Before and After: Redoing my mom's 80's dress

During alterations:

And the after:

Also, the lace on the back of the dress is from the sleeves near the hands in the original dress. We literally used all parts of this dress!

I hope these can help a bride someday! It really was an amazing experience and I'm glad I was able to add a very personal touch to my wedding

Great idea--I loved the way your dress turned out, and hopefully it will help some bride-to-be in her google search! Thanks for posting!

I still can't get over how amazing this came out. The lace on the back is just... wow. I'm so impressed! You look gorgeous!

PS - I cannot believe your mom was 7-8 months pregnant with you in that photo. You can't tell at all! But that makes it so much more special that you got to wear the dress!

I love the finished product, and how its not such a huge drastic difference from the original.

This. is. awesome. The lace on the back is amazing....and your mom doesn't look pregnant at all in that picture! You both are gorgeous in it!!

It's so cool to be able to remake your mom's dress!!

Your mom was 7-8 months pregnant?! Dang, hope I look that good when I'm that pregnant. Absolutely love the dress. And what a fabulous idea for a thread.

Thank you ladies! It was mainly taking stuff off of the dress and the bouquet my mom is holding definitely hides her pregnancy bump!

Thanks for sharing...that turned out amazing and you looked beautiful!

This is effin awesome. I love what you did with the dress, you look amazing in it!

I love it! Thanks for sharing all in one thread. It really turned out great. And I agree with the others...definitely can't tell your mom was pregnant! Wow!

Flawless. Amazing. Meow-ow-ow

So fantastic! I can't believe your mom was 7/8 months pregnant! You both look gorgeous in the dress. How special

So beautiful Athena! It came out lovely and to be able to share that dress must have been a wonderful feeling for you and your mom

This is awesome - so special. you look awesome.

This is a really cool transformation! I love how you used the lace for the back of the dress.

Can I just say that I can actually cry over reading this post. First, I want to say I think it's awesome you used your moms dress and made it your own. Two, my mom just passed away last month so I will be wearing her dress for my wedding. She also got married in the 80s, and I love ya mom, but 80s haha. I'm pretty sure she had the SAME sleeves as your mom did the lace up to the neck. Also, I think what you did is gorgeous ! And you look amazing in it! If you don't mind I have a few questions.. I tried my moms on a few days ago, it's a tad small, lol but I've put on some serious weight with all the stress of everything. So I was thinking of possibly doing a corset back, as I learned is possible, thanks to another poster on here. My major concern was how discolorered hers is since its been in the attic so long, so how did you get here back to being so white?! I'm also thinking of doing capped sleeves, and I really like the way yours turned out. I just really can't thank you enough for posting this. Sorry if I'm all over the place lol emotions are still crazy.

Thanks ladies I also hope to look as good as my mom did whenever I get pregnant. I also hope to look as good as she does now!

This post is making me cry! I love everything about it.