After much thought about which charity to donate to and after much procrastination about removing my lovely dress from my house to take it to the dry cleaners, I have said goodbye to my wedding gown. I considered donating to Brides Against Breast Cancer, but I didn't want to have to ship the gown across the country because it didn't seem particularly eco-friendly. I also considered donating it to Goodwill here, but the potentiality of it ending up as a Halloween costume bothered me. So I decided to have my lovely in-laws (who were here visiting this past weekend) take it back with them to Toronto and take it to a fantastic charity, The Bride's Project, for me. As much as I loved my gown, I really didn't want to have to move it across the country this summer, especially because we don't know where we'll be after next year. While I can appreciate the idea of hanging on to a gown so that a beloved daughter or niece can wear it one day, I don't know if I'll ever have a daughter or a niece or if I did if she'd fit into my gown or even want to wear it. Donating it made the most sense to me. I hope some other bride will be as happy in my gown as I was.
I'll always have the pictures.
(Yep, that's a man under my skirt and it wasn't my husband! It was thechemist-coture, and he was un-bustling me.)
Photos by Julian of Julian Allen Photography
So, what about you? Have you or would you consider donating your wedding gown to charity or buying a wedding gown second-hand?
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