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This week, our bridal story comes from a bride-to-be on the search for that dream wedding dress…<\/em><\/p>\n Wedding dress shopping was such a super exciting part of the wedding prep and I loved every minute of it, well up until the 10th shop anyway! I had full belief that I could find an amazing dress in a few weeks. All I wanted was plain simple dress that was unique and didn\u2019t result in applying for a mini mortgage. How hard could it be, right?<\/p>\n Having experienced almost every size, shape and manner of bridal changing room imaginable and encountering the same styles and designers over and over again it came to a stage where I began to see dresses I\u2019d originally considered on friend\u2019s Facebook pages. So much for unique! Thankfully I never saw any of them on my Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. That couple of weeks soon spiralled into a couple of months and searching became more of a chore than the fairytale fun it was meant to be.<\/p>\n A friend then told me about \u2018Little White Dress\u2019 in Castleknock and finally I found a dress that blew my socks off. I didn\u2019t turn into a babbling balling mess as the majority of brides would when I tried it on but instead I just beamed as bright as a thousand suns, well not quite but I was well chuffed with myself. I knew it was my \u2018ONE\u2019 when I was still as elated as I was the first time I tried it on even after my 5th trip to the shop, yes 5 times, I kid you not. Here\u2019s to the ever so patient shop owner Janet!<\/p>\n The designer of the dress I choose only supplies to this store in Ireland so I knew the chances of seeing it in bridal magazines, bridal supplements and the dreaded Facebook were as remote as the groom having any knowledge of any wedding dress designer. It was well over my budget and far from my original vision but I finally decided to sacrifice on other areas of the wedding for this amazing dress. Who needs a cake at the wedding anyway?<\/p>\n I finally paid the deposit which was half the price of the dress and I pranced out of the shop as if I\u2019d won the lotto even though I had spent money and not gained it. I was well chuffed. A week later to my surprise the lady in the shop rang and informed me that the dress I had chosen was being discontinued and while she could still order my dress, she could also offer me the sample dress for the price of the deposit I\u2019d already paid. The sample was in mint condition and I just knew the dress only needed a few minor alterations so raced to the bridal shop faster than Usain Blot on steroids and snapped it. I got my designer dress for half the price \u2013 GO ME! Image via Etsy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, our bridal story comes from a bride-to-be on the search for that dream wedding dress… Wedding dress shopping was such a super exciting part of the wedding prep and I loved every minute of it, well up until the 10th shop anyway! Armed with research from Find Your Dream Wedding Dress and recommendations from friends and blogs off I popped, over enthusiastic and ridiculously naive to search for \u2018the one\u2019. I had full belief that I could find […]","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[902],"class_list":["post-20703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-dresses","tag-wedding-dress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85314,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20703\/revisions\/85314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nArmed with research from Find Your Dream Wedding Dress and recommendations from friends and blogs off I popped, over enthusiastic and ridiculously naive to search for \u2018the one\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nJust like the rest of the wedding plans, it might take a bit of effort and perseverance but everything works out in the end!<\/p>\n