August 2012 Weddings
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What will you do with your dress?
My dress is out being preserved and won't be back for a while but I am thinking about what to do with it. It makes me sad to think it'll sit in a box for the rest of its life. Part of my wants to frame it like on Real Housewives. My house isn't too big but I like having sentimental and meaningful art and I think I could find a place for it. I know I'd never get even close to what I paid to make it worth saying goodbye.
What are your plans for your dress?
Re: What will you do with your dress?
Yeah, now the more I think about it I don't want to frame it either. I just wish it wouldn't live in a box for the next thirty years, to maybe show a daughter someday, or maybe not.
Preserving it, I think, will just clean and repair it and box it so you can safely store it. I won't be hanging mine, I'll keep it in the box, because it would take up too much of my closet!
Yay! I'll follow you!
lol I wanted it so bad, but I didn't have a kitchen when it was in stores
Mine is still riding around in the back of my car haha but i will probably have it preserved and then go from there.
My Planning Bio - Update 8/5/12
I'll be getting mine preserved and put in our "wedding tote" that will have my veils (one from my bachelorette party/rehearsal, and my real veil), tiara from my bachelorette party, scrapbooks we receive, a centerpiece, my bouquet, his bout, one of our invitations, a program, and other sentimental things
One thing I want to do eventually is to have pictures taken of my future (hopefully) children in the ruffles of my dress' train! The place I am likely getting it preserved doesn't seal the box and recommends taking it out once in awhile to make sure it isn't yellowing or anything.
For anyone who is planning on just hanging their dress up, I read on the websites of the dress preservation place that hanging a dress can cause it to lose it's shape over time. Just an FYI.
I do like those pictures of the little ones "wearing" it. Who knows, maybe it will find a purpose someday.
Oh and someone quoted me $3-4,000 to frame it. No thanks!
I plan on getting my dress turned into a christening gown. I know a lot of people aren't religious anymore, but having a baptism is still important to me and hopefully we will start going to church more often when we start a family. We've talked about it and both agree we want to do it. I will probably have a lot of leftover fabric even after making a boy and girl outfit and will probably save the bodice part of the dress to be made later if I have a girl and use it for when she is married and can take part of the lace to use for a purse like I did with my mom's dress. I also have the leftover lace applique's from her dress which can be combined into both the baptismal gown and a future wedding item if I have a daughter.
I think I will get it cleaned and then put it on now and then to twirl in.
That or sell it.
I am considering doing a rock the dress photo shoot...just because I want to wear it again.
It got destoryed on my wedding day at the bottom, the bustle broke and it is So dirty (we did photos in a field, on a dock and in the streets)...
the bottom of the dress is black in some spots- so I am def.having it cleaned. Not sure if i will have it preserved.
I did meet a girl on our honeymoon who had a dress where the skirt could be separated from the top. So basically, if you had a ball gown or an aline that was tight to the waist. She is having the skirt cut off, and havine the top made into a corset like top that she plans to wear on her first, second, and how every many anniversaries she can fit into it for...
I did want to, for an anniversary, get photos done of us a few years down the line with me in the dress and him in a nice suit or something. I wanted to get a few tattoos I promised my grandmother I wouldn't do before the wedding so it'd be cool to see us when we accomplish that.
I have not decided if I want it for our 5 year or 10 year. Maybe 10 year since I think that would be the biggest difference. And we may have a baby or 2.