What are you doing with your dress after the wedding?

danni7murphy

Are any of you donating  it ?

krwinningham

I thought about this..I want to do the trash the dress session since we aren't doing bridals, but I also feel like I should donate it.  I'm leaning towards donating it because I didn't have any alterations done to it & someone else could use it, but I want those dang pictures, too!

FebDallasBride

I'm burning it, a la the "kick ass trash the dress" session someone posted a while back.

No really.

Tiffany618

I was planning to donate mine but both my husband and my mother wanted me to keep it.   So I got it cleaned and now its in the closet, forever.

I'm not bitter.

lynn-michelle

I had mine cleaned and I was going to perserve it but the cleaners ruined it. I guess they washed my silk dress because it looked like toilet paper after they were done with it. I walked out of the cleaners balling. It hung around in my closet for a long time and then I decided to trash it. I went jetskiing in it and it was awesome.

NMac2010

Selling it. Trying to, anyway.

danni7murphy

O my gosh did they post it on this board ? I wanna see that !

danni7murphy

I love that you turned it around and went skiing in it that's great !

FebDallasBride

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_doing-dress-after-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:65e52a57-33be-40cf-815c-0f15517ccd3fPost:7a57cc5f-192e-4908-b4fb-cebcbffe00ef">Re: What are you doing with your dress after the wedding?</a>:
[QUOTE]O my gosh did they post it on this board ? I wanna see that !
Posted by danni7murphy[/QUOTE]


I assume this is directed at me?<a href="http://ultimateimageweddingsblog.com/2010/05/bad-ass-trash-the-dress/" target="_blank"> http://ultimateimageweddingsblog.com/2010/05/bad-ass-trash-the-dress/</a>

MLandCJ

Trash the dress or donating to brides against breast cancer.

bigbabyface

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What are you doing with your dress after the wedding? : I assume this is directed at me? <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ultimateimageweddingsblog.com/2010/05/bad-ass-trash-the-dress/">http://ultimateimageweddingsblog.com/2010/05/bad-ass-trash-the-dress/</a>
Posted by FebDallasBride[/QUOTE]

as bad ass as this is...i was totally disappointed when my attention to detail ruined it...

they didn't actually cut her actual wedding dress, there are two dresses in this shoot....damn it all!

nickandmerritt

Right now my plan is to do trash the dress on the beach or else in the snow next winter, then have it dry cleaned and donate it. It's made out of polyester or some sh1t so I think it would be hard to actually trash it. So now I get best of both worlds. Another thing I've seen done is to have the dress altered to make it more casual and dyed so you can wear it for something else and get some use out of it.

girliejr

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_doing-dress-after-wedding?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:65e52a57-33be-40cf-815c-0f15517ccd3fPost:0ec18053-7bc5-41ac-8f30-672a2173d87b">Re: What are you doing with your dress after the wedding?</a>:
[QUOTE]I had mine cleaned and I was going to perserve it but the cleaners ruined it. I guess they washed my silk dress because it looked like toilet paper after they were done with it. I walked out of the cleaners balling. It hung around in my closet for a long time and then I decided to trash it. I went jetskiing in it and it was awesome.
Posted by lynn-michelle[/QUOTE]

Please tell us which cleaners so I don't use them!  I have a silk dress also that needs to be cleaned but I'm super scared to have it done (it was a sample so it really needs it before the wedding but I'm almost afraid to do it).