OMG!! I so want to do this now!!! My dress has been in a sealed vacuum box for 9 years doing nothing. I can hardly wait!!!!
Posted by: Jenn at June 11, 2007 8:08 PMNew Year's Eve 1999. Party at my place. My brother and his new bride are shacking up with me and James while they wait to get their new house. SIL gets a little tipsy and wants to party like it's 1999 so she goes into their room and returns wearing her wedding gown, tiara, shoes, etc. Everyone splits a gut and it's the highlight moment of the night.
Well my SIL started a tradition and the next new year's eve, I'm now married with a very nice wedding gown burning a hole in my closet. So I bust it out and wear it to a party at my brother's house. Since then, we always spend nye with them and her brother and SIL and we got her into the wearing the wedding gown thing. It's so much fun - especially when some of us were a bit pregnant or had just had a kid. LUV-LEE.
It's especially awesome when run out into the street to blow horns and throw streamers.
Wedding dresses shouldn't live in acid-free boxes! They need to find life after that one big day.
AH.com response: Wow. These are great stories - thanks for the inspiration - my dress may party once again!!
Posted by: Jayne at June 12, 2007 3:31 PMI did! And, I got the pleasure of doing it with the "Godfather of Dress Trashing", John Michael Cooper, www.altf.com
Posted by: Cece at June 18, 2007 7:49 PM