THRIFTING MY WEDDING DRESS 

I had a second marriage at age 52 I knew I did not want a WHITE "cake topper" wedding dress, but I also did not want a suit or a cocktail dress. I looked EVERYWHERE and was will ing to pay a lot of money for the right dress. NOTHING.... NADA... NOPE... I was in a Goodwill and my son spotted a dress on display. IT was everything I was looking for! It turned out to be my size.. I tried it on and it was perfect. It was tea length (just above my ankles) Ecru lace, empire waist, The only thing I tweeked were the sleeves that were originally floppy and loose. I gathered the fabric into a puffed sleeve and it worked out great. The Tag said $15.00 and I was ore than happy to pay that. However when I got to the checkout the dress had the Color of the Week tag and I got it for 50% off!! LOL I spent a grand total of $7.50 for my dress!! LOL Everyone loved the dress!

I thrifted my wedding dress! It was a new dress, the thrift shop was located across from a bridal shop and they brought the floor models over there. So no one ever wore the dress I bought! It had a long train and so I took it across the street to the original bridal shop and had them hem the train off and tailor it to me. Total cost with tailoring was under $150! The dress was originally almost 2k.

there's something so much more special about watching someone try on thrifted wedding dresses. I don't know why, it's just so sweet to me

I was engaged and shopping at goodwill, and was not at all looking for my wedding dress I was just shopping and came across my perfect dress it fit my body perfectly I didnt need to get it altered at all.. I tried it on and all these people in the store was telling me how gorgeous it looked!! but I know God sent me my man then my dress...it was only $100!!!!Its been 7 years since I got married and I love my hubby more then ever and I still love that wedding dress!!❤

I thrifted my wedding dress pattern and then had a friend make me the dress. I bought the fabric and total spent was $25 as my friend gifted me the labor to have the dress made. There are definitely thrifty ways to have a custom wedding dress ❤

I think the second dress would have been AMAZING if the shower cap sleeves were either removed completely, or altered into more of like a mini cap sleeve maybe?

Thrift wedding dress prices are amazing!!!!!!! Get dat bang for yo buck!!!!

The second dress was really pretty on you! its probably cheap enough to get the shower caps removed and sleeves added. Perhaps made out of the extra train material?

Aim for a 70's thrifted dress tasha. Can't wait to see what you pick

That last one is lovely, kind of reminds me of my mums wedding dress, she married dad in 76 and that style was ALLL the rage; very floaty and ethereal!

I think thrifting a wedding gown is so awesome! You can find vintage. Also, alterations can always be done. Oh please keep looking it’s so cool.

The last dress was my favorite. You seem to really like the mesh hi neck dresses, but honestly, if the last one would have fit, I think if you cut the mesh upper part, staying only with the lower neckline, it would haved looked amazing on you! And yes for a wedding dress thrifting series!!!

I thrifted my wedding dress. $15 for a dress originally from the 80s, short and flowy, thick lace that hung well and didn't make me worry about flying away, sleeves to my elbows which covered the area that made me the least comfortable about gaining weight before my wedding. I didn't know what I wanted, but it was so comfortable and easy to wear, and that was everything that I wanted. And I wanted used for environmental and economical reasons, so it ticked all the boxes.

I got married last year and when I went to the dress shop to try on dresses I thought I knew exactly what I wanted but I ended up falling in love with one that wasn’t what I thought would suit me. I also wasn’t bothered about a train or veil but once I’d put the veil on and the train was laid out properly I was speechless. My veil went down my back not over my face and was cathedral length. The photos of my dress and veil laid out look stunning. I’d say try on lots of different styles and veils because you might be surprised what you end up loving!!! Plus you’re only doing this once so you might as well go all out!!

Everyone is different but with a train it adds that bridal touch/look to it. My seamstress chopped my train off last min without telling me and I just really wish I had that train. Also once the ceremony is over, you can bussle the train so it doesn't drag anymore.

I loved the first one if it had fitted : (. The simple off shoulder style looked amazing on you and that cuff detail ....WOW...

I absolutely love the 4th dress. It just didn’t fit right but it’s what I see you wearing. Something hippiish.

OMG HECK YES! Man I saw a wedding dress on $1 Thursday at goodwill and its just crazy what a great price you can get!

I used to work at Rue de Seine and their trains all have dancing loops so you can hold the train or put it round your wrist while you dance, plus it's so your style! 🌹 I definitely hope you continue this series though, you never know what you might find!

Desi is gorgeous and her bone structure is EVERYTHING!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I thrifted my wedding dress and it was perfect!!! It was a high necked crocheted bodiced, and chiffon 1960's gown. It fit my vintage style and my size perfectly!!! It was $16.00 at St. Vincent de Paul's Peterborough (now Vinne's), in 1996. No regrets, whatsoever!!!

The train you can add loops or buttons to the back to hold the train During reception also, the sleeves can be taken off and turned into a more likable sleeve like a flutter sleeve or a cap sleeve

You’re literally glowing.... I love you.... we stan an engaged thrifting queen 🙌🏼

In AZ there’s a nonprofit bridal boutique that sells used dresses and the money combats local sex trafficking and exploitation. If any of you are looking for a used dress, you should check them out! They have an Etsy shop with beautiful vintage dresses if you don’t live anywhere near Tucson AZ. They’re called Free Ever After!!!!

