What did you do with your wedding dress

[Motherofmonsters]

Hi,

My DH doesn't understand why I want to keep my wedding dress but it's just something I want to do.

It got my wondering if other people kept there's and what they did with it

It’s in the wardrobe. I haven’t a hope of ever fitting into it again, it’s now an out of fashion style so it’s not worth selling and I can’t imagine my daughter will want it but I’m loath to part with it for some reason (and I’m not normally sentimental about stuff).

It's in the cupboard. God knows why, but it is! Maybe DD will want to do something with it for her prom. 🤷‍♀️

I sold it on ebay starting at 99p and it went for £4.20!!

It was a Tiffany Rose maternity wedding dress though and i dont think there is much call for them

In the loft at my mum and dads, where it’s been for 22 years.

I may also have my prom dress still but I have agreed to maybe get rid of that one. Ah so I'm not the k my one whose kept it just because

Had mine dyed and wear it as a "posh" party dress (it's a 50s style tea dress).
DM got rid of hers last year when her and dad sold my childhood home, it'd been sat in the wardrobe 29 years.

Mine's sitting in a wardrobe - it's a blue bridesmaid dress and I did wear it once since I got married, but it doesn't fit me anymore. DD might want to wear it some day, though I think by the time she could fit into it she'll probably be bustier than me the wat things are going, so doubt it will actually fit her! It's a nice keepsake and I don't have to be super precious about it as it's not like it's very expensive or anything.

I donated mine to Oxfam - they have specialist bridal stores around the UK. I was going to keep it but figured it would end up mouldy/ mildewy/moth-eaten and I'd have to throw it way eventually. I thought I might as well give someone the chance to buy a cheap designer dress, plus donate to charity at the same time. I'm glad I did now. But then I'm not particularly sentimental!

Left it in the wardrobe, then put it on again for the day of our 20th wedding anniversary!

I kept mine for a few years, but then DM suggested I donate it to the Sue Ryder charity shop which had a wedding dress section iirc. which I gladly did. I've got the photos (and the DH over 30 years later) , better the dress raised money for charity and was used by someone else rather than taking up wardrobe space.

I gave mine to charity. I kept lots of smaller things from our wedding though like the pillars from the cake and the ribbon from the car.

Mine has been in the wardrobe for 16 years.

I got divorced after a couple of years. Didn't want to keep it, didn't want to bin it, didn't feel like a good omen to sell it.

I found a charity locally who take wedding dresses and use the fabric to make gowns and blankets for babies who have passed away at or soon after birth. Thankfully they don't need many dresses so don't advertise that they accept them but were grateful for mine and I was grateful to have found a useful and poignant home for it.

My mum sold my big white wedding dress about 6 months after my wedding, (she did ask me first). She had bought it from a chinese website and she altered it to fit me so it was only a few 100 quid. The veil was more expensive, bought that from a bridal shop in UK and she still has it somewhere.
I think my mum got most of her money back when she sold the dress. I'm not sentimental about it though, so it was easy to part with, I've got nice photos, that's enough.
I had a 2 day wedding with a Chinese tea ceremony on the second day and I still have the red and gold qipao from that day cos it's actually a practical dress I could wear again for a fancy night out.

As far as I'm aware it's still in the suitcase in the attic where it's been for the past 30 years.

Wore it for a wedding dress ball a few years ago, and loved it just as much as the first time I wore it! Currently stored in the attic!

2 marriages. Sold the first dress when my decree absolut came through. Still married to my 2nd husband, so still have the dress. Although it's not a bridal gown as the first one was. It's rather lovely though, so I imagine I'll wear it again at some point.

Mine is being stored in my in husbands old bedroom in my in laws house. They are brilliant storers and have kept most of my husbands games/toys from childhood that our kids now play with.
I’ll just keep it and let my daughter dress up in it one day.

Donated it to a charity shop.

Mine was a red velvet skirt, worn with a fitted black top.

The skirt was a sort of 'valance' around successive dc's Moses basket for a few years (we were a bit goth) then ended up in the cat basket, I think.

I was quite pregnant on my wedding day so it was super stretchy & unlikely to be worn again...

Mines is in a box in the attic and has been there for the last 13 years. I did think about selling and my DH didn't want me to. Not sure why I keep it as don't think I'll ever fit into it again.

Mine sat in the top of my wardrobe for a few years and went an unattractive yellowy colour (it wasn't a trad wedding dress but wasn't cheap either, around 600 IIRC). After ex-H and I split I asked a charity shop if they wanted it and they said yes, because someone might buy it and dye it, but I think they were optimistic!

I do love the idea of keeping a very special dress, though. A friend of mine fairly recently got married in her great-aunt's dress and the pictures are gorgeous - it's a 1950s one and looks amazing.

Mine’s with a seamstress waiting to be made into a christening gown for our much longed for baby. 3 years later and I’m not holding out much hope but that’s another story!

I kept it until I had DD and then used the skirt to make her Christening gown.

I don't know, I think it's at my parents house (it's not here) but they don't think they've got it either. It's a cocktail style so could easily be at the back of a wardrobe somewhere forgotten about.