31 May Guest Blog: Selling Your Wedding Dress For The Best Returns. By Natalie Churchill
So you have had your big day and your dress is cleaned and boxed and put in the cupboard. Maybe it has been there weeks, months or even years. Each time you open your wardrobe you see it and think about what an amazing day that was. But maybe it is time to declutter your life for a new baby. New house. New life as man and wife.
For many modern and practical brides, selling your wedding dress is not only a sensible idea, but we think, should become regularly accepted practice.
Of course, it is a treasured item, but it is also just a physical object. Selling it doesn’t get rid of your precious memories or remove any of the magic of the big day. It just makes sense sometimes.
Here are our Top Five Reasons why it makes sense that you should sell your wedding dress.
1. Money
This is of course is the big one and the main reason that most people will consider selling their dress. Many brides spend thousands of dollars on their dress and even though they look amazing on the day and create many wonderful memories, a wedding dress is an expensive purchase.
Life rolls on after the big day, and expensive undertakings will continue to crop up. You might be trying to buy or renovate a home together. You could be expecting your first child and trying to get by on one income. Maybe you don’t fit into it anymore. We all have clothes like that!
There is something you will never use in your closet that is worth possibly thousands of dollars.
Selling your wedding dress is starting to sound a bit more sensible now…Isn’t it?
If you list your dress online, you could recoup up to 50% of what you paid for the dress. A website like ours, www.onlydreamdresses.com only charges you a small fee of $19.90 to upload your dress for sale.
2. Declutter Your Home and Free Up Some Space
Wedding dresses can take up a lot of space. Especially if you wore a dress with lots volume. Yes you can shrink them down a bit into a box or bag, but they still do take up that valuable space in the wardrobe or cupboard that every women needs.
You might be doing a big declutter (have you seen Marie Kondo’s show on Netflix yet? It is the BOMB!) or making room to build a nursery or home office.
3. You Want To Share The Love
Maybe you just want to share the love and feeling you had in your dress with someone else. You might subscribe to the whole ‘If you love something, set it free,’ philosophy.
If you really adore your beautiful gown, why not let it continue to live and breathe and make new wedding dreams come true?
I think this is a lovely thing to do and at Only Dream Dresses, we are all about sharing the dream with someone else.
Green, minimalist and eco-friendly brides will also love the idea of recycling their gorgeous dress, and not just creating yet another possession in their lives.
4. Trends Change. So Sell It While It Is HOT!!
As with every fashion item, trends change.
If you have chosen a wedding dress that is very definitely on point this season, it may go out of style by the time next season rolls around.
But there is no reason not to be spot on trend with your gown, as long as you sell your dress as soon after your wedding as possible. That way you have more chance of selling it quickly and at a good price.
If your dress is still on a rack in a shop for full price there will be people out there that have tried it on and would love to buy yours pre-loved because it is that fraction cheaper.
5. Clear Out Those Memories
Unfortunately, not all marriages have a happy ending.
Selling a wedding dress is sometimes a person’s way of cleaning out those memories that they would like to forget, and this is okay too. Every dress owner and every dress has a different journey.
We know that selling your wedding dress is not for everyone. Just as wearing a preloved wedding dress doesn’t suit everyone either. We know that the gown may have sentimental value for you, or you may just not be ready to let it go.
But if the reasons are starting to sound a little bit sensible to you, it might be time to check out our website.
Written by Natalie Churchill | Only Dream Dresses
Natalie Churchill is the founder and owner of Only Dream Dresses, an Australian wide online marketplace for pre-loved wedding dresses. Like many brides, Natalie experienced the desire to wear a beautiful designer gown on her wedding day but didn’t want to spend the earth in doing so. So the idea of purchasing or hiring a pre-loved wedding dress was formed. Only Dream Dresses specialises in creating a service that personal, cost effective and efficient.
Only Dream Dresses is due to launch for business in the next few weeks.
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