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Expensive wedding??♥?

What to you is an expensive wedding? Description/ favors/place, etc? Just doing this for fun ;]].....

I read about this one couple, who did a trip to hawaii with the brides parents and grooms parents. First class. They had tables set up on the beach with like seashells, and i forgot what the fathers got but the mothers got some necklace made out of seaglass. And the preist, and everyone was in all white. She was barefoot and had some designer gown on with a louis vuttion sapphire & pearl necklace and ring.

It was really cool, i thought ;]]..Well i didnt read it but it was on t.v . Lol i was bored and sick from school!!

Then to top it off, when they flew back in, they had a family wedding with like 200 people. And she had a new dress and i think some new peice of jewlery.

Pretty neat? Well thats mine, how about yours?

To me, wedding is only too expensive if people go in debt hosting it, or they spend large amounts of their life savings on it.

To many people $10,000 is WAY too expensive, and to a lot of people a $100,000 wedding is a drop in the bucket. I don't think you can put a dollar amount on "too expensive."

To me extravagence means that the guests comfort is of the utmost concern. Gourmet foods, lots of variety, opulent flowers, live music, and favors everyone can enjoy... (usually something edible and not a trinket.)

We went to the most amazing wedding in October (I was a bridesmaid) and the hors douvres were amazing, roast duck on a tiny bed of shredded potato with a berry preserve on top, scalops, fresh mini crab cakes, little espresso glasses full of butternut squash bisque, hot apple cider, etc. We were stuffed by the time dinner was served!

I also think of lots of customization and personalized touches when I think of an extravagent wedding. I guess some people really associate the brides dress with extravagence, but to me I don't... I dont know, to me what makes a wedding are the things that are done for the guests... Spending $10,000 on a gown and then serving your guests spaghetti is not extravagent to me

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The Real Meaning of a Bespoke, Couture, Designer– Made Wedding Dress

There are many terms bandied about in the wedding industry designed to both ease the pain and add to the excitement as we part with our cash. 'Bespoke', 'Couture made' and 'Designer dress' are three of the most common.

Most of us probably have a fairly good idea as to what they mean, but taking a look at what they do not mean will help us to arrive at a more accurate definition.

There are not many bridal shops that do not use the term 'designer' somewhere in the description of the dress they are presenting to us. All things we use in this life have a designer. Even a paper coffee cup had to be designed by someone. Try convincing the average buyer that the paper cup is a 'designer' cup worth ten times more than an ordinary paper cup and you might have some problems.

Yet effectively that is exactly what is happening in the case of many of the 'designer' labels we see in our high streets as well as the designer wedding dresses we first spoke about. Mass-produced dresses made (and often designed) in the Far East are being presented to us in this way. I don't know about you, but this to me, seems to weaken the whole 'designer dress' ethos. Why pay more if it's nothing but a mass-produced clone?

So what makes for a true 'designer dress'?

Firstly, there has to be an exclusive element to the design. Admittedly high prices are in themselves a way of making a dress more exclusive, but there has to be more to it than that.

What about the dresses that grace the Hollywood red carpets and the latest catwalk shows? What makes them a designer dress?

The answer to that is individuality. Most of these dresses have been drawn by a designer and then made by a small, elite team of seamstresses, who are working the movie star or model's actual measurements.

This is often a ‘bespoke’ dress in the true meaning of the word i.e. a ‘one off’ garment made for the individual.

The word ‘couture’ has in recent years come to mean a garment that is made to an accepted high standard by a skilled designer and sewing team. Originally the term could only be used in certain regions of France. Even today the term ’Haute Couture’ can only be used when referring to ten current fashion houses based in Paris and three other correspondent fashion houses.

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David Keffen is co-director of one the UK's largest designer wedding dress studios.

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