random subject-my wedding dress, have u still got yours? thinking of digging it out and flogging

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Was looking at another thread. Its quite emotive, my dress has been sitting in a suit/dress bag for ten yrs. Its now in the loft, with his otfit, we have been divorced for about 4 months.

I feel it would be quite brave to get it out of the house, but a little part of me wants to hang on to it.

Just wondering what you girls did with yours.

My best mate, put hers in a binliner, and left it out for the dustman!!!

Must have been a very difficult thing to do.

Ignore it for a while, hide it out well out of your view but keep it until you are ready to dispose of it.

IMO when feelings are still a bit rhough you are tempted to destroy things attached to them. I have a friend who burned all the photos of a 15 years long relationship including her wedding photos, and now she highly regrets it, as those were the photos of all her teenage years and now she doesn't have anything to remind her of them particularly other friends and interesting places that were in the pictures, on top of that she is now in very good terms with her ex so it was a futile sacrifice!

In other hand, I was with a friend when her DH who she had already been separated from, told her on the phone he wanted a divorce. After all the shock, the tears, etc she ended the conversation by saying: "But I'm telling you, Isabel, if I ever get married again, I will use the same dress as I loved it!

Mine is still hung up in my wardrobe, it's been cleaned and I take it out each anniversary to see if it will fit, it doesn'tI am still married to DH though, I can see why you might not want to hold onto it anymore.

My Mom still has hers too, my Nanny sealed it in a bag on the day of the wedding and it hasn't been out of it since and she's been married for 38 years.

I sold mine 6 weeks after the wedding 3 years ago through '1stcallforwedding.co.uk' They took 25% of sale price - it cost £1700, sold for £900 and I got @ £600.

It was a beautiful silk satin sassi holford dress but we needed the money and I don't regret selling it.

My cousin's is still scrunched up in a suitcase 6 years on...

My Mum's was cut down and made into dress for me and my sisters.

How quickly did it take to flog it. I gave mine to the shop having never worn it over a year ago and heard nothing.

I have got one in my wardrobe, never worn, bought dreamily in a charity shop for a fiver when I was with DS1's father...it's a second hand 60's poplin thing with daisies all over it! Augh...

I don't know if I could even get away with it now, were a handsome prince to come along...I'm nearly 34!!! Shocking.

Sometimes I think it's a curse - bad luck just by having it there... meaning it'll never get worn!

My aunt runs a laundry at a convent (she is a nun) and people who havent got much money come to her to borrow clothes for weddings etc so I gave her my dress, shoes and veil so that someone else could use it....I hated to think of it getting all manky in the loft.

Really dont understand people who keep stuff like that....not like you would ever wear it again is it?????

I worked with a woman once whose daughter got married - £2500 designer dress (not kidding) unfortunately, the marriage fell apart after ony a few months - the last I heard the dress was lining the rabbit hutch!!

get rid of it!