aibu to think that mate selling wedding dress so shortly after wedding strange?

[Wamster]

My mate married last October in a full-on white wedding. I spoke to her friday and she announced she was now selling dress. It is a beautiful dress - a proper fairytale number. AFAIK, there are no financial difficulties. I worry for my mate as I think this is a bit strange. aibu? Not thread hitting and running, just going out and won't be able to get back to thread for a while.

Or, you could take the more charitable view that by selling her dress for less than she paid for it, she's (a) enabling someone with a smaller budget to enjoy a beautiful dress for the day, and (b) recycling it?

Ah ha! Does she have an eBay page of wedding-related items that includes the Nigella Lawson mahogany salad tossers you stumped up £30 for on the wedding list?

Wildfig, I read that as "mahogany salad trousers" and sadly, wanted some :o

So you only helped her out on the condition she held everything you did for her in her heart for ever and ever and was so grateful she couldn't bear to part with the dress because it reminded her of the time and effort everyone put into her wedding?

F.R.E.A.K.Y.

(C, it's going to be C LRD, you mark my words )

Nigella's Mahogany Salad Trousers would cost a lot more than £30.

True. But they wouldn't need much ironing

Hiding the thread my arse curry

Ive finally thought of someone who i know that has kept their dress!
My exDH sister kept her dress, she dresses a manaquin on halloween and hangs it from the ceiling! I've got some pictures of it with a scream mask attached! They used to have the best halloween parties!

I actually have my dress still, actually both, but only because no-one wants to buy the first one (bright red bridesmaid style dress in a 16 if anyone wants it!) and the second one is a slightly darker red prom dress that i will fit back into and will be wearing to every event i attend once i do

Seriously OP, time to lie down in a dark room and take stock of your life....

Right this thread is actually starting to scare me now!!!!

OP what is this actually about?

[agog] at bonkers OP with inability to see past chip on own shoulder

Oh wow. This is either one hell of a wind up or you have serious issues...

I would love it if 'mahogany salad trousers' became one of those 'passwords' that people provide to show they're not a troll:

'Namechanger here (penguins, zombies, mahogany salad trousers, mouldies). I have a terrible and most unlikely scenario here...'

Trixy - scum, plain and simple, they will think you are scum. And if you dared to include ANYONE in any of the prep work, well, you best start a round of apologies. Scrap that, do the decent thing and refund all costs to everyone. Not even dry clean ffs!

OP errr I don't think I understand but WTF has wahtever she does with her dress got to do with you? First you said you were worried for her, now it appears you are miffed because she is selling a dress that you had to hold the train of. So what?

If her marriage is in dire straits why is it your business
If she is just an unsentimental money grabbing cow , why is this your business

definitely not worth you losing the plot over.

My dd bought a hollywood dreams dress worth 1800 pound , In a sale she paid 360 pound for it and sells it for 1000 pound , well over 600 pound profit .
So shoot her.

yes she thought the dress was the most beautiful thing and she loved loved loved it and she had me traipsing round with her for much more than three weeks, bloody hell , it was more like 9 months, me and her poor patient bridesmaids dealt with every emotion going from her.
Did we get upset cos she sold the dress after all our hard work . Did we buggery..her dress, her choice, and she would have been stupid not to. She had the dress of her dreams and made a profit.
her marriage is just fine ,
her bank balance is fine
her mind is just fine

Yours however seems to be a little bit "driven"
Not sure what with though ...

but add another to your basketcase

My Mum made it as well babydubs. What an ungrateful cow I am!!

Oh My God, What Have I Done!!!!

Ooh, I've just realized!

Are you Pippa Middleton? Is this all because people made too many comments about your arse while you were holding said train?

Wish I'd sold mine while it was still on fashion.

I listed mine one week after the wedding. Why leave it in the house gathering dust?

@ LRDTheFeministNutcase

I think you may have something there

Tried to sell mine. Nobody wanted it.... Is it a sign?

Seriously is this a wind up? If not OP, you obviously have huge issues with your friend.

I've got it, I think - OP, did she buy it from you?

That's the only sane explanation (and that's pushing it a bit) I can think of.

There has been much talk of 'cocktail trousers' in the fashion pages of the weekend papers over the past couple of weeks. So in light of that, salad trousers sound kind of plausible.

What you must not do though, under any circumstances, is spend ££ on the solid mahogany salad trousers of your dreams, wear them on a big night out, and then stick 'em on eBay. That would really stir up all kinds of trouble, especially amongst any mates who happened to have been shopping with you for the perfect salad trouser.

What sort of occasion would one wear salad trousers to I wonder?