Wedding Dress Consignment | Orlando, FL

1. Qualify and prepare your previously owned bridal gown: How old is it? (three years or newer is preferred); has it been professionally dry cleaned soon after the wedding to prevent permanent stains or fabric discoloration? (unless it’s new-with-tags); is it now in ready-to-wear condition? (with neither damage nor stains); what’s its exact color? (white, ivory, champagne or neutral color, etc.). Be open and honest and completely transparent about its condition from head to toe, noting any blemishes or other issues; and take pictures to support your assessment and dissuade unethical efforts by potential buyers to pay a cheaper price than is warranted for your wedding dress consignment.
2. No need to have the wedding dress preserved if you plan to consign it. That’d be a sunk cost that doesn’t add value to the resell.
3. Schedule an Appointment Online; at which time Orlando, FL-based Great Couture Fashion will carefully inspect your wedding dress, set a realistic and mutually agreed upon asking price and resulting consignment fee (generally 50.0% of the final resale price) and timeframe, and then complete the consignment contract. (NOTE that factors such as the year, size, condition, original/retail price, whether it’s had prior alterations or repairs, style and color are all taken into account to set the initial resale asking price.) Ideally, list the bridal gown for resale within one year of your wedding to take better advantage of potential hot styles at the time.
4. Listings that showcase real brides (you!) are more likely to result in a successful resale due to authenticity and better enabling potential buyers to see how the wedding dress actually fits.
5. Payments, upon the bridal gown being resold: Once your wedding dress resells, you (as the Consignee) will receive the agreed upon percentage payment.

A bridal gown is certainly one of the most important dresses to be carefully selected and proudly worn during a woman’s life; however, a wedding dress can be a very expensive and stressful proposition. Quality and more affordable consignment wedding dresses can help ease such concerns; and customized alterations and repairs can be expertly done by Great Orlando, FL-based Couture Fashion to make it truly your own design.

Moreover, the consignor can take advantage of the consignee’s marketing plan – including the company’s website and social media presence and exposure of having it displayed in the shop. It’s in Great Couture Fashion’s interest to take care of and help promote consigned wedding dresses it represents. Plus, utilize GCF’s secure payment process to handle transactions, all while providing a budget-friendly means for new brides to shop for and benefit from gently used bridal gowns at a fraction of the cost of buying brand new.

In addition to a wedding dress itself, many consignor sellers also include extra items like veils, sashes, and belts (and Great Couture Fashion has a wide selection of wedding dress accessories and complements in our boutique, too); all of which can further reduce bridal expenses while enhancing and customizing the bridal look.

Wedding dress consignment is also Green in that it benefits the environment; for bridal gowns that would normally only be worn for one day or are new-but-never-used could instead have additional use in this sort of recycling.

Keep an open mind with the realization and understanding that, yes, with wedding dress consignment there are cost savings and other big advantages to purchasing a consigned used bridal gown here at our Orlando, FL boutique; but there may be imperfections and flaws since such attire has been worn previously. Fortunately, alterations and repairs and enhancements can improve and customize the look, feel and fit. Minor signs of wear – such as makeup on the neckline, gray marks on the hem, loose beads or rhinestones, etc. -- are very common and can usually be remedied.

Thus, don’t overlook a consigned wedding dress that, for example, is missing features you desire like sleeves or other details; for such enhancements can be added (or removed) to make it “the one” that suits your needs and wants.

1. Your specific and accurate body measurements: bust, waist, hip (around the widest part).
2. Your height (without shoes/heels).
3. It’s easier to take in a wedding dress by a size or two than it is to try to let it out, particularly if the used bridal gown has been altered previously.
4. Be realistic in wedding dress consignment as to its likely less-than-perfect condition since consignment wedding dresses are, by their nature, previously worn (though never used, so still new in that sense), pre-worn and may have already had some alterations done for the initial bride.
5. Even if a consigned bridal gown you want to be “the one” for your wedding here in Orlando or elsewhere isn’t in mint condition when you select and purchase it, it can still be customized through alterations and enhancements to then make it truly your own: a beautiful, custom wedding dress acquired for a significant discount vs the price of when it was brand new on the original purchase date pre-consignment.