Designer to donate more wedding gowns after $6,000 dress found for $25 at Birmingham Goodwill

Designer to donate more wedding gowns after $6,000 dress found for $25 at Birmingham Goodwill

The designer of a $6,000 wedding dress a woman bought for $25 at Birmingham’s Goodwill store says she plans to donate more dresses in hopes of creating “more Cinderella moments.”

According to The Washington Post, Israeli designer Galia Lahav, touched by the story, will donate five to 10 of her dresses to Goodwill stores around the country.

“We thought it would be an exciting idea to play fairy godmother and donate a few dresses ourselves to Goodwill for more Cinderella moments,” Yael Friedman, a spokesman for Lahav said, calling the dresses a “Christmas miracle.”

This comes after a Tiktok video garnered almost 4 million views documenting how Emmali Osterhoudt found a $6,000 Lahav wedding dress priced at $25 at a Birmingham Goodwill Store.

Lahav, a native of Belarus, is an Israeli designer of wedding gowns, and takes anywhere from six to nine months to design and create a dress, according to her website.

Osterhoudt told the story of how she found the gown in a subsequent video. She said she found the dress at the Goodwill Outlet on Green Springs Highway in Birmingham. She went to the store looking for picture frames, and had “already checked out.”

She then saw a section of the store she hadn’t yet explored, and there was the dress, priced at $24.95. She didn’t know the dress designer until checking out, and had no idea about its value until she looked it up later.

In a subsequent video, Osterhoudt said it was “so completely generous” for Lahav to “take this story and multiply it for a few of you guys.”