{"id":24,"date":"2009-08-10T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-08-10T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T14:26:00","slug":"wedding-dress-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Dress Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image<\/a>I am giving my dress until April 1 to sell. If it doesn\u2019t sell by then, I will start on alterations to be able to wear it in Vegas in October. I\u2019m unhappy with this decision only because I really am regretting my decision to buy it so soon. I love the dress. LOVE IT. But… where it would have been wonderful to stick in a car and drive to Miami, and have time to hang and get the wrinkles out, it will not be wonderful to cram into a bag, fly across the country and wear the next day in Vegas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m wondering just how short I can have the seamstress make it and still look good and just how much it\u2019s going to cost. Steve really doesn\u2019t want me to sell it. He knows how much I love the dress and that it pains me to sell it. I really wish we had made more plans before I rushed out and bought a $700 dress. Grrrr.<\/p>\n

Oh well. I\u2019m clearly not alone with dress regrets. I\u2019ve seen brides all over my blogs buying 2 dresses, or even 3 because they can\u2019t decide what they want. Well, I know the style I want for Vegas and it\u2019s decidedly cheaper then I initially spent. And honestly, it\u2019s not about money in this case. It\u2019s about changed tastes and venues.<\/p>\n

The dress is currently listed on BravoBride.com<\/a> with over 1000 views. I tried CraigsList, but that was a bust. I kept renewing the ad but never even got a nibble. Ebay costs too much for the probable no bids that it\u2019ll get. Even with a reserve price, I\u2019m not guaranteed a purchase. A girlfriend of mine bought her dress and 2 months later listed it on Ebay when she bought another and got no bids the 3 or 4 times she kept relisting it. Annoying!<\/p>\n

What other sites should I be listing it on? Help?<\/p>\n

EDITed to add: Apparently PreOwnedWeddingDress.com<\/a> finally got a clue and opened up their Sell a Dress form to include sizes over, like, 12. When I checked in May, I couldn’t list my dress due to it being larger than their listings. It will be listed as soon as the lovely manager from the Raleigh David’s Bridal<\/a> store mails me a copy of my receipt. She is amazing and I love her, without ever having met her. She dug into their system from 16 months ago to find my receipt and is mailing it to me.<\/p>\n

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I am giving my dress until April 1 to sell. If it doesn\u2019t sell by then, I will start on alterations to be able to wear it in Vegas in October. I\u2019m unhappy with this decision only because I really am regretting my decision to buy it so soon. I love the dress. LOVE IT. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,135,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dress","category-vegas-vows","category-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}