Top Dream Wedding Dresses that won’t cost a Fortune

When searching for my dream wedding dress, I find some affordable bridal gowns to solve an age-old budget dilemma that every bride-to-be may experience. These gowns here are gorgeous yet at cheap prices. It is the most important wardrobe decision to make when choosing the right gown. I have suffered the panic and the pressure when searching both online and in-store.

I find many online retailer that offering gorgeous bridal gowns for traditional shapes and styles (many under the £200 mark, if you can believe it).

If you're going for a bohemian wedding theme, there's some '70s-style boho dresses that would perfectly compliment a milkmaid braid or a relaxed fishtail plait. For more boho wedding inspiration, check out this new collection launch from Millybridal.

Alternatively, if you're planning a beach wedding abroad, I would be love to include some stand-out summer dress-styles, with luxe floral applique or lace layering.

Millybridal has some show-stopping designs that I am loving.

Without compromising on style, these low budget bridal finds give even the most sought-after designer wedding dress names a run for their money.

Here’s a wide selection of the hottest wedding dress offerings, and they won't break the bank either.

For more wedding inspiration, check out the gallery of wedding dresses UK. 

We're getting there! ♥

With only few days left on our wedding calendar, Mark and I are already crunching our weekend rest days to accomplish what needs to be done.  Guest list, payment, props, DIY’s and so much more. It’s such an ease that we have planned way ahead of time so we didn’t have to stress ourselves that much. We are both anti-stress, that’s why we are enjoying every second of our wedding preps. We can still sleep soundly and proud that we didn’t have to experience Lovers Quarrel during the preparation stage.

Right now, we are already finalizing the guest list, (endless finalization) and reviewing the contracts with our suppliers. We have also listed and prepared most of the accessories we are going to bring to the church and reception. We also placed all our wedding paraphernalia’s in one big paper bag so we wouldn’t miss anything. 

Here are the accessories we have organized. The boutonnieres, pens, matches, wedding cord, bouquet, wedding scrapbook/guestbook and rosary. 

Wedding Preparations: Berjaya Manila Hotel

The moment we booked our hotel for the reception, Mark and I decided to get the Honeymoon package on their wedding packages. However, after checking the rooms that are inclusive on their packages - everything had changed and we decided to shed and invest more peso power for our hotel room accommodation. Being an internet savvy bride to be, I found great deals online but quite hesitant to buy groupons since I have heard and read a lot of negative reviews from these fad websites.

Good thing, a friend of mine, recommended this reputable website (which I also confirmed from the hotel that they do accept bookings from this website) and I was able to book their LIMITED early bird rates. Though the taxes are not published on their website, the total charges we are going to incur are still way much lower as compared to their original rates.

Website: www.booking.com

Unlike other websites, booking.com doesn’t charge your credit card right away. You will only be billed on the day of your check in.

Here are the pictures of the rooms we were able to book thru Booking.com

Hotel Name: Berjaya Manila Hotel 

We booked 2 Deluxe Rooms (one for my family, then for h2b's family) - for wedding preps 

Then 1 Suite for the night after the wedding. ♥

If you may notice, both of these rooms are almost the the same. The only difference is that the Suite has a separate living room, and of course, bigger. The rooms are quite promising and I must say the rooms we were able to book are quite enough for our families. 

Deluxe 

Studio Suite

Hotel Room for Wedding Preparations at Berjaya Manila Hotel - Checked!

Last Saturday, after work hours, H2b and I got the chance to do an ocular visit to the rooms we have booked for our wedding preps.

 I booked this hotel way back the last quarter of 2011 but only got the chance to visit their show room last weekend. Honestly, I only based my judgment by looking at the pictures posted on their website, and I must say the pictures on their page were really promising. We all know that some pictures look more beautiful as compared to ‘real’ life; but that never stopped me from booking the hotel since I was able to get a huge discount by booking the rooms online.

When the attendant showed us the rooms last Saturday, h2b and I were very glad that we had the chance to avail this promo discount. The rooms were beautiful and clean, and the place really looks cozy.

We booked 2 deluxe room for wedding preparations, and 1 suite room for the night after the wedding. ;)

Sharing some pictures! :) 

Hotel restaurant

Deluxe Premiere

My camera shy husband to be and I.

After checking the rooms, we went straight ahead to St. John Bosco to submit our missalette. Unfortunately, Ms. Ging, the super kind lady who’s assigned to wedding inquiries wasn’t there, so we had to leave the copy to someone else. I am still keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that the missalette gets approved right away, so we can go ahead and make copies already.

I just can't stop taking pictures of SJB's lovely altar! :D

Parking ;) 

Afterwards, we went to SM Sucat to request copies of Cenomar. Fortunately, there was a season sale in SM, so we were able to buy cocktail dresses for our Secondary Sponsors! I’ll share the pictures once uploaded. :D