Hand me Down Dress

My mom does still have her dress but it is a hippie dress made of cotton with long floppy sleeves...so no thanks. Luckily she never expected me to wear it. It actually never even came up. Knowing how i love me new and modern, looks great on me dress i would never expect my daughter to want to wear my dress. So i am probably not even going to save it for long.

I am not doing it, but a friend of mine did it and is was beautiful and so speciall!! Personally, it is not something that I would do or expect my daughter to do, but I think it is a beautiful idea.

I have had numerous women wear their mom's veils (including one of my two brides who married each other last night!) but never a dress. I also had one of my couples who was doing a handfasting use a long ribbon made from the dress; another made their ring pouch (for a ring warming) made from it, and another the ring bearer pillow.

My mom no longer own her dress. Knowing my daughter she probably won't consider wearing mine as she's into fashion and I'm sure years from now she'll think that it's not her style.

My mom's dress is sooooo 80's. Puffy shoulders, long sleeves, lacey, & what not. So not me. She still has it, but never expected me to wear it [fortunately haha]. I don't expect my [if any] future daughter to wear mine ..if I even preserve it that long. If I don't do a TTD, then I will more than likely donate it ..or do both :].

I would never expect my daughters to wear my dress, and have no intention of holding onto it that long for them. If nothing else, the fabric will yellow- no matter how you preserve it.

I did use the train of my first wedding dress to have a christening dress made for my daughters. I also took one of the appliciques off my actual dress to put on their dress.

I wanted to wear my mom's dress but the lace was deteriorating too badly to do the alterations. My mom used some of the fabric and lace to make the ring pillow and cover the card box.

My mom still has her dress, I think. I've seen it before. But I'd never wear it. It's god awful ugly. I love my mom though. She was broke, and planned a wedding with a tiny budget my Grandma, her MIL, set for her. She planned the whole wedding in 2 short months, and bought a really cheap dress in a thrift store. She says it was actually meant to be a prom dress.

But she has been married for 28 1/2 years, very happily so, so that's says alot.

I am getting married in April to honor their marriage. They got married in April.

My mom wore her mother's wedding gown from the 40's when she got married in the 70's. She still has it, too, but it is waaay too teeny for me (she weighed 104 the day of her wedding... I am sooo not that skinny!) If it fit I might have considered it, but only if she would have let me alter it to make it a little more modern.

For that reason my mom really wants me to save my dress for my future daughter(s). I would never make them wear it, and who knows if it will be in style at that point... I'm still considering selling it on ebay or something to try to re-coup some $$ from this wedding!

In our family the tradition is the mother pays for the dress, but we always save ours for our daughter. My mother's dress was bought by her mother and she is buying mine. I would have worn her's but lets face it she weight less then 100lbs on her wedding day there is no way I will fit in it. lol. and my daughter is only 2 and already half my size so my guess is she will be tall like her father. So again don't think that she will wear mine but I will gladly buy her a new dress

I was going to go with my moms, but I fell in love with my dress on an spur of the moment thing, when we happened to be next door to a bridal shop, my grandma my mother and I.

I will keep mine - I won't pressure my children into wearing it, but if they want to (i wanted to use my moms) i want it there for them

The dress from my first wedding went to my sister for her wedding five years later. However, I don't think passing it from mother to daughter tends to work well. First off, the daughter would have to be close in size to her mother. Plus, I don't think a daughter would typically want to use a wedding dress that was 30 years or so out of date and was her mother's taste rather than hers.

My grandma wanted me to wear hers!! I don't think that she expected it for real, but it's gorgeous!! Just not me. actually pretty much the princess dress but more silky. I should have considered it more!! i don't have a pic on here!

My mom is 5' tall. I am 5'10". So that solves that issue.

My MIL offered her dress. I thought it would be extremely odd to marry her son in her dress. So that solved that problem.

If I have a daugther AND she decides to get married, I am hoping to be around to select the dress that is going to make HER look gorgeous.

I'm going to save mine, in case I have a daughter and she should choose to wear it. It will be her choice though.

I dont have any kids yet, but FH's daughter (my Maiden of Honor) will be my daughter. She lives with us full time, so she's practically my daughter anyway.

However, she is almost as tall as I am now, so she'll more than likely be taller than I am. Also, I'm petite and small framed, and she's more medium framed and regular sized.

However, I may save my dress for her. She may be able to make something out of it.

My mom no longer has her dress as my parents are divorced and she didn't want it anymore. However, I had an interesting conversation with my dad a couple weeks ago in which he told me that my step-mom had offered me her dress. I gave my dad a kind of funny look because the one she married my dad in was VERY simple - short, spaghetti straps, almost like a slip. He said "oh, her one from her first marriage..." I thought that was kind of odd that she offered me her wedding dress from when she married the man before my father, so I said probably not, but tell her thanks. Just thought that was a little unusual. I also had one of my BM's mothers offer me her dress, and although it was beautiful on her, it was a definitely an 80's style and not my taste. I'll definitely keep my dress because I keep things like that, but I would never try to force my daughter to wear it.

I think the idea of using your mothers veil or your daughter wearing your veil in the future is a great idea. I woud never wear my mothers dress though, too old school for me, and i wouldnt expect my daughter to wear mine either.

My mom borrowed her dress from her sister in law, cause they were on a tight budget. So I have actually never seen my moms dress, besides pictures but they aren't nearly the same. So for the ladies wanting to get rid of it.. I say don't cause I would LOVE to see my mom dress...but that wont happen.

I probably wouldn't wear it, but I wouldn't have minded using something from it.

Just food for thought I guess, from the other side of that.

I'm pretty sure my mom still has her dress, however I wouldn't wear it. It just isn't my style and is quite outdated. I'll probably end up keeping mine, although I like the idea of making a christening gown out of the fabric.