Ex brides - what did you do with your frock?

[May Kasahara]

This is one of the reasons I don't want a traditional wedding dress. I just don't see the point of spending £500+ on something that gets worn for, at most, a day, and then takes up space in your house for weeks/months/years while you try and decide what to do with it. I'd rather have something I can wear again.

 

[moonsi til]

I adore weddings and in the past 5 years or so most of my friends have got married so there has been plenty of wedding discos...

My friends all want to wear their dress again and have that day again. I suggested that we have a wedding party where we all wear our wedding outfits. So lots of brides and grooms..

I was a bridesmaid at one wedding in a beautiful purple dress that's in a box under my bed with cream sparkly shoes.

 

[Looby]

My dress which was handmade by a friend who makes corsets and bridalwear has a blim burn on it and also a stain which I think is vodka and coke.

 

[lizzieloo]

I want to see all these wedding dresses

This thread needs more pictures

 

[Iguana]

That's me, with my dad.

 

[moomoo]

Mine is shoved in a drawer under the bed. It's horrible! Proper 80's style. It's even got puffed sleeves and a peach bow.

 

[Ceej]

Lovely dress Iguana - you could certainly wear that again!

Mine was a bit 80's too - meringue printed silk satin, puff sleeves...vaguely Diana-ish..oh, the shame. I had fantastic Janet Reger underwear and Hobbs shoes though..in my defence!

 

[cesare]

My nan kept my mum's 60s wedding dress, so when I was getting married they wanted me to try it to see if I could get married in it. But my mam's a little dwt so when I tried it on I managed OK with doing it up, but her frisky above knee length was about knicker line for me

So I opted for an ivory lacy handkerchief hemline type affair that I thought I could wear afterwards. Never did though. My mam's still got it. Retrieved the shoes recently - lace shoes with a three inch heel Still a bit murky from that day back in 1988.

If I can stay the same weight, mebbe I'll keep the dress to get cremated in. Unless my niece wants it.

 

[cesare]

Mine is shoved in a drawer under the bed. It's horrible! Proper 80's style. It's even got puffed sleeves and a peach bow.

Peach was The Colour then wasn't it? I didn't wear anything peach but there was bloody peach leaching in everywhere else. My stepdaughter's bridesmaid - dress, invitations, placecards, flowers, favours. We did toned down peach, but we still did peach

 

[moomoo]

Peach was The Colour then wasn't it? I didn't wear anything peach but there was bloody peach leaching in everywhere else. My stepdaughter's bridesmaid - dress, invitations, placecards, flowers, favours. We did toned down peach, but we still did peach

I'm almost tempted to dig it out and try it on again!

 

[Looby]

I'm almost tempted to dig it out and try it on again!

Do it, we want pics.

 

[keithy]

do it moomoo!!

I'm such a girl, I want a wedding. I have never even BEEN to a wedding, apart from a couple of my dad's mates weddings when I was about 10

 

[Cloo]

Mine was a blue bridesmaid dress which I intended to wear again and did, at my office Xmas party, where there was an 'Red Carpet Glamour' theme, so I wore it with different accessories and without the hat and it was OK even though I was slightly preggers by then!

I think I can just about get back into it now (pregnancy seems to have permanently pushed out my ribs a bit, though, so the under bust band is tight, even though there's no fat there at all!) and I may well wear it to future events.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Mines in a suitcase under the bed

 

[sim667]

just wait til your ankles better and do the shoot

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I would. I'm a bit of a sucker for that kind of shit.

Have you saved the top tier of your wedding cake?

I did, after 6 1/2 years and him sodding off with someone else its a bit unappetisting

 

[invisibleplanet]

I'm toying with the idea of dying mine and maybe shortening it. My friend is getting married on my wedding anniversary next year and I'm really tempted to wear it.

Is that really selfish? It's a monsoon dress and while it looks wedding-y now, if it was blue/green or pink and knee-length it wouldn't be. And it is still my wedding anniversary (and the anniversary of my miscarried pregnancy's conception) so I'd like to do something that marks it for me.

I don't think it needs dying - it's a lovely colour already, A shortening to that flattering '1" just below knee' length would mean you could wear it to any super-smart occasion.

 

[Cloo]

Nice way to give your dress

The website below doesn’t have many details, but the Nottinghamshire Police Aid Convoys, who send loads of aid abroad every year, have a project called ‘Dress for Cinderella’ – they send out a bunch of dresses to places in Russia and Zambia, so local girls can open a salon. Brides get to borrow dresses like they’d never otherwise have access to and shoes, free of charge, and the girls at the salons learn business and sewing skills.

So that could be a fine destination for a used dress!

http://www.npac.org.uk/