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I may be having 2 dresses one for ceremony and another for mid-way through the reception...who knows I may end up with just one to save money..either way what u mention about goin away wearing the same dress you did the vows in holds alot of meaning.
I am still debating. I don't know if I will have time to change during the reception. If we do have enough time I may get a dress to dance the night away in.
In my tradition, the bride usually enters the night time reception hall with her wedding gown after a day of pictures, etc and then halfway through change into a tradition asian silk gown and finishing up with an evening gown at the end of the night. I think even if it's not a "tradition" for you, it's your wedding day which is only once a lifetime so it's totally an excuse to change into several knock em dead outfits!! heck, it's your wedding and you can change once every hour of your special day if you wanted to!! =D
In my tradition, the bride usually enters the night time reception hall with her wedding gown after a day of pictures, etc and then halfway through change into a tradition asian silk gown and finishing up with an evening gown at the end of the night. I think even if it's not a "tradition" for you, it's your wedding day which is only once a lifetime so it's totally an excuse to change into several knock em dead outfits!! heck, it's your wedding and you can change once every hour of your special day if you wanted to!! =D
My mom said I was crazy, but I wore my wedding dress the whole evening and all the way home. It was fine.
At our wedding, the majority of guests were gone by the time we left (like 10pm). I knew this would probably happen, so I just stayed in my wedding dress. There would have been no one really to see me in the other outfit.
I definitely kept my gown on. IMO, you spend so much money on that gown and you will never wear it again, you might as well get the most out of it! In fact, when my husband and I got back to our hotel after the wedding (which wasn't until about 2am) we decided to go for a walk down in the village we were staying at to try to beat last call. I still wore my dress then!
I had a friend who left for her honeymoon right from their wedding, and she wore her wedding gown to the airport. She definitely did not want to take it off!
Enjoy it for as long as you can :) With a little bit of luck and a whole lot of love, this may be the only time you will ever wear a wedding dress!
@bissell: I totally agree! Your wedding is pretty much the only six or seven hours you'll ever get to wear a wedding gown. Why cut that short by wearing a dress you could always wear another time? I'm going to wear mine as long as I can.
I'm changing into a shorter dress just before the ball drops. I paid a fortune for my fabulous CLs and I want them to be seen. I actually love my shoes more than my gown lol. The second dress was only $400 from BCBG and it has a one shoulder dress similar to my fiorella. We plan on partying the night away and for me that's a little harder in a bridal gown. My 2 dresses in total were under $1500 so no guilt here!
I went to ALOT of wedding when I was a kid and I remember that right before the bride and groom left the reception, they would change, come back for a "last dance" and we'd send them off. As an adult attending my FI's friends weddings, I haven't seen the bride or groom changing into something before departing the reception.
Personally, I'm torn on this, because I would love for me to be wearing my wedding gown in our exiting pictures. We are having an after party at a bar across the street and I definately won't be going to that in a wedding dress. I'm thinking of exiting in the wedding dress, running across the street to the hotel, changing quickly and then going to the after party. :)
We're not really doing an exit - we're having our wedding at a B&B and staying in the bridal suite upstairs. If we were doing an exit, I would wear my bridal gown.
I am changing into a cheap white dress ($35) to leave ONLY because after our wedding we are going out in the French Quarter for an after party with our friends and there is no way in HELL I am going to allow my dress to drag on the street on Bourbon Street it is the nastiest street in the world I swear!
If I wasn't going out though I would def stay in my wedding dress. I love it so much and I want to wear it as long as I can. I have a friend that is having a party after my wedding where all the newly married girls will wear their wedding dresses. LOL so I will be wearing my dress again and so will about 20 other girls.
I am changing out of my dress, but only because I am leaving straight for my honeymoon. Have to be at the airport at 4am, so I don't want to bring my dress on my honeymoon with me (14 layers, it'd take up a whole suitcase).
I don't think I'll be changing into a nice dress or anything, I'm just planning on changing into something I'm comfortable in.
