Fashion: Paying less for the wedding dress?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In the UK, brides spend an average of £1,400 on a dress for the big day.
But inflation and the rising cost of living means that's starting to change. We look at the trend of spending less on wedding dresses - buying them ready-to-wear from a boutique in London, or even from a supermarket.
And we're in India where some brides are starting to spend less - not always easy when spending lavishly on weddings is often the expectation.
Produced and presented by Deborah Weitzmann with additional presenting from Devina Gupta.
(Image: Ruth in her second hand wedding gown. Image credit: Greg Milner)
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| 0:23.2 | Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Deborah Weitzman. |
| 0:28.4 | Today, we're discussing budget-friendly bridal fashion |
| 0:31.6 | amidst rising living costs for couples. |
| 0:35.1 | Weddings are expensive, man. |
| 0:36.8 | When we were looking at what we were going to spend |
| 0:38.4 | on my dress, it was a little bit more like, well, why does it have to be thousands of pounds and |
| 0:42.3 | what else could we spend that money on? We'll explore demand for cheaper off-the-rack wedding dresses, |
| 0:47.8 | as well as sustainable choices, like secondhand and rentals. What a pity to kind of wrap it up in |
| 0:53.4 | plastic and just never see it again. |
| 0:55.3 | I think consumers these days are shopping with their wardrobes |
| 0:57.9 | and sustainability so much more front and centre. |
| 1:00.6 | Also, we'll be investigating India's affordable high-end bridal replicas. |
| 1:05.2 | The designer may spend three or four months making a particular collection. But as soon as it comes out, |
| 1:13.9 | you can really create a product very fast. It's a loss of face. That's all coming up. |
| 1:23.6 | Welcome to our bridal suite. I'm so happy to have you here today. We'll take a seat on the |
| 1:27.7 | show's long and then we can kind of look through the collection. So if someone's want something |
| 1:32.0 | a bit more slinky, we've got those real kind of like lovely strapless pieces that the bride can |
| 1:37.6 | wear that's not a big puffy, heavy ball gown where you just don't feel yourself. Meet Henrietta Rix, |
| 1:43.3 | co-founder of the British fashion label Rixo. |
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