What makes the average wedding dress so expensive e.g. cost thousands?
Design your own wedding dress with Ziva Wedding Dresses. Wedding dresses are all over priced no matter what. That said it depends upon how much hand work is done on the dresss and the material which is used on the dress that costs money . It's intensive work to apply seed pearls and sequins on yards and yards of lace or satin . And the designers name comes with a price . How does our dressmaking service work? Depending upon the dress and train and additions of bows and petticoats or hoop skirts , tiny buttons , yards of material and sometimes layers of material plus the linings. The hem may be hand cut lace along with the neckline . And these days I am not impressed with the dresses that they are selling for thousands of dollars other little or no handwork at all . If I were getting married today I think I'd have my wedding dress made and I would apply all the handwork myself to the finished product and have a beautiful princess dress for very little money . Half an hour or...