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But rather than packing a bag, hopping a flight, and pounding foreign pavement for the luxe dress of her dreams, the bride-to-be and her offshore couturiers are remotely creating a cost-friendly masterpiece via virtual fittings and artificial intelligence chatbots.
Ginny Deaza turned to AI to create images of her dream bridal gown for Vietnamese dressmakers to design at a fraction of the cost in America.
“I found gowns that I like from big designers. I then uploaded pictures of myself and the dresses to ChatGPT,” Deaza, 35,, from Providence, Rhode Island, exclusively told The Post.
“Then I sent the AI-generated images of myself in the dresses to Vietnam to give them ideas of my preferred look. ” to tiny boutiques around the globe, are utilizing sophisticated systems to enhance the wedding dress shopping experience for customers near and far. Woman plans to have legs amputated after legs locked straight, bent backwardsAnd elegance addicts — those hoping to save a few bucks before walking down the aisle — are eating it up.
“I’m paying less than $2,500 for a custom wedding dress in Vietnam, which would have cost well over $15,000 here in the United States,” Deaza bragged. “Prices on high-end wedding dresses in the US are crazy, and with the state of the economy, spending thousands on a dress that I’m only going to wear for a few hours is not worth it.
”With the world at their manicured fingertips — thanks to AI and country-to-country mobile messaging technologies, such as WhatsApp — frugal fashionistas like Deaza are saying “No” to nauseatingly It’s a buzzy, money-saving movement among millennial and Gen Z gals preparing to take the plunge as wedding costs in major cities, from NYC to Honolulu, , adding that pairs with deep pockets can shell out upwards of $10,000 for designer styles. Fine fabrics, such as imported silk, as well as posh detailing like hand-embroidered lace, beading and bejeweled accents often send sticker prices soaring.
While North America reigned as the largest region in the wedding dress market in 2025, Asia-Pacific — comprised of countries including China, India, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and Vietnam — is now rising as the fastest-growing region in the world, As the global wedding-wear market booms, projected to reach $109 billion by 2030, Asia Pacific has dominated the global industry with the largest revenue share of 27% in recent years, according to experts for Grand View Research in a new report. The insiders attribute the success of the Far East to an abundance of local designers with direct access to high-quality materials, as well as top-tier tech like 3D printers for customized ensembles.
But Deaza’s forthcoming frock — a strapless, fitted number made of lace and twinkling embellishments — is being stitched by the master craftsmen ofShe followed the feeling — of elegance, grace, and timeless beauty. 𝐌𝐎𝐄𝐑𝐀 — where classic meets couture. A gown that whispers sophistication in every fold. 𝐏𝐋𝐒.
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“Traveling to Vietnam would have added to my wedding costs, so I’m doing this entire process online, sight unseen,” said Deaza, who’s set to swap vows to her fiancé, Chris, before 300 loved ones next year. She’s scheduled for a virtual tailoring appointment, to be conducted through a WhatsApp video call, in several weeks. The dress is expected to be completed and shipped — for an additional $100 to $300 fee — to her doorstep this fall.
“The boutique reps speak English, and I send a lot of reference pictures to minimize any confusion, and that’s helped tremendously,” she added, noting that shopping outside the US borders has been a tremendous help to her wallet, too. “I’m super excited. I know the dress is going to be beautiful because I’m customizing every aspect of it,” Deaza raved to The Post.
“I appreciate the look of a wedding dress made available in America, but I’d rather invest my money elsewhere — like a two-month honeymoon or purchasing a vacation home in the Dominican Republic. ”Tiffany Nguyen told The Post that Vietnam has always had a special place in her heart, which inspired her to shop luxe in the Southeast Asian country.
But unlike Deaza, she laid out a cool $2,100 on a four-night vacation to Vietnam, spending $1,330 on a round-trip flight, $580 for a stay in an upscale AirBnB and $200 on gourmet meals, to score custom wedding couture for just $550.
“I traveled to Vietnam last August to shop and get my measurements done for my custom dress, and in November I got the message that it was actually finished,” Nguyen, a lifestyle content creator and matcha café owner, told The Post. “The whole trip was not even the cost of what the dress would have been if I decided here in Austin,” added the budgeting belle, 29, who’s eloping for less than $20,000 with fiancé Aaron in September.
“I don’t believe anyone should be subjected to paying more, or that prices should be hiked up, for anything wedding-related,” Nguyen said. “We should be focused on what’s important, and that’s celebrating love.
”“Us Gen Z brides aren’t doing these big over-the-top weddings, we prefer intimate and intentional celebrations of love, and the same goes for our dresses,” the 28-year-old Los Angeles-based influencer, boastingVi Luong, shown with her fiancé, Erick, garnered nearly 2 million views on a social media post about her wedding dress savings in Vietnam.
“I wanted to be economical, but still have like a very champagne style look,” said Luong of the bespoke, structural gown she’s receiving from“My dress will be a very contoured, structural piece, almost like a Roman goddess statue you’d see in a museum,” Luong rhapsodized of the piece, coming in luxury Duchess satin and organza. “When I went dress-shopping in LA, the look I’m going for cost $15,000, and I said, ‘Absolutely f–king not.
’” Instead, Luong’s ceremonial attire will be made to her exact liking, with a veil to match, for under $3,000. The over $10,000 she saved is being allocated toward her swank wedding venue in Joshua Tree, California, where she and her fiancé, Erick, will say “I do” at their micro-“Crazy Rich Asians”-inspired to-do this summer. Luong says brides of her generation are more concerned with making intentional, inexpensive wedding purchases rather than blowing their big-day budgets.
For their destination fête in Guatemala, the 36-year-old hairdresser, from Houston, Texas, secured a corseted, bead-embellished bridal gown and hand-sewn, pearl-spangled reception dress from a Vietnamese boutique for $2,500.
“I tried on the wedding dress and hated it,” she confessed to The Post. “It didn’t fit right, and I couldn’t get the corset to close properly. ” But after a friend stepped in to help adjust the corset, Monroe said the $1,250 number “looked like a dream come true. ” “I would never, in a million years, recommend people to pay the prices they’re charging for the dresses in America,” she said.
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Tiffany Nguyen told The Post that Vietnam has always had a special place in her heart, which inspired her to shop luxe in the Southeast Asian country. Vi Luong, shown with her fiancé, Erick, garnered nearly 2 million views on a social media post about her wedding dress savings in Vietnam. Luong says brides of her generation are more concerned with making intentional, inexpensive wedding purchases rather than blowing their big-day budgets.
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