Old Style Book - Wedding Dress - Other Uses

thriftlady_2

Well,my wedding dress was a maternity dress I thought it would do for subsequent pregnancies but it was too small by the time I got pregnant again

Actually I never went anywhere posh enough to wear it.It was a loose, flowing burgundy silk dress from Monsoon.My dd had the matching hat for dressing up and completely wrecked it.

Bogof_Babe

You could approach this from the other angle, and do what I did - buy a long dress from Dorothy Perkins for £14.99 (okay it was 1974, so that would be around £100 now).

I did wear it once afterwards to an evening thing, being newly-wed and a bit broke, and I still have it in the bottom of the spare room wardrobe, along with the jumper I wore on our first date , for sentimental reasons.

Edit: Incidentally, I posted a wedding pic on another website recently, and got a couple of really nice comments about how good it looked - and the posters didn't know about the bargain price. So please girls, don't feel you have to spend £?00s for just one day, when the money would be far better going towards your first home.

Lucie_2

My Mum has done the Christening gown thing. I chucked my Wedding dress out after eventually lugging it around several house moves. It was really nice silk, it would have made lovely scatter cushions!

Former_MSE_Sue

Fabulous girls - thanks for all these - keep 'em coming! Cheers Sue

Scoflo

The train off my Mums wedding dress was used to make my first ballet dress. I then wore the wedding dress (minus the train) myself.

lex

I know in America they have charities that you can donate wedding dresses too for the less fortunate...

In NI you can recycle them via the WWF

http://www.wwf.org.uk/core/about/nireland_0000001612.asp

Possibly Oxfam have a bridal department from this article?

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/volunteer/profiles/barbara.htm

Not really reusing though, but definitely recycling.

Can you sell them to dress hire shops??

lex

Rebob

Sold mine through the local free ads together with the veil and shoes for 1/3 what we paid but another bride got to wear a dress she could not have afforded.

I would have kept it though if I had had a daughter. Ds did try it on before it went though. lol

Asda are selling separate skirts and corset type bodices for about £20 each which could be recycled as earlier posts.

sophiedb

This isn't so much the dress as the flowers, though my good intentions of buying a cheap recyclable dress have gone by the wayside since I've lost 2 stone since the wedding *boing* Might have to try out some of those baby clothes ideas when the time comes, or maybe cushions

My tip is about wedding flowers - the idea was first sparked due to hubby's rampant hayfever, so we decided to get silk flowers. They really are gorgeous, the price wasn't very different (though I got a large "bridesmaid's" posy to save money) and they now live in our home as a souvenir of the day. Hubby also has a buttonhole he can bring out time and time again, and his niece still uses her "flower wand" to batter people with when she wants to turn them into a frog.. Two years on and they still look fine and lovely.

We lived in Australia at the time, so the link to Loveflowers probably isn't much use, but my bouquet survived the flight back to Blighty without a hitch (besides the obvious *lol* ..ok.. bad pun..).

HGLTsuperstar

My mum's was recut and fashioned to be my first holy communion dress, and I felt like a princess.

lilrowan

I know someone who dyed their mums old one black (with permission) as she was a goth and wore it to a haloween night which looked pretty wicked.