What did you do with your wedding dress?

[littlegingerone]

I recently got married and I'm just trying to decide what to do with my wedding dress now. I thought about selling it on though unsure how easy that would be as I'm only 5'1 so, might be a niche market for it! I looked at getting it cleaned and boxed which is around £175/200.
Just wondered what other people ended up doing with theirs and if there are any other options I'm missing?

Following with interest. The house we have just bought came with a free wedding dress (amongst all sorts of other junk!). Will charity shops take a wedding dress that hasn’t been cleaned? This one is huge gown with a train but it has make-up on the back and stains down the front. I’m damned if going to pay to clean someone else’s wedding dress so I don’t really know what to do with it. It would be a complete waste just to chuck it!

Mine was dry cleaned and now in a bag in the loft.

I'm not massively sentimental & pretty good at not hanging onto things but it was made by dm (35yrs ago) and I can't quite bring myself to let it go, she also made all the christening outfits for the dc's, also still in the loft! All are in the most beautiful silk.

@Caminante i think she would be very pleased to know that something by she made you with such love and care has gone on to make a beautiful outfit for someone else’s much loved child at a difficult time. Take comfort in knowing her creation helped others too.

It was moved from one loft to this one - it has been in a loft for 26 years now.

Wore mine 25 years ago, it is a one off design in raw slubbed silk with lace appliqué on the bodice. It’s in a bag in the loft, I have always said I will get cremated or buried in it. A woman I worked with burnt hers on her BBQ when her divorce was finalised!

Mine is on display in my dressing room

Either try to sell it while it’s still in fashion/good condition, give to Oxfam or there is this:
www.littleangelgowns.org/about

Mine wasn’t really a wedding dress. I have worn it twice since. It probably is getting tight.

I donated it to a charity that turns them into gowns for stillborn babies.

I left mine in old the family home when me and the kids moved away from my abusive ex. A reminder of what he lost from being a dick head

Sold mine about a week later. I sort of wish I still had it… but I expect it would have been attacked by moths or whatever and be ruined. So at least someone else got the enjoyment and I got double what I paid for it.

Sold it and bought a dog. This dog 🥰 she's so worth it

I gave it to a charity shop. The look on their faces when I unboxed it in front of it was just perfection!!!

Mine’s in a cupboard. I can’t sell or donate it as the overlayer got ripped on the day and it doesn’t have any lace or decoration that could be repurposed. May well get binned in the next house move…

Mine's in a box. Would love to wear it again - I do am dram, so hoping it may get an airing on stage and I'd be happy to see someone else in it.
I won't sell it as it only cost me £80 in the first place, and my mum altered it to fit, but it seems such a waste stuck in a box!

Mine was very small, very flouncy and 25 years ago, went in the DCs dressing up box. I just can't tell you how many little boys and girls paraded around in it! Many fantastic pretend weddings and receptions, posh balls, princesses, queens and fairies! Years of fun and joy until it was just a bundle of rags!

Gave it to a charity shop, no point hoarding it.

My friend donated hers to Cherished Gowns who make clothes for babies born sleeping.

I nearly had it altered to knee length and dyed but in the end I decided to give it to a charity shop.

I had mine cleaned and it's in a box in the wardrobe. It seems wrong to get rid of it although logically I'm never going to do anything with it except look at it occasionally!

I got married about a month before lockdown (blissful ignorance of what was to come) and sold it on StillWhite when I got back from honeymoon. Sold it for more than I paid for it too which was fab!

Mine was cheap and pretty simple, it ended up in a suitcase in my nans attic until she died.
I took it home- dyed it blue, rehemmed it and added some black lace and my daughter wore it as a costume in a school play. We left it at the school after and she says it has been used in a few more plays since.

I kept mine and it stayed bagged and didn't see the light of day until we got divorced and the house was sold and just chucked it on the pile for the charity shop during the clear out.

If I'd had any sense I would have sold it on asap, while it was still "in"

I recently got mine out of the loft to show dd as she is getting married next year. It was too out of fashion for her to wear but I thought I could make something out of it. However, I was disappointed that it had quite a nasty stain on it so I couldn’t really sell it or give it to charity and I couldn’t get the stain out.
dd2 has cut it up and made me two lacy pillowcases which I love and is also going to make me a little bag.

I was torn between wearing something I knew I'd wear again (as in a lovely dress not a wedding dress) and a proper wedding dress.

I went for a chain store wedding dress - cost me £70 in the sale. I gave it to a charity shop the week after. I didn't find that hard at all!

We are still married - but If I ever get married again I'm going for a lovely non wedding dress I'll wear again.

My mum's 1950s wedding dress was spectacularly lovely and had been hand made for her - tiny waist. Neither me nor my sister could fit into it after the age of about 18.

We kept it till we cleared her house out when she died a few years ago. I think at some point there'd been talk of turning it into a christening robe but that never happened.

50 years of it sitting in a wardrobe.

Had mine made into both a christening gown and then a holy communion dress for DD.