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My dress has just come in and for some reason i'm already wondering what i'll do with it after the wedding!
So ladies, What are you choosing to do with your dress once your big day has passed?
I think I am going to have communion outfits made for my kids out of my dress. My dress is a custom gown and I don't think I'd want to sell it but at the same time I have no use to save it forever.
I will keep it for awhile and see from there. Maybe I will want to sell it eventually.
Some very practical part of me thinks I should sell it - but that probably wont happen! I'll probably save it, but do SOME form of 'trash the dress' shoot - but definitely not one that will ACTUALLY trash it lol
I'm going to keep mine. If I have its small train removed, I could definitely wear it again as an evening gown since it's a champagne color. I'm actually really looking forward to wearing it on special occasions.
I don't know yet!! For now it's sitting in a box in my guest bedroom.
I'm not able to part from it, but I can't use it again, either. So I'm waiting...
I think I'll donate it. I can't imagine lugging it all around the world wherever we end up living.
I had thought about this before I even had the dress!
I don't know if I could part with it now though.
I love TTD photoshoots, but now I think I paid way too much for my dress to do that!
I'm pretty practical and am seriously considering selling it....but my Mom keeps insisting that I'll regret it. My Mom used to put it on every year on their wedding anniversary, and it became a fun tradition where my sister and I would try it on too as little kids. The sentimental side of me kind of wants to carry on the tradition, but we'll see.
FI and I are planning a Wedding Theme party. The married couple can wear their wedding attires, and the singles can wear their BM dresses, etc. I will probably sell the dress after... we'll see!
I am torn between selling and donating it. I think if I have a custom one built I will sell it, but if not, then I will donate it. Not sure of my reasoning on this, but that's it! :)
I say now that I would probably sell it. But once the wedding is done and over with, the memories may keep me from doing so. Time will only tell I suppose
Maybe I'm secretly hoping inside that I'll have a daughter who will want to wear it. Or maybe that's the excuse I'll tell myself and FH to keep it. 
i will either save it or try to sell it. haven't decided on which yet.
I am thinking about it. I may keep it for a year or so but after that try to sell it.
I am going to do a Post Wedding Shoot. Not going to TTD, but just put it on again and maybe do a few shots that I was too scared to do on the actual wedding day.
I'm about 90% sure that i'm going to sell it. We'll see how I feel after the wedding. I know i'd love to use that money towards traveling or new furniture more than just hanging in a closet, never to be worn again!
Um, I keep telling myself if I buy anything expensive, that is cool, because I'll just sell it. Honestly, I don't know if I will be able to let it go.
I could never sell it-to me, this is one thing that is certainly worth keeping and looking at over the future years! No way!
@MissYorkie - I LOVE the idea of a wedding theme party!
I plan to save mine as motivation to be the same size for our 10 year anniversary. I Hope to renew our vows every 10 years, altho my fiance thinks that's a bit excessive. :)
I am with @roxy and going to use it for christening or communion outfits for my little girl (I hope!) one day. I think that would make it very meaningful. I wish my mom had saved hers so I could have made it into a shower dress, ya know changed a lot of it but it woulda been really cool.
I actually never did any of the things I planned to do with mine, but I did do something with it just yesterday. After having it hanging in the garment bag all these years,I finally cut the whole back of it off to use to cover my daughter's card box. I had a reaction just before I started cutting that I didn't expect to have either...I cried. It's done now, but I also decided to keep the rest to have a Christening gown made for my first grandchild. That I WILL do.
I will want to/have to sell mine. Not only to recoup some of the money which will have gone into it, but also because sometime right before our 1 year anniversary, we'll be moving...somewhere (wherever FI gets into graduate school) and I want to make sure we move with the bare minimum! I plan to hold a huge open house right before we move in an effort to sell at least half the things we own. The idea of moving anywhere else with the amount of stuff we have just gives me a headache. Plus, I want another bride to know the joy and beauty of my dress. I'm a deep believer in reduce, reuse, recyle.
We are getting married on the beach-- the next afternoon we are planning a trash the dress ceremony-- I can't wait!!
I'm donating mine. The way donations work, I'll be able to get back almost as much in tax deductions as I would in selling it, with a whole lot less hassle. And I love the idea of some resourceful bride wearing my gorgeous gown, and the proceeds going to improve the lives of terminal cancer patients.
I'm saving it, but not getting it preserved. I'll get it dry cleaned, though. I have an old dress form in my bedroom that I dress up in various outfits, so I'll probably display it on there. Then it'll just hang out in it's dress bag until I decide what to do with it.
My friends and I had talked about having a wedding dress party sometime this summer, so all of us could wear our dresses again. The only food that would be served is marshamallows and clear liquids! Ha.
I am going to save it. I don't think I'll be able to part with it right after the wedding.
I'm planning on keeping it. I loved the idea of making it into something for our future daughter, but since she won't be baptized, have a first communion, etc, I'm not sure what I'd have it made into.
My wedding was 2 weeks ago and I still can't make up my mind. I love my dress, but at the same time, I know it can bring much happiness to another bride. So I thought I would clean it and sell it. The problem is that
1. It is heavily altered to fit me perfectly. I am not sure anyone else would want it, unless they have my exact same measurement.
2. My husband seems to be attached to the idea of keeping my dress - for whatever reasons I can't figure out!! He's more attached to it than me, my sister, or my mom. Yeah :-)
Like @JennHasFeet, I'm going to have my mom shorten it and dye it robin's egg blue on the bottom.
I'm a bit of a pack rat, but for some reason, my wedding dress is not something I want to keep! I'd rather let someone else get some happiness from it than to keep it sitting in a closet.
I am going to try to sell mine, hopefully it sells, if not ill probably have it preserved but i'd really prefer to sell it.
I was considering selling mine (as a preowned dress buyer I know how great it can be for someone else) by my FI seems really set on me keeping it. I wass surprised when he had an opinion
I have my grandmother's and my mother's dresses so I'm adding mine to the collection!
I want a TTD session like nobody's business.
It is going to horrify my family. But it's my dress, right?
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