Poll - wedding gown

ragazza19

What did/are you planning to do with yours?

I had been going back and forth on donating it, making a quilt or pillows out of it or preserving it.  I pulled it out of the back guest room closet on Friday and a little 2 year old girl saw it and her eyes got as big as silver dollars and her jaw hit the ground in amazement.  She said, "wow beautiful princess dress".  So I spread it out on the floor and let her step into it.  She did not move, just stood there admiring herself.  I put the tiara on with it and she started saying "where's the Beast?".  LOL too funny so I had to grab my camera.



Guess this answers my question of what I will be doing with my dress.  Keeping it and playing pretty princess dress up in it.  :-)

nicoleg1982

It's hanging in the closet, jelly stain still on the butt and leaves clinging to the hem.  I think I'm going to have it cleaned in the near future and sell it.

ChangeOfPace

I sold mine.  I did save my veil in case my daughter wants to use it someday.  I'm not a particularly sentimental person when it comes to physical objects so recouping some money was worth it to me.

That's so wonderful that you got some sweet pictures of Ava in your dress.

babybchbum

I'm wanting to do a back in the dress session for our anniversary(that is if I can still fit in my dress after Little Man arrives.)

After that I will probably have my dress preserved along with my mom's and my grandmothers. I am hoping one day I will have a craft/girls room and will be able to have them frames and hung on the wall.

MrsMEW

Ava just kills me. She is so sweet!

I haven't done anything with mine yet, not even cleaned it. Shame. I don't plan on getting rid of it, though. I am ridiculously sentimental about things and want to keep it. I don't have any delusions that my future daughter may wear it someday or anything, but I remember having experiences similar to Miss Ava when my mom pulled out her dress when I was little, and if that's all the use it gets from here on out, that's enough for me.

Aidens__mommy

Aiden calls mine a princess dress too! lol I did the TTD but now I'm not sure what to do with it lol.

briezygator

I still have mine handing in the closet.  It's been about 2 1/2 years since our wedding and I still haven't gotten it cleaned (shame!).  I was hoping to do a back in the dress/trash the dress session, but since my dress is too big for me now, I'd have to get it altered to take pictures.  DH actually brought up the idea that we should get pictures taken to celebrate my hard work losing weight, and I brought up the BITD/TTD idea and he said he'd be more than willing to pay for the alterations if that's what I wanted, so yay! 

After that, I'll probably just get it cleaned and preserved.  I doubt my daughter (if I have one) would want to wear it, but maybe she can use pieces of it for something (like to wrap her bouquet or for trim or whatever).  Plus I'm sentimental when it comes to this stuff (I still have my prom dress!) so I can't see getting rid of it.

lj_n_tj24

I still have mine hanging in my Woman Cave (DH has a Man Cave, I have one too lol) Its our spare bedroom (future baby room). I have yet to get it cleaned and we're going on our 3rd year anniversary in May lol. Since, I'm on my journey to weight loss I plan to get some photos done wearing it (hopefully it fits) kinda like a trash the dress photoshoot but not really trashing it because I would feel too bad, After that I might be able to finally get it cleaned, we'll see.

cliffswife_721

Mine is hanging in our guest room closet, I thought about getting it preserved but still want to do a TTD session...

Floridamom224

Mine is hanging in my closet.  Havent cleaned it yet, but it didnt get very dirty.  I actually have a friend who may wear it in her wedding.  She won't even have to alter it.  So, that is great.  She came over and tried it on the other day and it was so much fun.  I too had a moment with my moms wedding gown AND my grannys gown when I was a little girl.