[goat granny]

In the town I am near is a consignment shop that I have sold things in myself, basically jewelry. The owner has a large room of wedding gowns she gets cheap from bridal shops when they get in new gowns...Very few of them are from consignment...Once a year she even gives a bridal showing in a near by hall for prospective brides. I'll bet she has at least 100 gowns to choose from and they are not expensive. Average about 400 dollars...That is purchased, not rented but still no where near the thousands some women pay....

Eventually I gave my dress to the church to give to a convent to use what material they could to make altar cloth's....

The gowns my bridemaids rented were all the same in different colors and they all agreed on what dress they wanted....

[Tax-chick]

I gave my wedding dress to Goodwill when we moved, I think. I was much thinner by then ;-). I sent my maid-of-honor (my best friend from high school) and my bridesmaid (my cousin) a fabric swatch and said, “Get something in this color - royal blue - that looks good on you.” There wasn’t a dress in the world that would have looked good on both, although we could have gone for something that looked bad on both!