Your mums wedding dress......

I always wanted to wear my mums dress but I got stuck in it when I was 16 so I knew it wouldn't be happening haha. I loved it though.

really not sure how my dress will age, it's not really to everyone's taste now.

My mum didn't get a dress. First wedding was a quickie at 18 cos she was pregnant, second, to my dad she wore a lilac suit dress.

I am trying to choose a dress that won't date too much as I don't want to look back and laugh about it being 'so 10's' like some people do about their 80's dresses.

My Mum was 37 weeks pregnant with me when she married my Dad, and wore a red maternity suit! I have inherited her quirky streak though, I am having a black and red dress.

My mums dress was a meringue puffball dress.... And no hope in hell would I wear it hahaha!

I would have loved to have it adapted somehow, but my mum was a size 10 when she got married and I'm a 16/18, so yeah, it's not gonna happen. I do have her garter, but even that won't fit over my chunky thigh!

My mum didn't have a proper wedding dress either as she was 7 months pregnant with me. The dress she wore though wasn't very nice.

I'm having my dress cleaned and preserved when I eventually get around to it! If my future daughter doesn't want to wear it that's fine but it's nice to have it there as an option. My veil will be kept with it too.

My mum is very similar to your mums here! only one difference in the chest was a lace panel. Never crossed my mine to wear mums .... mainly because she dyed it and re-used it herself but the style and size would of been way off!

I'd love to wear my Nan's dress...just a shame it's a 19inch waist!!! Don't think I'm ever fitting into that unless I have internal organs removed lol.

Oh, here's a better pic of my parents' wedding that I found - although still not the greatest of the dress:

My Mum had a long sheath dress with thick straps & a shawl over her shoulders, simple & elegant for the 1970's!!! I don't know what happened to it though, & she never had a veil either, they just had a registry office then pub afterwards. I know she always wanted the 'Big do' and they planned to renew their vows so she could wear a big flowing dress & have a 'proper' party, but sadly they never did. I don't think I'd have worn her dress though, as lovely as it was. I am however going to wear her engagement ring as my something old & borrowed I would like to keep my dress & veil, if only to get it out every so often to look at it!!!

My Mum's dress was a typical 1970s jobby. And my sister and I used to play dress up in it as children so it has been pretty much destroyed. Poor Mum. But hey, we had fun with it! I'd liek to think that if I do have children that I would let them do the same with mine, but right now I feel really protective of my dress, and don't want any grubby hands on it or near it. But I also can't stand the thought of it being packed away into a box to live in the loft for the rest of it's days.

I believe that Gipsy tradition states that the bride's dress should be cut up and made into the first born child's christening gown. Which is quite a nice way to reuse a dress I guess.

I think strapless A lines and tea lengths are going to end up as the 'oh, go my dress was so 00s/10s' dresses or things like cupcake cakes and birdcages will also date photos, my dress will be odd but I dont think dated as ive never seen another like what im having but its an acquired taste anyways so I would care about others opinions anyway lol

my mam was also pregnant when she married in a quite quick register wedding (reading the above that seems quite common) and my mam never had her own dress, she borrowed one instead and because of that her 80s wedding looked far more 70s... the only things she has from the wedding is a fake flower garland and garter (which I use to wear as a necklace when playing dress up as a child)

as for re-using a dress... I plan to be buried in mine when I die and wear it forever (I mean who wants to be buried in a random cheap next suit when you have the perfect dress from 'the happiest day of your life' sat there waiting)

My mum had got rid of her dress, but I tried on a dress my great gran, nan and auntie all wore but they are all around 5 foot and I am 5ft6 and so it was way way too short. I am obsessed by something borrowed, something new on TLC but usually prefer the new dresses so even if it did fit I probably would not have worn it.

My mum's dress was lovely, and I have tried it on, but given the fact I'm almost a whole foot taller than my mum, lets just say it wasn't a good look!

Even if it was long enough, and fitted perfectly, I'd still want my own dress though.

