What to do with wedding dress

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Registered: 01-29-2005
What to do with wedding dress
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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 10:06pm

I'm riding Kate's coattails here, but it's something I have been thinking about this last week. I'm purging tons of stuff from my house and the dress needs to go.

I have heard of women burning their dresses, but that's a little harsh for me. I have found a site that takes donated wedding dresses and raises money for breast cancer with the proceeds from them. I think I'm going to donate mine to them.

What have you ladies done with your dresses?

Here's the link for the site I found:

http://www.makingmemories.org/brides_against_breast_cancer.html

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Registered: 08-27-2006
Thu, 10-19-2006 - 11:08pm
What a great idea! I left mine hanging alone in the closet when I left. I thought it was fitting.
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Registered: 07-08-2004
Fri, 10-20-2006 - 10:59am
Donating your dress is a wonderful idea! I did burn mine....even posted pictures on this site ;) However, my dress was virtually worthless, so it felt good to watch it go up in flames. I bought the dress for about $150.00, and it was totally stained and a mess, so it wouldn't have raised any money at all. For me, it felt good to burn it! But I think donating a dress to a worthy cause is a wonderful idea. If my dress had any value, I would have done the same.
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Registered: 12-16-2004
Fri, 10-20-2006 - 5:36pm

I may be weird but my dress was really simple , so I dyed

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Registered: 09-21-2006
Fri, 10-20-2006 - 8:58pm
I'm still undecided on this, the ring issue, and lots of photo albums. I was going to sell the rings, keep the dress for my daughter (but, the way that marriage turned out maybe it's jinxed!) and give my X the pictures of him and our kids. However, when I mentioned all this to my BF he was very supportive of keeping it all. He said that even though that marriage went bad, there had been good times too, the dress and rings were more associated with the good, and my children were part of that marriage. The pictures are of the good times as well. So I'm hanging on to it all for a while longer, see if my kids want it later.
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Registered: 01-29-2005
Fri, 10-20-2006 - 9:31pm

I like the idea of keeping something at least. My mother and I made my veil. It's not super fancy or anything, but since it was made by us, and that my mother died when my daughter was 2 months old, I thought I'd keep that and give it to her.

But you're right that getting rid of all of it may not be the best idea. There were good things there at one time. :-)




Edited 10/22/2006 1:45 am ET by gwen227
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Registered: 08-04-2006
Sat, 10-21-2006 - 2:39am

I am turning mine into a Halloween costume...."Bride of Frankenstien" Seriously.

My ring is on consignment at a Jewelry Store.

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Registered: 04-02-2003
Sat, 10-21-2006 - 9:22am

my dress from my first wedding was borrowed from my cousin (it was a very pretty cotton mexican wedding dress) - the weird thing is that we BOTH got divorced!! i don't knw where that dress is.

for my second wedding, i bought a very nice (and expensive!!) french cream color suit. it is not my sttyle any more, and it doesn't fit me :-( at any rate its not a 'wedding' dress, and I COULD see myself wearing it to work or something if i dye it a different color and lose weight and all that. meanwhile, its just hanging in the closet. i toy with the idea of selling it, but ..... don't laugh, but i have this superstision because of the first wedding and the borrowed dress, and now if i give this to someone else i will always worry that that person would get divorced.....

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Registered: 12-16-2004
Sat, 10-21-2006 - 12:06pm

My rings and ex husband rings are going to melted down and made into a ring as gift to my ex stepson when he turn 18.


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Registered: 08-20-2006
Sat, 10-21-2006 - 7:24pm
Going to let the kids fight over who gets to wear it for Halloween :).
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Registered: 09-23-2006
Sun, 10-22-2006 - 12:27am

Hi Gwen227,

What a fantastic way of turning something that had such significance to you benefit and be significant for someone else.

I gave my dress to Goodwill. I was shopping for "painting clothes" once and got a chance to see and listen to people who were really "shopping" there. I am so fortunate and, as usual, needed a "reminder". There was a young pregnant woman who was trying to figure out what she could wear to her wedding after the baby was born. She had no extra money now, and she was going to have even less once the baby arrived. There were only party dresses there that day. Like prom dresses etc.

I took my dress in and "checked" on it a couple of times. It was eventually gone. And I sincerely hope it brings some happiness and success to someone who didn't think maybe they could have a wedding dress, especially a "designer" wedding dress (Vera Wang)

gale4c_Gail

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