A wedding dress, revisited
Authorized pre-owned never-worn wedding gown. Would you bite?
Way back before my wedding and before I even found my perfect dress that I LOVED, I was in New York City for a weekend and wandered into RK Bridals and I found a great Maggie Sottero gown that fit me perfectly, and, it was on sale. So, I did what any engaged gal would do in that situation: I bought the dress.
Then, the next month I went shopping in Florida, where my wedding was going to be held and of course I found a dress, THE DRESS, MY DRESS. And I bought it.
In my defense, the dresses were both extremely low priced, both were just under $500. Which is great, unless you have two dresses and need to sell one of them.
Which brings me to this past week: I left my gorgeous unworn gown at a local bridal shop that sells on consignment. The dress has very classic lines, delicate beading, a chapel train and should fit a very real average sized body.
So now I wait hoping the gown will sell and I will make $337.50, my share of the consignment fee. Given the depreciation expected I will be quite pleased to get my check and since I bought that dress with my money, before our finances were merged, I just might go out and buy myself something to fit my recently baby-ravaged ill-fitted body.
If my dress doesn’t sell in ten months, the amount of time allowed in the consignment contract, I might consider selling it on Ebay or Craigslist, but I much prefer to lose a few dollars and have the professionals fix it up and snip the stray strings for me.
Sometimes it all does work out.
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