What would you pay for this gown?

Hello everyone,

Continuing from my last write up, I would like to ask you a simple question.
What would you pay for the gowns in this post? I think they are lovely? but what do you think and what would you think they would cost?





Please say anything on your mind, I would love to get feedback on this issue.

Am back

Am back with a bang and ready to keep you busy. I have been looking at the bridal shops and i have realised that they seem not to be enough shops to go round the people getting married. LOL

I also seem to notice that there are not so many varieties and therefore people just decide to go out of the country to buy their gowns (like i did) and a friend too just recently.

I am actually n the process of helping another friend get her wedding gown from the same online bridal shop i got mine. This got me thinking is it that the wedding shops in nigeria are selling expensive gowns or that they dont have enough variety.

Or do we simply want to get something different?

In my case I wanted something really different (as you can see) but then what would your reason be? Please let us all know.

Congratulations to the couple below

I am sorry I have been away for too long, things just seem to happen so fast that I had no time to recover and give you gist of all that has been going down. 

Before I continue, congratulations to my friend who added the last post. She just delivered a bouncing baby boy.  Kudos to you my friends.

How I got my wedding gown

About three months to my wedding, I had been able to identify the wedding gown I wanted from the same site Shawla got hers and was working on how to make payments and shipping arrangements. This was after looking so hard for a 'slevefull' ivory wedding gown.

However, my story changed completely when my sister asked that I help her buy suits from a shop in Abuja, Ashers where they sell suits at wholesale rates. On my way going to the shop, I was stopped by Road Safety guys and they successfully extorted a whooping N2,000 from me. I was so angry at my sister and myself for agreeing to run the errand that I just stomped into the shop with a tightened face not even answering any greeting from the attendants.

As I walked into the shop, I noticed that wedding gowns were displayed in a new section that was just carved out of the shop. I diverted my mission and glared around the hung wedding gowns. I pointed at a gown and asked one of the sales girls how much it cost. She asked me to guess and with my nose turned up and my mind made up that the gowns will be highly expensive, I mentioned an exorbitant price. The girl then smiled and mentioned a price that was like 70% less than my guess.

Immediately, my countenance changed and I carefully looked around the gowns to see if any matched my specifics. Lo and behold, there it was, a 'slevefull' ivory wedding gown. I went to where the gown was and realised there was another customer standing beside the gown and a sales girl working so hard to convince her to buy the gown but she kept on giving one excuse after other.

I asked the sales girl for the cost of the gown and she gave me a price that was 50% less than my initial arrangement via the website. I checked the size and men….it was my exact wedding gown size, a 10!. Not minding the other customer, I told the sales girl I would like to try it on. I was helped into the gown and as the zipper was fastened, everyone around had their mouth agape. I guess I looked like the dream bride. The owner of the shop who had also come out of her office to look at the bride-to-be announced that I would get a free ball slip along with the gown because I was their first wedding gown customer……..

I made a deposit for the gown with the money meant for my sister’s suit and promised to makeup the balance by the next week. I’m sure you’re wondering what happened to the other lady. Well, she stayed back to watch the drama in the shop when I tried on the gown and as I was driving out, she came to meet me and asked if I was interested in renting out the gown since her wedding came before mine…….can you imagine.

Of course, I did not agree! Rent ko, dash ni….

Wedding gown shop in Nigeria

Hello everyone,

while looking for the best deal online wedding gown shop it occurred to me that it would not be a bad idea to have a wedding gown shop considering I seem to have a knack for finding manufacturers and suppliers of a whole range of things.

While this thot was still trying to develop in my head, i was trying to visualize a wedding shop that i have gone to that had wall to wall floor lenght mirror where you could look at your dress.

What does it take to start a wedding dress shop? Ideas please my dear friends.

List of wedding gowns providers

Hello, I have been able to dig up some wedding gown providers, This is only a few as I would keep adding to this list as time go by and as I get more leads as to who makes beautiful gowns and who knows where to get them abroad too.

Angelic Bridals
Address 87 Opebi Road, ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8128687.

Aisle of White
Wedding gowns & accessories, bridesmaid & page boy outfits, flowers, jewellry, fabrics etc
Address 62, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8023858347, 8033944978.

Akuben Enterprises Nigeria Limited
Wedding gowns & accessories, evening wears, kiddies ball gowns etc
Address Shop A16, Bolashodun Plaza, 24 Breadfruit Street, Off Matrins Street Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 803 319 2845.

Bamsol bridals
Address 8, James Robertson Street, Surulere Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8033334109, 8023035727.

Beegee Bridals
Address 81 Babington Ashaye Crescent ,Omole Phase I Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8033425281.

Bridal House
Wedding gowns and accessories, cakes, souvenirs, programmes, invitations etc
Address 54 Opebi Road,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 773 0084.

Bridals & More
Address 19B Ladipo Oluwole Street ,Ikeja Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8036146000, 8032035400.

Dannies Bridals
Wedding gowns, rings, shoes, bridesmaid/little bride & evening dresses, jewellry, limousine etc
Address 2nd Floor, Coscharis House, 68A Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 262 6346.

Fruitful Bridals & Decors
Address 63 Kudirat Abiola Road ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 4819136.

Havilah Bride
Wedding gowns and accessories
Address 42, Toyin Street, Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 813 0917.

Mac's Bridals
Address 400, Hebert Macaulay Street, Jibowu, Yaba Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 863 107, 811 0200.

NONIX
Wedding Gowns, Rings, Accessories, Cakes etc
Address 8, Lawanson Road, Surulere Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 790 0741.

Simworths Ventures
Address 90 Ogunlana Drive, Surulere Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 4819769.

Vertini
Address 61, Opebi Road ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8912155.

Wedding Centre, The
Address 8b Toyin Street ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8049230.

If I have missed out any wedding gown providers or you know someone who does lovely gowns please let me know so we can have them in this list. Thanks ladies and gents as well.

What are we talking about?

Hi everyone, I have been thinking what we were going to start talking about. And i figured, why not lets start with the wedding gown. Every bride dreams of a lovely wedding dress for her wedding, strapless, flowing with a train, beads, trimmings and all.

Okay, there are lots of lovely gowns out there for you to look at until you get that one that works for you, but there are also people that make lovely custom gowns for you too. My wedding gown was bought on the internet by me and I had it shipped to me in Nigeria funny enough through EMS and I got it 10days after. I found this lovely website  while preparing for my wedding and I just loved the gown cos to me it looked really unique.

The wonderful thing about it was that it was not so expensive, however the down side was that I could not pay by myself - no credit card or anything. So I got my brother to make the purchase for me, after I told them I wanted the gown shipped to Nigeria. Now you don't necessarily have to buy abroad, you can buy in Nigeria, or you can even have it made. My next post will tell you some place you can buy from both in Nigeria and abroad and for good money too.