To married ladies, what have you done with your wedding dress?

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Does yours still fit?
It was suggested a while back to make something practical with the material of the skirt but it's still in the berketex carrier. I get it out periodically to try on and take a photo every year but that's it.

Hanging in DH's wardrobe (have no space in mine ) and it still fits, even though I was 5 months pregnant with DS1 when we married.

FUnny - went to a hen do last weekend where the hen was the last one of us to tie the knot and we were discussing this and would we ever wear ours again.

A couple of us knew of the wedding dress balls, usually for charity (this is one link) and we all said we'd love to go to one. This article in the Telegraph is v.funny description of one such ball.

Mine is too big now as it had inserts put in to accommodate my 17week old bump; but I guess they could be removed again! It's in its box in my wardrobe - I have a vague plan to dye it later, some interesting shade of black/purple/green, like a starling's wing, and use it for fancy dress.

no white frock for me, a skirt and long jacket which I can still fit in, although I dd1 was 6 months old by then, so I'd already been through one pg.

Ah yes, the cake. Our wedding cake was made by a family member and when MIL was organising it she asked how many tiers we wanted. We randomly guessed two as a good number and she solemnly nodded and said "oh yes, the top tier for the Christening". We hadn't even decided that we wanted children at that point! But then DH's family are quite traditional and I know that a lot of people wondered if I was pregnant/planning to be shortly, as our engagement came out of the blue and years after we'd moved in together.

We were stupid enough to store the bottom tier at my Dad's house in the short term. And he kept eating it! I think that he had forgotten that we needed to send it out to people who couldn't come/who had sent gifts, or was too greedy to resist. So there was some creative slicing at the end to eke it out.

ok, this will sound really lame.

but i'm having the veil framed and hung over our bed.

the dress itself i'm having decorative cushions made out of to place on our the bed and our wedding shoes are on tiny floating shelves on our respective sides (his and hers) ... i know it's lame but seriously i spent a year looking for that dress and thousands of dollars to just donate my wedding dress/keep it in the trunk.

Sold it privately a few weeks after wedding.

My mother made hers into lampshades!
Mine is stuffed in trunk in garage.

In the wardrobe. I have worn it since (not white)and it still fits. Actually, I would throw it away but DH wants me to keep it.

I had mine dry cleaned and then sold it. Used the money to buy a stunnubg diamond ring. Much more use/reminder than shoving it away in a box

stunning

eandz Are you really displaying your shoes by your bed?! Doesn't that just mean you have a pair of men's black shoes on one side of the bed? Sorry, don't get it! Although think the idea of framing your veil is lovely

In a box in the attic (over 6 years). I havent taken it out as its packed up all nicely. I suspect I would still squeeze into it though why I would need to.

I did keep the top tier of the cake and we had it at the childrens christening (got all three done at once?)

lavienenrose,

i forgot to mention, i had an indian wedding. both of us thought the shoes were pretty cool (his looked like aladin shoes) and mine were encrusted in swaroski crystal like glass but un-wearable, so we managed to do the wedding barefoot (but as a tradition there were thick carpets of fresh rose petals wherever we went anyway) i should have thought about practicality vs aesthetics when we went shopping.

my wedding was in 1997, i am now divorced. the dress is in it's bag in the l oft, and like so many of you STILL hasn't been dry cleaned.

The vacccum cleaner we got as a wedding gift is still going, and has outlasted the marriage tho

We moved abroad after our wedding, so due to volume of luggage, I left my wedding dress at my parents' house. They moved house a few years later and I think it got dumped.

I would liked to have made a Christening robe with it

I would not still fit into it, btw.

mine is in the vegas wedding chapel where we got married -hired it on the day!

Mine's hanging in my mother's wardrobe. I go up and have a look when I'm at her house, because it reminds me of a very happy day.

Mine's in a box in the wardrobe along with the top half of my mother's wedding dress that she made herself. I might just be able to squeeze into mine (from 10 yrs ago), but I want to keep it, even if that is slightly Miss Haversham. Didn't wear a veil. I dyed the shoes to match a frock and wear them a lot, and my wire and plastic bead tiara is part of dd's dressing up box.

Mine will be in the washing machine in a couple of weeks, then ironed and hung up for me to model, under the influence of alcohol for my 18th wedding anniversary! I do it every year. Very sad, but it cost a lot of money and I want to get my moneys worth!

mine is under the bed. I nearly threw it away last time we moved but couldn't do it in the end. Neither of my daughters has ever wanted to use it for dressing up or even to try it on . It is now over 26 years old.

well, after leaving it on a train then being publically reunited with it via The Metro newspaper, I chucked it in the washing machine then hung it in a carrier in the wardrobe

I'm going to wear it a lot when I am old, Miss Haversham-stylee.

I love my dress, my mum and dad bought it me, which means a lot as they didn't have much money. My dad has since passed away so I couldn't bear to be parted with it. It is in a bag under the bed, not been cleaned but it is only a little dirty on the bottom. After two kids I am finally back down to my wedding weight, married in 2004, but it is still too night around the belly I will get back in it one day

Mine's in a Primark carrier bag in the wardrobe it wasn't exactly a big white wedding though - it's a fuschia pink cocktail dress!

squeakypop - I can't believe that your parents threw away your wedding dress.