Where to Buy a (Budget-Friendly) Elopement Dress
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Beautiful dresses for budget-conscious couples —
There are lots of reasons you may be on the hunt for an elopement dress under $500. Maybe you’ve decided to pivot—you’re going from a big, 100+ person wedding to an intimate or “just us” elopement. You want a dress you can wear for the elopement so you can save your big dress for the postponed wedding, but you don’t want to blow your budget.
Or—maybe you’ve watched all this COVID stuff go down and you’re thinking hey, life is short. Let’s get married. You don’t want to put off saying “I do!” to your partner, but you also value having an incredible elopement in your dream destination over paying thousands on a dress.
Whatever your reason for shopping for beautiful dresses on a tighter budget, don’t fret—you’ve got lots of options (all of which you can shop online from the comfort of your home!).
Elopements aren’t cheaper weddingsBefore we dive into these options though, I just want to say that elopement days are not and do not have to be mini-weddings or small-budget affairs. While many elopements do end up costing less than the average wedding, it has more to do with the fact that there aren’t venue rentals and catering for 150+ people to pay for, and less to do with the couple not valuing their experience.
One of the key differences with an elopement day is that YOU as the couple get to decide what is most important to you—is it the location? The photography or videography? What activities you do together? After talking through your priorities, you can budget for the things that are most important to you—and if your wedding dress is lower on the priority sheet, these options will help you have a gorgeous gown with plenty of money left over for crafting the elopement day of your dreams.
Ready to start planning your dream elopement?
Anna Claire Beasley is an adventurous wedding, elopement, + portrait photographer based out of Texas. She travels for the majority of all of her sessions, from across Texas to locations like Big Bend National Park, to New Mexico, California, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, Hawaii, and anywhere else there’s a story to document. Her work is grounded in the belief that photographs are about remembering moments + experiences and she makes it her goal is to capture how it felt so those memories can stay fresh for years to come.