Woman Spends $100 On Wedding Dress And, Get This, She’s DISAPPOINTED By It
It may come as a shock to some people reading this, but growing up I was never one of those little girls that imagined my wedding day, or what prince charming would be like or any of the details that come along with that childhood fantasy. As a kid who grew up with very little money, the thought of spending an entire year’s paycheck or more on one day was just honestly unbelievable. Wasteful, expensive, a fucking racket.
Now I don’t DISLIKE weddings or have anything against them. I’m not necessarily opposed to getting married. I promise you though, if I do get married it will not cost anything NEAR the average price tag.
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But for argument’s sake, let’s say I was going to have a traditional wedding. No matter how much I would creatively scrimp and save, the one thing I would NOT go cheap on is the dress. The dress and the suit IMO make the entire occasion. Along with I guess the cake, and of course the venue, and probably the person that I’d be marrying.
But that is EXACTLY what happened to one of these 23 year old (probably broke) youngsters in Australia. Meghan Taylor, 23, was getting married and tried to go basement budget on a wedding dress on Wish.com. She paid, get this, $107 on arguably the most important garment she’ll ever buy, and certainly the most photographed.
The photo on the website, as you might expect, looked amazing. It was sexy, yet not too slutty, elegant and yet quite modern. All for the low low price of a month’s worth of car insurance. What could go wrong? BARGAIN ALERT.
When it came in the mail, exactly what you’d expect happened. Every single thing was wrong.
“I was blown away by what I received,” Ms Taylor said in an interview with The Sun. “It looked nothing like the photo when I ordered it. I was pretty heartbroken, but I couldn’t help but laugh.”
WHAT? You mean you can’t saunter online and find the perfect fitting dress without having it altered, much less actually trying it on? Someone on the internet might have lied in their description about their $100 wedding dresses? NOOOO!!!! At least she has a sense of humor about it. [checks photo in article of her modeling her new wedding dress]. Well, maybe not THAT much of a sense of humor.
I have questions.
Is she absolutely, 100% certain this wasn’t a Halloween costume? Because what she’s describing is exactly the same feeling slutty coeds across the country have felt having bargain shopped their costume off eBay. That $11 naughty nurse outfit? Yeah. They look nothing like the one falling off the Playboy model on the front of the package. Maybe the “one size fits all” in tiny print at the bottom of the website she bought it off should have been a tell?
Second, I’m not sure what the actual problem is. As she told the reporter, “I then proceeded to tell them that this ruined my wedding as I was expecting the dress in the photo. And they finally returned my money.” So she got her $107 back in the end. A LOT better than trying to get a refund on eBay, to be honest. Believe me, I went through this back in college with my naughty french maid costume. So disappointing. In the end, she got to go viral AND get her money back! Sounds like a win-win to me.
Imagine complaining about your $100 wedding gown from Wish.com. The whole thing is just absurd.
And frankly this really begs the question of simple financial planning. MAYBE if Meghan (her name would be meghan) wasn’t running around spending $30 every time she had a meal in Sydney, you know eating her posh avocado toasts with iced almond milk cappucinos, she could have saved for a real fucking wedding dress.