Wedding Dress?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Where are the best places around to shop for a wedding dress? (The relevant tag seems mostly concerned with alterations.)

Um, particularly if one is not of the type who has thought about such things all their life (or, y'know, ever) and thus had no idea how far in advance people expect you to plan and so the event is a little over a month away leaving no time for the apparently usual 2-3 month wait. (Speaking entirely theoretically, of course, because no reasonable person would be in such a situation, right?)

Even better would be great places to rent a dress, because it seems absurd to buy one when I'll only need it the once. (Why is it so much easier to rent a tuxedo, an item whose owner could reasonably wear it time and again?)

Comments

[clara-girl.livejournal.com]

i would second this. they used to have a rack of ~$35 wedding gowns. do they still? we used to raid them for various shows and video shoots :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

This is definitely good to know. I can imagine the possibility of finding some really cool, and even if it needs serious alternation, would still be pretty reasonably priced.

[clara-girl.livejournal.com]

ps: do you know miss tess and/or julie? i bet they would help over there :)

[in-water-writ.livejournal.com]

I love Garment District, and I would entirely agree, except that their stock is going to be fairly Halloween oriented until after Halloween. I def saw a wedding dress in the costume section, but well, it was in the costume section. Hadn't been lovingly treated, it looked like.

Also, they don't buy clothing during the month of October, so they might not have any neat incoming stuff for a bit.

That said, it can't hurt to look, especially if you're considering something non-traditional.