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Buying an economical wedding dress: try the thrift shop!

Thrift store wedding dress find

Thrift store wedding dress find

What a great morning for finding wedding necessities! On my way back from the auto mechanic in Mebane, I stopped first at the Burwell School to take the pictures in the previous post, and then I stopped at the Goodwill.

I buy most of my clothes at the Goodwill and the PTA Thrift Store; certainly that’s where my nicest ones come from. Now that I will be a “mother of the bride,” I’ll start looking for “nice” dresses. I found one for me today (it cost $4.90) but then I saw this! It is on sale for $45 and is completely clean and perfect. The bustle was hung up in a bag to keep it clean.

I saw two other wedding dresses there. Very cost effective! It occurs to me that, seeing as how it takes months for a bridal shop to do alterations on a dress you purchase from them, those months could be better spent dropping in to the consignment store or thrift shop occasionally. You’ll eventually find something fantastic.

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2 Responses to “Buying an economical wedding dress: try the thrift shop!”

  1. Lucy Duncan Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Check out MegaThrift, if you have one close by (it’s a chain). They have tons of formal clothes & shoes, and 50% off sales each week. I like them even better than Goodwill.

  2. jethro Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that! But yesterday at the Goodwill there were TEN WEDDING DRESSES on the rack – clean, undamaged, and $40 each.

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