Wedding gown snark

[sillygoosegirl]

Okay, so while the sentiment behind these women wanting to donate their wedding gowns to Hurricane Katrina victims is certainly noble... but I must say these young women seem completely out of touch to me.

I mean, yeah, maybe YOU spent $3000 on your wedding dress, but do you know what made that dress worth more than the $50 to $100 dresses you find at second hand stores? It's the fact that YOU picked it out yourself and it was exactly the dress YOU wanted. Once that dress gets donated to some random bride-to-be refugee, it's just going to be another $50 to $100 random white dress that wasn't what she wanted. And she probably isn't even going to have a place to store it, let alone a clean place. It seems like a bigger contribution to the relief effort could be made by selling the dress on ebay (or maybe the engagement ring--ah, sacrilege!) and donating the proceeds to the Red Cross.

Of course, there's some sort of culture of wedding dresses that I just completely fail to understand in the first place... like, if you didn't want to keep it, why did you buy it instead of renting one or borrowing one?

Comments

[lizzie.livejournal.com]

I think it's ludicrous to be worrying about wedding dresses right now to begin with. There are people dying of dehydration and starvation, people who have lost all their possessions and their family members... having a damn wedding dress is probably the least of their worries right now. There are much more important things than weddings. You know, like staying alive.