To sell my wedding dress for charity?

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My July wedding has been cancelled and we can’t afford to do a corona-postpona because the venue etc charge a substantial moving fee. We’ve already sunk so much money into it, we can’t afford to pay more.

We have decided instead to just go to the local registry office when we can, and do some beers and burgers at the pub down the road instead. Post-covid and all that.

So I have a brand new, unaltered Charlie Brear wedding dress. I’ll wear a nice dress for our new wedding, but it isn’t really a big wedding dress kind of affair anymore. It cost me £1695.

I was thinking of selling it in a charity auction (how? Ebay?) for Refuge.

Is that a well intentioned but quite tactless idea?

AIBU - no you’re not Mother Theresa and stop acting like it
YABU - go forth and sell dress

Lozz

Wear your dress.

You love it so wear it to get married in

I love you for "corona postpona"
Amazing.

Second hand (even though unworn) don't tend to sell for a lot of money.

If you want to go ahead, I'd suggest thinking about contacting the local papers, getting it on social media so you can raise as much as possible.

I'd also be inclined to wear it first at the registry office.

Sorry to hear about your wedding. It sucks. If mine were in July though, I think I'd hold out in the hope it will go ahead/venue will have to cancel and recoup more of the costs.