Episode 34 "Understanding Wedding Dress Costs in 2025: Factors, Inflation, and Smart Shopping"

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• 🎙In this episode of Every Body is a Bridal Body, Natasha and Kassidy break down everything you need to know about the cost of wedding gowns in 2025. From inflation to fabric, designer labels to customizations, we’re diving into what actually influences the price tag on your dream dress—and how you can shop smart without sacrificing style. Whether you’re newly engaged or deep in dress shopping mode, this episode is packed with helpful insights to empower your bridal journey and help you set realistic expectations for both your style and your budget.
  
  🎧 What You'll Learn:
  The average cost of a wedding dress in 2025
• Key factors that drive up the price of a gown (hint: it’s not just the name on the label!)
• How inflation and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) can impact bridal budgets
• Why where your gown is made—and what it’s made of—matters
• Smart shopping tips to help you find your dream dress within your budget
• 🧵 Resources & References:
  Zola — The Average Wedding Dress Cost in 2025
• Hand-Me-Gowns Bridal — How Much Should a Wedding Dress Cost
• Isabella Grace Bride — Guide to Understanding the Cost of a Wedding Dress
• Lovella Bridal — The Complete Guide To Wedding Dress Pricing & Costs
• Pritchétt Bridal — How Much Should a Wedding Dress Cost?
• Heart to Heart Bride — Wedding Dress Cost in 2025: Your Complete Guide to Budgeting
• Brides — How Much Does a Wedding Dress Cost?
• Yedyna — Average Wedding Dress Cost: Tips for Budgeting and Finding the Perfect Gown
• D Weddings — Why Some Wedding Dresses Cost More Than Others
• The Knot — When to Buy Your Wedding Dress: Shopping Timeline & Tips
• The Stylish Bride — Why are Wedding Dresses So Expensive?

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Episode 34 "Understanding Wedding Dress Costs in 2025: Factors, Inflation, and Smart Shopping"

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Guys, this is like our fifth time trying to start this. We haven't used our system in a hot minute. Hi. Sorry, we've been gone for a long time.

Yeah, like an entire year. Don't worry. We are ready to catch you up on things and give you new content. I promise we didn't die.

Or did we? You know what? We created a seance and we are here to come back from the afterlife. Low key. I've always wanted to hold a seance, but I'm terrified. You know what.

That's how I feel about like Ouiji boards, But I A'm doing that anywhere in my house. Yes, yes, but the reason it's taken us so long to get this up and going was at least today cast keeps getting electrocuted by the equipment. Elitch. I'm having some deep brain stimulus going on.

Every time I move, our audio cuts out. Yeah, like a completely gone. Every time I stand up, I am getting shocked. Yep.

So we don't know what's wrong with our equipment. Hi. Apple products are fighting against non Apple products for recording. Sometimes I feel like an Apple product.

Well, no, I don't have that many updates. I don't know if your body the updates. I wish would that be nice. Yeah, So we are actually going to jump straight into a topic for our podcast episode.

Like we said, it's been a year since we released something. Last year was chaos year. We are going to attempt to have a script for the Hey, here's all the things we did last year. Because we recorded a few times trying to get out all the things, it just sounds like rambling.

And each episode, the shortest we've gotten is like an hour and forty minutes. Yeah, and I feel like the amount of swear words. We I think we needed it more for therapy than. Anything we were Last year was rough.

It was not our year. And so we'll work on what we can say in a script. And just letting out all all of the craziness. That happened here and we'll explain, yeah, in a couple episodes hopefully.

So. Yeah, So we'll get that at some point to all of you as well as we'll do a catch up on the new designers in stores. I'll just do a quick shout out we have a sense of Australia and Anara in our store now. Yes, so we'll kind of New York.

Yeah, we did New York last fall. I got married, she. Got married, My husband came back from deployment, the store flooded. That's all the craziness that we got explained, and we lost our previous Instagram.

So it was a lot last year. So you can see, we essentially just recorded a bunch of therapy sessions to let it all out. Yeah, but we will get you guys a good recaps. So but jumping in, we have been very fortunate now that it's busy season, we're filling up again and appointments.

