This is a wedding dress.
A strapless, white dress. (Duh.) (click to enlarge)
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The above dress cost less than $500.
The following dress cost around $1,000.
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This one? It's in the $2,000 range.
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This is about $4,000.
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This one is over $5,000.
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The point? They're all strapless, white gowns. The differences are invisible to most people. Yes, there's a nicer fabric here, better seaming there, whatever. If it's your wedding day and you want to be special, beautiful, wonderful and original? Wear something that is a bit different. Because your guests? They won't be able to tell. It doesn't matter how much you spend. If you want to be special, beautiful, wonderful, original and remembered? Stray from the exact same thing everyone else is wearing.
But, but, but!
"The beading is GORGEOUS!"
If someone has to take a magnifying glass to your tits to see the difference, it's not different.
"It's my dream dress, it made me cry!"
Then by all means, if it's in your budget, go for it. If it's not in your budget, you can probably find a great, economical substitute.
Because, at the end of the day, a plain, strapless, white dress is a plain, strapless white dress.
And, please?
"This is the dress I dreamed of my whole entire life."
It's not. Unless you're fifteen, plain, strapless dresses didn't become popular until Vera Wang transformed the wedding scene.
When you were a little girl, your dream dress probably looked something like this:
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It's fine on Barbie. Only Barbie. Hey, if it's your taste, good for you. Okay, not really. Bad! Bad, you!