Selling Your Wedding Dress: Pricing, Photographs and Timing
How to price a gown that sells, photograph it properly, and get it out of your wardrobe within weeks.
The dress hanging in a garment bag is not sentimental storage — it is depreciating. Gowns listed within twelve months of the wedding sell fastest and highest.
Price it honestly
A once-worn, professionally cleaned designer gown from a current or recent collection typically sells at 45–60% of retail. Older collections, altered hems and unlabelled dresses sit closer to 25–40%. Search completed listings for your designer and style name before you set a number.
Photograph it like a product, not a memory
Buyers need eight images: full front and back on a hanger against a plain wall in daylight, bodice detail, sleeve or strap detail, the hem, the train, the interior size label, and one wedding-day photograph showing how it moves.
Clean first, disclose everything
Professional cleaning pays for itself several times over. Then disclose every alteration, mark and repair in the description. Undisclosed damage is the single biggest cause of a failed resale.
List it where brides are already looking
Second Vow reaches couples planning weddings across Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta — buyers already shopping for a destination gown. You can submit yours in a few minutes and we handle the listing.
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