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Gem of A Bridal Gown! Most Expensive In U.S.
Most Expensive Bridal Gown (on record) To Be Worn In U.S.!!
When his little girl asked her dad for her dream wedding gown one Brooklyn father just could not say no. Even when the price tag for the schemata was a whopping $300,000! Anthony La Bate of Francesca Couture has been charged with the task to design what is most likely the most expensive wedding gown ever worn in the U.S.
The bride (whose name remains a mystery) has commissioned a dress encrusted with 1,100 diamonds totaling 300 carats and 3,000 Swarovski crystals all combined with 50 yards of silk organza. The wedding, scheduled to take place in New York in late summer, will definitely be one in which no guest will out sparkle this bejeweled 23 year old bride.
When the bride - whose father paid for the dress - called La Bate, she asked for an "over-the-top magnificent wedding dress."
"I've never heard of a gown at this price before in the U.S.," said La Bate. "I've designed gowns with semi-precious stones before, but never diamonds." And so when La Bate suggested using diamonds, "She said no problem... when I told her the value came out to $300,000, she was cool with it."
But the bride isn't cool with the world knowing who she is just yet. "She's a little shy and doesn't want to deal with any of this at the moment," said La Bate. "She comes from a great family."
The silk gown (pictured below) is in two pieces, with a diamond-adorned bodice that flares out like two leaves. The bottom of the dress is a detachable ball gown, which contains 50 yards of bias-cut petals in six tiers of scalloping, that the bride can take off at the end of the ceremony - so she isn't weighed down.
One of a Kind Bridal Gown
Each diamond was individually hand-stitched on the fabric. If they were to be replaced by crystals, the value of the dress would drop to $30,000, said La Bate.
On average, brides will spend anywhere from $500 to $12,000 on a gown. Further establishing this gown as one of the most expensive ever made in the US a rep at Saks Fifth Avenue bridal, which carries top bridal gowns priced from $3,000 said, "I've never heard of a gown of that price, not even from the highest couturier in the world."
(Source: IDEX Magazine)
Comments
I think it is ridiclous for a wedding dress that looks so simple to cost an ridiclous price of $30,000!!!
Posted by: Amy Patch on March 11, 2007 5:45 AM
Talk about spoiled!
Posted by: Karen West on March 13, 2007 4:04 PM
It's a very ugly dress... my sister-in-law ordered a beautiful dress with many works and details and diamonds attached to it for a reasonable price...
Posted by: Denisse on March 19, 2007 11:16 PM
You cannot be serious! 30000 for a dress! Think of what good you could do with that money. There are so many things that are more important than spending that much on a single dress.
Posted by: celeste on April 5, 2007 5:19 PM
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!It doesn't matter about the price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Karen on April 15, 2007 7:43 PM
I think she is a very spoilt woman becasue if i asked my dad for a dress like that he would tell me i could dream on for a million years.
Posted by: Amy on April 19, 2007 1:43 PM
What the hell is this? 300, 000 dollars for this ugly peice of material? Surely someone with that much money would have a little more sense to create a masterpeice?! It isn't even fitted properly to her!
Im a designer for eco-fashion. Think of the carbon emissions created by this thing, you could give that money to starving people in Africa. My mother bought her wedding dress for less than £100, and it is beautiful. You do not need to waste money!
For whoever next reads this, please, I hope, you will have the common sense to not make the same mistake as the girl who wanted this dress.
Think green, think save money. Don't think that money can buy beauty - It cant.
Sure, the girl who loves this dress will be happy, but that's 300000 dollars gone which wont come back! I find this greedy.
Rant over, Im not going to make people side with me, but come on!
Posted by: Rain on May 2, 2007 1:45 PM
HA HA she looks so bad in that dress.my blind grandmother can stitch something better than that together. 300,000 is the most ridiculous amount of money you could spend on a single dress. if you were to spend an incredible amount of money on that at least make it beautiful.
Posted by: Giovanni Pillitteri on May 10, 2007 9:49 AM
wat a beautiful gown i have one the same and it was only 100,000 and i had it to go to a red carpet event its one of a kind.
