What do u girls do with ur dresses after the wedding/engagement?

njgal · Dec 2nd, 2008, 12:14 PM

What should I do with my old wedding and walima outfits. I don't see myself ever wearing it it because I want to wear new clothes with new trends.

I don't see anyone buying them here in US.

Is there a place that I can donate them? Or reuse some of the work?

Niksik · Dec 2nd, 2008, 12:19 PM

njgal, I have mine from 12 years ago. Still lookin' good. I wore it once for some family member's wedding. Now it's all wrapped up and stored in a box. I plan to keep it for future use; perhaps use the material for making an outfit for my daughter or something.

Ira · Dec 2nd, 2008, 12:40 PM

I was thinking of doing something to mine too but hten i realised how much i cherish my mom's wedding stuff. I got her wedding karas and will also be getting her gharara. I want my daughter(s) to have the same option so i have decided to keep mine the way it is.

dawn77 · Dec 2nd, 2008, 01:30 PM

edhi center in NY accepts clothing donations. you could try that.

njgal · Dec 2nd, 2008, 01:32 PM

I have already worn my walima outfit to my sister's wedding and my cousins. All my pcitures are in the same outfit. If I really think about it - I can maybe wear it again or give it to my daughters in the future.

But my wedding outfit is soooo RED. I can't see my daugthers liking it or re-using it.

Does anyone know of somewhere I can donate it?

dawn77 · Dec 2nd, 2008, 01:32 PM

you could also get a plain kameez with shalwars/pants/capris made with the dupattas. why don't you post pics here?

PSquared · Dec 2nd, 2008, 02:14 PM

I wore my mom's valima gharara years later to another wedding...a lot of fun.

I would turn the outfit into something else...like a shalwar kameez or even try to use the work on it to make something else.

Good luck!

rabia3983 · Dec 3rd, 2008, 09:54 AM

after seeing how designer use the same piece for several outfits, i m going to make at least two outfits out of my wedding outfits. like PS side, make a shalwar kameez or something simpler.

njgal · Dec 3rd, 2008, 10:50 AM

I don't know much about kaam and kapra type.

So can you cut out kaam from a kapra and use the same kaam somewhere else?

What can you use the dupata for? My dupata was HUGE like 4 ghaz and is very heavy.

njgal · Dec 3rd, 2008, 10:51 AM

Thanks for your ideas BTW

midnighteyes · Dec 3rd, 2008, 11:01 AM

I was wondering to do with mine too (actually thats what my first post on GS was about haha!), whether I should give it away or make a sari out of the dupatta somehow or do what. I decided to keep it for my daughters, because I too love the things my mom has passed down to me from when she got married, gorgeous!! I do however want to make a suit to go with the dupattas, havent gotten around to it yet....one day!

EWill · Dec 3rd, 2008, 06:25 PM

donate!

dawn77 · Dec 3rd, 2008, 07:23 PM

it would be best to post pics here. we can give you better/more ideas after looking at them.

prototype · Dec 4th, 2008, 07:51 AM

donate to edhi centres for being used at the weddings they sponsor for the non affording girls/families.

umm adbir Rahman · Dec 7th, 2008, 01:09 AM

As salaamu aleykum wa rahmetuhAllaahi wa barakaatuh. I know a sister in NYC who is the imaams wife and she hasnt had her walimah yet. They aren't that financialy stable because the masjid doesnt pay him that much so Im sure she would love to accept a donation from you of your wedding/walimah outfits. Let me know if that is what you would like to do with them and I will inform her inshaa Allah.

Jazak Allaahu khayr.

Eyelashes · Dec 7th, 2008, 01:33 AM

i think if you know ur not gonna ever wear it or revamp it
its such a good thing to donate it
i still have my moms but unfortunetly my mom was much skinner at my age than i am
all this processed food!
but if i love mine then ill keep it n wear to my sisters wedding or revamp it....

QTMD · Jul 4th, 2009, 07:25 PM

So I was just wondering what people usually do with their bridal dresses after the wedding/engagement? lock em up and put em away in a suitcase never to be seen again? Isn't that a huge waste of money? =/

Sara516 · Jul 4th, 2009, 07:26 PM

wear it again to another wedding and hope the bride won't cut your face off for daring to wear something nice?

lady_lama · Jul 4th, 2009, 08:14 PM

^ LOL! i had my nikah during the day and had a red shalwar kameez, wore that on the following eid. the following summer it was my cousins wedding and after my nikah we had a ceremony in the evening where i wore a blue and pink lehnga, and sure enuf i wore it on her big day! spent monies on that dress, damn straight im gna wear it again in my life time before i have rolls and never fit into it again!

nadz123 · Jul 4th, 2009, 08:24 PM

i never wore my engagement outfit again. thank god...it was horrible....it would make even the slimmest person look massive....i dnt know why my in laws bought some strecthy velvety material for my mangni....ewwww although the design was nice...