What Are You Planning To Do With Your Dress?

vulpiepop

vikinganna87 said:

The responsible thing would be to sell my dress but I'm too sentimental.  I get really attached to my clothes, especially dresses and skirts.

Mine's been cleaned and preserved.  I envision taking it out every few years and trying it on.  Maybe in about 10 years I'll have it shortened and wear to a party, unless I end up with a daughter who may want to wear it for her wedding.

I really like @amelisha 's idea of getting together with friends and all of us wearing wedding dresses out to the bar one night.  I would totally do that --- as often as we could get away with it.

@vulpiepop I think your idea of dying your dress is great.  If I were you I'd take it to a few different tailors and get their opinions.  If they don't think it can be done right, there's your answer.  A reputable tailor will refuse a job if he/she doesn't think the outcome will be good.  What material is your dress?  Can you include a photo?

It's silk satin if i'm not mistaken so I'm not exactly sure it can be dyed or dyed well. There's also not a whole lot of garment dying services around.

Here's a photo of the dress:

ashley8918

I'm definitely selling mine whenever I get around to it. It's sitting in it's bag, uncleaned, in my mom's closet right now.

I have no sentimental attachment to "stuff" whatsoever, so keeping it around seems silly to me.

Wegl13

I preserved mine which is weird because I used the same company my mother used 40 years ago, so now our dresses are in almost identical boxes. I really want to get it made to tea length and wear it out for anniversaries but DH doesnt want me to change it in any way. dunno the reasoning there....

princessbuttercup09

I'm wearing my own dress for the ceremony and then my mom's dress that we cut short for our reception. I'll preserve my mom's dress for sure but I'm not sure what I'll do with my own dress.