Yeah, feels great. Love busy times. I love moving in the chaos. But what it has created for us is good little nuggets of realizing what we can bring up to our potential clients coming in store or even brides no matter where you live, before you go into anyone's store.

To help educate, Yes, bring awareness, Yes, because. The biggest thing I think that terrifies brides is how much a wedding dress costs and timeline, timeline, what makes stresses quote unquote so expensive and not cheap, as well as everyone's worried about inflation and how that's going to affect their budgets. Yes, so I worked on a script just to kind of give us a good outline. We'll have all the links in show notes so that you guys can refer back.

Oh, apparently I did not put my thing on. Do not disturb me. You are not being business. I oriented here.

Have you met me? Girl? I had told a bride the other day. I was like, because you had said that you had lost something, and I was like, we joke about how I'm here to manage her. She is here. Listen, I need someone to manage me because I don't know what the heck I'm doing most of the time.

It's true. But yeah, So we're talking about pricing today because the amount of times that people talk about either a simple gown should cost less than a detailed gown, or the amount of people that talk about how, well, when my sister got married in like oh eight, this is how much her gown costs, And I'm like, well, how much did you spend on a burger back then versu now? Yeah, So there's definitely several things that can obviously cause dress prices to be a lot. Yeah, and we are aware of that. We understand economy has changed a ton and then some.

My husband was the one who kind of brought up the idea because I was talking to him about things. I don't know what rabbit hole I went on at like six am when I got up this morning, but he was the one who told me to kind of do some research with the Consumer Price Index or the CPI. So if you hear me say CPI's Consumer Price Index, that is where you can just go on look up yourself to see like what national averages are in inflation. Mainly, it mainly covers everyday items, so like you said, maybe a burger, maybe your milk, eggs and bread from the grocery store.

Housing, yes, all of those things. But you can use it to give information even in specialty items. So I use good old chat gibt just to help me do my starts a little bit quicker, so I could go to the links that it provided. It's so nice, God, it is the best twenty dollars to spend a month, you guys.

Oh amen to that. So we wanted to just use this time to kind of jump straight in. We know right now there are a lot of newly engaged couples who are trying to plan their wedding. Budgeting is always the number one thing we advocate for, no matter what vendor you're seeing before you start booking people sit down and find out what your overall amount of money you have, whether it's just from you and your significant other, if there's any family or friends that are helping, just kind of figure out the big number.

And there are so many guides online that will help you show percentage wise like how you should take that lump sum and percentage breakdown plan to know how much should go where. Yeah, and honestly, a lot of the times I tell people rank the categories of what really means the most to you. That way you can know, well, say the photographer is my highest priority, then you'll know like I want most of my money to go. There exactly, or if food is or whatever.

So, no matter how you want to prioritize, don't feel bad if you've chosen to put more elsewhere rather than towards a dress. Since we are the dress vendors, we absolutely get it. We are here to make sure that we can help you find a dress you feel beautiful in ye within the budget you want to spend. We do know sometimes people change their budget during appointments and things, but it's better to kind of have the idea of how much you would like to spend on dress only before you go into a dress shop to buy a.

Dress, and a lot of it. When it comes to the people changing their budget, it's the uneducated side of going into an appointment not knowing how much dresses can cost. Exactly or even a baseline. So what I wanted to start with is just what is the national average cost of a wedding dress in twenty twenty five, so it said according to recent data, the average cost of a wedding dress in the United States ranges from fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred.

So that's the national average, which is a range. Yep. One website I know this morning, and I have them on my phone, so I'll have to look. So it's in show notes, but I know I went down a rabbit hole of like a wedding Wire one I think, and a Zola one and like some of those type of online platforms that a lot of engaged couples are familiar with.

