Re: Karma Bridal
I actually tried a little experiment by contacting various designers in Karachi before visiting Pakistan to get qoutes for bridal outfits. I then visited the same designers with my mum pretending to be Pakistani and let my mum do all the talking, but we still ended up with the same qoutes.
I guess you'll find designers now and then who will take advantage of the fact that you are from abroad and will try and rip you off. However, the qoutes you guys are giving above is what people are actually paying for outfits from HSY, Karma etc. The people who spend at these places do actually spend that kind of currency at the high end of the market...
We did the same thing when we were shopping for my sister's wedding.
HSY quoted prices in $4-5,000 range for the dresses on his site...when we got to Pakistan, the prices were around 150-200K rupees (this was a few years back, before his prices skyrocketed)...