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From the start, I have always expected to sell my dress. Now that I am five days away from the wedding, I'm going to wait to make the call until I get back from my honeymoon. I'm way more emotionally attached to it now!
I went overbudget when buying and told myself it was okay because I would recoup the overage when I sold it. Then I sit around thinking - what would I do with the money if I DID sell it? Is it worth it?
I'm interested to see what other brides have to say about this topic too! Good poll!
I have two so far and I think one I will sell or donate. The other I'm not sure yet.
RIght now I don't even have a dress, but I would probably sell it because I have no room to keep it!
I kept my first one, and when I wanted to donate it, I was told by one organization "Don't bother..it's out of style". So now I have this (cute little) dress, preserved in a box. Such a shame.
Second time around - I'm toying with buying a fabulous gown that I will sell afterwards.
Having bought my dress on Saturday at this point in time I want to keep it as I love it that much.
i am selling my dress. i'm way more emotionally attached to my dress than i thought i'd be, but i dont want to keep something that i'd not wear again and would rather get recoup some $$ back.
I imagine that I will keep mine. It's being custom designed/made for me by a close friend, so it will have that much more meaning.
I am donating one of mine to a deserving bride. The second will be put up for sale for a while. If it doesn't sell, it will be donated to an organization that gives Haitian women wedding dresses.
I'm undecided at the moment. I think I may donate it to brides against breast cancer.. altho I fear I may get too attached to it. But I definitely will not pay any extra money to have it stored or preserved.
Right now I am keeping it but that may change. I just dont know what I want to do with it yet! I got it cleaned/preserved and it is currently in a box in my closet. It is customized to me because I directed all the changes on the original dress, but maybe someone else would like it! I am also smaller in size so it might be hard because there isnt a lot of extra fabric to work with one way or the other. However, I dont feel the need to make this decision just yet!
Im still so torn with what to do. We kinda need the money but the money would probably be spent on something silly (like an ipad that I wouldn't appreciate 20 years from now).
On the other hand, all I can think about is $500 depreciating in my closet!
I have a lot of other "best days of my life" to save for, so i'm def selling it! We're going on a 4-6 month long trip through Asia next year, and that money would be a great bolster to our savings!
I will probably keep it, but I have been thinking about using the fabric to make my future children's christening outfits.
sold it. once i told my friends, they started selling theirs too. i get that some people think of it as a momento, but isnt that what the pictures are for? but im not a sentimental person, especially when it came to the wedding. i didnt do favors, or personalized champagne glasses, or anything engraved with the wedding date.
An option to keeping it is to have it made it into your babie's christening gown or first communion dress. My mom did that and the picture look really neat.
I am in the process of selling my third dress. One more to go after that, and I hope to sell that too. As you can imagine I could use the money after going crazy on four dresses. I have absolutely no regrets. In fact it feels nice to have closet space again.
I haven't even purchase my dress yet, but I've always thought I would keep it. I'm very sentimental and have this vision that my future daughter will wear it or take pieces from it to make her own dress (I'm sure styles will drastically change by then! But a girl can dream!)
We aren't religious so we don't need christening gowns. I don't know. I feel like it will just waste away in the closet. I figure I can sell it to recoup some funds and hopefully make another bride happy.
I seem to be in the minority, but my plan is to keep it. I like the idea of having it for a daughter I might have. Then when her wedding time comes, she can have the dress to wear, alter, or just take a piece of to have sewn into her own. I am sentimental and I like the idea of her having those options. If she ever exists and gets married.
I'm keeping mine, but it's short, green, and not overtly wedding-y (it's mostly like a nice short dress) so I can wear it again. :)
I thought I would sell my dress after our wedding, but I ended up getting really sentimentally attached to it! Plus, I don't think I could have gotten much $$ for it... it was pretty dirty after everything was said and done. I got it preserved and boxed and now it's in my closet. Once in a while I'll still take a peek at it, and it always makes me smile. :)
I'm keeping mine. I guess it is an emotional attachment or something. I just know I would have a hard time letting it go for sure.
I'm unemployed and NEEDED the money! It was a beautiful dress but no I do not regret it all, I don't regret seeing that huge box just sitting in my closet. I'm glad another bride loves it as much as I did.
I sold mine. We would have sold NotFroofy's, but have had a hard time finding a buyer. It's absolutely gorgeous, but a) NotFroofy is 5'1", so it is too short for many brides, and b) we don't know the precise style number, so brides who are looking for that style would not find our ad.
i plan on selling it because honestly, what am I going to do with it? Its ruffles so its not a good material to make something out of. My moms sat in a box and still sits in a box. It costs money to preserve it and its just going to sit in a box? And realistically, I didnt want to wear my moms (couldn't fit anyway) or my aunts and I really really really doubt future kids will want to wear mine. Styles change.
