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love the redo on the dress!
one of my hubbys cousins married an american girl so she got to wear her mums wedding dress twice. one for the US wedding and then the aussie wedding - i remember her saying how special she felt being able to wear it not once but a second time
I think it's a sweet idea, but I'm not planning on my daughter wanting to wear it. I am not buying it with that in mind, at least.
That's a great redo.
my great grandmother made my grandmother's wedding dress and my mom wore it 33 years later!
I tried it on, but it just didn't work for me and I wasn't ready to alter it like that bride did (although it turned out beautifully!)
Mine was custom made and I would LOVE it if my daughters wanted to wear it...although I'm really tempted to have a TTD session, or make the dress into christening gowns, so I have no idea what do at this point!
Wow! what a great transformation!
I had a friend to similar transformation... which makes me think i'd like to keep mine to give her the option. but then again, i wouldnt have transformed my moms... so why do I think my kid will want to?
That's very cool! I don't plan on saving my dress for my daughter, but I might save it for myself if I can dye it a purty color after the wedding!
Unfortunately not as she died several years ago and I am too old for more kids. Here is her graduation pic, she would have made a gorgeous bride.
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@bluespurrs - your daughter was beautiful! Thanks for sharing that photo. :)
I tried on my mom's wedding dress when I was like 14. It was very obvious that even then, my chest was wayyy too big for it!
We were going to try and "update" my flower girl dress (from when I was 7) for my flower girl to wear, but she's only going to be 4.5 years old and it will be way too big.
My sister and I have both worn my aunt's first communion dress and I plan on my (future) daughter wearing it as well.
I think I'll save my dress, but I'm under no illusion that anyone would want to do anything with it in the future.
But I can say that right now, it is completely filthy over the foot of cloth closest to the ground. I figured you wear this thing once, so I wore the heck out of it!
I'm not wearing my mom's gown - it doesn't fit AT ALL! - but I'm going to be making a veil out of the material from her gown!
Wow! Impressive. I'm not sure if I'll save my dress... I wasn't planning on it... but then I bought it and now don't want to give it up after the wedding!!
I hope so but I'm not holding by breath. I did have it cleaned and heirloomed though so the possibility remains. I've been trying to figure out if there is a way I can get more use out of it though and my boudoir photographer mentioned she has done some really artsy type of photos for some clients after they have a baby: photos with the baby while wearing the wedding gown. I like the concept and may look into it again if i think I can get the dress back on a few months after having a kid.
I am not wearing my mom's dress and we're not even sure we want to have children. But, you never know!
My mom wouldn't have let me alter her dress. It still sits in her closet, yellowing..
I love my mom, but that sort of thing just wasn't in the cards for us.
I'm not going to waste the effort thinking that my future daughter will wear my gown. I say - better to let her decide what to wear herself. re-sell my gown now, while I can recoup some of the value. There are still plenty of "keepsake" things from my wedding day I can pass on.
Wow, that's a GREAT redo! If my mom had something like I'd consider, but I am a bit taller than my mom so it probably wouldn't have mattered. I don't think my daughter (if I have one) would want to wear my gown. I am not shopping with that in mind at all.
Both my mom and my aunt wore my grandma's dress when they got married - but I've chosen not to wear it. It's beautiful, but it's not my style, and the last time it was worn was in 1981, so it's very late 70's / early 80's looking, and I don't think it would be flattering for me (on top of that, my mom and dad are divorced and my aunt's husband passed away, so it doesn't have a lot of happy memories attached to it).
I don't know if I'll end up keeping my dress, in case my daughter wants to wear it - I do have our family dress, and it's a wonderful keepsake, though.
I would have loved to wear my mom's, but it was yellowed and she didn't preserve it well. My dress is very casual, I'm not expecting that my daughter would want to wear it. I just went to a wedding where she wore her mom's gown, cut off the sleeves and added some bling. she looked amazing! I'll use my mom's gown in a different way though, I'm using the ribbon in my bouquet.
I don't think I'd wear my mom's dress nor do I think a daughter would wear mine. I had not really thought of wearing my mom's dress or taking some pieces from it but I guess I'll ask her about that soon.
I don't know that she will wear it for her wedding, but I preserved it so she can at least see it and play dress up in it. I do hope that my veil can become a family heirloom though.
That's a great re-do. I seriously doubt either one of my daughters will want to wear either of my wedding dresses. I'm sure when it comes time for their weddings - hopefully in at least 30 years (they're 9 and 6), they'll want something different.
We're using lace from my mom's dress to wrap around my bouquet...it was her idea and I was surprised that she'd want to cut the lace off!