One of them is stated that you know, in that range of fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred. One thing for couples to keep in mind is is like fifteen hundred is a starting point for you know, maybe a lower end store or a second hand store David's Bridle of the world's kind of places, and they said, usually like a twenty to twenty five hundred is usually a starting point for more like mom and pop boutiques. Yeah, and then it kind of went from there in stages of like, if you're going to a designer like label, like if you want to Gallola, how or if you want to one of those well known their starting price is going to be vastly different from a national average. So taking context national average, we have been getting brides who submit fifteen hundred for a price point.

We definitely have a few things to show, so it's not that there's absolutely nothing. However, the options are extremely limited, so it's more of just being open minded knowing that I can't give you everything, but I can at least find a few things that make you feel good. Yeah, and we are always upfront, we will tell you we are very limited, especially when it comes to if you want a very specific. Style, especially the things that are super super trendy online because of fashion weeks, those things are a little bit harder, not that it's impossible, but it's harder.

So you just need to be hard open minded. So we can show you how to obtain the Instagram Pinterest like visuals that you see that you're falling in love with within the price range. I want to say the amount of times that we have been brought a photo of Kim Kassas Galila hob Just know that a lot of those gowns are over ten thousands of dollars. So when you bring us I want this, just no, that gown is not obtainable.

But with a fifteen hundred dollars budget. Yes, but we can ask you what is it about this you like? Yes? Do you like lace on the top in a simple skirt? Is it the exposed boning? Is it a deckline? Yeah? So it's more we're gonna pick it apart, piece by piece to find out what it is that appeals to you. Because obviously very few people in this world can afford those dresses at those price points. So of course the one percent of the world is going to be the things that go viral online and people are going to want the masses.

It's not realistic, and we're aware, so when we ask questions, no, we just want to make sure we are really getting down to the nuts and bolts of what you're drawn to, so we can do our best to provide that in your price range for us here in our store. If you can give us like twenty twenty five hundred, especially in today's money, we can show you a lot more options. Again, it's still going to be a we're not going to show you exactly those high end designers kind of thing, but we can at least have a little more versatility that if we find a base stress that you like that's like seventeen hundred and we're doing some customizations to her, we are staying within your budget and staying respectful of your time and your money. Even though like that'll give you more versatility.

Just no, Like twenty twenty five is also like a starting price point from what we have started to average, and store average for the majority of our gowns is going to go from like two to four thousand. Yes, So just no, like we still bill could be limited depending on how you come in, what you want and. All of those. So along the lines of the national average that we were saying, the fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred, these are some key things.

So I've got five different things that can influence with the starting prices of dresses in your area, whether you're here locally or elsewhere in the US. Let's hear it first. One is always designer and brand reputation. Yes, so that is one thing.

So like if you're looking for a gown by like a renowned designer, which we will most of the time mentioned Gallia Lahov, Berta Kim kissosh Is because those Israeli designers are just wildfire on the internet and people flock. There is a reason why people know their name, yes, but with knowing the name will also come a higher price point. Yes, so the name can significantly increase price. Yep.

Often those types of dresses are going to start at five thousand and again you have to remember that as a starting price. So for them, that is going to be the most simple, the least amount of fabric details notions people. With some of those designers, that's even just a simple mini oh. Yeah, one hundred percent.

So if you're looking at those very well world renowned designer names, just know that the national average is not going to touch their starting price at all. Yeah, don't feel bad about it. Very few people are in those price ranges. But just just know if that's what you're drawn to, like just keep that little nugget in mind.

Yeah. Number two is going to be fabric and materials, which we talk about a lot, So any type of a luxurious fabric, anything that is silk based. There's a lot of satins that are silk based. And as a reminder, people know satin as a fabric.

Satin is a weave, not a fabric, So that is not the fiber content, that is the way it is woven to create the fabric on the on the giant looms. So anything silk or satin with any type of silk base lace, especially if it is handmade applicase or hand embroidered. Anything that is made by hand will always cost more because it is by. Hand, especially if you look at a very detailed beating.

Oh yeah, oh love. But it does come at a price point, it sure does. So that's one thing to keep in mind as you are looking at things. There's definitely a lot of fabrics that are more like polyester and more affordable fabrics man made, yeah, and they're more like mass produced.

