A veil can cost more than the wedding gown! So many brides have written in complaining about the high cost of veils and headpieces that we just had to come to your rescue with the best budget tips on this subject.

You’ve chosen the perfect gown, and now it’s time to start thinking about how you’ll accessorize it. It’s a delicate balance to find the perfect accents that don’t overpower the dress itself, the pieces that show you off. So take notes and see which options appeal to you now, before you hit the stores to shop for the rest of your wedding day ensemble.

Brides want to wear something special jewelry-wise, and they also want to have a wedding-day jewelry piece to hand down as an heirloom. So the distance from the face to the wrist has opened up a new world of bracelet accents that can sparkle and shine without competing with what’s going on up top.

When brides invite the mothers and bridesmaids out to start the search for the perfect wedding gown, there’s something important they’re forgetting to do.  The #1 thing you need to do when you’re ready to start looking for gowns is create a plan to keep these memories forever.

Turn a ho-drum pair of sandals into walking works of art!

A list of wedding veil terms and their definitions.

A list of headpiece terms and their definitions.

A list of wedding gloves terms and their definitions.

The gown of your dreams might have a pricetag from your nightmares. Many of the top designer styles are, of course, priced into the stratosphere, but you can find your dress or one just like it for far, far less. There are lots of tried-and-true secrets that brides have used to buy their dream wedding gowns at a fraction of the designer gown cost, and you too may soon be telling everyone about how you ‘beat the system.’ You don’t have to scout garage sales, looking for a used dress hanging from a tree limb, and you don’t have to settle for a ho-hum gown that doesn’t thrill you. It does take some extra time, and looking in the right place, but you can get a gorgeous wedding gown on a budget. Here are our top tips.

A list of wedding gown terms and their definitions.