Anyone else thinking of selling Wedding Dress after the Wedding??

I don't think I could! I know I won't be doing much with it after the wedding, but it is MY dress dammit ?

I was going to sell mine but to be honest I just could not let it go. It is hanging up in my loft in the dress bag and I love having a little peek at it even after 8 years of marriage.

o I dont think i could part with mine! I'll wait til after the big day to make that decision finally but i really think itl be kept for ever! Im a bit of a sentimantal old sod!

Thats how im feeling ladies but its a lot of money to just be sat there doing nothing my mum had hers made into mine and my brothers Christening gowns which i think is a lovely idea,

I suppose my heart says keep it but my sensible head says sell it let someone else have the use of it, it is a gorgeous dress that cost an arm and a leg for which i am gratefull to my dad for buying.

k x

I'd love to say I will be selling mine, & making back some of the fortune spent on it, but I'm really sentimental. Going to have to wait & see. Maybe if I was offered enough ££ for it, I wouldn't find it so difficult?

my mum bought mine and i dont think she would want me to sell it! She still has hers!

Thanks for the comments ladies were all a sentimental soppy bunch by the looks of it!!!

K x

I am so soppy with things like this - i just can't imagine selling it.

However, we do want to starting trying for a baby a year after the wedding and so i think i will keep it until then and see how we are financially. It'll be like a rainy day account i guess. It's a v expensive Ian Stuart so i should still get a fair bit for it on Bay of E even in a year or so.

Autumn Rose - Date Twinnie and now a dress twinnie to im a fellow Ian Stuart dress which one have you got? Mines Sancerre...

I will be selling mine but only for the simple reason that i am terrible with tolerating clutter. If something isn't used or worn i just throw or send to oxfam. I jst know that is what my beautiful dress will become to me. Although saying that i stillhave my little ones christening outfits 3 years on and will probably keep their flower girl/page boy outfits.

I'm very sentimental when it comes to them, but not so much myself.

My friend sold hers on ebay and managed to recoup 80% of what she paid for it.

Im not sure i could either, which i know is silly because you never wear it again, but to be honest the second hand ones ive seen have been so cheap, if you are unsure about selling i wouldnt because it seems you really cant expect to get much money for them! women are very attatched to the idea of THEIR perfect dress, i think that applies before and after, people do not want to part with their dress, and often they do not want somebody elses either!

Ill be selling mine.

What the hell are you all going to do with yours after the day?

I know what will happen if i keep mine - it will just get dumped in a black sack in the garage and rot!

Id rather get some money back on it and treat my good old mum as she is the one paying for it!

Fortuna - great minds think alike and all that.... :-p I adore all his dresses!!!!

Shoegal - That would be me ill stick mine in the loft and forget about it seems such an awfull waste of money....

Autumn Rose - Oh lovely

I think i am decided then that i will consider putting it up for sale anyone reccomend any sites or tips / price etc?

Mines an Ian Stuart Sancerre size 8 approximately fully made to measure

http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/docs/4.cat_sancerre.html

All in Ivory with Mettalic lace i had the back altered to be a lace up back instead of buttons.

K x

Sancerre is GORGOUS!!!!!!! i'm not tall or slim enough to pull that off but i LOVE it :-)

I'm definitely going to keep mine as a rainy day fund i think!!!

I don't think anyone will want to buy mine by the time I've finished with it, lol. I'm going for a full on trash the dress shoot after and my photographer has some really good venues in mind for it so I think it really will be trashed. If I'm spending hundreds of pounds on a dress I'm gonna bloomin well enjoy it!!

Vebec - thats a great idea wedding dress cocktail parties lol it could be a Hitched reunion lol!!!