What To Do With Wedding Dresses

The Dress is Made Just for You

Your special day has come and gone.  Off to the cleaners to preserve this lovely formal dress – that you’ll never wear again!  Many years go by, the dress is preserved for …..?  Do you have a plan?

Some brides save their dresses so they can look at it in the future and remind themselves of the lovely day they were the “Princess.”  Years down the road, their own daughter might want to wear mother’s dress and begin a family tradition.  Unless you have sons, or your daughter’s idea of a wedding dress is completely different from your own.  What then?

There are several options:

• Create something new from the fabric like a ring pillow for a family wedding, or a pillow for your bed; christening dress, or make it the centerpiece of a family quilt.
• Sell it at a bridal consignment and turn the profits into savings bonds for you children or grandchildren.
• Donate it to a local theater group, church or charity.

Whatever the future holds for your wedding dress, albeit storage, transformation or giving, remember that you are STILL the princess you were on your wedding day!