This got me thinking...... I've never met anyone who wore thier mother's wedding dress either yet I know so many women who have saved thiers for thier daughter.:
Did you wear your mother's wedding dress? Or get it remoddelled or use the fabric?
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This got me thinking...... I've never met anyone who wore thier mother's wedding dress either yet I know so many women who have saved thiers for thier daughter.:
Did you wear your mother's wedding dress? Or get it remoddelled or use the fabric?
I wanted to wear my mother's dress, but her little brother had thrown up on it and the stains never came out, so chose against wearing a sick-stained dress!
I want to wear my dress again when we renew our vows for our 25th/30th anniversary... it will take me another twenty-odd years to diet back into it!
I doubt Paris will want to wear my wedding dress, although techincally it wasn't a wedding dress... I would never have wanted to wear my mothers.... but I probably wouldn't have fitted into it either ;) She was a stick... and lets just say I have curves :cryinglaugh:
When I renew my vows though I intend to go all out, and even though it won't be white *shudder* it may be something she'd wear... but not necessarily to a wedding. Who knows though... her tastes are eerily similar to mine atm and apparently I am no longer cool (thanks darling).
*hugs*
Cailin
my cousin wore my Aunties wedding dress as her Deb dress and she looked great in it.
Same Louise - a friend of mine wore her mum's dress as her Deb dress.
I wore my Mums dress for dress ups when I was a kid - I am afair bit bigger in height and build than my Mum LOL. We went to a wedding last year where the bride used her grooms mothers' wedding dress (no daughters) and used the fabric to make herself a new dress. it looked amazing too.
Mine is sitting in the top of my wardrobe and neither of my girls will have the same figure to be able to wear it. I am seriously thinking of selling it actually.
My mum had this FANTASTIC short little number (60s wedding), all floaty and white. I will find some excuse to wear it someday - I'm not getting married again, but it is really timeless dress and deserves another go!
I was unable to fit into my mums dress and the style probably wouldn't not have suited my wedding day (beachy) anyway. However, we have used her wedding dress to make a christening outfit for my nephew. Hopefully will also be able to use for my kids as well. My wedding dress was a Mr K creation, usually a bridesmaid dress style but was able to get it in white. Looked stunning and really suited the occasion. I have looked into getting it dyed so that it can be reused but at the moment, it is stored at my mums house.
My mum had a beautiful mexican wedding dress that my dad bought secretly for her as her mother was controlling her wedding (it was a shotgun, she was 17 and pregnant with me). In the end, mum was too scared to wear it and wore what her mum had preorganized.
When I got married, I really wanted to wear the mexican dress my mother couldn't wear. But I never did, I can't remember why (gosh it was 10 years ago almost ), but I think it was something to do with the fabric and it being quite old and falling apart a bit.
Maybe next time.
I got rid of my wedding dress along with my marriage a few years ago. It was already dated bad then, there is no way my daughter would wear it one day. It was puffy and sequinned and nothing like me or her anyway.
My mum threw hers out when moving to Aus - she said it had some rust stains on it from metal pins that she had used to pin it to the coathanger.
It was a beautiful simple long flowy dress, if I had the same figure as her I would have loved to have worn it if not for my wedding but for something else. Unfort I got my boobs from my dads side of the family I would have had no hope in hell!
I like the idea of using it for a christening outfit.
I thought about wearing my mums dress but decided not to. She was married in June and it was cold so she had a heavy crepe fabric with long sleeves and I was married in January on what turned out to be a 35 degree day.
I wouldn't have altered it at all so I'm glad I didn't wear it. It's very nice and is sitting preserved in a box in my linen cupboard though!
My mums dress was hideous!!! Not a hope!
But...we did use the fabric to make my communion dress :)
My mums dress was BLUE..... with frills and dangly bits..... id be ashamed to be seen in it!!
No I have no idea what would have happened to my mother's wedding dress. But I have a picture of her and my father on their wedding day and she looked very pretty.
