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I Borrowed My Friend’s Wedding Gown and Sold It at a Consignment Shop
In the end, I didn’t even get paid for the dress
My husband and I had a whirlwind wedding.
That makes it sound romantic. It wasn’t.
There was a short period between deciding to get married and actually doing it, and that’s what qualifies it as a whirlwind wedding. Plus, it was hasty and not very well thought out.
I didn’t even have a wedding gown.
Fortunately, my coworker friend had a solution. She was a newlywed and had a like-new wedding dress hanging pristine and available in her closet. It was only taking up room, she said, and I was more than welcome to wear it to my wedding.
She told me I could even alter it to fit me. “It’s not like I’m ever going to wear it again,” she said.
It was a very kind gesture.
She brought the wedding gown to work with her the next morning, and I took it home. The wedding gown hung in my closet while I planned my wedding in a little over one month, which wasn’t enough time to have it altered to fit me.
When my wedding day arrived, I wore a knee-length white party dress with ruffles and shoulder pads. It was awful, and I looked horrible… but it only cost twenty…
