Tips for Selling Your Used Bridal dress

For some people, wedding dresses are heirlooms that needs to be kept in the family for future generations to wear and revel in. But not all brides feel this way. Many young brides choose not to wear their mother''s or grandmother''s wedding dresses because they are so obsolete, so there is no guarantee your bridal dress will ever be taken again. For some people, wedding dresses are heirlooms that needs to be kept in the family for future generations to wear and revel in. But not all brides feel this way.

Many young brides choose not to wear their mother''s or grandmother''s wedding dresses because they are so obsolete, so there is no guarantee your bridal dress will ever be taken again. Furthermore, many brides see their bridal dress as a large expense for something they will never wear again. Selling your used bridal dress is a great way to reclaim at least part of that expense. Brides can be pretty particular about their wedding dresses, though.

 Many brides are superstitious about engaged and getting married in a dress that someone else has used for the same purpose, especially when the other marriage didn''t work out. (The same principle will additionally apply to dresses that were purchased and then never used because the wedding was called off. )#) Here are a few tips for successfully selling your used bridal dress.

 1) Make sure your bridal dress is clean. There is nothing worse than buying a used bridal dress that has the aroma of someone else -- or has stains from their wedding still on it! Before you sell your bridal dress, take it to a dry cleaner that focuses on wedding dresses and other heirlooms. You want to be sure you take it to someone you can trust to do a good job. You can keep them remove any stains and give clothing a general cleaning, and then keep it in the box or bag so that it will still smell fresh and clean for the new owner.

   

2) Leave out an individual can details. Making it into as impersonal of a business transaction as possible will help you when selling your used bridal dress. If a bride-to-be is thinking of buying a used dress, it is usually to save money or to get a style that is no longer available new. But she doesn''t want to know that after you bought clothing, your fiancé split up with you. If the marriage didn''t last, and you can market clothing because you never want to lay eyes on it again, that''s even worse!

A good woman who is not usually superstitious can bashful away from buying a "tainted" bridal dress. Instead, treat the transaction the way a consignment shop would: a professional sale with very little personal details as possible. Take pictures of the dress on a mannequin, or plan photos that look as professional as possible. It''s okay to harvest the model''s head out of the photo. What you may do, though, don''t use your own wedding pictures, and make sure your photos don''t look like wedding photos either. You will want prospective buyer to be able to see herself in the dress when she talks about your pictures.

 3) Have reasonable expectations for price. One of the biggest mistakes former brides make when selling their wedding dresses is hoping to receive too much of the dress''s original price. If you bought your gown new, you're paying new prices, plus the markup that any boutique has to make in order to pay their cost to do business and still turn a profit. Not only are you not a business, but you are no longer selling a new dress.

Even if you never used clothing, you cannot rationalize the same price as what you paid. Selling your used bridal dress can be kind of tricky, because there are a lot of superstitions that claim to foretell how successful the marriage will be. Think of the rhyme, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. inch Believe it or not, many brides still adhere to these old superstitions, so it is important to be aware of them when selling your gown!