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I am wearing my mother's veil.
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Great question! My parents were married in the summer of '68. My mom wore a short dress -- a white sheath with a lace overlay. It was also from a department store, not a bridal shop. I love how retro it is! I wore it for my rehearsal / out-of-town dinner. The dress was a big hit with the relatives! I know all the attention made my mom feel very special too -- it was a nice way to honor her.
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I am making my own bouquet and using my mom's veil to wrap the stems. Plus, I'm using silk flowers, so I'll have the bouquet and her veil as a keepsake forever!
I'm also wearing my mom's 1960 lace number to my RD. I offered to wear it as is to my ceremony but my mom prefers that I don't change so I'm having it cut down to a cocktail length and removing the long lace sleeves. She's super excited and my grandmother is too!
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No one other than my mother has ever liked her dress (or at least that's what my father has claimed in recent years). So I'm not using her dress, but we have saved some of the lace from her grandmother's wedding dress to turn into our chuppah. My sister used it, but they left the construction to the last minute and it was a disaster. I am so excited to see it again!
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My mom was so sweet because she opended up the dress tomb to let me see her veil, it looked beautiful on her, but when I saw it in person it was so early 1980ish, not for me at all....I am thinking about using the lace though to create my own veil, but I'm doing so many other DIY projects that I don't know if I coud take that one on too. Nevertheless she was happy to see her dress & veil again so she wasn't upset at all :)
My mom's dress is early 80's and not at all my style. Also we have different body types. So I'm using part of her dress in my bouquet wrap.
I really wanted to wear my Mom's lengha (Indian wedding dress) for my Indian celebration the night before the wedding. But it has been altered a couple of times (it's not unusual to rewear your lengha to close family wedding and my sister also wore it for part of hers), and it wasn't feasible to do it again withough ruining it. My mom offered to let me wear it to my Henna Party, where I'd be mostly sitting so fit wouldn't matter, but I couldn't bear the thought of possibly ruining it with henna. The embroidery on it is very unusual, sometimes I can't believe how fashion-forward my mom was! In the end I think we are going to incorporate it as decoration. I will probably also use her dupata (like a large veil).
I had also considered wearing my grandmother's lengha (she was about my size when she got married), but she got married in winter and the top is long sleeve velvet which would be miserable in July in Michigan.
I wore my mom's 1970's dress, and made it my own! She had see through bell sleeves which I cut off and made into a spaghetti strap gown. I absolutely loved it!
@avdillard and brena...I absolutely adore the idea of using the veil to wrap my bouquet in!! My mom's dress and veil are way 80s and therefore utterly unusable in any inherently-dress/veil-ish way. I'm going to see if she'll let me cut the veil out of the headpiece and wrap my silk flowers in it...what an awesome keepsake. :)
I ended up wearing my mom's wedding sari for our engagement party. Both my parents and even my grandparents were really excited to see me in it and it was a nice moment with my mom when I told her my decision!
@ <font size="2" color="#81a026">fizicsGirl</font> : I didn't know it was traditional to have other family members wear it. Did other people besides your sister wear it?
I totally agree with avdillard, brena & msannalytical- I think its so sweet to use the veil for a flower wrap! What a good idea!! :)
I didn't incorporate my mom's dress but I did wear her veil (after some minor updates to it). I loved the idea of wearing something she wore on her wedding day. Although as soon as the ceremony was over I ripped that sucker off to party down.
Cute question! My mother wore a short, hippie dress when she married my father back in 1972, and since she was about 90 lbs, I doubt there's any chance I'll be wearing her gown!
I would like to incorporate it in some way, but I haven't thought of a good way to do it yet. She'll be making my veil, though, which I'm excited about! :)
My mom doesn't have her dress any more, and it wasn't preserved, so it was pretty yellowed when she got rid of it. Otherwise, i'd probably be interested. It was very simple and cute. She got it on sale at a department store, i think.
I'm using my mom's veil to make a clutch. I found a woman that will do it and she does an amazing job!
I so wish that I had my grandmother's wedding dress to wear! It was sewn and beaded by her sister, who was a seamstress. (If it still exists, it's somewhere in a little town in Cuba.)
Like driftslikesmoke, my mom was a tiny little thing when she got married, so I would never be able to fit into her dress. I just can't bring myself to alter it, either. So, I'm settling on wearing the earrings that she wore down the aisle.
I'm really loving this idea, featured on the Vintage Glam Weddings blog, displaying the mothers' and grandmothers' wedding gowns at the reception. Hmm... I wonder if FMIL still has her dress! :o)
After my mom saw 27 Dresses (or whatever that movie was), she was all about me having a custom dress made from her dress. I appreciated the thought, but wasn't really into having a whole dress made. Instead I was going to have rosettes made from her dress to use on my dress...except the one I ended up going with would look kind of funny with rosettes. So instead I'm going to have a smaller one made to attach to a comb for my hair...and I'm debating having 3 others made for my sisters to use as they please in their wedding (hair, dress, bouquet, etc.). My mom loves this idea, and it fills the "something old" requirement 
I am using some of the lace from my mother's and my grandmother's wedding dresses to make hankies for me and my mom. First, I bought two simple, antique ivory handkerchiefs from a seller on Etsy. I cut some of the material from the hems of each of their dresses, and I am using scraps from my dress, after it was altered. I am sewing one strip of each dress on each border of each hanky, and I am leaving the fourth edge open for my future daughter's dress. I'm very excited about this project and I think my mom will be touched.
My mom's 1970 mint green dress is long gone. But I would have totally worn it for the rehersal dinner or shower. Although my mom was much smaller than I so I'm not sure I could have pulled it off!
I discovered today that my grandmother's wedding dress (pink lace, cocktail lace, and absolutely adorable late 40s) fits. If our miracle-worker dry cleaner can get the two little stains out, I'm going to wear that for our rehearsal dinner and I could not be more excited about it. I'll have to get a picture to share.
My mom doesn't even know where her wedding dress is exactly...she is pretty sure it's in her attic, but if it is, it's probably something you wouldn't want to wear! So I'm a little jealous because I would love to be able to incorporate some part of my mother's dress on the day of my wedding, but I don't think it will happen.
Lara Bee - do you live near an Ao3 store or did you have the clutch made and shipped to you. Their prices really seem to range $34-150+. Do you mind me asking which style you chose and how much it cost to make it custom? I'd really like to use my mom's wedding dress for a clutch.
Does anyone know of any other places to get a clutch made from your mother's dress? Online or in Chicago would be best. Thanks!
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This is great! My mom actually just brought her dress out last week (hadn't seen it since I was little). My parents are divorced so I was worried about the bad juju, but I think it's okay.
I think we are going to turn one of her sleeves (it had beautiful covered buttons on it) into my bouquet wrap and then maybe do something with the alencon lace at the edge of her dress. Everything else has yellowed quite a bit, bummer!
The other thing I am using is my great grandmother's hankerchief, but I am not sure how yet. I was going to use that for the bouquet, but the sleeve will work much better. Any ideas? I can't cut it up or anything...
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This started from this post here, where I talked about wearing my mother's dress to my shower.
Basically, my parents were married at city hall- and she wore this awesome 1970's dress that wasn't a wedding dress, just a dress she wore to work. We had been planning to cut off part of it to sew into my wedding dress, but long story short- I am now wearing it to my shower! It is beautiful, and my dad cried when he saw me in it when I had tried it on.
So, my question to you all is, how (if at all) are you incorporating your mother's (or grandmother's) dress into your wedding festivities?