Woman buys $6,000 designer wedding dress for $25 at Birmingham Goodwill

Woman buys $6,000 designer wedding dress for $25 at Birmingham Goodwill

Here comes the bargain.

A Tiktok video garnering almost 3 million views documented a rare find – a $6,000 designer wedding dress purchased for $25 at a Birmingham Goodwill Store.

According to the video’s creator, Emmali Osterhoudt, she bought the dress not realizing it was the work of Galia Lahav.

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 the website.

Her work has been wore by Beyonce and Paris Hilton, among others.

“It fits me like a glove,” she said in the video. “It wouldn’t need virtually any sort of alterations.”

She has publicly thanked the person who donated the dress, as it “made my whole entire year.”

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.”

“It had nothing,” she laughed.

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 answer to a question from a viewer of her video, Osterhoudt said she isn’t engaged, but would have bought the dress even if she didn’t intend on getting married, simply for the resale value.

“I do not plan on selling,” she said. “I keep getting DMs on my Instagram from a bunch of people about it.”

Osterhoudt said she doesn’t plan on cleaning the dress to remove the “bad juju,” as some viewers suggested.

“I do believe this dress might actually have been God’s plan, or like, pretty much, fate,” she said. “Maybe in a few years, I’ll make a video actually wearing the dress (at my wedding). Who knows?”