So anything that's more man made and not higher end fibers, more man made fibers will lower the cost of the gown that still does not remove what you're investing in for the person who is making said item. But like that's one way to lower the cost is the fabric content. So the next thing is going to be dress style and the complexity. So keep in mind that if your gown has a ton of embellishment, like Cassa said, like beating embroidery, that does require a lot more labor, a lot more craftsmanship because you have to be skilled in order to do that.

And this is where it comes in. I had talked about it briefly in the beginning. A lot of people believe that because a dress is very simple, it should cost cheaper. But as I have learned from the one and only across from me, the construction behind a simple gown takes more time and more effort to make sure it is beautiful because you don't want your seams looking crazy.

It's harder to cover up than something that's got a glitter or a lace applicated placed over it. Yeah, and so it's just keeping those in mind because yes, you might see some of our detailed dresses, but it's in your fifteen to eighteen hundred dollars price point, whereas a simple one with no embellishment is twenty five hundred, and it's just because fabric is going to influence. The stitching is going to influence the being able to hide any type of quote unquote flaw, you know, with a bunch of embellishment. And again, is the embellishment you know, real like natural fiber? Is it a man made fiber? Was it made from hand? Was it made by a machine.

So all of these things influence price. The next thing is going to be customizations. So keep in mind that since we are a store that's heavy in designers that allow customization, a base price of address does not include any change you want made to. Again yess and it depends from designer to designer.

It does. And so we have worked with our designers and they've given us guidelines on what the customization costs are so we know how to charge appropriately. If there is anything a bride wants in store that we are unsure, we can always call them, reach out and get that figured out pretty quickly. But just know that if you are looking at a dress and you love the dress, but there's like three or four changes you want to make, each of those changes come out of price, which is then going to add a cost to the original dress price versus if you want a full custom dress.

Most full custom dresses, even with like looking online, they are starting at around six thousand up, which we are base price for a full custom dress, meaning it does not exist and we're going to start it from the ground up, does start at six thousand and goes up from there. There are things that can influence that. If we end up finding a dress within our designers that have majority of what you want, and it's just if your powdered changes, we can adjust price to be low than the six thousand, but like if we are spending a lot of time between us with you in store as well as with the designer who is going to make it and their team who then have to go out and find all of what we need to make your dress. Six thousand is the minimum price, but it can easily go up from there.

Yeah. Absolutely, And with those who can afford the custom route and want to go that custom route. PSA give yourself a minimum of eight months. Yes, just because if we are going to be pattern drafting, if we're going to be sourcing fabrics, getting confirmation from you on dialots, if we're doing custom color work, there's going to be paper patterns they're going to send on a mannequin to make sure you like the paper outline before they cut the fabric.

They're going to send lace mapping, layout, bead work, layouts, what have you. There is a lot of steps, so that is not something we can do in three or four months. This is something we need at least eight months time to work on. So your wedding should be twelve months from then so that when it comes in person, if you do need tailoring done with a steam stress for final fit, you have the time to do so absolutely.

And then the last thing that can influence the price of a wedding dress, the fifth one is geographical location. So keep in mind if you are going to purchase a gown in a major metropolitan area that's a fashion hub, so think New York, LA kind of vibe. Yes, those major cities, the price point is going to be higher. Yes, because one just cost of living in general, there is more, which means they got to pay their workers more, which means like taxes can be different.

There's so many factors that go in. But if you're shopping in a metropolitan city, a well known one like LA or New York. You are going to spend more money than what you would it coming to Salt Lake. But that doesn't mean it's a dramatic difference, and might be very minuscule, but there can be a difference.

Yes, but comparing the cost of the minimum wage here or how you have to pay a worker here is drastically different than the fast fashion that some may find in China. Yeah, so we do everything we can to make sure what we're providing for our brides is not done in those harsh Yeah, it's not in the harsh conditions. A lot of things have changed were fast fashion in not understanding how it was made, especially like late nineties, early two thousands when that became so mainstream and that's just how everyone was buying things. Yeah, people were not informed and they were not aware of how humans were being treated to make said items.

