Can’t believe her rant about a wedding dress! Yes I’ll admit, anything wedding related is usually more expensive- food, band, drinks, venue - but wedding dresses are different. My sister used to own a bridal shop and the costs are so high because you’re not bulk ordering 50,000 units of a single dress! Most are samples in the shop which are then ordered individually to your size and then altered. Taxes are astronomical, a bridal shop may only sell a couple of dresses a week, and the service involved is 1000% more than just purchasing a dress off the shelf in a shop. Try keeping a shop open 7 days a week with staff and only shifting a few dresses. But if bridal shops closed and everyone bought offline, she’d be moaning about that!
The average wedding dress is £800-£2000 and not £4K to £15k and for that money she could have one designed and made for her.
All that was a beg for a free dress!!