Selling a wedding dress?

[Tiff]

Does anyone have any experience/recommendations about selling a wedding dress?

We're moving, and I'm worried about storage space in our new place. I'm wondering if I should just get rid of the dress because I'll probably never do anything with it. I had it cleaned and "preserved" and it is all sealed up in a box.

 

[AmyG]

I have my Grandmother's dress. It's in bad shape but I was planning on getting it cleaned and putting it in a shadow box. Too avoid the cost issue, on that big would be so expensive, I was going to make one like so...http://craftysisters-nc.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-family-tree-shadow-box.html

 

[jk703]

I have not... but maybe ask a relative who might be interested in either taking it, or storing it? What about asking a local bridal shop what they do in a similar situation? Good Luck Tiff!

 

[lmccandless]

My mom sold my brother's ex-fiancee's dress. (Sounds like juicy story, right?! LOL Not really. They called off the wedding, but previously the fiancee had been storing the dress at my parents' house. After two years, my mom finally sold it.) Anyways, she sold it on Craigs List and got the asking price. She didn't want to try ebay because she didn't want to be bothered with the shipping. Fairly painless, but of course, she didn't have an emotional attachment to the dress. I guess you just have to decide if you have one to yours...or if you think that you don't have a family member who would want to wear it in the future.

 

[staciahall]

It didn't take my daughter but about two seconds to look at the long sleeved lacy covered thing I wore and say "Absolutely not"! (of course we have been divorced for YEARS but it truly just isn't in any way in style anymore).

I think the idea of asking a family member who has the room to keep it until you can make a decision that is not rushed is a great one.

 

[karen perry]

Good luck with your decision,will you get joy from someone else wearing it who maybe can't afford new,maybe that may sway you into doing it

 

[toriloowho]

I have thought time and time again about selling mine. I don't like having "stuff" just sitting around... and I have two boys, neither of them are going to wear it. Plus, it really wasn't my first pick of a dress, but my MIL talked me into it. While I loved it, it just wasn't THE dress I really wanted when it was all said and done.

 

[Karen]

I donated mine to Goodwill a few years ago. Sometimes I can't believe I did that, but then again, I have two boys, so nobody is ever going to wear it again. I also never had it cleaned or professionally stored, so it wasn't in the best shape anyway.

 

[bestcee]

About the time I grew two inches taller than my mom, she sold hers at a yard sale.
I rented mine to avoid the issue.

If you are okay getting rid of it, then my practical side says do it now, while you could find someone who feels beautiful like you did. My mom was so sad to sell it at the yard sale, but it was 12 years old, and way out of style.

 

[Jen]

I had carried my wedding dress through 4 moves and finally asked myself why?? I got rid of the dress and haven't regretted it at all. If I was counting on my daughters wearing it, it's a good thing I got rid of it because both of them are taller than I am so it wouldn't have fit anyway...even if they did like the style (which they do not).

 

[Tiff]

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely don't think that I will miss it, and the point about it going out of style in too many years speaks to me. If someone else could use it now, that's a much better fate for it.