The Dress Encore & Bridal Pub Crawl

Join us in Downtown Bend on Friday, September 1, for the wedding dress encore and bridal pub crawl. This is a chance for brides to wear their wedding dress again! Bring as many friends as you can. We want to explode Downtown with wedding dresses! Meet at Bella Brides between 5-6pm on September 1st for a photoshoot then head out to participating Downtown Businesses for deals only to those in wedding dresses or attire. There will even be a special performance by the DOWNTOWNBend Dance Crew starting at 6:30pm at Bella Brides and continuing throughout Downtown until 7:30pm.  

Everyone is welcome! Don’t have a wedding dress? Thrift one, wear a white dress, or a wedding suit! Want to wear your dress, but it doesn’t fit anymore? Bella Brides has an easy fix kit that doesn’t damage your dress! Dress already preserved? Opening your box doesn’t “unpreserve” it. It only takes away the plastic barrier. Your dress is treated with preservation products that keep it from yellowing even outside of the plastic. What if it needs to be cleaned after the event? Bella Brides is offering discounted re-boxing packages. Mirror Pond Cleaners is also offering a Bella special for dry-cleaning.  

“Every bride that walks in our door says how it’s such a shame that they only get to wear their wedding dress once. So, we created an excuse to wear it again,” Bella Brides Owner, Charlene Burzynski, said. “The Dress Encore Event is a chance to barhop through Downtown in your wedding dress or suit, or maybe thrifted wedding attire! And what a spectacle it will be! Come on down to get free drinks, swag, and prizes, plus specialty cocktails at one of the 15 participating bars and businesses- or just come to watch the spectacle of wedding dresses.”  

Here’s a list of deals and specials businesses are offering to those who participate: 

• The “Not-so Bachelorette” shot on special, free jell-shots for anyone that posts a picture on social media and tags JC’s Bar 
• $2 off first drink at Bend Brewing Company 
• Dress as a bride and receive a lipstick touchup and a free sample bag of clean beauties from Wren & Wild 
• $6 Blue Velvet Drinks for anyone in a wedding dress at Velvet 
• 10% off for anyone in a wedding dress at The Cellar 
• Happy Hour pricing to anyone in a wedding dress at The Capitol 
• Balloon Arch photobooth and discounts until 7pm at Desperado Boutique 
• Blushing Bride drink special at Deschutes Brewery 
• Specialty cocktail, champagne, charcuterie board at Kobold Brewing – The Lair 
• Bride Drink special at Roam 
• Wedding cake sampling and free mimosas at The Oxford Hotel 
• Specialty Bride Spritz at Ju-Bee-Lee 
• Wedding cake shot at Drake