Should I sell my wedding dress???

izoomzoom

When we moved country a couple of years ago, I put mine up for sale.

Well I gave it to a woman to sell for me, and in the mad panic of selling up our lives, we never got back to her, so have no idea whether she managed to sell it or not.

Its gone now, but its not likely that I would ever want to wear it again (even if I was fortunate enough to still be thin enough !!)

black-saturn

I will be selling mine on when I've finished with it. I can't afford not to. Mines a specialist one anyway so I know there will be a lot of takers. I'm going to sell on most of the things from my wedding as I know I'm never going to use them again.

lottee

black-saturn wrote: »

I will be selling mine on when I've finished with it. I can't afford not to. Mines a specialist one anyway so I know there will be a lot of takers. I'm going to sell on most of the things from my wedding as I know I'm never going to use them again.

I hope the groom isn't included in that BS ! :rotfl:

Claire_Jones_3

izoomzoom wrote: »

When we moved country a couple of years ago, I put mine up for sale.

Well I gave it to a woman to sell for me, and in the mad panic of selling up our lives, we never got back to her, so have no idea whether she managed to sell it or not.

Its gone now, but its not likely that I would ever want to wear it again (even if I was fortunate enough to still be thin enough !!)

I've done exactly the same and now the woman has closed up shop and her mobile number doesn't work! So theres a few hundred pounds I'll probably never re-coop. It really upsets me at times as it was a lot of money when i bought it and now I'm expecting our first baby every penny counts! The woman has a mobile, home and work number for me and my home address but hasn't said a word!!

Rant over, thanks

mrsmess

I sold mine on ebay my daughter is going to be so much taller than me and although I loved my dress I needed the money more ,I sometimes wish I had kept it .the girl I sold to was in the us and sent me lots of pictures of her wedding in the carib she had the dress altered. it looked really good I wonder if she sold it on or kept it

looneyleo

Well having thought about it all day, I think I am going to sell it. Just in throws of deciding what to do with the money if I do sell it. Can't decide on something that will last forever, or a romantic weekend away with the OH...heading more towards the latter at the moment as we could really do with a break and I don't particularly want any jewellery at the mo...or anything else for that matter...

Thanks for all your responses! Interesting to know what others have done with their wedding dresses...

Still quite interested in making some sort of picture/collage from the best bits of the dress and put in the garter, copy of invite etc as a permanent reminder but still not sure whether I can cut it up! You know, in those sealed deep frames you can buy from craft shops??? Don't know how easy it would be???

I had my daughter and sons christening gowns/outfits framed and they look fabulous and I love them, so thought it might be nice to do something similar????

Oh...I thought I had made my decision...obviously not!!!!

mrsmess

mine had a bag and wrap which I kept.I also kept the tiara as I had it made and hopefully my daughter will love it as much as I did .I wish I had something from my mums wedding to wear on my day but she got rid of the lot.I have a box full of bits from my day which I can get out from time to time

benood

I vote for keeping it. I'll always remember when my OH tried on MIL's wedding dress years before we got married and couldn't get it done up, I bet that made her mother feel really great and probably justified keeping it for all those years, she's probably looking forward to our daughter trying it on even now, and DD's only 6!!

seven-day-weekend

looneyleo wrote: »

I'm sure there are thousands of women just like me who got married some years ago (9) and keep their wedding dresses in the loft! Well, my wedding dress has just had another trip down the aisle making my foster sister look beautiful on her special day too.

She has just returned it (cleaned) and I just can't decide what to do with it. Whether to put it back in the loft or sell it. It is still fashoinable and I think I could get £150.00 for it which I could buy some jewelry with so that I have something special from it. I'm not desperate for the money, don't have any debt etc but I feel I want to do something with it rather than putting it back in the loft.

Does anyone have any ideas? I don't want to cut it up for children to play in etc.

I did think of maybe trying to make a picture out of it but that would involve cutting it up too and I just can't bring myself to do it!

Thanks...looneyleo

Sell it. The money is far more useful to you.

I can't see the point of a wedding dress anyway, but don't think I'll go there.........

Spendless

Becles wrote: »

The chances of me having a daughter who would want to wear it, and be exactly the same build and height as me, must be millions to 1, so I decided to sell it.

That is how I felt about mine BUT I couldn't bare to part with it completely either, so I had the long train made into a Christening gown by my nan for my daughter and maybe some other baby will one day wear this.

I decided that this is what I was going to do with my dress but it was also stained and the price to have it cleaned, was the same as some Christening gowns I'd seen so figuring I had nothing to lose I popped mine in the washing machine in a pillow case on delicate wash :eek: and it came out fine:D . Not for the faint hearted