Rachel Connealy, a 26-year-old bride from Florida, found her wedding dress at a thrift store and said she never wanted to splurge on one. She created Meghan Markle-inspired wedding look for just $4.20. The young bride has since gone viral on TikTok, with many saying they couldn’t believe her luck.
Rachel Connealy, a bride from Florida, is going viral on the internet for buying not one but two dresses for less than $10! She shared a video of her wedding dress on TikTok. "I still felt like a princess on my day," said Connealy, reported Good Morning America. "I guess my own version of what a princess looks like." Connealy, who goes by @rachelconnealy on TikTok wrote, "You never know what you’ll find at the thrift 2 weeks before your wedding." In another video, she posted another dress and captioned it, "I thrifted this silk dress right after we got engaged and still wore it for the ceremony ❤️ #weddingdress." Both videos garnered more than 2 million views.
The 26-year-old bride went to thrift stores to find her wedding dress and ended up buying two—one for $3 and another for $5. With her wedding dresses costing just $8, she had more room to do other things, such as buying dresses for all her bridesmaids. Many on TikTok said her dress looked very similar to Meghan Markle's Givenchy dress worn in 2019 for her wedding to Prince Harry. Connealy is urging other brides to look in thrift stores and to also look in thrift lingerie sections.
"You go to the wedding dress section of a thrift store and there are these beautiful white silks and vintage lace...and get creative with it," she said. Connealy also looked at it from a practical point of view. She said there was no point in wearing an expensive dress for a single day. "For me, I would much rather have an experience than having this dress in a box that I can show my kids in 20 years that they're like, 'That's so out of style,'" she added.
