To sell my wedding dress

[Auds1967]

Acrimonious divorce.

Do I keep it for DD or sell?
Feel weird whatever I do either way

Or give to a charity that makes dresses for babies that are still born.

Just thinking the same about mine. Where is a good place to sell it?

I'm going to wear DP's mum's dress when I get married

Why don't you ask your DD whether she would want it and then make a decision based on that?

When I was considering either selling my dress or dying it black to get more wear out of it a couple of years ago, DD asked me not to because she was planning on wearing it for her wedding. My dress was not a classic style and you couldn't pin it down to a particular period / age so she could definitely wear in years to come if she so chooses.

I don't think many daughters will want to wear their mother's wedding dress or is that a thing? I've heard of wearing special garments or jewellery from their mom or nan but full wedding dresses? Especially that will have memories of an acrimonious divorce? Sell it and either buy yourself something nice or like others have said put it into a wedding dress fund for your daughter.

Ah NorfolkingTime answered my question lol.

No need to be if that's what you want then that's what you want, it doesn'tmatter about anybody else!

I donated mind to a charity who turn them into beautiful outfits for still born babies to be buried in.... When I first heard about it thought it sounded odd but when I researched it etc I thought it was a lovely thing to do....

Can't see why not. Your daughter may not want to get married and if she does will probably want her own outfit. If I ever got married I'd probably do it in jeans and a t-shirt anyway.

They sound like a nice charity HardplaceandRock in such awful circumstances.

Sell it if you need the money. Donate to Oxfam or to one of the charities who make gowns for stillborn babies out of donated wedding dresses. If you are sentimental, keep a small piece of your veil or something to be sewn into your DD's dress as her 'something old'.

I gave mine to Oxfam although I'm keeping my engagement ring to give to DD (it wasn't her dad that gave it to me!)

They really are, I did a lot of reading about it and just thought it was an amazing thing to do and a way of helping at a time in someone's life when everyone must feel so helpless.

DD is pre school so probably wouldn't get a reliable answer.

Stbxh has left me in a lot of debt so preference would be to sell but think it was over 1k new - doubtful I'd recoup that.

I think those charities sound pretty amazing

Get what money you can for it and put towards the debt. You might get £300-£400.

My daughter wore my wedding dress, it had a little alteration here and there, but nothing big. later it was made into christening gowns for my granddaughters.

I think it's wrong to presume someone so young will necesarily get married or want to wear a specific wedding dress if they do. I appreciate most people will want to marry but plenty including myself have little desire to.

We were broke when young and had small DC . DB was living in NYC and I wanted to visit so sold dress ( which I loved but was never going to wear again) and buggered off on my own and had a fab time.

Still have shoes and veil but doubt they will ever be used again.

OP, do you have an engagement ring to sell if you are in debt?

Sell it. Even if she is sentimental, its, unlikely you'll both be the same dress size and it will still be fashionable.