Yeah. I feel like some people are still in the dark, but it is starting to become more and more known. Yes, so keep in mind. Those are the main five things that you should keep in mind.

So just a quick recap before we move on to the next part of the of this episode regarding dress prices. So, the main factors influencing cost is going to be designer and brand reputation, How well known are they, how much money has the brand invested in themselves that make them a higher price point to the fabric and materials. So keep in mind the fabrics you are shopping for and if it's man made versus natural. Third, the dress style and the complexity of said style can influence how much you're spending customization.

So if you're wanting to save, try to find something you love as is rather than changing it up or trying to create something from scatch from sketch sketch from scratch. And then the fifth thing is the geographical location. One thing we forgot about talk about with geographical location is shipping costs. Yes, so, and I mean but those are things more and tariff Yes, but those are things that is more business side that a lot of stores will already have wrapped in.

But I mean that will influence a cost of address. It really does, So depending on how much I have to spend per dress to ship in, especially if it's you know, international versus domestic. And if it's a country we like to do trade with because we've learned from some designers like tariffs can on address the cost of the dress. They'll charge anywhere from like ten to twenty percent of the cost.

Yeah, and that's dictated by our government depending on the country. So yeah, there's all those factors. But the there's going to be more in this episode that I want to talk about. But that's kind of like a good nugget of information just planning.

The next part might not be. I mean, I guess none of this is like really fun and like creative and exciting, but it's just it's just an information. We find it fun, but we do so maybe somebody crazy like us listening that might find it interesting. You mean us, we listen, Yeah, kidding.

So I want to talk about how inflation works. Okay, gatted. All of this came from the internet, guys, So you just got to remember taking a lot of things with the grain of salt, and I had chat. GBT helped me write this more fluidly than what a bunch of articles are going to say.

We are also bridal stylist. We are not economics. Yeah, yeah, I'm not an economics person, but I do know. You know, we had a had an electioneering last year.

People, We don't really care where you fall. Oliver saying is we know people have been stressed out about you know, whenever a new president comes into office, are things gonna get better? Are things gonna get worse? Are things staying the same? You know, inflation has been insane since COVID because globally shutting down. It hurt a lot of business of things. Yeah, So when we're looking at the Consumer Price Index or again the CPI, that's going to measure like the average change over time in prices that can like the co consumers pay, so like what things are gonna create a normal item we're buying to inflate? Okay, And so that's why you know, it's great to always check it because people are always freaking out about how you know, a burger costs so much money? Now, you know, a carton of eggs ridiculous, scallon of mills, homes wild.

So all of those things are measured through this Consumer Price Index. You can look it up at any point to get the like percent of what the increase is, you know, year over year, kind of see the factors driving up prices of these everyday items that we're used to. Is there a more credible site to use? You know, I really just went into Google and typed in the Consumer Price Index. Okay, I don't remember what the website is, but I can put it in show notes, but you can use it to look at stuff.

So I mean a lot of people will look at that, especially if you're thinking your corporate jobs. A lot of companies don't give huge raises annually. They might just do an inflation adjustment just so that they're adjusting for what next year projections are going to be for cost of living, so that you're still getting maybe the same annual pay, but they're they're balancing out the numbers so that you don't feel like you're making less. You're making the same amount, even if it's a little bit more.

So I had after I was doing research, I typed in the verbiage and to Chatchibut to pull up websites for me of just like, hey, what does the cost of wedding dresses based on the Consumer Price Index? So like, how is it fluctuated over the years, Because I know my husband was telling me, like a lot of things are like usually three percent increase, maybe a little above a three percent increase on a lot of the other items. Like we said, normal household items and stuff, So. I wonder it probably depends on whether it's like produced an actual like furniture or sure it depends on. Cleaning supplies, I'm sure different than like perishable foods.

