Weddingbee Blog

I am already debating whether or not to sell my wedding dress. I know a lot of bees before me have contemplated selling their wedding dresses (such as Mrs. Fro Yo and Mrs. Cowboy Boot). I don’t intend on wearing it again, and I am personally a huge fan of the eBay recycling system when I no longer have an interest in clothes. So why not my dress? Let’s weigh up the pros and cons for selling the dress:

Pros:

• Additional cash we could use to buy air conditioning or something much more useful than a dress I can’t wear?
• No dress taking up vast amounts of space in the ever dwindling space of our apartment.

Cons:

• No dress to pass down to a daughter/grandaughter or anyone.
• I wouldn’t be able to participate in wedding-dress pub crawls.
• I wouldn’t have anything to wear to a white-ball-gown party.
• I couldn’t do a trash the dress in my wedding dress.

OK, so a few of those cons aren’t really cons; the only disadvantage that I can see to selling my dress is that I won’t be able to pass it down to my children. It really would have been nice if my mum still had her dress. I wouldn’t have worn it, but I could have had a piece of it sewn into my dress, tied some of it around my bouquet, etc. Alas, my mum had actually rented her dress.

So, I thought I had the perfect solution—sell the dress, restore and keep the veil for prosperity?

Until I discovered an almighty rip in my veil. So now back to plan A—keep dress. I have just dropped off my dress to have it drycleaned and boxed! I was figuring that way it will be in perfect condition if I do decide to sell it in a year or two. So, in other words, I am still on the fence but taking the steps to ensure that I still have both options!