I have been married almost 2 yrs and I think I would like to sell my wedding dress. I was going to sell it last year and a girl asked me to hold it for her and then she backed out at the last minute. I have another girl now who would like to come try it on and to me it sounds “right” b/c she is getting on a budget (as I did) and in the same month I did…anyway, now my husband is thinking I should keep the dress.
My mother kept her wedding dress and shoes and both had yellowed by the time I was in high school. Even still, I am taller and have broader shoulders than my mother so I could not have worn it.
SO…do I sell it and never look back? Or do I spend $$ drdy cleaning it and pile it into a closet and move it with me for the next 30 yrs and hope I have a daughter who is my size and wants to wear my wedding dress?
If you decide to keep I would invest in the preservation thing they can do.
I preserved my wedding dress and veil, thinking my daughter might use them. But no. For 30 years it’s been in a big gold box in a closet. So I probably wouldn’t do it again.
Come to think of it, I should sell mine!
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My mom used the fabric from her wedding dress to make a cradle blanket. I always thought it was a great idea! She got to keep a part of her dress AND she made it into something useful. 
Or you can donate it to H.A.I.N. and give some comfort to those in need.
I think wearing your mother’s wedding dress is an old tradition and as the years go by, fewer and fewer women want to, or even can wear their mom’s wedding dress. Just sell it. No big deal.
My mom’s wedding dress was adorable, but a size 2, which I haven’t been since I was in the 6th grade. :teehee:
When I was a little girl, my mother gave her wedding dress to me and my four sisters to dress up in. We played with that dress for years, and I can still remember the smell of the fabric (I’m 51!). When my daughter was three or so, I gave my dress and veil to her. She dressed up in that thing until it was a stained up, torn, pinned, tied together rag! She is 26 and still talks about the fun she had in that dress. She is now married and is saving her dress for her daughter’s toy box. When she tells young women of her plan, they gasp! She just cannot understand their reaction. :teehee:
Aww! My mum let me wear her wedding dress for a princess party when I was little :mrgreen:
That is a really cute tradition!! I LOVE it!! 
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My daughter saved her wedding dress but neither of her daughters could fit into it. Recently she asked me to cut it up and make 5 prairie dolls and make the dresses for them out of the lace and satin. She wanted two for her daughters and two for her granddaughters as keepsakes. She thought she would keep the fifth one just in case there is another granddaughter in the future. I felt honored that I could do this for all of them.
My mom let me wear her wedding dress when I was a kid, like Silver, my mom was size 2 when she got married. It was this lacy, scratchy thing but I thought it was grand.
I’ve kept my dress for the past 15 years, lugging it around from house to house as we’ve moved. I’ll never have kids so I guess I keep it for more sentimental reasons. Somehow getting rid of it would freak me out.
I wouldn’t sell it. The resale value is minimal, the nostalgic value great. It doesn’t matter if you ever expect anyone to use the gown or not it is a momento of a special day and should be preserved.
thanks for all the opinions and stories - keep them coming !!
I’m not worried about the financial value as I bought it at a clearance sale so it was not expensive. My thinking is more that I felt beautiful wearing my dress that day and would like another bride (on a budget as I was) to be able to feel the same way without spending $1000+. I have the picures and my ring. Honestly the sentimental part of my wedding was my nephew walking down the aisle with the ring bearer pillow (made by my mother) with my grandparents wedding bands tied in place with ours (they were married 50yrs and both died with their bands on and they were specifically left to me) I will always keep that pillow and the garter I made. We rented the hubbies tux, so why keep the dress?
this is a picture of the dress when I went to have the bustle done so no corset or anything …
I still have my dress…never been worn 
long story but due to drama (not us other family members) we eloped instead of having the big Christmas wedding…I’ve kept it because in 2 years we are suppose to have a little ceremony…on our 10th year…:teehee:
I would prolly keep it 'cause I like the idea of letting Roo play with the dress… I have thought about selling it before…but I think you already know what you want to do and that is sell the dress…I think that is great and nothing wrong with that at all 
What a beautiful dress. I loved mine too. I felt like a princess on my wedding day. I’ve still got hanging in it’s bag with the shoes and the tiara, etc… I’m not sure why I keep it except for the fact that I love it. We don’t have children and I only have nephews so unless my friend’s daughter wants it, it may eventually be given to charity. I’m hoping to still be able to fit into it and wear it on our 10th anniversary. That would be a hoot!
I don’t know about saving it. It sounds like such a great memento, but in the end I’ve got a size 6 outdated dress in a box that doesn’t store easily. It would have made more sense to sell it when it was in style. Good ideas about making something with it though. If I EVER get grandkids I’ll have to do that.
I couldn’t get rid of it, but if it’s not the most sentimental part of your wedding to you then I think it is a wonderful, selfless, noble thing to think of another bride feeling like you did when you wore it.
I agree with Cynamar. If that wasn’t the sentimental part of your wedding. It would be such a selfless act on your part to give such a beautiful dress to someone on a budget so she could look just as beautiful on her wedding day. It is a very beautiful dress which by the way looks FABULOUS on you!!
I’m sentimental, but I tend not to be overly sentimental about things. I mean, I have my wedding band and my engagement ring, and a blue topaz ring my dd bought me for mother’s day a few years ago, and a few letters and stuff that I would like to hold on to. Other than that, things are just things.
That said, I still have my wedding dress in a box. I don’t know why except that the store I bought it from preserved it for free, so now I have it. They offered to preserve it because they didn’t hem it like there were supposed to, and I fell down the stairs.
It’s way too long to be a dress-up dress (it’s got a small train). Maybe I’ll just save it and make a quilt with it for dd as a wedding gift in about 25-30 years (she’s only 4!).
I started to sell my wedding dress a couple of years ago but Hubby convinced me not too. This year on Spring Break my DD (17.5yo) got really bored and got into my closet. Got her hands on my wedding dress and swished around in it for a half hour or so, insisting "This is so PREEEETTYYYY!’ (Hubby wasn’t ready for DD in a wedding dress and said so!)