Alternative Wedding Dress

Try shops that sell evening wear/formal wear.

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Try dress shops in prom season, they'll have all the colours in, and they'll be cheaper

View quoted message Yesssss good idea!!!

Try this site... https://www.jjshouse.co.uk/

The gothic shop has an amazing black wedding dress. It comes from the Netherlands and they may say what the manufacturer is called.

Go to Finsbury Park in London there’s many lovely dress shops big ball gown style especially and there mostly handmade there’s actually some shops there that will make you your dress from scratch and there considerably cheap too!

There’s hire shops in London WWedding that do one, or charity shops, prom dress shops

Bijoux Bridal in Glasgow has black dresses. Good luck!

My black dress I ordered online from Stacees, Had it made to my own measurements. Did the same with my MOH dress from the same place.

View quoted message Oh that’s beautiful I think I may do the same

Have a look at thedarkangel.com

If you haven't tried already, Legend Bridal based in Blackburn specialise in black dresses. They're gorgeous as well!

I was at the Wedding Show recently and "Hannah Black Bridal" specialises in Black wedding dresses. Good luck with the search.

I think it depends if you want an actual black wedding dress or if you're happy to go down the prom dress route as that would be miles cheaper and a lot easier to find a dress than going through bridal boutiques.

there are some bridal designers who do Black wedding dresses like Louise Bentley (£2,600 I was quoted when I enquired) or LouLou bridal. someone mentioned Hannah Black Bridal which are lovely but again range between 2K-3K depending on what you want.

for some reason Black or any other coloured dresses cost a lot more than a 'traditional' white wedding dress (it was queen Elizabeth II who made wearing white as a wedding dress popular when she married Philip in 1947 before that a lot of woman wore coloured dresses) so again a lot of brides choosing an alternative dress go down the prom dress route to give themselves more options.

I am glad someone had a positive experience with Stacee's because their reviews are awful, so I didn't go with them in the end. a lot of online retailers who offer black wedding dresses say they are based in the UK but they are not, so I would just suggest reading reviews for places on trust pilot before jumping in with ordering online, personally.

hope you find something you love