fashion world. Now to dig about online and see where I might find his bridal dresses for under $900 if possible. Well, according to my search it is impossible to find any wedding dresses original or budget anywhere online. Any site I found that mentioned his dresses, led to his site, which for me was frustrating, as I could not read what was on his site. Wow, that is all I can say. I found http://www.pronovias.com A fantastically done site….BRAVO. Not only did I find the Pronovias Collection but I found some gowns by Elie Saab as well. This site will take your breath away. These gowns are only sold in stores, not online. This site http://www.abfabbridal.com/pronovias.html (Absolutely Fabulous Bridals), led me to the Pronovias.com site; and is on it's own a well-done bridal site. On this site you will find other wedding dress designers with links to their sites.

Designer wedding dresses are fantastic to look at when celebrities are wearing them. They make you positively drool when you look through the Brides catalogs. You can find designer wedding dresses and bridal gowns online, if you look for them. I used search engines and designer names as the keywords to search under to find some really good sites and some not so well done sites. Most designer wedding dresses need to be personalized to the bride and are therefore sold only in stores. I did find some designer dresses at sales prices on the site: www.bridecouture.com as with any buying experience, please check out the stated policy on returns, shipping, any additional fees, and any guarantees they may offer. You can find wedding dresses that celebrities wear like Vera Wang, Elie Saab, Pronovias, and Justina McCaffrey, online. A wedding dress should be special and should definitely make the bride feel special on her wedding day. Designer dresses are indeed one way to make a bride feel special while in her wedding dress. Finding designer wedding dresses that can fit into a non-celebrity budget, well that can be done, you just have to have a little time on your hands and a big desire to see your dream come true.