So I wanted to see how CPI would track luxury items, which wedding dresses are a little bit more of a luxury because it's literally you buy it for a day for the most part. So it's saying as it tracks women's dresses, it reflects the average change over time, which I've already stated so between so keep this in mind, between nineteen thirty five to twenty twenty four, that is a large span that's like eighty something near or ninety something years. Anyways, the increase from nineteen thirty five to twenty twenty four is a two hundred and fifty nine point four to six percent. That sounds like a big scary number.

Yeah, two hundred and fifty nine percent increase from what your great grandma versus you know, almost one hundred years ago, yeah versus Now, that sounds huge, But if you break that down to year over year, it's only a one point four to five So one point four five percent increase, which really isn't a lot like it is. But the fact that we are, on average only inflating annually one point four or five percent on a luxury good item should make you feel a little bit better inside. So, yes, things are inflating. Yeah, However, you know, besides that type of inflation, every seven like seventeen years, I think, is what the average is money, Like the value of money changes.

Okay, so like you know, thirty thousand dollars back in nineteen thirty five dramatically different from what thirty thousand dollars is worth today, which this thing shows how that inflation works. So there's so many things that are gonna make inflation maybe go quicker or slow down. And we've got a kee mix, yes, elections. Yeah, pandemics especially guys.

So the nice thing looking at this is it kind of eased me a little bit only because I know we have great designers who are like, hey, there has been things that have inflated, and they've don't done what they can themselves to not pass on huge inflation amounts to us as their retailers. So then when we are selling their product, it's not a substantially higher amount. However, you know, because of inflation. Obviously, we've had some designers who have sent us list saying, hey, this item, now the fabric pricing has gone up, so that means your cost is more so adjust according or maybe you know, hey, even we had to get a completely different fabric because the original ones no longer being produced, so we found one very similar from a different manufacturer, and their pricing is more so, like a lot of the cost of goods of fabrics is really what that as well as paying the people who are making the gowns, those things are what drive up a lot of cost.

You know, taxes are always there. We know that, you know, shipping is always there. Shipping, you know, you know, shipping something from the Ukraine into the US different than you know, shipping obviously something from Pennsylvania to Utah. Which the whole like as we're talking like things that can influence that.

We weren't thinking that two of our designers Ukraine and Israel. Would be dealing with war exactly, so we take a lot of those considerations in However, we know people are already filling overwhelmed by how much everyday items have inflated. So just know, yes, our wedding dresses have inflated, but overall average, it is lower than all the other things that you're putting on a daily basis. So we do adjust according to that inflation when we are told to buy our designers.

Yeah, and we make sure that we are doing the amount that is reasonable for what the changing cost is. You know, we're not all of a sudden address that was three thousand dollars. I'm not all of a sudden going to try to sell it to you for like sixty five hundred dollars, Like, that's not happening. No, And if I had a designer tell me that, I would be like, whoa, why is it doubled? Yeah, And so all their gowns are falling along that we may part ways.

Or if one specific gown say it's because of fabric pro like production from the fabric increases, we would probably just discontinue that gown. Yeah, So we are doing everything we can to keep prices down. I will say in retrospect, like outside of what the CPI is telling us, like average you know, year over year increases on a wedding gown. I will say, when we first opened, you know, it was end of twenty twenty, but we did open in twenty twenty and then into early twenty one.

If someone gave us fifteen hundred dollars eighteen hundred dollars, we had a really good range to show. Now it's kind of like. We start to get scared if somebody gives us too. Yeah, especially when people are looking at all the trendy things that have gone crazy.

Because even though yea, and you look at it, like, even though people are filling stressed with finances, people are loving the dramatics that these designers are creating and putting all over the internet. People still flock to luxury. Absolutely, and it's hard not to. It's so hard, And I get it, like, yeah, if I get an AD for something and I'm like, I need this.

If I click on the ad, I know it's a ridiculous amount, but yeah, I don't have cheap taste. Well, and that's what I mean. During my planning, the money was the most stressful part. Yeah.

I don't make much. My family doesn't make much, so I always tell people I have expensive taste. I work in the industry, so I put a lot of stress on myself. But I had a water budget.

