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Buying a wedding dress can be stressful. Buying one when you’re pregnant is doubly so.
Not so long ago finding such a dress, or someone who could make you one, was difficult. But times are changing. If you want a budget dress for a summer wedding, Australia’s Sweet Lilly could be your answer. It’s worth looking at the website for style ideas alone.
However, if you’d like a real wedding dress, one that can accommodate your baby bump in style, City Bridal can tailor the kind of dress you dreamed of to …

Here are ten wedding dresses to inspire you as you choose what style of gown you want to wear on your big day.
They’re all a bit different. Some are full and formal, others rather more casual. For instance, our first choice, our pictured dress, falls into the Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella at the ball category. By the way, the dresses aren’t listed in any particular order, but they are quite varied.

Dubbed Dancing in the Moonlight, by stockist Bridal Brilliance. We like …

Ten tips for buying wedding booze on a budget. Buy smart and everyone will have a great time and you’ll still have money in the bank after the big day
Wedding Cafe asked the Wine Vault’s Jayson Bryant, who’s been helping people enjoy all kinds of events for 15 years, for his advice on buying wine for the wedding.
First, he says, people tend to over-cater and end up with a shed-load wine after the reception. You might not think that’s such a problem, but with the expense of a wedding that …

Wedding favours do your guests two favours – they're a great conversation starter and a sweet treat.
Fleur Hamill makes the little boxes, other table decorations and small gifts brides give to their guests.
She says many of her single friends report table decoration is right up there as a reception conversation topic, only beaten by the bride and her dress. It makes sense when you consider the number of strangers often bought together at a table.
“Have you ever been to a wedding and been allocated a seat surrounded by people …

There’s more than one bride who has had to accommodate a growing bump in deciding on the style and fit of her wedding dress.
We don’t often think about after-baby wedding dresses though but, clearly, judging from the vintage maternity wedding dress from the 1800s, shown it is an age-old concern.
The vintage dress featured at the recent Bridal Fashion through the Years show, held recently at Takapuna, on Auckland’s North Shore.
A beautiful dress in its own right, and a style worth adapting for modern times if you’re slender of neck, love …

A pure silk vintage wedding dress from 1939 that was made in just three days stole the show at last week’s ‘Bridal Fashion Through the Years’ catwalk show, held at Takapuna, on Auckland’s North Shore.
The dress, pictured, still looked new and fresh on the original owner Philis Armstrong’s granddaughter, Jodi Czepanski, who wore it for her own wedding. It’s certainly a testament to the enduring qualities of natural materials, as well as being beautiful.
Vintage bridal inspiration
The good news is that if you’re looking for vintage bridal inspiration you can check …