It will be nice to get some money back as well.
I'm not sure what I'll do. I went way over budget, so I'd feel better if I could sell it, but I'm only 5'3" and I'm not planning on wearing heels, so it is going to be hemmed pretty short. The top layer of the skirt is sheer too, so it's not like it could be hemmed with the extra fabric not cut off, either.
I voted "kept it" because that's what I've done so far, but I do plan to try to sell it. It's hard though, I almost feel like I'm selling my engagement ring - there's that strong a level of emotional attachment to it. If I had to make a prediction, I'd say that I'll attempt to sell it but likely won't find anyone to buy it, I'll hang onto it for a year or so, then finally suck it up and donate it. Maybe after a first-anniversary rock-the dress photo or two?
I'm going to sell it. I bought it pre-owned and have always had the intention to sell it after the wedding. I believe in reusing things and also helping another bride get a beautiful dress for a great price.
@sapphirebride: Yep, I'll be hitting the Brides Against Breast Cancer sale this week and if I see something, I'll get it. If not, I'll hit Encore Bride or Preowned...I doubt I'll have an emotional attachment. I'm not overly sentimental. Even if I wanted to surprise myself, I don't have space. It's NYC folks :(
I would ideally want to sell my dress, but since I am only 5 feet tall I doubt it will sell!
My wedding's not for 8 months, obviously, but I think I'm going to keep it. I paid $800 for it, but will likely have $200 of alterations (or more). Plus tax was $80. Also, when I'm done I'll need to get it cleaned preserved. What's that, another $200? So by the time all in, it'll be about $1200 or $1300 on the dress. Yet I'll need to sell it for likely only $500 if I'm lucky, since you're supposed to sell for a signifcant discount of what you paid. (Although the dress DOES normally retail for $1000... Maybe I could try to sell for $750?)
Yes, we could really use that money, but I kind of think I'll end up preferring the heirloom to getting less than half what I paid for it. It's such a fun thing to prance around in - I could see any potential daughters playing dress up in it and hearing Mom's story.
@doingathing: Oh, AND I'm only 5 feet tall. So my dress will be fairly drastically altered. Although maybe there's a niche market for that???
i was planning to sell it, but now that i finally found one and am waiting for it to arrive, i am already thinking i will be sad to see it go. but seriously, i have a cat who likes to cause trouble and i would be more horrified if she ever got it into than if i sold it. i think if i did sell, i would want to see pics of that persons wedding after....also, because of my cat, i would have to store it so good that i could never see it anyway!! but still, i might keep it for a while after the wedding. i can tell i am already going to have post-wedding depression with nothing to plan. so maybe trying it now and then after the wedding will help with that. then i'll sell it....
I sold mine like a week after getting back from my minimoon. I was excited to have the money (which is why I sold it), but also very sad when it was time to let it go. My husband was sad too. I go back and forth about whether I wish I had sold it or not, but I have to let it go!!
@noodlesploosh: In Boston, preservation started at around $400, actually. So I bet NYC is even crazier. Biggest ripoff ever! I just got mine cleaned ($230 OUCH) and will sell it.
Wow! I didn't realize it cost that much to put it in a box!
I seriously doubt I'll sell it. It is not a super expensive dress to start ($800 including tax and shipping) so what is the most I could get out of it from selling it? $300? Maybe? I don't have any illusions that my future daughter will wear it... I didn't pick the most classically timeless style... but she might want to see it. Or play dress-up in it. It's an heirloom! And space really isn't an issue for us because I have closets completely empty.
I really don't know what I'm going to do. Part of me has said "sell it" this whole time because as a petite budget bride I kept searching for a dress used and it was impossible to find one in the length I wanted.
So, part of me says "I want to help a short bride like me get a dress for less."
However, another (more rational) part of me knows that used dresses take forever to sell and that any alterations (which i will likely need to take in a smidgen in the bust) will make it even harder to sell.
So truthfully, I'm a little at-odds as to what to do. My dress only ended up costing me about $1150, so how much can I really get out of it? $500-800, maybe? If most girls are like me, unless it's the exact size and length that I needed, it becomes really hard to pay much for a used dress when you can spend just a little more and get a brand new dress just for you.
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I want to know why you ladies have saved or sold your dress. If you sold it, do you regret it? If you kept it, do you even look at it or take it out? What are your reasons? Thanks!