Loved this vid!! and Desi looks like Jessi Smiles hahha!

My sister had a summer wedding. She got her wedding dress at a department store, it was a sundress but it was all white and lacy and she only spent 30 dollars on it. I definitely think that you dont have to spend hundreds of dollars on a dress that you're going to wear once. Thrifting dresses is great!

Just so you know, pretty much all dresses with trains get a bustle added to them which is like a pretty little way to pick it up and clip it to the back so you don’t have to worry about it getting dirty, stepping on it, dancing or anything else. So don’t rule out a train because it’s impractical because you can just clip it up and you have a normal length dress! And it looks gorgeous walking down the aisle and for photos

Whether you find something or not, this is such a good process to find out what you like! Better than with the new because you get more critical less willing to settle !

*i love this series*

Love that you're so open minded about thrifting a dress!

You will look so cool and beautiful in a flowing, boho style vintage dress, with flowers in your hair.......I'm sure with your eye you will find a unique, beautiful thrifted dress. Really fun video, can't wait for more x

i want these rose chairs you´re sitting on at the beginning

Love this idea! I think you would definitely succeed in vintage shops that specialize in dresses but I love this more challenging approach. Love that last one so much, I wonder what would happen if you take it to be tailored and have the top turned into a Bardot neckline.

And I’m over here thinking 🤔 💭 I wonder who the bride was? And I envision her day and everything …………I have no life😂

I bought my wedding dress for my vow renewal for $1 on a Thursday at goodwill. My niece loves say yes to the dress and we bought her 3 dresses new with tags for $7 each. One had a tag for $679

SERIES PLS love seeing two besties thrift!

I'm not even close to being married so I've never needed to look for one, but I once found a beautiful lace dress in a thrift store and literally just bought it on the spot! it doesn't fit me perfectly but I'm planning on using the top part of it (it's a long sleeve, high neck lace overlay that reaches my waist, so it's fairly easily removable) over my actual dress and then I want to use the lace train as my veil as well 😍

Most trains have a small silk wristlet that you can put on your wrist and it hold the entire train up. I had one on my wedding dress and when you're holding it it makes it look effortless and like your train was never there

Just to make sure there aren't misconceptions on the wedding dress train, or the material that drags on the floor and flows behind some wedding dresses: Many wedding dresses have trains. You can get them removed by a tailor. HOWEVER, if you go to a wedding dress tailor or a competent dress tailor, they bustle the train, which means they create a system for the dress that allows the train to be long and ceremonial during the wedding ceremony (the moment when the bride walks towards the groom at the altar and says her vows). The bustle then ties up the train and creates this really pretty bunched or pleated pattern in the back so that the train doesn't drag on the floor anymore or get in the way while you are dancing. Many wedding dresses, my own included, have this feature, so having a train isn't a compromise between having a dirty dress and not being able to dance. Usually during the moment when you are walking to the altar, you would have your entourage or bridesmaids help you maneuver the train over any areas that would get it dirty if there are any. If you are in an indoor venue this isn't usually an issue. Then your bridesmaids bustle the train and put the dress into the party form that allows you to dance! This is also when brides take of their veils, as obviously veils could often get in the way of dancing and are also usually only used for the ceremony.

Even new dresses have to be altered and hemmed. So don't let that throw you when you are picking out a dress.. also you can have a train, they make a button loop, or a bustle that you hook the train to after the wedding, so that the train is tucked up and the hemline is even, so you aren't dragging it around. It's super easy to deal with, and most dresses (especially second hand) will already have the pick-up built in, you just have to find it.. Good luck with the dress shopping. ;)

So excited about this, I think it's amazing that you're doing this! Really hope that you find a thrifted wedding dress that you love 💛

My Niece thrifted hers, had a seamstress work on it and she was magnificent in it!

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I actually really freaking love that first wedding dress!

I love the idea of a thrifted wedding dress. The last dress was my favorite but with the sleeves from a fashion perspective you have two sleeves going on and it doesn't look great. Tasha if you were to go with the bell sleeve(witch would be totally you) I would remove the cuff sleeve so that the bell would be free and flowy or if you went with a tight aline sleeve I would remove the bell because the double sleeve right now isn't working . I would also take the neck line down to under the caller bone. That's what I would do if I was styling a custom wedding dress for you out of that one

With some sewing or the help of a seamstress some of those would be stunning. You want it tailored to fit your body perfectly. With a train you walk the Isle with that and for the reception you have it bustled, a seamstress can do that and it looks amazing. Mine was bustled.

The second choice minus the sleeves and a material ring strategically placed on the triangle so it hooks on a finger to walk and dance. Good luck!

Those dresses with big puffy shoulders are 80’s dresses not 70’s dresses. The last dress is a seventies dress.

Sooo. Fun💕 can’t wait to see what you pick! 😊

Omg those chairs y’all are sitting on in the beginning!!! I wish my thrift stores have this good of stuff

3:15 that's the same dress I wore for my wedding 🤣 looking back now, I wish I hadn't done strapless lol.

