If you’re divorced, what did you do with your wedding things?

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Just that really.

I’m slowly clearing the loft at my parents house and have come across the box containing my wedding things. I’ve been divorced a looooooonng time now and have no children to pass anything on to.

I have taken my vintage (think early 90’s puffy sleeved 😁) wedding dress and my silk, embroidered wedding court shoes (what was I thinking!) to the charity shop but there’s still things like wedding jewellery, photos, wedding album, guest book & cards etc to deal with.

Some of the photos and cards are of from loved ones that are no longer with us so I’m unsure what to do with them.

Please share what you did with yours?

Chuck it away

I donated the dress and veil to a charity that makes funeral dresses for babies 😢. Threw shoes and keep sakes and wedding album although there’s still a few photos in our family albums. I did this about 8 years after we split though until then it was in the loft. The loft clear out was to buy a house with my bf.

I kept my dress because my mum made it-it’s in the loft in a box and will probably stay there till I die 🤣
Because I still got on well with my ex’s family, I gave ex mil all the photos of their family, answered kept the ones of my own. It’s nice to have good photos of people who are no longer here.
I think the cards must have been chucked when we got divorced

Got rid of the cards and kept my shoes, dress and headpiece for my dd. Just so she could see them.

What about wedding & engagement rings?

I kept the photos. The dress, veil, and shoes went to a charity shop. I binned the cards. I gave the wedding ring and engagement ring to a family member who needed some cash.

Not divorced myself, but a friend had her engagement and wedding rings made into a fancy ring she wears on the other hand.

My ex destroyed my wedding dress, so it went into the trash

photos and such are in a box. Those are about more than just my ex. Some of my favorite family photos are in there. The absolute best photo ever taken of my grandmother was taken at my wedding. I’m not my marriage ending take that away from me.

I want to sell my engagement ring - Tiffany’s platinum band with solitaire diamond. Cost almost £3000k but the most I’ve been offered is £900 which seems crap so it’s just sitting in a drawer.

Everything went on the bonfire with every possession my husband had (all of which I paid for) the day I had proof he was cheating. Together with all the wedding things

I still have my dress but only because I dont want to pay to get it cleaned. I want to donate it to the charity that makes little gowns for still born babies. I have kept my rings but dont wear them, Im in 2 minds as to whether to get them made in to something else or give them to my daughter when shes older, but they weren't exactly lucky! I still my wedding album, but only because I spent money on it I'm loathed to throw it out burn it

I cut my wedding ring in half with a bolster and gave it to Oxfam

Wedding ring weirdly flew off my finger in a cab on late night, so said to the cabbie there’s a ring in here it’s yours

My ex has those…

I divorced 20 years ago but only a couple of years ago got round to selling them to a reputable family jeweller, along with some other stuff.

I didn't keep them for sentimental reasons as such, they were just in the drawer and one day I decided to get rid.

Only the wedding photo album survives and I expect that will be chucked before too long.

Photo album is in the loft - every so often I come across it and show it to my DS. I still wear the engagement ring sometimes on my right hand - I chose and still like the ring. Wedding ring I'll probably sell or give away soon as I'm mid Swedish Death Clean. Dress was my mother's so I think I gave it back to her, and then she gave it to a charity that makes wee gowns for still born and deceased babies.

I still have my wedding and engagements rings but only because I have very little jewellery and I will pass them down to my daughters.
I still have my wedding dress but only because I had it made with the lace from my mother's wedding dress.
I still have my wedding photos in an album, but only because my children may like to have them. Their father is important to them. The album is in a storage box in the shed - I'm not interested in having it around.

Rings sell. The cards from deceased love ones is a bit harder and I am not sure what to suggest. Maybe some kind of scrap book with the love Auntie Ann. The photos I would scan. There are some wonderful groups on Facebook who can edit photos well. They could move your ex and if you wanted alter your dress so it just looks like a party photo.