Yeah, which most everyday people do. Yeah, And we get that, like everyone wants champagne taste on a beer budget. Yep, we get it, and we will do everything we can to help you obtain that. Yeah, we're just asking for good open communication.

Absolutely, communication is always great. Open minds, yes. Open minds, you know, don't come insane. You're open minded, and we can do whatever we want and through whatever we want on you style wise.

Because that's stressful. Give us some guidance, guys, but like. No, I'm saying more open minded to hearing what we have to say about our prices dresses in that way. Yeah, so we know if you are newly engaged, you're probably feeling slightly overwhelmed knowing that you've got this whole wedding production to put together.

It's normal, it is normal. So what every time we call one of our brides who submits an appointment request and we're just like, how is wedding planning going? I feel like eight and a half times out of ten we get it's really stressful. It's a lot. It's a lot.

So no, that is pretty much how everyone feels. Unless you are able to budget and pay a wedding planner, it will still feel like a lot. But they're gonna make it super simplified. Yes, So we will always advocate for that too, because jeez, I wish that was something I had back when I got married, right, it would have been nice.

But you know, it's amazing how easily accessible all of these vendors are in today's world, even versus twenty thirteen when I got married, like. Or the like, different niches that have come out that you were like, I didn't know this could be a thing within the industry. It's really cool. It's cool to see the growth that we're creating and the new careers this industry is creating, and it's wild to think, you know, what is going to be the norm like another ten years from now.

Absolutely, like what jobs are being created within the bridal industry to help, yeah, help create the visuals that everybody loves because we live in a day and age of visual People want everything to be visually pleasing and exciting and to invoke emotions so that when they look back at it, it's definitely artwork. Yeah, you're really putting emphasis on the artwork of weddings these days. So but we hope this was informative. We know it was a lot in a short amount of time, Cass, we did something in thirty four minutes.

No, we didn't. We sure has helped, Holy crap. I think it's because I actually wrote things out. Sometimes that's hard on our brains, it is, but it is when it comes to this kind of stuff, it helps.

It does, especially when it's this type of informative. I wanted to be as simplified as possible, so I'll make sure to have a lot of the articles I used for research to create this for you guys to look at. Again. Google is a great basic tool that you honestly could just put in average cost of a wedding dress and even list you state.

When I did our state, it had the fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred. If I did more like broad spectrum of just average wedding dress cost without like any location specific, it went up to three thousand. So it's fifteen hundred to three thousand. Is that US based or I'm assuming So I didn't specify.

I just wanted to see, like outside of Utah how much things changed, and it only went up another five hundred bucks. So like, even though sometimes I feel like here in Utah we have a little bit of that bubble around us too, to not. Our fashion bubble and our money bubble. Yes, it was nice knowing that it wasn't that different, and I'm sure that amount is just adjusting for more of those metropolitan cities, you know what I mean.

So, but yeah, we are so excited to be a part of your wedding planning, wedding dress shopping journey, and we're so excited for all the engaged couples that are going to be happening here in just a month for Valentine's Day. Yes, we're almost there for the next wave of engagement season. So if you have any questions now, you can always dm us on our Instagram, which is at VA Underscore Bridle. We do have our email for the podcast.

Yes, it's what is it, every. Everybody Pod at va dash Bridle dot com. My brain froze because it's been a while, but we're back and we're excited about that. We are.

So we are going to start hosting podcasts. I'm looking at doing them now on Mondays just because I think Mondays are a little bit more podcasting days. But like listening to. Stuff the door, I come after class.

Yeah, so we're gonna get back into doing it that way rather than trying to do it during the week. I guess we'll look into writing out our podcast so it shortens them some so we're not rambling on. But if you guys like rambling, don't feel bad telling us because Cas and I can just put MIC's on us and you can hear the things we say throughout there. Yeah, actually might need to edit some things up because it's probably not appropriate for all years.

Sometimes we forget. Sometimes we forget. So is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up? I don't think so, but I want everybody to know that everybody is a. Bread of body.

Love you guys bye, Then are back to Hobo.

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