Like others I changed because we were leaving immediately after the reception to drive 1.5 hours to our hotel room next to the airport. In addition to not wanting to carry the dress around for that I am 100% certain my FI would not have been able to unbutton my dress and I would have been stuck in it for a week in St. Lucia. No fun!
I wore mine home since it cost too much to change out of and the ride was only about 30 minutes.
We didn't have an exit. But if I did, I'd keep on my dress. I wouldn't want to spend the time changing, and really, I didn't want to take it off b/c I loved it. Plus, it will make for good pictures!
I kept my gown on, just as my husband kept his tux on. We had our driver take us by our house, where we dropped off our tux and gown and grabbed our suitcases before heading to the hotel. I pondered this for a while, because part of me wanted to still be wearing my gown (or at least something bridal) when we checked into the hotel. I did keep my veil on, and then put it on again during our flight the next day, and got several congratulations. I didn't want to bother with a getaway dress because I love my wedding dress and wanted it in as many photos as possible.
I'm contimplating an exit dress. My dress has a corset back and I'm worried that after my fiancee has had too much to drink, I'll never get the dress off. So we will see!!
Wow thanks for the many comments & reasons! I definitely feel better about my decision :-)
@bissel - that is so cute! We're not sure yet if we're getting a hotel for that night or just coming home to our apt. But I thought I'd feel weird walking up our steps in my wedding gown but I guess I shouldn't since this is our day and all people would think is "aww they just got married!" and congradulate us :-P
Nope, I'm with @bissell on this one. I didn't have to rush off to the airport or go on a really long drive after the wedding (our hotel was 15 min away from our venue), so I kept my wedding dress on the entire night. Sometimes I still want to put it on just for fun, lol (I haven't yet though)!! 
I just saw the pics request...
I changed into my dress about 30 minutes before the end of the reception. We didn't have a formal exit (although one was planned after the ceremony) because it POURED rain. To be honest I would have loved to have worn my dress the entire time but logistically it was impractical and the short dress was a wonderful reprieve to all the sweating! :)
I'm not even changing for the reception. You only get married once (hopefully) and you only get to wear your $$$ wedding dress one day of your life, so it only makes sense to wear it as long as you can, including when you leave. But everyone has their own preferences which is fine.
@missriley - lol @ ur earlier post :-) And very cute dress!
I'm not too worried about FI helping get the dress off. All he needs to do it untie & unsnap a couple of buttons. :-)
i will stay in my wedding dress until I have to take it off lol which will after i've left the reception lol since its gonna be the most expensive dress i've ever bought i will like to get my moneys worth and wear it as long as possible
I wore my gown when we left and loved the pictures: us exiting through the bubbles, us driving away, etc. We went straight to a hotel and I walked in with my gown on. We got lots of smiles and congratulations! It was really cute, a little girl came up to me and said, "Are you an angel?"
My only piece of advice for leaving in your own gown. If you are taking your own transporation, plan ahead. I wore a crinolin skirt underneath so my dress was very big. We had pushed the passenger seat the whole way back in anticipation and I'm glad we did. I don't think my dress would have fit otherwise!
I'm pretty sure my fiance would be unhappy if I took my dress off before we got back to the hotel. Plus, what other dress is going to compare to my wedding dress? I don't see the point in changing into something else.
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My wedding is 6 weeks away & I'm just now wondering if I made the right choice. Well, whatever I do will be fine but anyway, at this point, we're at the max of our budget & I won't be able to buy another dress, but I'm wondering how many birdes are changing/have changed into a different dress at the very end of the wedding for the wedding exit? I had figured I wanted to wear my bridal dress because I love it & probably won't want to take it off but also just the picture of running off into the car with my new husband in my wedding dress :-P I could always see if I could borrow a nice dress from a friend (I'm not a dress type person & don't have any NICE dresses without broken zippers lol) but wondering what the majority of bees are doing?