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I am using my paternal great-grandmother's diamond ring and also finding a way to incorporate my grandmother (same side)'s selje
I'm using my Mom's blue garter. I hope to pass it down to a daughter or daughter-in-law.
Every woman in my family has carried the same silk hankerchief on her wedding day so that will be my something old.
We used DH's grandmother's lenox ring holder. They used it at their wedding and i think my in-laws used it at theirs also. we are giving it to the next family member who gets married so that they can use it for their wedding, if they'd like.
I will be wearing my great grandmothers pearls. Since there are no girls in my son's generation I guess I will hold on to them and hope for a granddaughter or that my brothers boy has a girl. Also in my family, the father will give the daughter her wedding perfume. A bottle of Chanel #5. My family has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 generations.
I wish we had something like that in my family. I'm making my garter out of a piece of my mom's wedding dress. Since I'm the first of my friends to get married I was thinking about getting something to pass on to the next to get engaged.. maybe a "just in case" umbrella or my dress hanger. I haven't thought of anything for my daughter yet, I should get on that.
I'll be carrying my great grandmother's ring (I don't think it was a wedding/engagement ring but it's gorgeous) in some fashion. It's way too big for me to wear so I'm not sure how to incorporate it yet.
My bouquet will have some buttons from the early 20th century that belonged to my great great grandmother. My mom found them in my grandma's house a few weeks ago, and there are a bunch of really cool ones.
my bouquet was tied with a ribbon that my mom's wedding bouquet used :) my florist used in my mom's and mil's corsages as well. i still have the ribbon of course
i also have a lot of heirloom jewelry-- i wore a diamond watch from my grandmother, and the stone in my engagement ring is from hubs' grandmother's engagement ring. i wore earrings made of opals that belonged to my other grandma at the rd, and a necklace mil had made for me from her mother's stones at our brunch...
as far as starting traditions, we draped a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) on our chuppah that hubby will wear from now on and that we can pass on some day. we saved the glass hubs broke during our ceremony and need to figure something out to do with it...
I wore the veil that my mom (and all her sisters and my cousins) wore, as well as the earrings that my aunt (and godmother) wore on her day (which originally belonged to my great-grandmother). I was so excited to wear both of them, and I only hope that our family continues to take such good care of that veil so that if I have a daughter she can wear it some day!
I used the metal from my grandmother's engagement ring (plain white gold band with 6 prongs) to mold my engagement ring. I LOVE it and I'm so happy I have that piece with me. I hope to pass my ring down.
I'm wearing jewelry from my mom. :)
I'm saving my veil for my daughter, and possibly my sister (she is 14 years younger as she's the baby and I'm the oldest).
I wore jewelry that was my mother's, my wedding band was my great grandmother's.
I'm wearing my mom's veil. I also have permission to do whatever I'd like with her dress, so I'm probably going to chop it up and make it into either shoes or a purse.
I'm also wearing my maternal grandmother's mink stole. It's over fifty years old, but it's still in fantastic condition.
...I actually have four grandmothers. Well, three and a half, really. I have the normal two, but my paternal grandmother died when my dad was thirteen. Her best friend helped take care of my dad and uncle after she died, and when I was little, the lady asked me and my brother to call her "Grandma," and so that's Grandma #3. My grandfather did remarry, but to a woman twenty years younger than him, who has always been more like an aunt than a grandmother. Thus, she's Grandma #3.5. My plan is to wear something from each other them. I have the mink stole, and I've already asked Grandma #3 for something, and she's apparently thinking REALLY hard to try and decide what will do (she won't be able to come to the wedding herself because she's too sick). I'll ask Grandma #3.5 next time I see her. My dad isn't sure he has anything from his mom that I could use, so, at the very least, I plan on putting a small picture of her in a locket and putting that in my brooch bouquet.
I plan to save my mom's veil, my bouquet, my shoes or purse (whichever is made out of my mom's dress), and my jewelry (including the pearl necklace my dad gave me for Christmas this year) for the future.
@AmeliaBedelia:I wore my sister's veil. It meant a lot to me.
I wore my husband's grandmother's fox stole when we left the reception (I wasn't thrilled about the idea, but I know it meant a lot to my mother-in-law and so I took one for the team)
I'm thinking about having my dress made in to clutches for my nieces to carry on their wedding day if they want (we aren't having kiddos).
