Everyone wants to splurge on something once or twice in a lifetime, and your wedding dress just might be your pick. Melania Knauss gave them a nod when she married Donald Trump  Dresses Blog in 2005. She wore a Galliano number that weighed nearly 50 pounds, complete with a 13-foot train that cost a reported $100,000.

Enough with the depressing articles on the economy, already. They either make you feel bummed out about what you can''t spend, or guilty about what you shouldn''t. But everyone wants to splurge on something once or twice in a lifetime, and your wedding dress just might be your pick.

Yes, you are a responsible, good-head-on-her-shoulders woman who is giving serious thought to her retirement savings. But you also may be thinking about splurging on your wedding dress.

If you are, you are well within your rights to clam up about the price. But if you''re feeling the ... Read more »