Do you still have your wedding dress ?

Canada
September 29, 2008 7:43am CST
Do you have anything from your wedding or did you get rid of it all ? What are you saving your wedding dress for if you still have it ? If you got rid of it what did you do with it ?
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
30 Sep 08
I was married in a dress that I wore to church or places that required a dress. I don't still have the dress I wore it till I couldn't anymore. I gained weight after marriage and so I gave it to someone who liked it and could wear it. I know I should have kept it for sentimental reasons and all, I don't know now why I didn't.
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@lizard211 (240)
• United States
5 Oct 08
Yes, I still have my wedding dress. My husband and I had a small and unconventional wedding but it was great! My wedding dress was a sundress so unless I gain weight, I'll be keeping it until I've just worn it to shreds. :)
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
29 Sep 08
i didn't have an actual wedding dress. i eloped the first time. i don't have the fress i did that in. it was the night of my junior-senior prom. don't know what happened to it. it would have probalybeen rotte by now it's been so long ago.
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@rainmark (4302)
29 Sep 08
yes, i still got my nice weddig dress, i like to keep it and hopefully i can pass it to my daughter one day when she get mary as a legacy to her. I know she will like it coz it has a good designed and made on the nice cloth. Happy posting.
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• United States
4 Oct 08
I did not have a wedding. My cousins both kept their wedding dresses. I don't know here they kept them though. But they still have them. They have been married since 1970 and 1971.
@lkoenig07 (289)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I still have mine, but I wouldn't mind getting rid of it. We're going to be moving a lot in the next few years, because of the military, so it's not something I care to hold on to & move everytime. Not to mention, almost every girl doesn't end up wearing her mom's wedding dress, so I'm sure my daughter won't, either.
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• Canada
20 Nov 09
I still have mine. If course we've only been married two years, but I still have both of my wedding dresses. The day we eloped in AZ, i was wearing my favourite red sundress, and my grandmother's straw hat. The day of our second wedding in Canada, I had a nice red satin and lace dress made, and I still have that. I really love both dresses, and plan to keep them forever.
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
29 Sep 08
Yes,l I so still have my wedding dress and this December will make my and my husband being married for 30 years. I am thinking of making a pillow out of it though as it is not doing anyone any good in the box.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I was married a long time ago and when I got divorced what I did have I pitched. I do however have my daughters dress from her first wedding and plan on using some of the bead etc off of it. The dress itself cost over six hundred dollars fifteen years ago.....it was beautiful and I didn't want to waste the material or beads.
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
29 Sep 08
Yes and no. I got married the first time in 1973 and I don't have that dress. It was sealed and protected in a box, and I could have kept it. But when my parents retired and cleaned out their attic, it went in their garage sale. That would have been in about 1982, I think. I married my current hubby in 2005 and bought a sensible mauve colored dress for our wedding. I do still have that dress and could use it for any fancy affair or fancy restaurant outing. (But I haven't worn it since we married. Not sure why.)
@savypat (20216)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I have no idea what happened to my wedding dress, I am not very sentimental about things, just people.
@Humbug25 (12540)
29 Sep 08
Hello samtaylorskykierajen I couldn't really call it a wedding dress more of an outfit, skirt suit thing, but no mine has long gone, along with the marriage
@seeths (413)
29 Sep 08
Yes I still have my wedding sarees and I make sure that they are not damaged in any way as I treasure them a lot.It reminds me of that day and when ever if there are any weding to attend I wear them. Regards
• United States
29 Sep 08
my husband and i were married 4 years ago this coming january 8th. we had my mother-in-law take my dress the next morning straight to the cleaners, where they cleaned it good and put it in a special keepsake box for me. i guess i am saving it in case i have a girl and she would like to wear it, although i know most daughters do not end up using their mom's old dress. :) i guess if i never have a daughter i will possibly either donate it or try and sell it. i suppose for most it is just the memory of something special that you feel the need to save the dress, although we have albums so i don't really know why we keep our wedding dresses. :)
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29 Sep 08
nope i dont stil have my wedding dress as i have yet to get married i am hoping i will one day tho and then i wil certainly want to keep my dress when i do
@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I still have mine and probably even still fit into it, lol. I kept it as a memory, but also maybe one of my daughters or grandkids would like to have it. Who knows, one of them might like it. They can decide what to do with it when I'm gone, lol. My mom made curtains out of hers. She had a very lacy dress and it was perfect to be altered to cover the smaller windows of the upstairs of my parent's home. Back then people didn't have much money, so this definitely helped.
@nanajanet (4436)
• United States
29 Sep 08
No, I have photos of it and I did not save it for my daughter, as my mother said that I should. It was quite dated, and truthfully, if she wanted one like it, we could have one made just like it. I can't see storing them as there is no way to really preserve them. I know, I was in the bridal gown business for a while and they say that they can preserve them, but they can't. They just dry clean them and put them in a box with acid free paper. I washed mine, by hand, and donated it to Goodwill.
@LynniR (11)
• United States
29 Sep 08
Yes, I have my wedding dress. It's 35 years old and in my cedar chest. When our first daughter was born I was going to make a bassinett cover out of it. Got the scissors right up to it and couldn't do it. When our second daughter was born, I tried again and just couldn't bring myself to cutting it up. Over the years I have thought about making different things out of it but it still gets taken out and looked at once in a while. It'll be there probably long after I'm gone and the girls can do with it what they wish. Who knows maybe my great-great-great-great granddaughter will want to wear it. :)
@pehpot (4762)
• Philippines
29 Sep 08
I still have mine, but oh it is not a wedding gown, more like just a casual long dress, me and hubby was married through civil wedding and we don't wear grand clothes then, it was just a ceremony, for us, our relationship is far more important so we did not bother it to be grand. and so the dress is still here and I am thinking now of creating something nice out of it.
@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
29 Sep 08
I saved my wedding dress at my parents house. I was intending on having it permanently sealed away to preserve it. My mom said she would contribute half. At the time it was a total of $100. But, you know how life can be. We never got around to doing that. Then..........my dress was damaged in a tornado. It had hung near a window in my childhood bedroom and the glass was knocked in and my dress was stained by the rain. Now it hangs in my closet in my own home and I still have not done anything with it. I am hoping that someday my daughter will want to have the dress completely altered (taking out the water-stained portion, of course) to make a dress for her. But, of course I will only offer that. I will let her decide for herself and I will stand by that decision.