What did you do with your wedding dress?

brunauxyeuxbeaute

I will be burning mine shortly! Hehe...good riddance to bad memories!

jennibee70

After reading these responses, and especially considering I'm divorced, I'm really glad I rented mine! We had budgeted £200 (18 years ago) for cars and £500 for my dress, and realised we couldn't get anything really special for those budgets. So we swapped them, paid £500 for two vintage cars and £200 to rent a gorgeous dress. I had the shoes and head-dress customised to match the dress though, and I did keep those. I'm considering dying the shoes scarlet!

marthathebear

I like the christening gown idea! I have never heard that before. Mine is still in my closet after 30 years.

momofthreesons

I wore it at a haunted house I worked at... covered in fake blood. I was a kickass dead bride in the casket... don't be alarmed this was AFTER the divorce LOL. The second dress??? Well it's hanging in the closet, its a white summer dress that is good for lots of events!

rileamoyer

Kept it. I wore it on our 30th anniversary.

That said, I did not spend even 1/10 of what my girls did on theirs (even adjusting for time) LOL

MemphisKitten

Never had one. . . never will.

tvanhooser

I wore my mom's dress -- albeit with a new bodice because when we went to try it on, it appeared that her arms were made of spaghetti when she got married. I was not even close to overweight then but could not get my arms in the sleeves even part way they were so small. So when I was done with it, we had it dry cleaned and packed back in the airtight box with my bodice and hers and is still stored at her house in case my daughter or nieces ever want to use it --if they can fit into either bodice or want to make a third one to fit them.

ZombieSlayer

Save it to use as an infant portrait backdrop?

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mem50

Mine is in the closet.

It's just a dressy dress because we were having a informal wedding and I wanted to be able to wear it again. And it certainly was informal......two days before said wedding he wound up in the hospital. We had the wedding there.

SuperSexyDork

You mean from the wedding that I called off?

It was stored in the closet of the spare bedroom at his mother's house for 2 years or so... and then I sold it on Craigslist for about 80% of what I paid for it.

It was a gorgeous dress and it was exactly what I was looking for... unfortunately he turned out to not be what I was looking for.

caseysexton5

Mine is still in my childhood closet at my parent's house (where i got married). I get to see it everytime I go home for the holidays!

angee1126

I gave mine to the Salvation Army. We divorced. :laugh:

sailingsal

Mine is in a 'wedding dress box' in my parents attic. Marriage lasted 4 years, been separated 10 years now. Haven't thought about it for a very long time!

minsooky

I still have mine, even the veil. Can't bear to get rid of it because it's really the only wedding-related thing I have left -- someone stole my wedding band/engagement ring a year ago

verapamil

Mine is hanging up in my closet in the bag it came home from the store in. I have a special place in my closet for my wedding dress and my prom dress (prom was over 12 years ago!). If I could put it on by myself, I would wear it around my house just for no reason but it's a corset back so I can't. (I can put my prom dress on by myself though, so I wear that all the time around the house just because :laugh: ) I love my dress and even though I have no reason to keep it other than to look at it and donating it would be nice, I can't get rid of it. At least once a month, I unzip the bag just to look at it. :happy:

SomberAngel

i remember looking at my mom's wedding dress just before i got married and though how horribly out of fashion it was. i bought my own, and it is now vacuum packed in a box in the garage. i hate to think about my little girl looking at mine and thinking the same thing.
I never heard about anyone creating a ring bearers pillow out of the dress, such a great idea. i have one girl and two boys, i think all three of them could have part of it, for an item like that.

