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Did you keep your wedding dress?
So mine's sitting in a box (carefully [read: expensively]) preserved in my guest room closet. The box is enormous. I have nowhere else to put it. Ergo, I'm thinking of getting rid of the dress. The hubs (who is far more sentimental about stuff than I am) is opposed because, you know, I might need a white formal gown for running out to Hannaford in or something. Did you keep your dress? Did you sell it? Are you sad you did?
Re: Did you keep your wedding dress?
Mine is hanging up in my guestroom closet just as it was 3.5 years ago when I got married. Never even been cleaned. It is my motivate for weight loss and getting fit. I still put it back on every so often to see if I fit in to it like I did then (almost there!).
I don't see me/us ever getting rid of it. I know I loved seeing my mom's when I was growing up.
Mine is in the guest closet hanging in its garment bag as dirty as the day I took it off. It hasn't been out of the bag since it went in after the reception. Did you know that champagne turns brown after a year when spilled on silk? That's the big brown stain on the front of my dress. The rest of the dirt is where it touched the ground/floor.
I'm always torn about this. I'm glad it's in perfect shape and packed up nicely, but I sometimes want to try it on.
This. It's especially nice to have since my mom passed away. I also have my grandmothers. I have a fond memory of trying my mom's on in front of her before she died. She knew I wouldn't get married in it, but it was still fun. I'm the queen of weeding things out and getting rid of things. But I will keep my wedding dress.
Mine is hanging in a garment bag in my mom's house (I think). She did try to clean it up a bit (it's all silk with a full silk lining) but I didn't have it professionally preserved. I should probably do that...
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I got my dress cleaned after the wedding. I wanted to save it to make a baptismal gown for my first child. When it came time to get DD baptised, I couldn't figure out how to cut up the dress so it would work. I have it stored wrapped in a white sheet, with my veil, inside a large plastic box under my bed. I guess it will stay there indefinitely.
Jackie makes a good point about dresses and daughters. My mom still has her dress hanging in the guest bedroom closet and I know I got a kick out of looking at it when I was a child. Since I still have my dress, I can now do the same for DD.
I kept mine but never had it cleaned so there is a meatball sauce stain somewhere on the huge skirt ... which might hurt its resale value somewhat, I think! Whoops.
For a while I definitely would have been sad to part with it but now I'm not sure. As much as I loved my dress, I'm divorced, and it takes up a lot of space! I think if I get married again my dress will probably be a lot smaller and I'll get it cleaned, preserved etc.
Mine is also hanging in our guest room closet, I never got it cleaned or preserved or anything like that. I'm hugely sentimental so I'll definitely keep it. I loved trying on my mom's growing up and always wished my grandmothers had kept theirs.
Mine is hanging in the closet in the cheap garment bag it came in, even dirtier than the wedding day, since I did a Trash the Dress shoot three weeks later in a junk yard.
I can't bear to get rid of it or turn it into something else - I LOVE it SO much!!!
My Wedding Bio! Not updated in a LONG time!
Same for me
Also DH pulled on the wrong side of the panel when he unlaced it at the end of the night and popped some threads in addition to the bustle being undone by someone stepping on it, so it's in need of a bit of repair 