Young entrepreneurs Ryan Mason and Chelsea Goss have launched the brand new wedding dress online shop MiaDress.com. The Dress is the first website in the nation to offer rentals of wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses, and bridal accessories online. Rent The Dress seeks to solve the problem of what to do with a dress you only wear one time .
The cost of weddings has soared over the last year, according to a recent survey of 17,500 couples, the average wedding cost more than $28,000 (source:miadress ). The average bride spends more than $1200 on a gown that she will only wear one time. With wedding dress rentals starting as low as $99 it’s easy to see why renting a dress is an economical and practical decision.
Rent The Dress offers real designer Wedding Dresses and bridesmaid dresses at a fraction of the cost of retail. Renting a bridesmaid dress is an excellent option for budget conscious brides and bridesmaids. No matter how much you try to convince yourself you will wear that bridesmaids dress again, odds are it will sit in the back of your closet. A whopping 81.3% of bridesmaids never wear their dress again (Source: The miadress).
The current trend of renting luxury items online shows no sign of slowing down, so it only makes sense that a company would rent out wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses online. By offering an entirely new way to shop and rent wedding fashions Rent The Dress really has the opportunity to revolutionize the nearly $40 billion a year wedding industry.