Hi I have shopped for two dresses church ceremony in january and outdoor reception in july and really didn ' t want these to eat up my budget . for my january dress , i wanted something very simple and wound up going with jasmine ' s bridal which is one of the big chinese tailors . I did a lot of research and read a lot of reviews and emailed with a few tailors recommended by other brides lacemarry and lightinthebox and dressily me . for various reasons I went with Jasmine ' s . I ' ve had a pretty positive experience overall chatting with my specialist and my dress shipped TODAY . For my July dress , I ' m actually working with a girl I went to college with who started her own company doing custom dresses made in China . She was an engineering student at Duke and worked at Nike and Apple with a stint at Harvard Business School in between . She lived in Jakarta and visited factories ALL THE TIME . She ' s built up a relationship while shopping for her own wedding dress and decided this was the next step for her . Her company is based in SF and you can check her out at dressanomalie . com . So far I ' ve done the phone consult and sent picturesemails from my various boutique research trips . Am supposed to get my dress sketch this week and can ' t wait . They typically do custom dresses from $ 8001200 . tldr Simple church dress from jasmine ' s after much research and emails to various shops $ 430 ish . Totally custom laceillusion dress with detachableconvertible outer skirt from dressanomalie . com $ 8001200 . edit i got the website wrong