I love the off shoulder and sleeves on the first dress! Suits you very well

I have a friend of mine who bought a wedding dress at goodwill on impulse one day! Her and her husband didn’t have the big white wedding they just had a couple witnesses and were married by her father in his church! The idea is to surprise her husband and have the big white wedding they didn’t get to have before

Yes please to making a series of wedding dress shopping videos!

I thrifts my wedding dress and had to revamp it to make it more modern. I loved the second dress. If you took the sleeves off that dress would be so unique.

Honestly I didn’t hate your pick!!! I think if the sequins and beading was removed on the actual dress and the sleeves were changed to be long lace it would look amazing!

The fourth dress was amazing on you and so you loved it♥♥♥

You look beautiful 😭😭💕💕

I loveeeee The 2nd dress!!! With alterations it would be bomb!!!

You seriously look so beautiful in all of the dresses!!! I love the long sleeves and the sheer neckline a lot!

Your looking so beautiful your wedding I know will just be perfect.

Not sure if there everywhere but in AZ we have a goodwill that just sells formal wear/wedding dresses.

Yes! Love this! Please do more! 😍

Just last Saturday I went to a Goodwill I hadn't been to in years and found a STUNNING Maggie Sottero wedding dress 😍 I couldn't believe it! It was only $10!! It was altered for a size 2-4 from a size 8 so I didnt buy it but my gosh it was beautiful! Loved this video!! I love to thrift shop, I call it "treasure hunting"😂

I got my dress from a wedding dress consignment shop! Can’t wait to wear it in a month!!

I love this!! Can't wait for the next one!

Lots of weddings dresses there at your thrift stores here therr usually 1 or 2 per store or zero

I work at a wedding dress shop and what most people dont realize is that almost every single wedding gown has to be altered to fit the bride properly, even when you are buying your size. If you are buying a thrifted dress you'd probably just have to do more alterations, like not only hemming the dress to the correct length but also removing the sleeves you dont like and replacing them with ones that you do!

I wished I had found my wedding dress at a thrift store. But , I mostly just found 80s styles. I finally found my wedding dress on line from freepeople. I hope you find your dream wedding dress.

I see you with. Shock of color, like a pop of sunflower or something. Exciting to try.

Your hair is gorgeous💗

I'm so jealous because I think that this dress is absolutely beautiful.

One way you can "thrift" a wedding dress is to find a dress you like and look for the same or similar dresses in sample sales or on second hand dress sites and ebay. It might not be super cheap but it will be less expensive than boutique prices.

I loved this!!

I think the off the shoulder design looked really good

I actually got my wedding dress off of Etsy just based off photos. Thankfully it fit! I made a few alterations, and it was my dream dress! Plus you couldn't beat a $150 wedding dress :)

This content is golddddd

There are 2 GORGEOUS wedding dresses at a thrift store near me that I want so bad and I just wanna buy both of them and keep them for the future haha

The beaded neck lines and the mesh dress that looked like skin is a definite on you it really looked nice

OoooooOooo I love this !

Trains usually have a wrist strap toput on that picks the train up to dance

Haha hitting up my local goodwill! Never thought I'd see that one on RU-vid!

That second one tho 🤩🤩🤩

I subscribed to keep up with these! Love the idea of thrifting one

I love this!

Yaaaay girl!!!!! You are both so gorgeous and lovely women!!!! My daughter graduates from grade 8 next year and she hopes to thrift her dress too!!!! Come down to london and thrift with us !!! Lol xoxooxoxox

I actually love the second dress 😂 i would lower the sweetheart neckline a bit and remove the sleeves !

yes more like these please

You can always bustle your train for walking and dancing ❤️

the second dress was so beautiful im shookend

Loved this

I thrifted my wedding dress. I got a $1600 dress for $600. I didn’t really have that much to spend but my husband took me to find the dress. And he picked it and said that’s the one and he paid for it. I had not thought about that in a while. So glad I married my best friend. In the many years we have been married we has never had a cross word. Love him so much. I wish you that kind of happiness. Leslye

Love this!☺️🧡

I was kinda bummed you didn't buy the last one to maybe create your own with mulitiple dresses.

Thrifted mine off Etsy :-) I loooove it

Hi! LOVE your channel and content. and YOU! I am a frequent, seasoned thrifter... 11 years now! That is more than half of my life! I have thrifted my wedding dresses already! I'm not engaged and am not getting married anytime soon. (I sound crazy, I know) But I've often purchased formal dresses from thrift stores, without having an event to attend. I've always ended up wearing the dress(es)! So I've come across two wedding dresses within the past two years that I couldn't pass up and I KNOW there will be a lucky person to marry me in them ;) I just wanted to share that there's hope in your mission to thrift a dress to marry in! Excited to see your outcome! :)

I love the idea of getting a thrifted dress then getting it changed at a dressmaker and made exactly what you want

Yes keep doing it!!!

I had a train and tailoring adds buttons so you can pull the train up and it’s not in the way.

I think the first one would’ve been really pretty fun it actually fit