Wedding dress - what should I do with it?

[mypurplelife]

I've been separated 18 months and divorced for 6 and DD and I have just moved in to our own place. All my stuff has been in storage and I've finally got round to clearing it all out and sorting what I wanted to keep and what I want to get rid of.

The last thing in there was my wedding dress and I've no idea what to do with it. I can't store it here as we have very little storage and it's in a huge box but it just feels so wrong to dump it. It was hand made for me over 10 years ago so selling it on isn't really an option. It has sentimental value in so much that it was bought for me by my parents as a gift which also leaves me in two minds about what to do with it.

So my question is what did you do with your wedding dress after divorce? Ooh and what about the wedding album and engagement ring and wedding ring???!!

Mine went in the dustbin.

Are you crafty? Could you make it into something else? I am making soft toys out of old baby clothes at the moment. Not sure what the fabric is and what would be suitable.

I like what enid did.

Do what ever will make you happy.
Took me years to decide what to do with mine.
This was the important bit.... I didn't want to make a haste decision, so it stayed in the bottom of a wardrobe for about 6 years !

Do what ever will make you happy.
Took me years to decide what to do with mine.
This was the important bit.... I didn't want to make a haste decision, so it stayed in the bottom of a wardrobe for about 6 years !

I sold my wedding ring for more than I paid for it - price of gold must have gone up.

Gave wedding dress to oxfam (there's one with a bridal section in my nearest town)

Still have engagement ring as obviously a lot of other people had the same sort when I got mine and no one wants to buy it. Feel it would he wrong to sell it for the gold (is a diamond solitaire)

My DD wants to wear my dress.
I think when the time comes she won't and I've made it very clear that I think she should get her own but at the moment she's insistent.
My dress was at my mum and dads now it's in DD wardrobe taking up way too much room.
She also has a look through the wedding album every now and then.
The rings in the bottom of a jewellery box somewhere.
My older sister has dibs on my engagement ring as she loves it.
Suppose I should dig it out really and give it to her.
Not sure DD would be best pleased though!