Adrienne Writes

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be appropriate to sell my wedding dress. Of course, this is NOT the dress I wore to my own wedding. Instead, it’s the dress that I snatched from Al Roker’s able hands when I was a contestant on The Today Show Wedding in 2008.

[This is the story within a story. I was recently engaged to the Gibbsman. He was in Boston. I in Chicago. I decided at the last minute to go wait in line at CHicago's NBC Towers - at midnight!!- to see if I might be selected to "run with brides" to snatch a new wedding gown and thereby save some money by not purchasing a wedding dress. My mom drove me downtown at 11:30 p.m. or so. I got in line. I brought a stadium chair. I was surrounded by hundreds of other newly engaged. Who knew! Then it started to rain. It was a pouring, cataclysmic, world-ending deluge. I was soaked. My hair wasn't cute. It got cold. But dammit, I was in line! And Al Roker selected me - after a brief interview - to be a Today Show bride.

I had to sing silly songs, talk about my husband etc. My mom had long since left, but she came back at 7 a.m. And my mother-in-law to be saw me on The Today Show singing songs to my, at the time hubby to be. So all the folks back east were tickled that I was acting crazy on TV for Eric. This then, is how I snagged a dress from Al Roker. OK end of story within a story.]

It’s a lovely, St. Pucchi dress, valued at $2,990.00. It’s champagne colored, which is awesome for ladies with brown or tan skin. It’s 1940s flavored, with a drop waist, French lace cutouts at the bodice and a three foot train of organza laid upon with hand-sewn lace. In a word it’s lovely.

I would have worn this dress to my own wedding, but alas, I’m not a size 10 in wedding wear. (For those of you who have not wedding shopped before, wedding dresses run very, very, very small. I’m not a size 10 in real life, but in wedding wear, I was a size 14!) Anyhow, this lovely gown is for sale. And frankly, I should have gotten rid of it before my wedding. But I kept hoping against hope that somehow I would lose 20 pounds and somehow fit into the St. Pucchi gown.

Ah well. I bought another designer dress and wore that to my 2008 wedding. So now this St. Pucchi is hanging in my closet in all it’s gorgeous, pearlized glamour. It is ripe and ready for a bride. Here are the pictures too. Unfortunately I don’t have a figurine to fill out the breast area at the top of the dress, so you will have to imagine what it looks like if a real person was wearing it rather than me just hanging it on my bathroom door.

I’m going to try to consign it. I’ve flirted with idea of using eBay and Craigslist, but eBay was just too complicated and Craigslist has too much potential for crazies to contact me. Therefore, I’m trying to snag the attention of a few designer consignment stores in Chicago. They all seem to be located on the Gold Coast or the North Side – so that means I’ll have to drive and pay to park… But selling this bad boy will be ALL profit, so we’ll see what happens.

Got any ideas for me on how to sell it out of my own closet? Let me know. And, if you want this dress, let me know that as well. You KNOW that I’m legit. All yall know where I work.

Here goes!

And here is the top:

And here is the middle:

If you are at all interested in this dress, let a sista know! It’s in supreme condition and I’d sell it to you for waaaay less than $2,990. It’s a recession after all!

Happy Heart Day