I am incorporating a lot of heirlooms into my wedding that will be passed down should my daughters want to use them in theirs:
My grandfathers handkerchief
My fiance is wearing my grandfathers ring
I am wearing my grandmothers 1940's imitation diamond bracelet
I am putting a necklace around my bouquet as well that is a deutchmark on a chain. My great grandmother gave it to my grandmother who gave it to my mother, who then passed it down to me. It will go to my oldest daughter because there are 5 generations of the first born daughters to recieve the necklace :)
I am also splurging on a more expensive tiara to wear to my bachelorette party that my girls are saying that they want to wear to theirs if they get married someday.
I'll be wearing my great-grandmother's diamond earrings. They've been in my family for many generations. I hope to pass them down to a daughter one day.
I plan on using my grandmother's punch bowl. It was used for all my mom's siblings graduations. It is definately crystal and pretty darn heavy. I am also using vintage wine glasses, that were my grandmothers's also instead of toasting flutes .
J proposed with his great grandmother's ring. I plan to make a brooch bouquet to pass down for generations. :)
We don't have an heirlooms so I'm hoping to make a new one. I bought a charm that is a blue pearl with a metal cap on top tha is stamped with our wedding date. It will be a bouquet charm for me and then a charm on my charm bracelet. Then I hope I can pass it on for my (hopefully) child to use in their wedding too.
We don't currently have one either but being English, I'm going with the british tradition of having an old silver sixpence in my shoe. Hopefully that, along with some of my other things like my veil will be passed down.
My grandmother gave me a small bible that was used as part of her bouquet when she got married 51 years ago.
We're having my son use it to carry the rings on and I totally look forward to being able to pass it on to my kids to use as they wish =)
well i have made my bouquet from brooches, and some of them were from family members.
maybe it will become a family heirloom, maybe my daughter might like it for her wedding.....maybe not, but i love it anyway. 
My FMIL gave me my SO's christening handkerchief, I'm going to use it to wrap my bouquet. and it's my something old. I guess that's not really an heirloom but I thought it was super cute.
We are using my parents' cake topper (it's classic 60s-style and hilarious to me), and I am using some lace from my mom's gown over the ribbon on the stems of my bouquet. I still don't have a something borrowed though, so I am starting to panic :(
I had my grandmother's rhinestone earrings and necklace wired onto a comb for my headpiece. I borrowed 2 things from my mother--a shawl (which had been given to her by my dad's mother on their wedding day) and a purse (that her mom gave to her. It had a little note from my grandmother. I put away everything and am keeping my dress, just in case anyone else is interested one day.
i didnt have anything with me - but i plan on saving my veil and my champagne flutes for my (future) daughter. she wont have to use them but at least ill have them!
@Lorienne: My mom didn't save anything, but I'm saving my veil, tiara and jewelry. :)
Hoping to use my mom's pearl necklace that my dad bought her in Spain, hopefully it looks good with my dress!
I am using a small vase that is a family heirlom, my great grandparents had it on their wedding cake, my grandparents and all my grandma's sisters and brothers, my mum and all her sisters, brothers and cousins and now all my cousins!
Some have had it beside the cake with flowers, others on the cake (it's quite small) I am pretty sure we will have it on the cake with flowers.
My e-ring was FI's great-grandmothers, so there's that. And also we're using the cake serving set that my parents used 36 years ago :)
The stone in my ring has been passed down through 4 generations on his side, so already I carry an heirloom! If we have children, the stone would eventually go to one of them.
I hope to borrow my grandmother's ring, which my aunt wears now that Nana has passed. I may alternatively have a "something borrowed" from my mother. I've heard you should borrow something from a very happy marriage, one you hope to emulate, and my grandparents had the happiest marriage I've ever seen. My parents are also still happily married, and my aunt (who wears Nana's ring) and uncle have a wonderful marriage, so I have options here.
I'm also including some heirloom lace in my garter (which I hope to make), as well as around my bouquet and around FI's boutonniere.
On the hand without my engagement ring I'll be wearing a ring that was a gift from my grandmother.
I plan on saving my veil for my daughter or daughter-in-law.
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Is anyone using an heirloom item in their wedding?
Anyone planning on (or already did) starting a tradition with your wedding by using and saving an item for their daughter / son to use one day?