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Repurpose your wedding dress

by Meg Massie (RSS feed) on Jul 20th 2008 10:00AM

Filed under: Fashion, Keeping the Memory, After the 'I Do's', Polls

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For most brides, the wedding dress is hugely sentimental -- even though you will probably never wear it again. So instead of just keeping it in the back of your closet, why not do something with it?

Here are some suggestions we've collected from brides and wedding professionals:
  • Use the skirt to make a bassinet lining for your future children.
  • Use the material in a wedding quilt.
  • Use the fabric in a christening gown for your children
  • Make handkerchiefs from the gown fabric, and have your monogram and wedding date stitched in.
  • Make decorative pillows for your home from your gown fabric.
  • Use the fabric to make smaller accessories like headbands, garters, and purses that you can pass down to your future daughters to use in their weddings, or give to your friends for theirs.
Of course, all of these ideas require cutting up your gown. If you can't bear that idea, there's really nothing wrong with storing it in your closet in hopes that maybe one day your future daughters will want to wear it when they walk down the aisle. But before you get your hopes up too much, just remember how we feel about the fashions of decades past.

Then again, there's always Halloween...

Would you be willing to destroy your wedding gown in order to make a more useful keepsake?

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