- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
Eco-Friendly Family
CeltiCutie
member
NEFR: Did you keep or sell your wedding dress?
CeltiCutie
member
I keep seeing my wedding dress just sitting in the closet and it's
driving me nuts. I think to myself "I could sell that and probably make a
good bit of money" but then I think "ugh it's my wedding dress and what
if Addison wants it?" then I think "I would NEVER wear my mother's
dress why would she want to?"
I keep going back and forth... just wondering what other ladies did. I just HATE useless clutter and that's what I feel it is, but then I am sentimental so I keep holding onto it for that reason. Plus it's SO beautiful.... LOL
I keep going back and forth... just wondering what other ladies did. I just HATE useless clutter and that's what I feel it is, but then I am sentimental so I keep holding onto it for that reason. Plus it's SO beautiful.... LOL
This discussion has been closed.
Re: NEFR: Did you keep or sell your wedding dress?
I hear you. We didn't use my dress for the actual wedding, but for our vow renewal on our 1 year anniversary so there's that too.
I may end up selling it. It's nothing special, and it doesn't hold much sentimental value for me. The dress I wore to the courthouse does though. At least it takes up less space!
My dress was beautiful, but cost less than $100. (Store was going out of business and I didn't even know until I checked out and the price didn't match what was on the tag- SCORE!)
Anyhow, I keep it in my back closet on a hanger. I never even got it cleaned, as the cleaning would cost more than the dress.
I LOVED playing dress up in my mom's dress, so I figured I'd hang onto it for my little girl to dress up in!
It is still hanging in the closet of my old room back home. We didn't have room to take it back with us. I was going to get someone to make it into a baptism dress for DD, however my neighbor fell in love with it and hopes when her DD get married she will wear it I'm not 100% sure how her DD feels about it. I'm sure she will not be getting married for few years but I left it as she may want to wear it.
If she doesn't use it I will make it into a dress down the road for DD.
My dress is hanging up in the closet at my parent's house where I took it off the night of our wedding!! I've actually worn it again since then. My wedding photographer is doing a series of his past brides and what their dress means to them now
I don't know what will happen to my dress. I'm not having a daughter so that's out, I doubt my younger sister will want to wear it, but I still can't bring myself to get rid of it. I love it so much!
Here is a picture from the series:
I kept it, largely because it was relatively risque, tailored to fit me (and so it would be unlikely to fit anyone else), and I didn't want to go through the trouble of selling it. It was unique, and I am under no delusions that a future child might want to wear it, and that's totally fine with me. I never played dress up in my mom's, because it was damaged in a flood, so I don't even have a pull to use it that way.
Because I don't want it to just sit there, and it does have some pretty embellishment, I'll be making Bugbear a christening blanket from mine, since we already have a family heirloom christening gown. I know that SIL is having her DD's First Communion dress made from her wedding dress, which could be another way to reuse it.
Mother's Day, 2011
LOVE those pics!!!
Ya I dunno... I know it'd be hard to get rid of it, but I just don't see the point of keeping it. We don't attend church so Baptism stuff is out.... ugh.
TTC since Jan 07. Dx with PCOS Jan 08
Mine was a simple dress (we eloped) that I ended up dyeing and have actually gotten to wear it several more times...
11 months
I was all for selling it but my dh is the one who begged me not to. He is super sentimental about stuff like that and he actually choked up when I told him I was thinking of selling it. So...it sits in the attic. I don't expect Kate to wear it ever as a wedding gown but who knows what the kids might want to do with it.
It's preserved on a box at my parents. I wanted to keep it, but not enough to fly it over the ocean (already did that once for the wedding!)
I couldn't bear to part with it. Plus I'm so short no one else could have worn it really. I have a tiny hope that my daughter would want to wear it (severely altered, fine with me). Otherwise it could be sewn into something else. Who knows.
I kept it. I had no desire to wear my mother's dress (nor would it have fit me), but I loved being able to see it. Right before I got married, she took it out of her box. My little sister (who is tiny) tried it on. It was a really cool moment. Then and there I decided I would keep mine for my daughter, just so she could see it.
I did, by the way, wear my mother's veil, so I'm glad she kept it.
<a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/putalittlepolkainyourdot/?action=view
I have mine still hanging in the closet. It would be kind of hard to sell because it was custom made for my body -it was either buy the $600 dress at Davids and have them take it down a size or get the knockoff from ebay for $200 that was custom made. I went with the ebay dress. I love it- can't part with it.