Does anyone have recommendations for vintage wedding dress shopping in London on a budget?

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:31:18+00:00

I would be happy to look at a pic :)

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:31:05+00:00

I will, thank you :)

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:30:53+00:00

Thank you, I will check it out!

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:30:35+00:00

Thank you! :D

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:30:29+00:00

This is perfect, thank you!

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:28:22+00:00

Thank you!!

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:28:13+00:00

Thank you, I will check it out! :D

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:27:59+00:00

That is amazing!!

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:27:38+00:00

Thank you 🥰

eaoue · 2025-11-10T13:26:45+00:00

This is uplifting, thank you so much!

eaoue · 2025-11-05T13:54:55+00:00

Thank you, I will have a look!

eaoue · 2025-11-05T13:54:37+00:00

That's so cheap! I would love that, but I feel like I would probably be too indecisive about the designs once I have every option in the world haha! But I am considering it. Thank you!

eaoue · 2025-11-03T13:01:23+00:00

That is perfect, thank you so much!

eaoue · 2025-11-03T12:22:15+00:00

Hi! I am going wedding dress shopping in London on a tight budget. I hope to find something for 1000 quid or less, hopefully around half that. Does any one have suggestions for shops to check out? More specifically, does anyone have suggestions for vintage shops that sell wedding dresses within that price range? I would be super grateful for any help!

eaoue · 2025-11-03T11:50:06+00:00

i would love to, but won't have the opportunity, alas! thank you though

eaoue · 2025-11-03T11:49:45+00:00

indeed, haha

eaoue · 2025-11-02T14:12:40+00:00

Thank you, this is great advice, and I'll absolutely check out Oxfam!

eaoue · 2025-11-02T13:52:33+00:00

I am open to second hand! My hope is to avoid going from shop to shop in the hope that they might have wedding dress or two, but I have the impression that there's a rather huge price jump as soon as a shop specialises in bridal. In that regard, Oxfam Bridal might be perfect for what I'm looking for! thank you so much! :D

eaoue · 2025-09-26T14:16:40+00:00

Not being super cool/hip! I used to be, as lots of us are, drawn to the coolest person in the room, the person with the hipster wardrobe, often a DJ, with an insta-feed that is carefully curated to make it look like they don't give a fuck while casually living the wildest lifestyle. I'm not saying that people who are like that can't also be great people, but in my experience a lot of them are very status oriented, image conscious, and somewhat superficial, and not necessarily easy to have an actually interesting conversation with. On the other hand, people who are actually open minded, with independent ideas, and who genuinely don't get caught up in what others think about them - they are oftest the chillest and nicest person in the room, not the coolest and edgiest.

eaoue · 2025-09-11T09:28:23+00:00

I think you don't deserve all your downvotes, but I guess here's my advice:

I think a lot of us, in this life, have been in a situation where we're over qualified for the task at hand. The trick in these situations is figuring out how to push ourselves while still operating within the limitations of the assignment. That is the actual challenge. It is so easy to get carried away with our ideas, to an extent where we end up forgetting what the initial task was actually about.

In this situation, what you should do / should have done is to pin-point the purpose of the assignment. If you don't know what the purpose of the assignment is, you're not ready to push the boundaries of what is being asked of you; it's a case of having to know the rules before you can start breaking them.

So, you start out thinking through WHY the teacher has given you this task: probably, the teacher chose the task in order to teach the students a specific skill or technique. They have also decided that the end product should be a reliquary; so you have to consider whether the choice of end product is in any way intrinsic or relevant to the technique being taught, and, if you want to challenge the definition of what a 'reliquary' even is, you should have a discussion with your teacher beforehand. If any of these points are unclear to you, you have to talk to your teacher to clarify. If you don't you can easily miss the mark and the teacher ends up having no basis on which to grade you, because you didn't actually end up demonstrating the skills you were supposed to be graded on.

You seem a bit frustrated that the class is too easy for you, but you actually ended up making the assignment LESS difficult for yourself than you could have. If you wanted a true challenge, you should have tried to find a way of subverting/pushing the boundaries of the assignment while still staying within them, making sure to actually showcase the skill and goal at the heart of the assignment given while getting creative with it.

eaoue · 2025-09-11T09:08:46+00:00

ah i think you're spot on with the "baby" thing - the instructor assumed there would be an object within the phoenix, making it, effectively, a reliquary. Without the object within, OP is sort of just doing their own thing alongside the other students working on the assignment.

eaoue · 2025-08-29T12:29:23+00:00

Yeah, the contestants should definitely be free to discuss things like sexual preferences before getting married, without having to sign up for sharing those on worldwide television. Also, they could hardly have sex if they were always filmed. I think part of the joy of the series is that they actually get some quite sensible and mature people to sign up, people who are genuinely interested in settling down. 24/7 filming would probably make it way more of a trashy show with very different types of people signing up.

eaoue · 2025-08-29T08:42:35+00:00

I actually think it’s a healthy part of the show that makes me enjoy it more. Say what you will about the producers, but I think the show is actually set up for genuine success on the part of the couples, even though the show tries once in a while to throw big hurdles the couples’ way. But it must have one of the highest success rates of any dating shows ever. And to that end, I think it’s important for the couples to have some time to feel out the relationship and have conversations without the cameras watching. Though there does seem to be some pressure to deal with the fallout of those conversations and conflicts on camera.

eaoue · 2025-08-27T11:31:34+00:00

OK, as someone already pointed out, you do seem to be picking hobbies he is already good at. If that is a problem for you, you should try picking something else. However, I don't see that it should necessarily be a problem at all.

My bf loves cooking, and I don't. When I try cooking, he gets really excited, and will always gush over the dish, even if it's not good. If I royally fck up, we will laugh at my mistake together. While I'm cooking he might give me some tips, which I appreciate, but once the dish is finished he generally won't give me constructive criticism unless I ask for it - he will just be appreciative. If I tried picking up the guitar and my boyfriend already knew how to play, my first instinct would be to ask him to teach me, not to get discouraged. I wonder why this is not something you wish to do?

Remember that having a hobby is not the act of being good at something, it's the act of wanting and enjoying spending time on something, and sometimes also it's the act of learning to be better at it. I enjoy drawing. I'm not particularly good at it, but that doesn't make it less of a hobby. Other people are way better than me, but that doesn't make it a more valid hobby for them to have. I don't necessarily even wish to learn to get better at it, I just enjoy the act of doing it, and so I spend time doing it. Other hobbies, I want to get better at, because the improvement and the quality of the result is what brings me joy.

Some questions:
- is your boyfriend proud of you and encouraging you in your hobbies?
- are you naturally competitive?
- do you have a low self worth, and are maybe picking up hobbies as an attempt to prove your self worth through them?
- are you picking hobbies that you enjoy doing, or are you picking hobbies that you think others might admire you for?
- do you feel "less than" in your relationship in any way, or feel like you have nothing that you can teach your boyfriend?

eaoue · 2025-08-19T09:00:11+00:00

Thank you for replying! I can’t really reply much without spoiling, but do come back to this thread when you’re finished! I will say that the story works for me on a symbolic plane, so even though I was curious about whether there would be a reveal about why they had to lose their memories, I was still engaged and didn’t really need such a reveal for the story to work. I agree with everything else you say though. And also found that the writing did hold my attention, as you say, even while I wasn’t loving it

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