To throw my wedding dress away?

[Katieweasel]

I'm having a massive declutter before redecorating a couple of rooms. My wedding dress has been packed away in a pretty box on top of my wardrobe for the last 15 years. It's taking up space and I'm not sentimental about it. I was thinking of giving it to a charity shop but while it was beautiful, and very on trend back then, I can't imagine anyone would want to wear it now. It seems wasteful to throw it away. Any suggestions?

Ps... I'm divorced. I might have either kept it or sold it otherwise but felt that selling a dress from a marriage that lasted less than 2 years could be a bad omen for the buyer! In the end I'm very glad that it went to a good cause.

My best friend framed hers and hung it on the wall as you come up the stairs!

Mine is hung on my bedroom wall!

Oxfam have a specialist bridal shop, now selling online:

onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/shop/bridal

Offer it for free on Facebook or donate to a local charity shop.

My 1975 'hippyish' wedding dress has been in the dressing up box for over 40 years.
It's been a favourite of DC's DGC's and hopefully soon to be DGGC's.
It cost £15 from C & A and it's the most worn frock in the house of maras

I didn't like my dress - even at the time and I don't have happy memories of the day. No one ever asks a man if they have kept their wedding suit do they.

The charity making outfits for stillborn babies is a beautiful idea though.

Someone will want it, sell it.

My kids play in mine

I always wanted to try on my
Mums wedding dress as a kid and she had borrowed it so didn't have it - I've kept mine for my dd- I may actually get it out for her to try on again soon - once the building work has stopped lol 😆

@maras2

My 1975 'hippyish' wedding dress has been in the dressing up box for over 40 years. It's been a favourite of DC's DGC's and hopefully soon to be DGGC's. It cost £15 from C & A and it's the most worn frock in the house of maras

Agree

@JemimaPyjamas

Mine is hung on my bedroom wall!

Can you share a pic? Is it framed or ?

I gave mine to the local charity shop and had quite a start one day when walking past. They'd put the damn thing on a mannequin in the front window.
Apparently they sold it to the woman working in the pharmacy next door but on. Good riddance to the bloody dress.

I wore my mother's wedding dress nearly 30 years after she did. Do you have any DD who might one day want to do the same?

I'm glad I tried my mums on when I was young, I wouldn't get it on these days!

I'm glad you're going to give it to a charity.

I was going to suggest AnDram, but the baby ones are a better idea!

Donate it to a charity shop, ebay it or offer it on freecycle/freegle/nextdoor.

@LG101

You can donate it to a charity for sleeping babies. They turn the wedding dresses into amazing little outfits for still born babies.

If I ever got rid of mine that’s what I would like to do with it

I did this - never regretted it.

It can be recycled. Please don't add it to landfill.
Someone somewhere would love it. Try Ebay?

Whatever you do, don't put in into landfill.

Would love to see a pic of the dress!

Keep it. My mother got married in 1971, in a dress that was considered fashionable for maybe 3 years. She destroyed her dress. Both I and my daughter have felt upset about this fact (and she dyed it, then cut it before I was even born). It's a style that would have suited my daughter (who is now thinking about marriage).

If it's in a box, or a vaccum pack, it's not going to take up much space (my aunt's was in her wardrobe - and that was a 1980s merangue!)

What is it with referring to stillborn babies as sleeping babies or babies born sleeping? As a parent who had a stillborn child I find it really irritating when people use twee euphemisms like that. I would much rather people recognised the reality that the baby is dead.

Obviously I know everyone is different and presumably this phraseology wouldn't be a thing if some people didn't prefer it.

And I echo those who say to donate the dress. It would be a shame to dump it.

I never got my wedding dress cleaned after my wedding so it has some grass stains etc around the bottom. Wedding was 10 years ago and am now divorced, would like to get rid of the dress but don’t see how I can donate if dirty. Don’t really want to spend money on cleaning and it might be impossible now as the stains will be so ingrained.... What should I do?!

@OchonAgusOchonO Apologies, I didn't mean to cause any offence and will bear in mind for future. Sorry for your loss x

@HowFastIsTooFast - thank you.

I'm not offended. I tend to assume people generally mean well .