Let Your Wedding Dress Live On In Your Home With These 8 Creative Repurposing Ideas
You likely spent months or years imagining what your wedding dress would look like, saving your favorite looks and inspiration to a Pinterest board. But after the u0022I do’su0022 have come and gone, what do you do with the beautiful gown? Every wedding dress has a story to tell, and yours is no different. To remember your big day and show off your gorgeous dress, we’ve got eight ways to repurpose it to keep it close to your heart u2014 and your reach.
There’s no short supply of options for what you can do with your wedding dress. Some brides preserve it in a box tucked away out of sight and likely out of mind. Others donate their dresses to worthy charities, like the Eve Foundation which repurposes them into Angel Gowns for infants. There’s also Brides For a Cause, which resells your wedding dress for charity, and Brides Against Breast Cancer, which also sells donated wedding dresses to raise awareness. While these are noble ways to reuse your wedding dress, perhaps you’d like to keep it (or at least a piece of it) in your home instead.
You’ve probably heard that you can u003ca href=u0022https://www.housedigest.com/1000291/how-to-repurpose-wedding-decor-into-your-homes-decor/u0022 target=u0022_blanku0022u003erepurpose wedding decor in your homeu003c/au003e, and the same is true for your wedding dress. Instead of letting it collect dust, repurpose it into sentimental home decor, too. You don’t have to be savvy with a sewing machine to complete many of these projects, but you might need to be unafraid of seeing your dress in pieces. The good news is that you’re turning it into something you’ll use u2014 or that someone else in your home will love.