Minnesota_Nice

I just gave mine to the consignment shop yesterday! Going through a divorce and well I never wore it anyways because we ended up getting married in the court house!

lripson28

I got married a year and a half ago and up until about 2 months ago, it was in the plastic bag that it came in hanging in our closet. I finally took it out and got dry cleaned and preserved. Now the box is sitting in the attic, never to be seen or taken out again! I have no clue what to do with it but I know that I can't just get rid of it. Now, my veil on the other hand..... is stuffed in a shoe box in the attic. A week after the wedding, I got out of the shower to find it ripped into shreds in the middle of the living room floor. The dog had somehow gotten a hold of it and had a little fun.... I cried for hours when I found it!

ardisia32

I never got around to making such a purchase, but my sister took a pair of scissors & seam rippers to hers -- made it into a very nice quilt. Also provides an amusing story about the reaction of her (still) husband when he walked in on her ripping it apart, "um...whatever I did, I'm very very sorry." LOL. My mom's wedding dress gave us many many hours of dress-up fun when we were little...alas, it did not survive our play.

needsenergy

my x-hubby took it. I think he still has it now 5yrs after we split up.

TXtstorm

Hmmm... I think it's folded up flat inside a gallon zip-lock bag here on or near my desk somewhere... pretty sure I saw it the other day. But then, I got married over 23 years ago in the office of the JP wearing the nicest dress I could come up with at the time. A bright magenta silky jacquard fabric, made by my mom a couple of years earlier. I'm actually thinking of making being able to fit into it again one of my fitness goals.

Kenzietea2

I wore a white cotton sun dress from target in my courthouse wedding, lol. So, I still wear it sometimes. We are thinking of doing a fancier 'wedding' (vowel renewal) in a year or so, if we do I will donate my dress.

klacount77

Mine is in a storage box with the veil, flower girl dress and the candle holders. I've moved it 4 times and never opened the box since the wedding night when I filled it. I'm sure it needs cleaned, it was pouring rain that day and every one's clothes had the black stuff on the bottom from the parking lot, including me! All our wedding party photos were taken outside under the awning ... It was such a mess.

What a wonderful day!!!!

I am sure the dress will be cut down into ring pillows for the kids' weddings ... Maybe a keepsake for me ... Who knows.

misalillstead

I've been pondering how to get rid of mine. It's currently in a garment bag in my closet... I was engaged for 8 years and never got married.

Shelbert79

I've been married 7 years and have had 3 children in that amount of time. I haven't had it cleaned yet, I take it out once or twice a year and put it on, 1: to see if it still fits and 2: it's just so pretty! One of these days I'll take it in to get cleaned and boxed up but I'm just not ready.

KatieJane83

I only read the first few posts here but I just wanted to say thanks. I'm divorced and still have my dress in my closet, and until I came across this post I had never thought that you could donate a wedding dress!! I'm def gonna have to do that!!

Zylahe

Mine is in the garment bag i bought it home in.
Its a nice red evening dress, so when i got it i figured i could wear it to Giftmas parties ( which i have)
Just tried it on last weekend to see if i could wear it this year and its a size tooo big.
So i'm hoping i will never wear it again.

Not sure if i can bring myself to recycle it into a quilt ( probably too small anyway) and not woth getting altered ( only cost $100 AUS.)

Amber82479

Initially, I was going to donate mine to a resale shop for someone else to enjoy. However, my sister in law (who has the same father as my husband but different mother) lost her mother some years back. I didn't know if she had gotten anything from her mom when she passed, so I asked her if she'd like to have my dress - either to use a portion of it as her something old or to wear if she wanted. Much to my surprise she was thrilled and said she wanted it. In fact, she wore it this year for her wedding and I could not have been more touched or proud to see her walk down the aisle in it. We paid for the alterations as part of our wedding gift. I couldn't think fo anything better for that dress!

ccadroz93

My wedding dress was custom made for me by my mom. I had three different dresses that I liked different parts of. Brilliant seamstress that she is she was able tyo combine the 3 patterns and make the dress I wanted!! It was my cinderella dress and would be a great costume. I wore it one year as Glenda the Good Witch of the North-it was awesome!

I would love to get rid of it, but my mom has told me a million times how upset she would be for it to go anywhere after all the work she put into it...so it sits in its box in the back of the closet......would she really know if I donated it??? Probably not!

Crisitunity

Saved it to wear to other people's weddings (;

Kidding, I haven't done jack with mine. It's hanging in my closet.