Budget Wedding Tips: Online Shopping

The internet has transformed wedding planning on a budget! Many elements of a wedding can now be sourced online (from anywhere in the country) at great savings.

Wedding gowns are a great example. Not only can you shop for great discounts from online retailers, you can also often find amazing prices on gowns direct from other brides. Sometimes, a bride wants to sell her "gently used" wedding gown. More often, she bought one wedding gown and changed her mind, and now needs to sell the first to pay for the second.

There are a number of classified type sites that are great hunting grounds for budget-conscious wedding gown shoppers. Among our favorites:

Ebay (Grand-daddy of them all)
Craigslist (Available in most major metro areas)
Free Wedding Classifieds (Name says it all)
Classifieds ... For Brides! (Another wedding-specific free classifieds site)

A bonus of the last three of these options is that you can post for what you're looking for -- so, if you really need that size 8 Maggie Sottero at a discount, you can post and see if anyone has the gown of your dreams.

Don't forget ... you can also post your own wedding gown for sale after "the big day," assuming you don't want to hold onto it for sentimental reasons.