I should add, I am wearing a vintage jacket, boots, jewellery and bag, so even though they're not my mum's, I feel like I'm bringing a bit of history into my wedding. I own a lot of vintage accessories (including my engagement ring) and I always try to think about who they might have belonged to before and where they might have been worn. It's likely that the original owners will have passed away, so I like to think I'm keeping their memory alive, and adding to their stories with my own. I may be overly sentimental

I actually really like my mum's dress, and I'm hoping to get a tea length dress, which, given she's 4'11'' and I'm 5'5'' would probably work! But before I got engaged, she asked me if I'd like to wear her dress, and I said I wasn't sure, to which she replied "Ha! you can't, because I had a 22 inch waist!"

But now I've started looking at dresses, I don't think I'd want to wear it anyway, it's not a meringue, but those puffy sleeves do date the dresses a lot! Having said that, it was only the 90's, so not exactly ages ago.
I hope she won't mind me putting up a little flash (have left the faces uncovered because tbh I find the covered ones pretty terrifying!)

My sister wore my mum's wedding dress when she got married. She trod on the train and tore it so I couldn't have worn it even if I'd wanted to. It would be very dated now anyway!

My mum hired her dress. The wedding was in the 60s (68 I think) and it was a very minimal long sheath dress. Very 60s! She looked stunning but even if she owned it I wouldn't wear it cos she was 28 and a size 8 and I'm 40 and size 14 ... I could never look as good as she did

My parents wed in 1980, so their clothes were of the 70s ilk - my dad even had a ruffled shirt tipped in black piping and a big floppy bow tie! My mum's dress was simple and classic, a sheath with a lace top and sheer, long bell sleeves with wide cuffs. I always knew I wouldn't wear it as her nickname in school was "the zip" and I've always been *ahem* curvy. I would have LOVED to wear her veil though - it was cathedral length, with beautiful scalloped edges. But she didn't preserve it, so it's ruined :-(

Mum's dress is beautiful - her grandmother was a dress maker and made it for her. It is a patterned white satin type material. I always loved it as I grew up, however my mum was tiny! I tried it on when I was skinny (we're talking size 6) and I couldn't do it up!!!

It has scalloped lace edging to the sleeves and neckline (which is square) and is incredibly fitted around the bust and waist. It has a small train but it isn't big and poofy.

And my favourite feature: wizard sleeves. There is just no other way to describe them. I guess the big sleeve was in back then!

Both Mum and Dad wore platform shoes, Dad in a brown suit, his best man in a greyish-blue suit with a red shirt. It was definitely 70's, but it was simple and beautiful in it's simplicity.

My mum's dress was a little shorter than tea length (60's wedding) and the fabric was gorgeous. Her and my dad had both been living abroad before the wedding though in the navy/wrens and my mum had pretty much stopped eating in the heat so was absolutely tiny. Not quite the style of dress that I would have worn (even if it had fit) but she looked absolutely fabulous!

My Mum's marriage to my Dad was her second, and had a registry office ceremony, so she just wore a cream skirt suit. I think she still has it but it wouldn't have been right for me at all.

Her first wedding dress is still in a box in the attic somewhere and is apparently "blue and very 70s" but I've never actually seen it or any photos.

I have been given my grandma's dress and will be wearing it for my wedding. It's ivory, hand made, full length with a small train and from the 1950's. It's a perfect fit everywhere. I've had it cleaned and had the long sleeves taken off but apart from that it's in its original state, complete with a lovely soft muslin underskirt. My grandma passed away a few years ago and my granddad asked if I'd like her dress when he was downsizing, he passed away not long after. I just wish they could see me get married, I miss them terribly.

Not a chance I would fit into Mum's dress. Although I'm the same sort of size as her at the same age, I'm now 30 and she was a teeny tiny 21 year old when she got married.

I did wear her bridesmaid dress from one of her siblings' weddings, and her veil, to play Cinderella when I was in the Brownies though.

I would wear my mums dress if it had a lot of work done to it. It was very much a late 80's dress with a shine to it in some lights. I very much like matt materials so would have to put some kind of fabric over the shiny one.

My mum did joke I could wear hers but it's just not my style and I don't think I could bare cutting it up to make a dress I would wear.

Plus the photographer got her to sit on the grass and it has a huge grass stain on it and after a couple of decades I don't think it will come out (why she never got it professionally cleaned is beyond me!)

My mum looked stunning in her dress, the best Iv ever seen her look, but I think if I wore the dress as it is I'd look very much old fashioned!