We are a couple of teachers in the process of paying for grad school, and who have a very limited budget for a wedding. The good news is that we probably have 1.5 - 2 years until the wedding - if I buy my gown really early (say a year) to help offset the slew of expenses we will incur closer to the wedding, what are the chances it will discolor? Or . . . fall apart? We're trying to have an under $5,000 wedding, because neither of use will be getting help to pay for it :-)