Selling a Wedding Dress

dondo

Hi all

My wife and I are going to sell her wedding dress and was wondering what experience anyone had- good websites etc.

My cousin recently had a good experience of selling hers on e-bay but I know there are more specialist sites for the selling of wedding dresses

Any advice much appreciated

D

Justie

don't expect to get anywhere near the amount you paid for it... ebay is good but if you sell it through a local dress exchange you get half of what's paid so it's not very much as they're already about a third of what you'll have paid for it. You'll also have to pay for cleaning it before you sell it which isn't cheap.

Sus1e

I think there is a website called preloved which specialises in selling 2nd hand wedding dresses........

I would ask the chat forums on Confetti.co.uk as some of the ladies on there have bought and sold dresses over the web so will be able to advise.

Rachie_B

i would try ebay first with a reserve on it or BIN

also try https://www.1stcallforweddings.co.uk

also the for sale boards on https://www.hitched.co.uk and https://www.confetti.co.uk

purplepatch

Rachie_B wrote:

also try www.1stcallforweddings.co.uk

I sold mine through these people. £1800 dress (pre mse days *sigh*) and I netted about £700 in the end. It took a long time to sell, but the day that cheque arrived in the post completely out of the blue was a good one

mummytomoo&roo

My sister sold hers on ebay.

It was her second wedding so she had bought a second hand dress but she got back more than she paid for it.

I bought mine 10 years ago for over £500 but i'd be lucky to get £50 for it now so it sits up in the attic in the hope that one day I will lose the baby weight and get back into it!!!

littlejaffa

i'd strongly recommend https://www.hitched.co.uk and https://www.confetti.co.uk i bought alot of things for my wedding their, and put alot of my things on their after our wedding, you get decent prices, there's no fee to post, if you don't get the price you want you don't have to sell and very often people will come and collect so there's no postage costs either.

and if it doesn't sell you've not lost anything and can go with e-bay etc later.

jo_b_2

dondo wrote:

My cousin recently had a good experience of selling hers on e-bay but I know there are more specialist sites for the selling of wedding dresses

Any advice much appreciated

D

Some of these previous threads about selling wedding dresses might give you some ideas:

Selling a Wedding Dress on eBay

Refurbishing Wedding Dress for Sale

Advice about Wedding Dress

Hope that helps.

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dondo

Thanks to everyone for their advice/tips

One further question- is there any particularly good time of year to sell???

Cheers

D

MrsTinks

I wouldn't have thought so... although if you are selling a summery wedding dress then avoid selling it in the autumn Likewise a wintery style would probably do better a few months before christmas than just as the spring buds appear (unless it's a forward thinking bride that buys it...) I am hoping to put off buying my dress as far as possible as I am trying to loose weight. So as I have 14 months to pick a dress I intend on start looking about 6 months before the wedding as I want to find it and then order it from the US - made to measure.