The dress is too yellowed for me to wear (even if I wanted to), but my mom loves that my dress is so similar to hers (very light, flowy) so I know that makes her happy...after we picked it out, she went home and pulled out her wedding album :)
I like the idea of somehow reusing the dress. My mom's dress she planned on wearing to marry my dad was ruined and she ended up wearing a black dress. Now she jokes that it was an ominous sign she should have paid attention to (they've been divorced for over 13 years)! Even if her original dress didn't get ruined and my parents were still married (weird, can't imagine it), I am 4 inches taller than the woman and 40 pounds heavier than she was (TINY!) So no rewearing here. BUT with my own dress and hypothetical daughter(s) I plan on keeping it so they have the option of wearing it for something or atleast seeing it in person!
Wow that is incredible. I'm using the lace from my mom's dress with my veil. I'm not sure that my future daughter will use my dress but it would be neat to use some element of it somewhere.
I couldn't wear my mom's dress again, cause a cat peed on it years ago and ruined it. I don't think my daughter will wear mine cause she will want her own.
Wow, that recreation is really cool. If I have a daughter, I don't know if she'd want to wear my dress--if she did, I think that would be really sweet. My parents are divorced so there was never really any pressure about wearing my mom's dress. Thank God, because it was this liliac colored, Romeo-and-Juliet inspired number that was just not my style.
I did choose my shoes because they reminded me of the ones that my Grandma wore, and I always loved them in the photos from her wedding.
No and I would never expect her to because everyone has their own style and preferences. Styles change all the time. Also, not everyone is built the same way and/or she may even be a different height, so the dress would have to be completely taken apart to fit someone else.
I haven't decided or not if I'll keep mine. I want to keep it but not really because I think my future daughter would ever want to wear it. I just want to keep it for sentimental/heirloom reasons. My mom's dress was a mint green (her 2nd marriage), very late 60's (they got married in 1970) kind of dress. So I don't know that I would have worn it if she had kept it. Maybe as a RD dress.
I feel like if I have a daughter she could definitely wear my dress. My dress is timeless to me and that was one reason I chose it because it is not a "trendy" style.
My first wedding dress went to my sister. My sister was married in Mexico, where a lot of the women were really short and wore lots of make-up. The bodice ended up caked with orange make-up. I kind of suspect it's been thrown out by now.
My daughter is already 25, not remotely my size, and claiming she will never get married. There is no way I'd save my dress from this wedding for her!
My mother's dress was pink and knee length. I can't see myself ever wearing that one.
Both NotFroofy and I are planning on selling our dresses right after the wedding.
I wore my mother's gown for the ceremony, so there is a small part of me that believes my daughter might do the same. Even if she doesn't I hope she has fun dressing up in it, like I did in hers!
My mom's wedding dress is currently MIA so that's not an option. My grandmother'S dress is a style I would seriously consider wearing, especially because she is no longer with us, except she was tiny (about 100lbs and 5 feet) so there is no way I could wear it without some serious reworking and whitening. My aunt also showed me hers but she has been divorced for some years and remarried in awhite suit so there was never an intention of me wearing it. It just was not án option for me to wear a family dress and I don't imagine that my future daughter will want to wear mine since so few people do that. However, I have a long train and it has already been suggested to make the train into a christening outfit which I would consider. I don't think I will sell my dress but I'm not sure I would perserve it either, maybe just leave it in a closet for some time and then decide. I really want to do a TTD shoot so that may answer limit future possibilities.
I wouldn't expect my daughter to wear mine. So many hurdles to consider. Will you even have a daugther? Will she be your size? (My husband is a foot taller than me, so I have doubts that my little girl is going to end up a shrimp like me.) Is your dress oging to be in style or reworkable? What if she doesn't like it at all? And dreams of her own? You wouldn't want to put her in a bad spot or have her wear something she doens't like for her own wedding.
My mom didn't have a gown, so I'm not sure if I would have worn it or not...but I do plan on preserving my gown and have it as an option to my little girl, if we have one, but I'm not going to get my hopes up expecting for it to happen some day.
MrsLeopard - your dress is AMAZING!
No, I do not believe my daughter would wear my wedding dress. I am thinking about donating it or selling it once the wedding is over. I actually have never seen my Mom's dress. After her wedding, my Dad's sister and sister-in-law both wore my Mom's dress for their own wedding so we have no idea where it is at anymore.
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If you have a little girl - do you think she'll wear your gown or will you preserve it to keep for yourself?
I was a little sad I didn't consider doing something like this to my mom's gown. Look at the awesome job this bride did recreating her mom's dress.
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