Has anyone had a Christening gown made from their wedding dress?

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I know it's traditional, but doesn't seem to be very common these days.

I had thought that I'd dye my (very expensive) wedding dress and wear it for balls (yeah, like I go to a lot of those!), but I didn't, and now I'm a looooong way off fitting into it, so wondering whether to chop it up and get a dress made for dd's Christening in July.

Anyone done this before? Good decision/bad decision? More expensive and more hassle than just buying a dress, or worth it for a family heirloom?

is it?

nah got mine off the market.

got wedding dress in sale

My wedding dress is polyester (oh the shame) and I wouldn't really put a baby in it.

But then I wouldn't really want a 'christening gown' anyway - plain white rompers perfectly fine.

Should point out that dd is 15 months btw, so was thinking proper dress for her.

Has no-one else heard of this tradition ?

It's like the top tier of the wedding cake used to be used for the christening cake, but that's when people got married, than bam 9-12 mo later...baby.
There are so many lovely dressess out there and very reasonably priced these days, so no need unless you want it to be an heirloom for future generations. If your dress was very expensive, I'd sell it on ebay (that's where I bought my wedding dress) and use the money to get a nice christening gown for bub, as well as an outfit for you with some left over probably for treating yourself

I'd heard of it and in fact my gran did it...unfortunately the moths got to the dress over the years, so not quite the heirloom that was intended!!

aha, thought she was smaller

you could have a simple party dress made - would it matter that boys couldn't wear it?

TBH I'm always wary of staring 'heirloom' stuff like this - would I be cross if none of my children wanted their kids christened / none of my daughters wanted to wear my wedding veil etc?

Phew - at least I know I didn't make it up!

Guessing a made to measure dress wouldn't sell well on e-bay, esp as I didn't have it cleaned afterwards ?

That's a good consideration MrsB. There are already christening outfits from both sides of the family that dd was expected to wear, but because we've left it so late (v unsettled when young) she won't fit in them!

Right, think I'll be needing links to great christening dresses then!

re dresses on ebay - you'd be surprised. You could always put it on with a reserve if you don't want someone to get it for a tenner.

God I'd be gutted if someone got it for a tenner when it cost over £2k!

A friend of mine used leftover material from my wedding dress in a patchwork quilt for DS. It is absolutely gorgeous and he can still use it when he is older.

My wedding dress is deep green silk - can't quite imagine having dc2 christened in that

But I do think it's a lovely idea, and if I had a wedding dress of the white silk variety I would probably do it. (As it was, ds wore a lovely little white velour romper suit and white cotton bonnet).