To ask what you have done with your wedding dress?

[Merryoldgoat]

Just that really. All my friends have kept theirs but I’m not very sentimental (but still very happily married!) so wondered if anyone had any innovative ideas?

It’s not very fashionable so selling it or even giving it away isn’t likely to be that successful.

It’s satin so the fabric is solid rather than lace.

It’s currently taking up a lot of space in my son’s wardrobe and I really want to declutter a bit.

Cushions? Seems a bit twee. Anywhere I can donate?

I donated mine to The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, they organise and fund weddings for terminally ill people.

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It's really something that seems to be led by volunteers and from first hand experience I know mums and dads who have lost their little one would be very touched by a beautiful satin angel robe.

I would favour that over oxfam personally as the second hand dress market seems to be quite full 🤷‍♀️☺️

It’s funny - my mum let us cut hers up for dolls clothes or something like that, I would never have worn it BUT now it’s very cool again and my DD’s would so I think it needs to skip a generation for fashion. Long time though

My late DM made hers, with help from her own mother. Then the fabric was cut down so that I could enter a fancy dress competition as a debutante. With a pink netting overskirt and pink patches, I wore it again in a production of "The Princess and the Pea".
It was a popular item in the dressing up box, then, when i became a teacher, it went into the school drama cupboard. With the pink overskirt removed, it has featured on more than one angel's back in Nativity plays.

Mine's in the wardrobe, but then it's a non-white maxi dress that I could conceivably wear to another special occasion.

OP can we see it? ☺️

@Knobhead101 (amazing name 🤣)

I’ll see if I can find one online

I gave mine to my local chapel. They had it made into a First Communion dress for kids that can't afford to buy one.
I received a picture of a beautiful little girl on her special day. The dress looked stunning. The dress is given back and the next year someone else will get to wear it.

I sold mine for £300 the year after I got married so it was still fashionable. I'm not sentimental about things really.
I've seen someone put theirs in a huge box frame and display it in her dressing room

Mine is all wrapped and stored at my parents’.

I sometimes have a look at it to remind me how lovely and thin I was. I weighed 8 stone and now weigh almost 10!

Mine was swiss cotton, sort of lace woven in stripes, I made it myself so a very simple style, like a sundress, I dyed it pale green afterwards and wore it to parties, (1970s so a bit hippy looking) I loved it.

It's in my mums loft 🙈

@queenMab99 that sounds beautiful!

It was this dress. I was a size 20/22 when I got married, with massive norks so needed a bit of structure and couldn’t consider strapless.

I felt lovely in it and had a wonderful day.

Framed mine.

I know someone who got divorced and then donated it to a Zombie experience to be worn as a costume...

When I divorced my husband due to DV, I had a bonfire in the back garden and burned both my dress and the wedding photos.

I gave my 2k dress to Air Ambulance charity.

@Merryoldgoat oh that's lovely! Amazed no one took it at £50!

I want to sell mine but it needs a clean first. It's quite plain and simple though so I'm not sure it would get very far!

@Fritilleries

I sold mine in ebay for half its original price.

Same here. Sometimes get a twinge of regret in case DD wants to see it someday, but mostly I'm fine with the decision. I needed the cash and I also really wanted someone else to get a bargain and have a special day in it again.

First one - no idea.

Second one - went to charity shop after caught him cheating.

Third one is upstairs and I'm looking forward to wearing it again sometime because it is the loveliest. It's a medieval-styled green velvet number so opportunities may be few and far between but I'm hoping.

I kept mine for a while for no good reason, then at DM's sensible prompting donated it to the Sue Ryder shop. It was an 80s Pronuptia 'meringue', but did have nice lace long sleeves&bodice.

Gave mine away, was on a wedding forum and someone had ordered a dress from China that hadn't arrived in time. Turned out she lived fairly locally so I gave her mine. I was quite happy that it got to be worn more than once.

I sold mine to a local wedding shop for about half the price it cost. I was living in a flat in London so couldn't have stored it, and didn't want to lumber my parents.

I'm very unsentimental. I have the photos to enjoy it and, as my parents bought it for me, it was nice to give them some money back.

I burned mine.

I had mine made into a Teddy bear along with my husbands waist coat.