I don't begin to understand people who think it's perfectly acceptable to hint that they want you to make them a wedding dress. Holy Moly! That's a ton of work and, frequently, drama. I paid $300 for all my silk taffeta back in 1983. I then paid a seamstress who did nothing but high end sewing another $300 for her to make my skirt and blouse from the pattern, using some hand made lace I'd carried around for YEARS to decorate color and cuffs and yoke of blouse.
That fabric isn't easy to sew, (I've never seen wedding dresses made out of easy stuff, unless they went rustic and made it from cotton!) and making that kind of thing is a really hard job to do nicely. That's an awful lot of nerve to ask somebody to do that for you as a friend, especially when they aren't falling all over themselves to offer you lots of money for your labor!
