You have the location, the date, the shoes, and the dress. But what about the jewelry? It’s not in your budget to spend money on a precious necklace/earring set, so what’s a bride to do?!

Rent it!

We’ve discovered a company that rents a wide selection of beautiful bridal jewelry: Adorn Brides.

According to their web-site, here’s what you do:

1. Pick out the jewelry you like and check the availability for your wedding date.

2. Check out with your credit card and reserve the jewelry. Insurance is included in the rental price. A 5% security deposit will be held until the jewelry is returned.

3. They’ll call you a few days before your wedding day to confirm shipping information. The jewelry will arrive 2 business days before your wedding.

4. The first business day after your wedding, just drop it at any UPS location in the provided prepaid packaging. Once Adorn Brides receives the jewelry, the security deposit will be removed from your credit card.

It’s so easy, and you’ll look fabulous on your wedding day! Use this special promotional code and receive 20% off of your order (on top of all the other great discounts!):

Adorn Brides also just introduced Bridesmaids Sets! These jewelry sets are simple and elegant, so your entire bridal party can look fantastic.

After months of pouring through magazines and visiting every bridal store in a 300 mile radius (or more) you finally found the dress.

Your wedding day finally arrived: you had your hair and makeup professionally done,  pretended you were a supermodel in those great “non-posed” photos, got married, did your first dance all in the dress.

So here you are after the wedding, weeks, months, maybe years later and you still have the dress. Some of you may still put it on and dance around the house when hubby isn’t home (ahhhhh “the memories of the way we were”), while others had it cleaned and preserved when they returned from the honeymoon. Then there are those of you that have it in a bag in the hall closet with the two extra bread makers you got as a wedding present that you have been meaning to return… 

Well ladies, I have the perfect solution. Those of you who are going green will love this. Donate the dress for a good cause.

There is a great organization called the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation. The foundation helps grant wishes to women and men with Metastatic Stage 4 terminal breast cancer. When you donate your wedding gown to Brides Against Breast Cancer, they resell the gown and the proceeds go to granting the wish of a breast cancer patient.

Can you think of anything that could serve a better purpose? You get a tax deduction, you recycled fashion, and helped another bride have a fabulous dress for a reasonable price – not to mention you are saving the overworked silkworms, all the while making  a wish come true for a special person.