Half of brides would opt for charity shop dress

Feb. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- A poll by charity shopping website easyfundraising.org.uk revealed 52% of brides would opt for a charity shop gown, compared with 38% who prefer new. 7% of brides jokingly say they would go for the charity option as long as it wasn’t the dress they had donated.  A cheeky 3% claim they would haggle over the price in the charity shop.

Tanya Arturi of Cheshire Image Consultants says: “The clever bride can still look fantastic by shopping around for the perfect dress for a couple of hundred pounds, rather than thousands.  A new wedding dress costs an average £1000, making the charity option extremely attractive.”

“Vintage wedding dresses are in great demand and of course they can be returned to the charity shop to keep helping a good cause.”

Chartered financial planner Ralph Pettengell, of IFA Consulting LLP, says: “With the average wedding costing £21,000 it’s sensible to try to cut your cloth accordingly. A wedding dress is just for one day; the money would be better invested for the couple’s future.”

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About easyfundraising.org.uk
easyfundraising.org.uk is a free and simple online shopping facility that helps consumers to support a cause of their choice. Shoppers make purchases at their favourite online stores at no extra cost to raise vital funds for a charity, good cause or group of their choice. Each purchase made generates an average of 5% to the chosen cause.

easysearch.org.uk is a free tool that raises money for charities and causes through internet searches.  easysearch combines results from several major search engines to track down the most relevant results from across the web.

For more information visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk


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