It was a cream coloured, long sleeved high necked dress, floor length. From memory I think it had either buttons or pleating down the front.
My father had a velour type material suit, in brown with a huge knotted tie, big lapels and flairs.
I went to a wedding in 2001 where the bride wore her mums dress. It was back in fashion again, she looked stunning and I am sure she saved a heap!
I couldn't wear my mums wedding dress even if I wanted too - she was way smaller than me when she got married! But I didn't want to wear it anyway - my parents had divorced when I married DH so to me the dress had bad vibes.
I would have loved to wear mums dress but she was 7months pg with me when she and dad had the official wedding party - so her dress was off no use to me - and it would have been extra special as it was made my my grandma (mums MIL) who passed away before I got married. I wanted to use mums veil but I had an ivory dress so the colour of mums white veil didnt match. I will ask mum though if I could use the fabric and make a christening gown if I have a little girl.
Lisa
My mum wore her Deb dress for her wedding dress. I don't really like the dress but even if I wanted to wear it I couldn't as dad got a bit happy with his cigarette at the reception and burnt a hole (about the size of a CD) in the dress
I'm with Cailin.
My wedding dress wasn't really a wedding dress (for a start it was pink), and there was no way I was ever going to fit into my mums size 8 number!
LMAO!!! My Mums dress was blue also... and her bridesmaids wore apricot, and her groomsmen and my Dad wore brown!!! Surely those colours have never been in fashion together?:
So, nope, I didn't wear my Mums dress... and I really hope my daughter doesn't get big enough to fit into mine!!!
My mum never had a wedding dress. my cheap arse dad draged her off to the registry office in sydney & then they had lunch at the cafe that was in Grace bros at the time & then they caught the train home.
My grandmother wore a suit so no dress there either!
I will keep mine forever but its not a big flash wedding gown so I'm not sure if Isla would be interested when her time comes. Its more a medievil style of dress.
The only time I could fit into my mum's wedding dress was when i was around 14 and in year 9....we had to do mock weddings as part of a class and I got to be the bride!! LOL!! So I wore mum's neck to floor straight white dress with see through long sleeves. I even used her feather wedding flowers!!!! (which I have kept coz she was going to throw them away - I don't know if she still has her dress)
So with the style there was no way I would've worn her dress.....but I did wear my nanna's garter, she just stitched silky blue material over the top! My dress was simple, still meringue skirt but no train and slightly off the shoulder,basic beading up top.....will never get rid of it as I'm too much of a sentimental fuddy duddy!! :p But my sister did wear my veil when she got married - I'm keeping that too!! Hehe!! (still have my flowers which I dried as well! LOL!! - yep. Am definitely a sentimental hoarder!! LOL!!)
Oh and don't know if I'll ever be able to fit into it again but I'm also keeping my lacey corset with matching stockings that clip on......am a TAD bigger now than the skinny minny fresh faced innocent bride of over 8yrs ago!!! :cryinglaugh:
There would have been no way this booty would have got into my mums dress at all.
I know a family friend felt pressured into wearing her mums dress and I think she only did it to make her mum happy. I didnt like it personally and think she could have looked much nicer in something else as they had to alter it so much to have it fit her.
Im also sentimental Charlyfrog! Ive kept so much of my things just as another precious momento of my fabuolous day I was married. Im not expecting them to be used again, just something special to me
My mum had a gorgeous dress... She had it made for her, all out of lace. She's gone to throw it away a few times but I've told her off, along with a string of pearls (not real) But I've nicked those!
I'll be 6 months preg when we get married and mum would have been, oh... a size 8! So, not a hope!
My mum hired her wedding dress.
My late grandmother wore her mother's wedding dress which was her mother's before her.
She lent it to my uncle's now ex-wife when my uncle go married and I don't think she ever got it back. I might have considered wearing it otherwise.
I have 2 wedding dresses. One of which I never wore. The one that I did wear to my wedding is not a traditional style of wedding dress. One of these days I plan to get it professionally dyed and wearing it to special occasions.
i would have loved to wear my mothers wedding dress.
