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Buying Your Wedding Dress Online?
Things To Consider First

Ok, so you want to buy your wedding dress online. I'm guessing you have already scoured the bridal stores and trudged up and down the high street looking at, and trying on, dozens of wedding dresses only to be disillusioned by the huge prices.

Well there is another option. There are lots of online wedding dress suppliers available with hundreds of different styles, and many suppliers that will allow you to design your own dress online.

When ordering online wedding dresses, you need to consider the following:

  • When will your dress arrive? make sure you have enough time to get the dress and if need be, return it for alterations or a refund. Online wedding dresses are great providing you allow plenty of time before your wedding day.
  • Know how they take measurements - each manufacturer will have specific ways of taking measurements for their dresses. Don't assume they all take their measurements in the same way. Check out their website and take your measurements exactly as described and keep a note of those you have sent them.
  • Returns policy - hopefully you won't need to use it but, in life things can and do go wrong. So before you commit to buying from any site you should make sure you are aware of their returns policy.
  • How can they make them so cheap? there’s a good chance most of the online wedding dresses are coming from China. Huge numbers of dresses are made there (including designer dresses) and then supplied to wedding stores. Like many things these days, more and more companies are turning to China to get their products made because of the cheap labour rates, but then sell them to you and I at the full prices.

    So why shouldn’t you be able to cut out the middle man? Here are the things you need to consider before ordering your wedding dress online.

  • Get a swatch - make sure they can send you a swatch of the material you are thinking of using. It's all well and good looking at a picture online but that won't let you feel what the quality of the fabric is like, or how it looks in natural and artificial light. Any good online supplier should offer this service.
  • Order status - you should make sure whichever supplier you use offers this service, so that you are kept up to date with the progress of your wedding dress.
  • Can you send them a picture of what you want? many suppliers will offer a service where they can make a specific style of dress for you from a picture. All you have to do is provide them with as many pictures of your chosen dress as possible (the more pictures you can get them form as many different angles the more accurately they will be able to reproduce the dress).
  • Can you alter existing styles? you may see a dress which they offer "off the shelf" but which you would like to make a few alterations to. If so, they are normally obliging and provided you can explain the alterations adequately (drawings or photographs will help immensely) they will normally be able to work with you. Many even offer a facility where you can design your wedding dress online within their site.

So ordering a wedding dress online does not have to be something you should be scared of. Online wedding dress shopping needn’t be stressful, as long as you have completed your research, and have allowed yourself enough time.

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