Any bride would agree that her dress is the most important thing on her wedding day

1. Groom
2. Food
3. Weather

Hey to be fair to her, on average the groom will only be around for about 9-10 years. That wedding dress could be in her closet or storage for the rest of her life.

Apart from the groom and the love stuff, I'd think the dress is pretty high up there.

Of all the things you drop dough on -- the flowers, food, cake, attendants clothes, etc. it seems like the gown or the photos would be #1.

Of all the things you drop dough on -- the flowers, food, cake, attendants clothes, etc. it seems like the gown or the photos would be #1.

I've never been to a wedding where the attendents clothes were paid for by the couple/couple's family.

ETA: One of the many reasons being a bridesmaid sucks.

I don't look for trenchant observations on life experience from luxurylaunches.com, so I'm guessing Bridal Mileage May Vary.

Of all the things you drop dough on -- the flowers, food, cake, attendants clothes, etc. it seems like the gown or the photos would be #1.

The food at my wedding was over 10x as much as the gown or photos. Again, BMMV.

I've never been to a wedding where the attendents clothes were paid for by the couple/couple's family.

I have.

But you make a fair point. I probably should have said "that dough is dropped on".

The weather you can't really control so there's little point in worrying. Of the entirely too many weddings I've been too the food was memorable at precisely two. People go BANANAS picking out favors and other than my Aunt and Uncle who are nurses giving us stethoscopes I couldn't tell ya. The flowers and cakes are a blur and people drop major ch-ching on those as well. Nobody cares about the limo by the next day.

A beautiful and comfy (that term being relative if formalwear is involved) bride seems pretty high on the list. I'd still rank photos higher though -- it can be pretty sad if something goes wrong and you end up photo-deprived.

My sister got her dress for less than $800 since it was the floor sample (it only had a few marks on it that came out easily with some hand washing). My bridesmaid dress for her wedding was only $60 from eBay (our dresses were to be black knee-to-tea length party dresses). The wedding was in the same complex as the reception (Las Vegas knows how to package weddings well--we just had to walk from the pond-side grotto where they were married down the path to the banquet hall). They did pay a bit extra for the good booze at the open bar and their cake was a group of different-flavored cheesecakes, so the food/drinks were probably the most expensive part of the evening.

Oh, and in non-wedding topics, what can come through the pet door!

Most of the time I post a link, I'm not surprised that it doesn't get comment. But this one?

Satyana?

Maybe someone already posted it.

Pffft. It's all about the cake.

That was totally me. I mean, after the groom, OBVIOUSLY. (Although, he was a given, really. I already knew I liked him. I wanted the cake to blow me away.)

I bought the first dress I tried on, after trying on maybe five or six, and it was something like $100. I don't love it now when I look at pictures, but hey, I'm never going to wear it again, so.