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With the economy the way it is, the Wall Street Journal decided to take a look at websites that sell used wedding dresses. Business is booming. $450 for a wedding dress that was originally $1250? I’d do that. Heck, I’d WEAR that which is probably why I wasn’t involved in my fiancee’s wedding dress shopping. A wedding dress that costs less than my (possible) wedding day suit is a pretty exciting thing.

Why are so many used wedding dresses coming up on the market? Because there is still the tradition that a person’s daughter might want to wear their mother’s wedding dress. But have you ever met one person who has done that? I know plenty of people who have used their mother’s or grandmother’s diamond ring as their engagement ring but none that wore their mother’s dress. Styles change and, to be honest, I loath the resurgence of big puffy sleeves that are going to show up soon when all the kids born in the 80s finally come to age. Do you know anyone who is going to wear that style of dress nowadays? I thought so.

Of course, selling a used wedding dress has its risk. It’ll take a long time to sell and if the dress has been heavily altered, there’s a good chance that a person interested in your dress won’t be able to fit in it. You might both be a size four but if you’re packing a full set of luggage in your trunk, it’ll be hard to find someone with your matching features. But with a price at only 30% of market value, the deals are pretty fantastic.

[via racked]

A bride was being driven to her wedding reception when she noticed that a house was on fire. She stopped and ran into the building warning the family who was living there that they needed to get out. It took some time to coax the family out but the bride and her wedding party did it. The family didn’t really notice that their house was on fire and might have suffered injuries had the bride not try to get them out.

I like this bit:

At any rate, 16-year-old Lowell Eitelberg, who was playing video games in the house during the time of the fire, told the NY Post: “Whenever you think of something like this happening, you don’t imagine the person who’s going to save you in a situation like this to be dressed in the nicest clothes they’ll ever wear in their life. If someone was caring enough to ruin the best day of their life to save me, it’s the most incredible thing.” And his mother told Clemons, “Mazel tov!” adding, “I told her to go back to her festivities, but she stayed and helped.”

Improv Everywhere staged an event in New York City recently where they pretended to be part of the Mayor’s office and gave a couple a surprise wedding reception outside the marriage bureau in New York City. They had bridesmaids, groomsmen, cake, presents, a bouquet toss, a garter toss, line dancing, and they confused a bunch of tourists who were watching. The best man and maid of honor even did some toasts. And the bike taxi at the end was a great touch. Pretty awesome.

Writing the name of the couple on the cake.