Dress Flying Anxiety - aka holy crap I'm getting married on Friday.

My friend flew her dress to Costa Rica last year. We asked if we could store it in the captains closet for the flight but got a HARD NO on that one. She held onto it until everyone had boarded and then laid it across the top of everyone's stuff in the overhead. TBH I cant remember if she had to fold it in half or not but it was a mermaid style with no tule so it laid pretty flat. That might not work so well if your dress if poofy but I'll keep my fingers crossed that being a Thursday flight there's lots of open overhead space so you can snag one for your dress all to itself