Dress Problems

Hi there so I'm a young bride and have been engaged for a while, we never picked a date because we wanted to get more settled, while a few days ago he popped the question and said, "let's just get married" so tada we're getting married next year. About 6 months or so ago I did go dress shopping since I was moving around from friends and wanted that experience with them. I ended up buying a dress for 200. I got the dress and I feel like it wasn't the same one that I fell for at the shop or maybe I was just too excited about the experience and I was never fully in love with it in the first place. Well now that were serious about getting married and stuff, the dress just doesn't feel right anymore. We have a tight budget of 1000$ and he said that I could use some to alter the dress into what I want since I would have to shorten it since it's an outside wedding but I feel like the price tag for that would just be too much. I've been looking around and have seen dresses I like that are for 50 or so (not wedding dresses but really pretty white dresses). So I'm wondering if I should just move on or if I should try to relight the spark I had with my old dress.