Posted by: aimeez on May 19, 2007 10:36 AM
Are you kidding me?! $300k for that horrible simple dress?! Jesus my 15niera dress was only $600 and it's far off more beautiful than that gown. Oh btw.. she looks horrible with it too.
Posted by: Isabel on May 20, 2007 3:08 PM
it's ugly
i don't no how someone could pay so much you could save towns of dieing ppl in africa with that money
Posted by: ashanti on June 20, 2007 3:56 AM
auuuugh ... she looks terrible. i agree that she could make it way more beautiful. with or without diamonds the dress is a disaster. if not for the price no one would ever even talk about it, or hesitated on it if seen on website.
Posted by: farimah on June 25, 2007 6:16 AM
i would pay anything for a beautiful dress but this one isnt worth it at all!
Posted by: janeth on June 28, 2007 8:02 PM
she's an ediot. i have a better dress that just costed $350 and when you wore it, it looked as if there was a king standing in front of you. but this dress is just horrible. is she home-sick or somethi'n ?
Posted by: ray-ray on July 11, 2007 11:40 AM
I wish my dad were still alive to just say, "I love you, little one." She's blessed to have a father that wanted to make her day so special.
Posted by: Glenda on July 21, 2007 12:16 PM
i would pay anything for a wedding gown , but this dress is not worth it
Posted by: janeth on July 22, 2007 2:02 AM
you are a tit! that is all i have to say on the matter
Posted by: Ragina Phalangie on July 26, 2007 4:35 PM
That dress is disgusting..I had a beautiful dress at my wedding and it only cost $599... if anyone would pay that much for that dress. there insane...it doesnt even look like a wedding dress..it looks like a prom dress.
Posted by: Ryean on August 21, 2007 12:33 AM
That dress is disgusting..I had a beautiful dress at my wedding and it only cost $599... if anyone would pay that much for that dress. there insane...it doesnt even look like a wedding dress..it looks like a prom dress.
Posted by: Ryean on August 21, 2007 12:34 AM
I think its very beautiful and she might be a little spoiled,but after all its the most beautifullest day of her life and i think she should have a dress that matches.
Posted by: rachel on September 18, 2007 8:17 PM
I agree that the dress is extremely ugly but the picture is not of the complete dress. The picture only shows the basic dress without the bottom layer of scallops. The dress is made in 2 pieces which allows the bottom part to be removed. The bottom is made of 50 yards of bias-cut petals in 6 tiers of scalloping which the bride can remove after the ceremony, so she won't be so weighed down for the reception. Some of the posts seem to have the price confused. The price was over $300,000 (that is over 3 hundred thousand dollars), not $30,000. If the diamonds had been replaced with crystals, the price would have been $30,000. Guess some people can't read or remember what they have read by some of the postings.
Posted by: Diana on October 7, 2007 6:16 PM
Did you notice it says she comes from a great family? She is probably from a wealthy family who makes multiple millions of dollars a year, and $300,000 is a drop in the bucket for them. Most people who make that amount of money donate a large portion of their income to charities, if not because they care, because of tax write off purposes.
You have to understand that if you're making $20-50,000/year a $300,000 dress IS ridiculous... but if you're making $5 mil, and you love your daughter and want her day to be special, $300,000 is not that much (check the percentage of his income that is!)
Posted by: C on October 20, 2007 10:53 PM
OMG she looks so bad. That dress is so ugly. You couldnt pay me to wear it and my daddys rich.
Posted by: Amber on January 17, 2008 7:59 PM
That wedding dress is ugly. It is so not worth the money.
Posted by: Lydia on February 22, 2008 6:53 PM
haha what a dumb bitch...watch her get divorced. lmao
Posted by: miss C on May 9, 2008 10:51 PM
Hey! I seen this in a garage sale.
Posted by: Zenex on May 25, 2008 2:25 PM
I think your dress is very pretty!!!!!
Posted by: Jen on May 28, 2008 11:54 AM
If you can afford to have diamonds on your dress... .so be it. Remember the diamond bra?
Einstein said "the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination".
Sounds like many jealous people posted here.
Posted by: Bianca on June 21, 2008 5:30 PM