Dress alteration scraps

I am so short, mine was made in to a jacket

Nonna, you're so pretty! A jacket is a neat idea I didn't do anything... Didn't have many scraps to do much with.

LOL Rachel, for an old lady as one poster told me I was?

Thank you, Sweetie, I felt great in that dress and the jacket was a blessing.

I have no idea about turning it into lingerie, but I would think maybe you could contact an etsy seller that does lingerie and see if you could send them fabric.

There is also a company (Angel babies, maybe?) that takes donated wedding gowns and turns them into clothing for infants that don't make it home from the hospital. If they take full wedding gowns, perhaps they would also take alterations pieces, but honestly I don't really know.

Sorry, that's a lot of speculation, so it's probably not very helpful.

Nonna- you looked gorgeous! I only had about 1.5 inches taken off the hem of my skirt--but my skirt has so much fabric (Its a really delicate silk) that there must be 10 yards of this fabric "ribbon"...so I'm giving it to my florist to wrap the bouquets/boutonnieres with.

I didn't know they saved the scraps! I guess you learn something new every day lol

Making it into lingerie sounds like a really cool idea!

Nonna, someone said you're pretty "for an old lady"?!?! Whaaaat. Lol. You're pretty. Period: )

Im considering using a small piece to make a pocket square for my dad

Yeah Rachel, a real piece of work, not that I mind being my age. She was cruisin' was all

Blair, what a great idea!

Murray, my friend who had a bridal shop and is still a seamstress does that very thing.

I'm using mine for my fiancé's boutonnière

I used lace from my mom's dress to make a heart and sew it into my dress. I'm going to remove the heart from my dress before I get it preserved, add the scraps from my dress as a border, and hopefully pass the heart down later.

If you could make it into lingerie that would be amazing! following this post for ideas!

I have scraps from when they altered my gran's wedding dress (she saved everything), so I'm doing similar to SLR and having a piece sewn to the inside of my dress. I was also thinking of using some on my bouquet somewhere.

Not sure if there will be scraps from my dress, but I'll ask and save for a shadow box or something.

Following also . . all of these ideas sound wonderful. I had not thought anything about scraps of my dress at all

My friend had hers made into a really pretty garter

There is also probably a local place that will use it to make dresses/gowns for infants who don't make it home from the hospital to be buried in (miscarriages, stillbirths). We use a group called "tender mercies" at my hospital. Everything donated goes to a family that has lost a baby. If I ever get rid of my dress I am donating it to them.

I'm kinda of jealous because I love this idea! So sad I won't have much scraps left over.