I don't know whether I should be appalled or in love.
Think about this concept: Taking scissors to your wedding dress to make random things around your house that you can use to decorate with and/wear.
It's called "I do... Re-done" over at the blog MaryJanes and Galoshes. (One of the many super creative ladies that I blog stalk.)
At first I didn't know how I felt about it. In fact... I still don't know how I feel about it. Her projects are cute... but to cut up a wedding dress to make a banner/bunting?
Check out some of her projects HERE, and HERE, and HERE.
It's not that I am against re-using wedding dresses. In fact, I am going to be making a blessing dress for a friend out of her wedding dress. I think that is very precious. I have thought a lot about doing that with my wedding dress, but i'm not sure.
As I was looking around the internet for blessing dress patterns and such, I came across this dress at the Refugee Crafter:
Isn't it beautiful?
I seriously have fallen in love with it.
Look at the detail!
I love it.
Okay, I know that I already said that I love it... but I do! I want so badly to go home right now and make it for some daughter that I will have some distant point in the future. My only dilemma is that if I make it right now... it won't fit when I someday have a baby girl who needs a blessing dress?
What are your thoughts?
Is the whole "I do... Re-done" a good idea?
Would you make a blessing dress out of your wedding dress?
Should I go home right now and make this to die for blessing dress?
7 comments:
I wouldn't want to make anything out of my wedding dress. It's too special to me. I designed my wedding dress and my friend made it for me.
Why don't you save the pattern for the blessing dress. That way you'll have it for when you eventually do have a baby girl. Then you won't have to worry about it fitting her.
As for making it out of your wedding dress, the question you need to ask yourself is "How do I feel about my wedding dress?"
Hope that helps.
That is the most adorable blessing dress!!! I think you should save the pattern and make it for your future daughter.
On using your wedding dress as material, it's up to you. I would consider doing it just because I don't think I would ever use my wedding dress for anything else. It's still hanging in my closet, not being used. I think it would be great to use the material for a blessing dress....that way all my future daughters will have a piece of my dress! It could be a tradition or something! I'm all about making traditions!
So, yes, I would definitely consider using my wedding dress for a blessing dress.
I don't think I could cut up my wedding dress!! Even though I know it will just sit in a bag, in a closet in my parents house!
Maybe one day if my daughter wanted to use the lace from mine, on her wedding dress or something...we shall see!
You are a brave soul if you can do that!
Cute Shantel!
I actually probably would use my wedding dress..... maybe. I think this is a sentimental, sweet idea. And I'm never going to wear my dress again, so why not use a piece of it for my baby girl?! Maybe if I were actually doing it I'd be more hesistant. But I still really like the idea.
Even though I am about to have a baby girl I am not ready to part with my wedding dress! I just love it too much! I secretly hope that one day someone in my posterity will want to use it for their wedding dress and so I shall keep it whole. If it were a dress that was very modern I wouldn't expect that, but I think my dress is cut simple enough and only has bead work as the beautiful factor so it could pass in many eras of style...I hope. But if not I still would not want to cut it up!
Instead I had an idea in mind when I was getting married, lol. I made myself a winter coat just in case the weather was bad. I used it for my bridals when there was snow but my wedding day was warm and I'm not even sure if I remembered to bring the coat, haha. Anyway, I plan on turning that coat into a blessing blanket for both the girls and boys. That way it's used for all my children and a special things similar to using your wedding dress without cutting up the dress. I then am thinking about either making an outfit for each child or buying one if I'd rather that they can each keep for their children. Good luck in your decision!
I've heard of people incorporating their veil into their daughter's blessing dress. I even contemplated the idea myself before I got married, but alas I rented my ensemble, so cut it up, I cannot.
And on a slightly different note, I've seen a blessing dress at Jolene's that looks exactly like my wedding dress. I totally love it, and think that if I have a 2nd girl, I may go out and get it for her. My first daughter(who also happens to currently be my only daughter and child) got to wear the same dress I was blessed in, which my mother had sewn. I wanted to use that little piece of family heritage first.
Man I tend to write rambling posts on your blog. Anyway I would totally do it. Styles will probably have changed enough that your daughter wouldn't want to re-wear your wedding dress anyways, and then there is the whole mess of will she be the same size. But I would take the pattern and hold on for just a little bit, until I was pregnant with a baby girl before I snipped anything first.
Okay, I am totally NOT opposed to cutting up my wedding dress to make a blessing or baptism dress for Elsie. In fact, I seriously wish I had just cut up my dress to make Elsie's blessing dress. (But I have a hard time disagreeing with my mom, and she said she didn't think I should, and so I didn't, and yes I know that's such a silly reason.) However, NO WAY would I cut it up to make something that wasn't sentimental. Random stuff around my house? NOPE!
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