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Amber Martin-Woodhead, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Coventry University

Five reasons you should consider renting your outfits this wedding season

We tend to wear our wedding outfits only a handful a times. Supamotionstock.com/Shutterstock

Wedding season is upon us and if you’ve received an invite, you’ll no doubt be having the usual thoughts of what to wear. But the outfits we buy for special occasions often end up hanging in our wardrobes gathering dust and becoming unfashionable.

A 2019 survey, which was commissioned by UK children’s charity Barnado’s, revealed that 10 million wedding outfits would be bought that year with the expectation that they will be worn just once. This can be costly. In the same survey, Britons reported spending an average of almost £80 on a wedding outfit.

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