Teenager Finds Dream Wedding Dress at Vintage Store for $75—Buys it for Future Nuptials: 'Fit Me Like a Glove' (Exclusive)
The store owner reduced the price of the Oleg Cassini wedding dress for the 19-year-old because it fit her so well
Alyzza Alolor
Alyzza AlolorA woman hit the jackpot when she bought a vintage designer wedding dress for only $75.
When Alyzza Alolor, 19, went thrift shopping with her best friend on Nov. 17 at Superbum, a vintage store in Sacramento, California, she never expected to find her dream wedding dress.
"I originally didn’t even want to buy anything but I saw the dress on a rack and just had to try it on," Alolor tells PEOPLE. "I've never worn a wedding dress before so I thought it would be a fun thing to do and I would just go on about my day."
It was an Oleg Cassini white corset embellished ballgown. The dress has a basque-style waist, decorative pearl beading, delicate lace appliques and a scoop-back neckline with 21 buttons.
At the time, Alolor didn't even know it was a designer wedding dress. She figured it wouldn't fit properly or "just look awkward," but when she looked at herself in it she was proven wrong.
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"As soon as I saw myself in the mirror I was so in love with it," she says. It wasn’t too tight or had any weird gaps. It truly fit me like a glove."
Alolor thought it would be "insane" to buy the dress, considering she's only a teenager and has no plans of getting married any time soon. The dress was also almost $200.
But when she stepped out of the dressing room, the store owner intervened.
"She began complimenting me about how well the dress fit," Alolor recalls. "I didn’t think much about it and put the dress away after taking some photos in it. Then my friend went to pay. The owner was behind the counter and asked if I would like to buy the dress, to which I replied that I couldn’t since I already spent too much in the morning."
The dress was priced at $189 but the store owner offered to lower it to $75 because she couldn't fathom the thought of Alolor leaving behind a wedding dress that looked like it was made for her.
"I was shocked that she would lower the price that drastically," Aloror says. "So I asked why and she replied 'Why not?' So I did what any rational person would do and bought it."
Aloror's mother still thinks it was "crazy" for her to buy a wedding dress, and even asked that she return it.
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Now, Aloror is wondering what to do next — sell, rent or keep the dress for herself.
"I'm still debating on that too since I’ve had a couple people ask to rent it for their weddings," she continues. "I would love to wear it in my future wedding but I’m not exactly sure when that would be."
Aloror posted videos of herself in the wedding dress on TikTok and hundreds of commenters agreed that she looks beautiful in the gown and should save it for her wedding day.
"Baby that’s your wedding dress," a comment with more than 25,000 likes reads.
Another person wrote, "The thrift gods were in your favor huh."
