Where to Find Pre-Loved Wedding Dresses
A wedding is simply an exchange of vows to express your commitment to each other for life. It’s not an excuse for big companies to send you into massive debt buying a dress, honeymoon, cake or ring!
So keep your wedding small and simple, throw the bash in the local church hall and have someone you know do the catering, and buy a recycled ring and pretty dress.
Still White is an online marketplace to buy pre-loved wedding dresses (plus dresses for mother-of-the-bride) to avoid spending a fortune on a dress you may wear just once. Once worn, you can then sell it back, for someone else to enjoy.
Some women who have already bought a very expensive wedding dress in the past, use this site to sell it, and use the money to pay for expenses like for a new baby or home deposit. The site has good security measures in place.
Launder synthetic fibres in a microfibre filter, to stop plastics escaping from the washing machine, going into the sea.
Preloved Charity Shop Wedding Dresses
Many charity shops sell preloved wedding gowns. However, only shop at stores that don’t fund animal testing, instead support humane medical research.
KEMP Hospice in Kidderminster (Worcestershire) is a good example of this idea done well. Local brides donate used wedding gowns, and these are then worn again by other brides on their special day.
And profits help to raise funds for the local hospice, which provides care to dying patients. The shop even has a dedicated bridal floor, so you can have a fitting, just like with a traditional bridal shop.
Donate Dresses to Seriously Ill Brides
Wedding Wishing Well Foundation was founded by a young woman, who when diagnosed with cancer, found that their finances did not extend to buying a wedding dress.
Donations to this charity are given to women with life-limiting or terminal illness, so they can wear the wedding dress of their dreams, at no cost.
Turning Dresses into Baby Burial Gowns
Dresses for Angels is a charity, where volunteer seamstresses unpick donated wedding and bridesmaid dresses, and turn them into free burial gowns’ for angel babies, who have gone too soon.
Founded after the sad circumstance of a stillborn child, they can create gowns for babies born sleeping or even from early miscarriage, to full term. Every baby deserves something special, on their journey to Heaven.
