Rent your Wedding Dress | A Top 2022 Trend
It's long been a tradition for grooms to rent their suits, but budget, eco-conscious, and designer brides are now taking up the mantle. Strongly entering into 2022, one of the top wedding trends is to rent your wedding dress. This can be very helpful for the bride on a budget, who is looking to reduce their wedding costs, or for the designer bride who wants to rent a high-end designer gown for a fraction of the cost of buying. Either way, you don't need the waiting time you would for a dress to be made-to-order, and dry cleaning costs are usually included! Just make sure that the dress doesn’t get damaged throughout the night, or have a different outfit for the reception, as this will insure that the dress will be returned in the same way as you received it.
Cost of Renting a Wedding Dress
Depending on where you rent from, you could end up saving thousands of dollars on a dress. You can typically rent wedding dresses for as little as about $50-$600, but they can also cost much less or more depending on the dress and rental company. On the more expensive end, designer gowns rent for a fraction of their purchase price, anywhere from $500 to $2,000 is common.
Carrie Symonds, a British activist, and conservationist, made headlines when she married Boris Johnson, predominantly for her rented wedding dress. She wore a Christos Costarellos-designed ivory tulle and silk gown that retails at $3,000, but was rented for just $65.00. Wow! What a way to get the exact style that you desire, but at a fraction of the price.
Keep in mind, that if you are looking to pass down your dress from generation to generation, or want to keep it as a keep sake, this option probably isn’t for you, but if you are looking to only have the dress for the ‘day of’, then this is an exciting option to consider.