7 Ways to Incorporate Your Mom's Dress Into Your Wedding
7 Ways to Incorporate Your Mom's Dress Into Your Wedding

7 Ways to Incorporate Your Mom's Dress Into Your Wedding

7 ways to incorporate your mom's dress into your wedding

Many brides save their wedding dress for their future daughter to wear. Despite this sentimental idea, many brides want their own unique gown. Here are some creative ideas for how you can incorporate your mom’s wedding dress into your big day.

7 Unique Ways You Can Use Your Mom’s Wedding Dress

  1. Work with a skilled seamstress and repurpose it to wear at your rehearsal dinner or as a reception dress
  2. Repurpose it and use the fabric to create a flower girl dress
  3. Use swatches of the fabric in your bridal bouquet or use the lace around the handle of the bouquet
  4. Use lace from the gown on your veil or try making flowers from the fabric swatches and add them to your headpiece
  5. Find a specialist on Etsy who can make a clutch purse from the fabric
  6. Use the fabric to make your wedding handkerchief
  7. Have pictures of your mom and her wedding party on display at the reception

For more advice, call us at 508-679-8770, or email us at fatima@alexandrasbride.com today.

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