Wedding Dresses

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Finding a dress that's modest enough to wear during the Mass is not going to be easy.  Most modern wedding gowns that have sleeves show too much cleavage and most strapless gowns show more skin than it is appropriate to be showing in Church.  There are modest bridal sites out there, and while their gowns are appropriate for Church (and cheap!!!),

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[marielapin]

I got married in 2002, and I thought the selection was bad then. I ended up buying a 1994 A-line square-neckline long sleeved Venus gown for about 500 bucks, and have gotten so many compliments both then and still now on it. I found the dress on theknot.com and then called every bridal store in a two hour radius to see if they had it in stock. One did. So I drove an hour there, tried it on and ordered it in my size...first dress I tried on. They no longer sell it unfortunately.


I was curious as to what selection they did have, because I knew when I was looking for a dress I also looked at the medieval style dresses like what you posted because I wanted something modest, and I couldn't stand the t-shirt style "modest" mormon dresses. I'm sorry but being modest doesn't mean being boring.

One thing you could do if you can't find a longsleeved dress you like is to buy a strapless with a longsleeved duster:
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridal_gowns_detail.jsp?stid=2293&prodgroup=127
This is what I was going to do if I couldn't find anything reasonably priced.

But I was curious and did some searching around and found some fairly reasonable-priced dresses that I would consider both modest and in the style you seem to like. I'll post them here. The best site was houseofbrides.com, and even though you can't search for style of dress and have to go through them all one by one, I still found a handfull that looked to be a style you might like, and each was around the same price as my own. I would really check them out. Good luck with the dress hunt, I know how frustrating it is!

Here is what I found:
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=651&cat=439&page=3
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=625&cat=439&page=9
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=5279&cat=484&page=1
http://www.brideway.net/store/wg-a-longsleeves-pall.html
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=403&cat=437&page=2
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=6105&cat=487&page=2
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=642&cat=439&page=3
http://www.houseofbrides.com/product.php?productid=14103&cat=666&page=4