Are you considering opting for a wedding dress rental in order to save money on your overall wedding costs?
It’s a great idea. After all, you’ll only wear your wedding dress once. Why invest thousands of dollars in a dress you’ll only put on for a couple hours?
Renting a dress is a smart move because you’ll save money. You also won’t have the pressure of picking the perfect dress and getting everything just right since you’re spending so much money on it.
1. Browse Tons of Options
The number one best piece of advice when it comes to finding a good wedding dress rental is to browse all of your options.
Visit several shops so you can get a feel for what’s available. Don’t settle for the first dress you find that you like. Keep shopping, keep looking, and understand all of your options for picking one out.
This will help ensure you get the dress of your dreams.
Rentals can be hard because there’s only one size of each style. However, if you keep looking, you are sure to find the perfect fit for your special day.
2. Try It On
Trying lots of dresses on is just as important as browsing lots of options.
You may think something looks like the perfect fit, cut, or style for you, but it can be a whole different story when you actually put it on.
When you find a selection of wedding dress rental options that you like, try all of them on. This will help you narrow down what styles actually look good on you and which you should probably pass on.
No use slaving away at your wedding diet if you’re just going to pick a dress that doesn’t flatter you!
Finding the perfect dress may be time-consuming because you have tons of dresses you need to try on, but it will be worth it in the end to find the one dress that fits you like a glove and makes you look like royalty.
3. Go For an All-Inclusive Wedding Dress Rental
This may seem obvious, but you’re going to need more than just the dress for your wedding day outfit. You will need shoes and accessories like a bracelet, necklace, and earrings.
Many people borrow these items or have something special passed down from a family member. If that’s not the case for you, you may find yourself in the predicament of feeling like you need to buy fine jewelry for your wedding day.
However, that’s not your only option! Just like you can rent wedding dresses, you can rent jewelry and the like, too. There are all inclusive rental package options that cover all the bases for you.
It may be the perfect solution for getting your entire wedding day ensemble taken care of in one place. After all, there’s no use browsing Victoria Jane wedding dresses if you have no jewelry or accessories to go with it!
4. Have Friends and Family Join You
Just like if you were wedding dress shopping the normal way — with the intent of purchasing it afterward — you’ll want to have your bridesmaids and maybe your mother and grandmother with you as you shop.
Trying on dresses is part of the fun, and this can be all the more exciting when you’re renting a wedding dress!
Because rentals usually only come in one size per style and likely will not allow alterations, the dress you find has to be absolutely perfect.
It’s way more interesting shopping to find the one when you know that everything about it has to be perfect as is.
When you finally do find the one, it’ll feel like you’ve won a treasure hunt or found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow!
5. Read the Contract
This is a big one when it comes to wedding dress rental. You need to know what exactly you’re agreeing to. Take time to read the contract closely.
The contract will tell you important details you need to know, like what time the rental will be delivered and what your options are in case something is damaged.
Before signing, you should carefully inspect the dress and note any signs of wear and tear. If you do not point out these small imperfections before renting the dress, you may be blamed for them and could lose your deposit.
Examine the stitching. Look for stains. Make sure everything is in place and well made.
Though it may seem boring and unnecessary, reading the contract before signing it is really important in the wedding dress rental world.
6. Know Your Budget
Sure, renting a wedding dress is much cheaper than purchasing even a cheap one.
But it doesn’t much matter how cheap it is if you don’t stick within your budget! Going out of your price range is going out of your price range, no matter how you do it.
Before you go shopping for a wedding dress rental, take an honest look at your finances and decide how much you are able to spend.
Remember that your wedding dress is just one (important) piece of a bigger picture; you’re still going to have to pay for the rest of the wedding, too. If the table settings or honeymoon activities are way more important to you than what you’re wearing for a couple hours, keep that in mind as you set your budget.
Establishing your budget beforehand will help you to not overspend. You don’t want to enter into your wedding day — or the rest of your married life — with monetary regrets.
7. Make Follow Up Calls
As your wedding day approaches, it’s a good idea to call your wedding dress rental company to make sure everything is still on track.
Don’t run the risk that your rental company has shut its doors without making any formal announcements. You don’t want to be left high and dry with no wedding dress on the biggest day of your life.
It’s a good idea to call a couple months before your wedding just to check in and make sure they still have your order on file. Then call again a few weeks before your wedding, and again the week of your wedding.
Checking in at all of these stages will give you peace of mind. It will also give you enough time to figure out Plan B if something has gone awry. Be prepared for the worst case scenario and have a plan in place for what you will do if the company closes, loses your order, or trashes the dress you picked out.
