OT- Random Poll

I sold mine a year after the wedding!  What's the point of having it hang around??

What wedding gown?  I got married in jeans.  I tried to plan a wedding, but my dad died, then our preacher died.  DH was in CO, I was in NH.  His family was in VA; mine was in OH.  It was easier to just get in front of a judge and exchange vows.  I am a sentimental pack rat, yet I don't miss having a big wedding or The Dress.  I don't think there is really any right or wrong...it's whatever works for you.

1. So NOT sentimental.
2. First wedding had the big poufy dress and gave it to Goodwill after my divorce.  Second wedding, bought a lace dress at J.C. Penney and threw it out after the bum left me.

I donated mine to Goodwill.  Like you, I couldn't see letting it lay around when someone could use it. 

I gave my dress away. My wedding was cancelled before I got a chance to wear it and I had a friend who could not afford a dress so I gave her mine. I felt bad about it a while ago. I never had a picture of it and I really loved that dress. I didn't feel bad about giving it away but because I didn't have a pic.

Everyone that know me knows how much I love my husband, the wedding dress, not so much.  I gave it away after a few years.  It was taking up way too much space.  I have beautiful memories and pictures of that day, I don't need the dress too.  Give it away and enjoy the extra space.

I picked out the style of my wedding gown, and through a friend of a friend I was goign to have it made..... super simple and without frills, lace, pearls, train or bling.

The friend of a friend "made" this dress without my ever meeting her.... and the friend who had lined this person up.... unbeknownst to me.... wanted me to have my 'dream wedding gown" which is to say.... HER dream wedding gown. For Free. Probably cost her $1000 (she was filthy rich)

It was two days before the wedding, and I was panicking and my friend finally got me the wedding gown.

I was somewhat appalled to see my simple no-frills, gossamer, angelic, wedding gown was the ultimate wedding gown instead....... twelve foot train, lace, pearls, beads and frills and fripperies on every single square inch of fabric. PUKE

No time for me to change it, or bemoan the fact that hubby's outfit was designed to fit in with my desired but not acquired outfit...... so I wore the monstrosity.

I think we got it cleaned, and I think it's in a box somewhere in the garage. Maybe.

If I found it, I'd probably pitch it in the trash..... but then I'd have second thoughts and find someone to give it to. I think it's a size 24-ish...and I'm size 10, so it's just a bit of sentimentality that has no place. My two stepdaughters are size 8.

1. Yes, I am sentimental.... But,
2. I would get rid of the dress (and did!)

LOL! I donated my wedding gown to the Airmans Closet (the military version of a Thrift Store) just a week after I married!

It has been 26 years now and I know I would never marry anyone else (even if my spouse passed away tomorrow).

I am NOT sentimental about cards/dresses/photos, etc....All my memories are in my HEART and HEAD... just SEEING my husband is what makes me happy/calm/in love...Not some "dress".

The only thing I am perhaps 'sentimental' about is my wedding band....It isn't "special" it's just a simple mans band that has some neat designs on it...But as I told my husband once...(Every time he deployed) wearing the ring is like having a tiny piece of you wrapped around my heart when your not here.

Now the darn thing is so loose I will have to have it risized soon. It is always falling off, where as just 10 years ago, the ONLY way it would come off is with bolt cutters. LOL!

But no...I never wanted "flowers" and crap either... I am a very weird chica...Other women wanted flowers, clothing or jewelry and I always told my hubby I wanted critters (I am a female version of Steve Irwin)...Reptiles, corals for my reef tank, etc... The way to my heart is through doing something fun. :)  For our first date he caught a little grass snake for me, and he got his first kiss from me.

Warmly,
Jackie

Mine was an original design, so yes, I'd hold on to it. But MANY women feel as you do. Besides, you're military, right? Which means you have to pack and move every other time you turn around? (Or do I have you confused with someone else?)

Paring down is a good thing. I'm trying to do it myself, with only medium success.