re: $1,631: Average wedding dress cost in U.S.

Weddings are big business. It's dumb to pay all that money, but for the people who provide wedding related products or services, it's a gold mine.

I did research on a tux rental business a few years ago. There is some money to be made. I would imagine there is even more to be made in wedding dresses.

A wedding dress isn't a clothing purchase, it is an emotional purchase. And I am keeping mine because while I don't think my girls would want to ever wear it, it is a symbol of the event that joined their father and me and was the start of the road to them. Something I can pull out and while we laugh over the outdated style, we also bond over the story of their parents coming together and dreams of their own day.

Only paid $400 for mine but I can see where brides get sucked into the emotional vortex and spend way more.

Im getting married in a month, and I am disgusted with the amount of money we are blowing on this stupid party. Love my soon to be wife, but frick this wedding nonsense. We will never see a dime of this money again.

Shut veils cost almost as much as dress do. They are insane!

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My wife bought a used one for $150.

Then re-sold it online after the wedding for $75.

I love her.

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$175 and $150 here, it was an "in-vogue" one at that. Sounds like you picked an awesome woman

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$10K, $20K, $30K or more.

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Sounds like that hearing aid commercial where thr old man says: "$3,000..... $6,000..... whatever they can get away with"