Will you preserve your dress or re-home it?

I'm honestly leaning toward preserving it and even if my future daughter/in law doesn't want it, there might be a part of it they might want. I could always end up doing something else with it. I just don't want anyone else to have the same dress as me outside of family. Maybe I'm being selfish lol

I am donating mine to a charity.

I dream of a Maggie Sottero, so she's definitely getting re-homed!

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It depends on what type of dress I go with.

No way! I’m not keeping my dress... there’s no need! It just takes up space, gets put away and is never looked at again. I learned that with my first marriage. I kept my dress for years before donating it to Goodwill. The funny thing is that I wasn’t keeping it for a reason. After the wedding, we had to fly out very early the next morning for the honeymoon. So we got home late and I shoved the dress in the top corner of the closet and simply forgot about it ( which is good because it means I moved past wedding stage and was living in the honeymoon stage). So the dress was completely “out of sight, out of mind”. I didn’t realize it was there until we moved.

The way I see it, the dress serves it’s purpose and I’ll have photos and memories of it. Also, think about how much you enjoyed searching for and selecting your own dress. Why take that experience away from your daughter?

I'm going to preserve it and use it to have my child's baptismal gown made as well as first Communion dress.

I don't have any daughters but I still want to keep the dress. Perhaps some day, it can be given to my children's partner or something made out of it.

I kept my first wedding dress for my daughter to make something to hold or have on her wedding day. This time around I am not sure what I will do. Maybe shorten it and wear again or donate to someone who can’t afford a nice dress

I intend to cut it to cocktail length and have it dyed. If not, sell it used.

Donate for sure. I saved my first wedding dress for years and then sent it to goodwill and it was so out of style anyway. My daughter will want her own dress and I would love for someone else to enjoy it.

I’m definitely shortening & wearing my dress again for special occasions like our anniversaries 😍 My dress is a very fancy, non-traditional, fitted wedding gown with a lot of shimmer, so it will look amazing shortened!

I want to keep it. I actually wanted to wear my mother's dress but she sat in chocolate, is about six inches shorter than I am, and was pregnant in it so the alterations needed would have been the price of a new dress! Mom offered to buy it and preserve it correctly for me, so I don't feel too bad about it. If we had my grandmothers dress I would have tried it, but in her day you didn't keep it. 🤷
So who knows what the future holds. Maybe I'll have a daughter or daughter in law who's sentimental like me or maybe I'll donate it and it'll be someone's cool retro dress. 🤣

I’m keeping mine! My mom preserved hers for me actually, but I’m about 5 inches taller than her, and the dress is very out of style at this point, so we realized it would be way more expensive to entirely change the dress to suit me rather than to just buy a new one. But I’m still really glad to have hers preserved... what if by the time I have a daughter that gets married, that style is “vintage” instead of outdated, and my daughter is a little shorter? Lol. I don’t know, to me it’s way too sentimental to part with it. Even if my daughter doesn’t want mine, I’d rather leave the option for her. What I would hate is to have given it away, and then have a daughter who sees photos and says she DOES want it, and I have to tell her I don’t have it anymore. I’m all for donating things (I’ve donated my hair, and I donate clothes all the time!) but for something this sentimental I just can’t do it

I plan to sell mine. No daughters to keep it for, and what good is it going to do preserved in a box? Better to recover some of my investment and help someone get their perfect dress at a reduced cost.

We are doing trash the dress photos after the wedding. After that I’ll see what shape the dress is in & make a decision. I have no plans on preserving it.

I think I want to preserve mine . My mom kept her dress and I actually wore it to my cotillion . (Fact that my mom was so much smaller than I will be for my wedding 🤦🏽‍♀️) . I will definitely keep mine though because it just costs too much for me to just give it away plus it’s MY wedding dress . My dress for MY special day 😪 seems too important.

View Quoted Comment This is a wonderful idea!

I've talked about repurposing it into a baptism gown or something for our future child. Which may be happening sooner rather than later!!