Firstly, congrats on your engagement Nikki, and its never too early to start planning, weddings are so exciting!

I dont have any personal experience, so dont want to persuade you either way, but I do want you to know what happened to my SIL just so you have all the information.

So my SIL found the perfect dress in an actual store and fell in love with it. Later she found replicas of it online, and for a fraction of the cost. Like you mentioned, it was made to measure, and she bought it and was so excited.....until it arrived! The dress was not like the one she saw instore, the material was cheap, and it was badly cut. Needless to say, her search for the perfect dress begun again, only this time she bought her dress in a store, and was out of pocket from the online dress.

I hope you do what is right by you, and have fun with your planning.

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