NCR: What did you do/are you doing with your wedding gown?

septemberdc

I've been married 6 years this coming September. I didn't want to sell my dress after the wedding so I held onto it. It's been cleaned and sits pretty in the box corner of my basement. Fast forward to today...I have no idea what to do with it. It's too old to consign and I don't really want to donate it. DH's friend is a fashion designer so thinking of getting him to do something with it for me. 

 What did you do with your dress? 

abvernon

I was one of those ones you got it cleaned and preserved shortly after the wedding. I wanted to donate it but DH wanted me to do this so we can hand it down to one of Daughter, DIL or nieces.

Magdala9

I donated it to a group that provides dresses to soon - to - be military brides.

mamie&cc

I threw it away after about a year because I didn't really see a point in hanging on to it (I'm not a sentimental type person).

And the reason I threw it away vs. donating is because it was pretty dirty and had never been cleaned (mud from massive rains for days before our outdoor wedding) .

Ally

Mine is in a box in the basement.  This year we are going to renew our vows for our 10 year anniversary (in Vegas) so I am going to have it cut to knee length, refitted, and I am going to wear it.  People seem suprised at the choice to cut it, but no one else will want to wear it and I'll be happy to wear it again as a "new" dress.  My mom has taken up quilting in her retirment, I plan to give her what was cut off to add to a future quilt.

alithebride

its in a box folded and cleaned in the top of my closet. i'm not doing anything with it. i want to keep it.

Catalina17

I got married almost 2 years ago, mine still hanging in the garment bag in my closet.

thehomecook

It'll be 9 years in October and I never did anything with it. Didn't have it cleaned and didn't preserve it. It's sitting in the bag it came in over at my mom's house.

I should probably see how dirty it is and donate it. I don't see the point in hanging onto it. 

futurepivko

Mine is at my parents' house, I had it cleaned and preserved in one of those boxes with the clear front. I originally wanted to sell it, but H wants to keep it for sentimental value.

lovethebeach16

I still need to get it cleaned! I think I'm just going to donate it, cleaned or not, before we move in May because I have no idea what to do with it otherwise.

nestinginjapan

It's still in the plastic bag it came in, stored in a box in my parents attic (we stored a bunch of stuff there after we got married because we were moving to Japan). I should probably do something with it now that it's been 6 1/2 years! I'll definitely keep it. If I ever have a daughter (or at least a niece), I think it would be cool to show her.

TheBridesMom

I wore my mother's wedding dress, as did my aunt and my sister, so I can see the value in hanging on to something like that.

My daughter wore a dress that I made for her, that I am currently storing.  She is not having any more kids and only has boys, so she is trying to think of some way to repurpose the dress later.  For now, she wants to keep it as it is, to just admire now and then and reminisce.

My other daughter is divorced.  Her dress has been at my house for the past 10 years, and there was some damage, so I dyed it and used it to make a costume for a client.

 

If a dress is out of date or damaged with some parts still useful, theatre groups and dance companies would welcome them as a donation. 

thatgirlang

7 years in May and it's still hanging in the garment bag.

I got pregnant 3 months after our wedding and for a long time my goal was to fit into it again. I just wanted to wear it one more time, just because.  But now I don't really want to get quite that small again. (I'm 10 pounds away.) Oh well. I will always keep it though, for sentimental reasons.

TheMorrisseys

It is filthy dirty and in the gown bag at my parent's house somewhere. I should probably get it professionally cleaned...

Akhollywood85

Mine is sitting in a protected box after being cleaned.

I have looked into re-purposing it though, and the best idea I found was pillow case material. 

katem3277

Well, there have been two.  The first one was the more traditional wedding dress and it was cleaned, boxed and sitting at my parents house until I donated it after the marriage ended.  The 2nd time around I just wore a bridesmaid dress ordered in ivory.  That one is still hanging in my closet.  I am just going to hold on to it for now.  It's pretty simple and classic style so it may be useful to me or one of my girls someday.

blu-eyedwife

Catalina17:

I got married almost 2 years ago, mine still hanging in the garment bag in my closet.

This. Except change "almost 2" to "more than 5"

ryanj

I got mine cleaned and put into a box...I would like to someday get my child's Christening dress made out of my dress.

adelerose

dance717:

I got mine cleaned and put into a box...I would like to someday get my child's Christening dress made out of my dress.

This exactly. If I ever get past the mental images of how huge Jessica Simpson got while pregnant, and even want to have a kid!

moreace01

It's cleaned and "preserved" in a box at my mom's house (we have no room for storage). I want to keep it. I don't plan on having children ever, so no one to pass it down to, but I don't want to get rid of it.