What are you going to do with your wedding dress after the wedding?

Tchavon1984 · December 2013

so I have thought long and hard about this... wedding dresses are toooooo expensive to just throw in a box and collect dust. So I decided I'd have my dress altered to make it into a cute dress to wear on our one year wedding anniversary. With the extra fabric when we have a baby use part or all of it to make the gown he or she will be baptised in. I like to get as much out of something as I can lol

what do you plan to do with your dress?

southernbelle0915 · December 2013

I don't know yet. I thought about selling it. I thought about keeping/preserving it. I've also thought about making a baby baptism outfit out of it, but I'm useless with a sewing machine, so.... It's still hanging up in the library closet because I'm indecisive.

laureneliz87_23318347 · December 2013

I will be donating mine, either to The Bride's Project or Every Girl's Dream. The Bride's Project re-sells donated dresses and puts the proceeds toward cancer research, while Every Girl's Dream provides free wedding gowns to low-income brides.

My mom has had hers in a box for 30 years and hasn't pulled it out once. No way I'm going to do the same with mine!

WildMagelet · December 2013

I was planning on doing a TTD session with my Siberian Husky and her dogsled the following winter.

Marzipan13 · December 2013

Mine is going to be very full, fabric-wise, so I think I'll be making mine into Baptismal gowns. If nothing else, I'll keep it until I find a good home for it!

climbingsingle · December 2013

I have no idea. I haven't picked a dress out yet (going shopping this Friday!). We're not having kids so I won't be making it into a baptism outfit and I won't be passing it down to anyone. But I still think I want to keep it.

Bruins63 · December 2013

I haven't figured that out yet....I would have no problem doing a TTD or donating it IF I found it on super sale for like $99......but since that didn't happen and mine ended up being really expensive I can't bear to ruin it. Your ideas sound awesome! I will be having kids but I'm not religious so no baptism. I have thought about wearing it on like 10th anniversary but the 1st anniversary seems a little soon. (I've been the same size for 12 years so I don't expect to change much)

Tchavon1984 · December 2013

thanks!

emmyg65 · December 2013

I'd like to donate mine, but it's not white. And I think it's too revealing to be a prom dress. I've thought about getting it hemmed to cocktail length, but for now, it just hangs in my closet.

KPBM89 · December 2013

I think I'm going to frame my gown after the wedding. I saw a picture a while back of Adrienne Maloof's gown framed in her closet and the idea has stuck with me.

tammym1001 · December 2013

hoppersgirl25 said:

I think I'm going to frame my gown after the wedding. I saw a picture a while back of Adrienne Maloof's gown framed in her closet and the idea has stuck with me.

I think I'm going to do this too. I have a fairly large dressing room and I think it would make a nice piece of art on the wall.

shaylagirl · December 2013

Planning on preserving it. DH and I are hoping to have a kiddo, so we said if we do, we want to do a vow renewal at 10 years, and yes, I'm gonna wear my dress.

I know that's unpopular, but...dangit...I want to wear it again.

Then I'll clean it and preserve it again.

doeydo · December 2013

hoppersgirl25 said:

I think I'm going to frame my gown after the wedding. I saw a picture a while back of Adrienne Maloof's gown framed in her closet and the idea has stuck with me.

I want to do this too. When FI and I get a house, I want a large walk-in closet and I would display it there.

princessleia22 · December 2013

I plan to sell it. My mom & FMIL both still have their from over 40 years ago (both have 43 year anniversaries next year - awesome, right?). My mom's dress was actually the first one I tried on when I got engaged. I had no intentions of wearing it for my wedding, and she didn't intend for me to, but it was still interesting to try on. But, their dresses have just been sitting in a box for 40+ years. And I would have LOVED it if I had found my dress used at a cheaper price, but after months of searching I couldn't find it so ended up buying it new. So, I figure that it would be nice to pass on the dress happiness to another bride. And it may be nice to get some of the cost back from it, although I don't expect to get a whole lot of money back from it.

HaileyDancingbear · December 2013

You know, I thought about keeping it, but I currently have a wedding dress up in my room. It was made in 1940 and worn again in 1960 for a vow renewal, I found it in a consignment shop for $100 and I thought it and the story it came with was really adorable. I wouldn't wear it for my wedding, since it's very old and the lace feels extremely delicate- it's just a really nice decoration and I still have the little note that came with it. So I already have one dress that I'll never wear, I don't need another XD I'm really good with a seeing machine, I've been seeing clothing for years and made three evening gowns for two proms and my friend's quinceanera, so if I don't sell my dress, I'm probably make it into something else.

ElcaB · December 2013

I can't fathom keeping a dress to sit in the closet. I'm very sentimental, but I don't need the dress to remind me of my awesome day; that's why I splurged on a great photographer!

I'm a budget bride & finding THE dress in my budget has been really tough, so I plan to sell mine in hopes that it will not only help someone else get a good bargain, but also bring in a fraction of what I spend on it.

kitty8403 · December 2013

Mine isn't white--more metallic--I know it's frowned on but I am so tempted to alter the back and hem and keep it as a formal/party gown. Maybe hem to the knee and go out in it for anniversaries or something.

ETA: you know, back in the day, women wore whatever they had to get married. I'm sure most wore their dresses more than once or made them over. I think it's kind of weird how socially unacceptable that seems to be now.

Kohl95 · December 2013

I think I'm going to have it preserved then put in a shadow box to be hung in a future walk-in closet.

jdluvr06 · December 2013

I'm probably going to keep my and wear it again. I love my dress but I admit it doesn't look very bride-like (which I'm totally ok with) so I think I can use it as a party dress every once in awhile.

HaileyDancingbear · December 2013

jdluvr06 said:

I'm probably going to keep my and wear it again. I love my dress but I admit it doesn't look very bride-like (which I'm totally ok with) so I think I can use it as a party dress every once in awhile.

I saw your dress on another thread, it's adorable!

jdluvr06 · December 2013

jdluvr06 said:

I'm probably going to keep my and wear it again. I love my dress but I admit it doesn't look very bride-like (which I'm totally ok with) so I think I can use it as a party dress every once in awhile.

I saw your dress on another thread, it's adorable!

Thank you!

Alexandrathgr8 · December 2013

I like the idea of donating it, but i really want to do a trash the dress session- at myrtle beach, in the ocean where I proposed to her... i have seen awesome pictures of brides laying in the water and sand and i am super giddy about it.

Bruins63 · December 2013

Alexandrathgr8 said:

I like the idea of donating it, but i really want to do a trash the dress session- at myrtle beach, in the ocean where I proposed to her... i have seen awesome pictures of brides laying in the water and sand and i am super giddy about it.

I wanted to do this in the lake I grew up on- like jumping off my friends dock. It was my plan if I found a killer deal on a dress but since I spent way more than I planned on it, I just can't bear to do it LOL. I love Myrtle- you should totally do it

atlastmrsg · December 2013

Sell it while it's still current and before it sits in a closet, gets damaged, I have to take it with me if I move, or I get sentimental and have second thoughts. I'll have the photos to enjoy. If I can get 25% of what I paid for it, that'll be a plane ticket for an anniversary trip to the Caribbean, possibly farther away. I'm happy with that.

CrazyCatLady3 · December 2013

I will probably sell mine and put the money towards closing costs of buying a bigger apartment. When you live in NYC, there's no space to keep things for the sake of sentimentality. My wedding pics will have to suffice.

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