Unfortunately she was a size 6 and i couldnt zip it up.
i couldnt fathom cutting it up to make a new one though.
I couldn't have worn my mums wedding dress either. She borrowed hers from her SIL. The dress is no longer around the SIL cut it to shreds after an argument with my uncle one day, along with their wedding photos :rolleyes: They're still married lol.
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My mum wore pants, but with the most STUNNING white top that I would happily have worn, but she gave it away! :doh:
It was my plan to wear mine every year on our anniversary, but this year the anniversary will be skiing in Japan, and, much as I love my dress, I am not carting it all the way over there! But I will happily wear mine again on the odd occasion. I worked so fricken hard on it, I figure I deserve to from time to time!
I wouldn't have fitted into my mums. But I'm having a hot pink dress anyway ;)
my mum wore an off white cheese cloth gown, ankle length with empire waist and long flowing sleeves, (wedding was 1981, dad wore white jeans, shirt and thongs!!) she still has it and has been worn to many a fancy dress party! ohh and her BF at the time embroidered little rose buds scattered all over it. I love it, but dont think I will wear it!
My mum borrowed her dress from her bestie so she didn't get to keep it. Don't think I would have fitted into it anyway as she was a size 6 back then!
We got married a month ago (yay!) and I wore a black and white dress. Here's a pic of the front and one of the back
Jeez has it been a month already!? Time flies when you're having fun ;):
I know Teagz! I better get crackin and finish my thank you cards! Maybe DH will bring me home flowers tonight lol unlikely...I think it does deserve a night off from cooking though ;)
My mum never had a proper wedding dress. I believe for her first marriage she just wore a nice suit with gloves and a hat, she did not marry my father and what she wore when she married my step dad was just blergh. She did have some gorgeous ball gowns, even at my thinnest I was not quite able to fit into them, my rib cage is just too big. If I had thought about it earlier I would have asked for Nanna's wedding veil (very 1920's) and seen what I could have done to make it suit my wedding dress.
My dress was not typical and I have worn it again many times for Medieval feasts. (If you are my friend on FB it is the green and gold dress).
lol this is an old thread.
My mum sold hers straight after their wedding. I probably would have worn it too, but she's not a hoarder.
I still have mine but on our wedding day DH put his chair on my net skirt and put a big hole in it.
I have kept my veil and tiara though to give to Darcy.
A friend of mine cut up her wedding dress to make christening outfits for her 2 kids (a boy and a girl). They were just gorgeous.
I bought a new dress for my wedding. My mum does still have her wedding dresses (from both her weddings!). The first one in 1974 was a long sleeved number , really really thick fabric that she had to get let out around the boobs and tummy because she was pregnant.. She got me to put it on once, LOL! The other one was actually a white suit skirt and jacket. Very pretty but not my style!
There was some heavy white lace left over from my mums wedding dress which I made into 2 ring cushions which my nephews dragged along the (horse &) carriage wheels :rolleyes:
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I wore my mum's wedding dress!
My mum is Indian so we wore a sari rather than a traditional white wedding dress handy as saris don't really change with the fashions :D
It is gorgeous handmade/embroidered gold silk and I felt very special wearing it. It made mum really happy too as it was a nice way to make reference to my heritage. DH loved it too, he thought it was all rather exotic! The best thing was the sari hid the fact I was 7 months pg...you couldn't tell until I stood sideways, even then they're pretty good at hiding sins :lol:
i wouldn't have worn my mothers wedding dress in a pink fit. it was all frilly and just blech! but my nans (mums mum) i could have seen myself in. but she sold it not long after she got married (married in the depression years) as for my gran (dads mum) she got married in a knee length skirt and jacket type thing.
I'm keeping my wedding dress for if i have a little girl she may like it ( its a ball gown when its got a hoop under it with a train) it can be altered fairly easy-ly as it waa for me i was just over 7months UTD and you could only tell if i stood side ways or had my hands resting on the bump :p