I just cut up my wedding dress and I feel weird.

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Bit of a dramatic title, it's not a bad thing.

My marriage broke down 4 years ago after less than 3 years of marriage. He was emotionally abusive.

My daughters birthday is coming up and she asked for a mirabel dress.

Money is tight and everything in my price range was a bit rubbish but I bought one anyway and true to the reviews it's very thin shiny material that hangs weird.

I'm not terrible at sewing so I thought I could work with the basic dress and stitch in a petticoat to make it a bit more 'wow'.

Petticoats were more than I thought and I couldn't stretch the budget so I've just taken my dress out of storage and chopped out the very bottom 2 layers.

I feel odd, relieved or eurphoic. I can't place the emotion.

Empowered possibly.

Good for you!

Good for you. I want to cut up mine when I find it now, still living with stbxh.

Sounds like a great use for it!! A positive thing from something with negative connotations.
Clever you.

It is weird, isn't it! Personally I put both my dress and my wedding ring in the ordinary bin. It was wasteful, but the symbolic nature of it was so freeing!!!

I burnt mine - on a friend’s bonfire - with the friend’s permission.
I put the wedding album in the black bin…no drama just the most straightforward place to put it.

I also made mine into a halloween outfit, corpse bride thing. I dragged it through the garden so it looked like I had returned from the grave and put fake blood all down the front that came from my "slashed" throat.....obviously that wedding should have been on the "Worst Wedding" thread 😄

There are some great ideas here. You are so creative. Well done.

I had mine made. I was very pregnant. The material is very heavy satin or silk. Hopefully my kids will be able to use the material for theirs.

I think that's great actually. Turning such a negative thing into a much wanted gift for your DD. I think it says a lot about you as a person compared to the ex