What did you do with your wedding dress?
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Anonymous
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We've got very little storage space in our house. My wedding dress was a beautiful $3000 dress...but now I just don't k now what to do with it. I mean, its got sentimental value, but its not like it'll ever be worn again.
What did you do with your wedding dress? |
Anonymous
| I've seen many at yard sales and flea markets. |
Anonymous
I sold it to a consignment shop the day AFTER my wedding. Sold it for more than I bought it for 
Im not one to hold on to stuff for "sentimental" reasons. Memories yes, stuff - not really. Especially stuff I know I will never use again and lets be honest, the chances of your future daughter wearing it? I only know one person who did that. |
Anonymous
| It's hanging in my closet. Will probably wear it to a formal wedding this summer (and I have worn it probably 4-5 times since my wedding). It's a peach color and has spaghetti straps, and almost 10 years later I still love it! It cost about $300. |
Anonymous
| I had mine professional cleaned and then sold it on preownedweddingdresses.com. It sold for about half of what I paid within two weeks (this was 5 years ago.) I am a fairly standard size (and tall) and I had minimum alterations, so pretty much anyone could have it altered to fit them. |
Anonymous
| Mine is professionally cleaned and stored in a box in my basement. I won't get rid of it until I am done having kids b/c you never know if a daughter might want it or might want to use it to have a dress made. It was a beautiful classic dress and should stand the test of time. |
Anonymous
| You can sell it on recycled bride |
Anonymous
| Mine was a wedding gift from an aunt, who is a wedding dress designer. Custom made, It's been 20 years, and I am 4 sizes larger. Currently in a box on the top shelf of my closet. Hopefully DD will wear it one day. |
Anonymous
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Mine is in a garment bag shoved into a guest room closet. I don't think I'll sell it. For one, the zipper busted when my bridesmaids were zipping it up (just came off track- cheap zipper I guess) and my maid of honor had to sew it together so it would hold. At the end of the night, my husband literally cut me out of it. So the zipper is no good now. And I don't think my daughter will ever wear it, but it had some lovely flowered straps that I think she might like to use as a bouquet wrap or something one day. This is the dress:
http://www.recycledbride.com/listing/wedding-dresses/christos-brisa |
Anonymous
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Mine is hanging in the closet. It is pretty. I still love it. I bought it in 1997 and paid $400 for it -- it was the last one and it was a small size. I doubt my girls will ever want to wear it, but I don't want to get rid of it either.
I almost choke when I watch that show on TLC where people spend crazy sums on wedding dresses. I watched one the other night where she spend $13,000 on a dress. Why wouldn't you use the money as a down payment on a house? |
Anonymous
| I wore my mom's dress and it was a gorgeous beaded silk confection that I had altered a bit to bring it up to date. I think it's at my parents' house but I actually have no idea. |
Anonymous
| If it has sentimental value you could take a piece off (to keep for yourself or DD) and then find a place to donate it to a woman who cannot afford a dress. Sometimes I feel like donating "sentimental" items- and hoping that they can be sentimental for someone else- lessens the burden of carrying all that sentimentality around with me. I have no idea if that makes sense. |
Anonymous
| A friend of mine used her wedding dress as the material for her granddaughters christening gowns. They were able to get 2 or 3 dresses out of it. |
Anonymous
| So...we don't have a daughter...and aren't religious. I'm thinking of selling it but it feels awful to do. |
Anonymous
Pretty! |