Would you spend $26,000 on a wedding dress?
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (44554)
Staten Island, New York
August 19, 2019 2:54pm CST
I saw someone on FB was selling her wedding dress.
Don't remember what she was selling the dress for, and if she even mentioned the price, but the person said she originally paid $26,000 for it.
Wow! That is just crazy!
Even if you can afford it, why waste so much money on something you will only wear once?
That makes absolutely no sense to me.
My wedding dress with alterations was close to $2,000 and even that is too much I think.
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15 responses
@LindaOHio (178869)
• United States
19 Aug 19
To each his own; but I would never spend that much. My beautiful dress was under $200 and was the Bride's Magazine cover dress from the year before.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
Now that's a bargain. I didn't wanna spend the almost 2K for mine but couldn't find anything cheaper that I liked.
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@LindaOHio (178869)
• United States
19 Aug 19
@lovebuglena This was in 1970 BUT to go to a salon and pick out a dress at the time was a minimum of $1,000 which I thought for that time very expensive. I got mine at J C Penney.
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
@LindaOHio JC Penny sold wedding dresses?
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Aug 19
mine cost 25 bucks.used.
it was still beautiful.
people that spend that kind of cash on a dress are nuts.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
21 Aug 19
@lovebuglena i was able to customize it myself.
i worked as a costumer for several years.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Aug 19
No matter the price I would never wear a wedding dress that someone else wore. But a dress for $25 is unheard of. You got lucky.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
My wedding cost us probably $63K or so, not counting the dress. But parents paid. Mine gave 30K and his gave 30K. And my mom paid for the dress. The rest was on us.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
@NJChicaa Hubby made a mistake and guaranteed 200 guest minimum. Only 150 or so showed up but we had to pay for 200 anyway.
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@NJChicaa (119651)
• United States
19 Aug 19
@lovebuglena no way we were way more low-key. Ours cost about $14,000.
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
How many guests did you have?
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
@porwest Wow! That's cheap but then maybe when you got married that was considered a lot.
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@porwest (91089)
• United States
19 Aug 19
@lovebuglena 75-100. But that included pretty much everything.
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Aug 19
I agree. It is definitely a waste of money. And unless you are married and plan to renew your vows you won't wear the dress again...
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@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
20 Aug 19
@lovebuglena It really is. And I'm really happy with it.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
That's a very good price.
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
It is crazy to waste money like that. I wonder what made her dress that expensive aside from the obvious markup? Were there diamonds or crystals in it?
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
Eight times? 
Liz Taylor couldn't buy her own dress? 
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@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
@db20747 I am not familiar with her dress. And wow! That is way too much money.
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@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
19 Aug 19
@lovebuglena people magazine said Versace donated the yellow lace dress which would have costed around 75,000 dollars!! Do u remember her yellow three layer lace dress?
@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
19 Aug 19
I do not see why people would spend that much for a dress. With that much money; a person can make a good down payment on a house.
@Michellekidwell (29423)
• Sonora, California
19 Aug 19
No, not when I could buy a car or put a down payment on s house for that cost!
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
19 Aug 19
That is very smart. I now think that spending tens of thousands on a wedding could be put to much better use. Like you said down payment on a house or maybe traveling the world...
@aureategloom (9649)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
4 Sep 19
i don't think so. i don't want to give much money for something i'm going to wear just once. my mom didn't buy a wedding dress, she bought elegant skirt and shirt and she wore that on some other events too + invested money in our family. i think that's much better than giving so much money on a dress.
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Sep 19
A skirt and a top can work as well but it is much harder to find a skirt and a top that really go together than to find a dress.
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@lin0775 (124)
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20 Aug 19
That's a crazy price even if in the U.S, it doesn't make sense to common people.
@lovebuglena (44554)
• Staten Island, New York
20 Aug 19
I also think it's crazy to spend thousands on flowers that will go to waste...
@marguicha (223129)
• Chile
30 Aug 19
That is a lot to pay. Maybe that could have helped towards the down payment of a first house. I don´t know. My mother made my wedding gown (not a long one) and I was perfectly happy. I was marrying the man, not the dress.
