Donate Your Dress

Don't ever plan to get married again (not to the same guy anyway)? Don't want to bother with cleaning those stains out. A charitable organization called Making Memories accepts gown, veil, and slip donations. Just pack your items in a box and send them to the address listed at www.makingmemories.org. The foundation asks that you include a $10 check to pay for the expense of preparing your wedding gown for sale. Be sure to include a self-addressed stamped envelope inside your package so that Making Memories can return a tax-deductible receipt for you. Making Memories hosts a Brides Against Breast Cancer, Nationwide Tour of Gowns, and the donations it receives are used to grant final wishes for men and women suffering from terminal breast cancer.

Ask not what your fabric can do for you, but what you can do for your fabric.

There are many folks who are passionate about making their wedding dress a part of their lives forever. Here is one who was brought to tears by her feelings about quilts - from Quilts by Cindy. "Dearest Cindy, Tears were brought to my eyes when I opened that box and saw the work you had done.!!! Oh My!!! FedEx arrived and when I saw my wedding dress box, I got all excited like a child at Christmas time. The Quilt is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!! It is magnificent, more awesome then I had ever imagined !!!! The pillow and the bag are gorgeous. Thank you so much, I can not express my pure joy that I feel about your work. It is so amazing. can not wait to display it in my room. This means so much to me, you have no idea. Thank you for giving me some pieces of my dress as well. Really, thank you so much Cindy....I really, really am glad that I discovered you and you were willing to do this project for me. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Your Friend, Lynne 06.13.06"

You Dog!

We are not fans of making dogs wear people clothes. It is cruel, inhumane and not very funny. But if your bitch finds that special stud and wants to make a life-long commitment, it is only fitting that she dress appropriately. If your wedding dress was beautiful enough for your special day, why not share it with your pooch.

Fix Your Car

Come on. Seriously. There is nothing else you can think of wearing while fixing the car other than your wedding dress?! At least it will be easy to tell if there is an oil leak.

Invent The Electric Motor With Your Husband

Emily Davenport's wedding dress was responsible for the electric motor. In the spring of 1833 her husband Thomas Davenport heard some curious news that changed his life (and her gown). The momentous news that roused the blacksmith's curiosity was that the Penfield and Hammond Iron Works was using a new method for separating crushed ore using a magnet developed by Joseph Henry Thomas Davenport had no prior knowledge of discoveries in magnetism and electricity when this new process stimulated his interest. With her husband Thomas Davenport and his colleague Orange Smalley, Emily Davenport invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834. She cut up her wedding dress into strips of silk to insulate the wire windings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Daven

There Is Going To Be A Hanging

Instead of hanging your dress in your closet, or in the garage, make it the masterpiece of the living room. With a frame from GiftStumped you can relive the big day, everyday.

Go Swimming

Back in the early 20th century, women wore bathing suits that looked a lot like wedding dresses. Now they are doing it again.

A Wedding Dress is the Best Pillow

Benjamin Franklin said, "Fatigue is the best pillow". We disagree... clearly your multi-thousand dollar wedding dress would make a much better pillow. But we weren't the first to come up with this brilliant fashion item to household accessory transformation. Starting at $300, www.myweddinggownpillows.com will create your special headrest in what sounds like a surgical environment - "completely separate from all other gowns at all times." If you want a less sterile experience there are dozens of other craftspeople available online who can help you out.

Stage a "Worst Best Man Ever" Wedding Video

It is a warm Saturday afternoon weeks after your wedding. Some friends are over hanging out by the pool. Your minister happens to be there too. You have everything you need to make an overnight Youtube sensation... now you just need to find that old wedding dress.

Runaway Bride...

21 minutes and 30 seconds. That is how long it took one of the participants in the Cincinnati 5k Run and Walk to finish the race in her wedding dress (and heels?). We have long felt that hi-tech running garb is out of style and frankly not as comfortable as silk and chiffon. Just make sure you wear deodorant, sweat stains are a real bear to get out!

Trash Your Dress

We aren't sure what emotions drive a bride to destroy her wedding dress after the wedding. But to have the whole affair photographed.. well, that is almost like wedding dress voyeurism. TTD ("trash the dress"). This article from the New York Times is a great description -

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/fashion/weddings/10trash.html?_r=1
June 10, 2007
Is This Any Way to Treat Vera Wang?
By CAREN CHESLER

FORGET throwing your wedding dress into a plastic bag and storing it in the attic. Enter the Trash the Dress photo session, in which the bride, post-wedding, jumps back into her gown and puts it through its paces — swimming in it, wearing it on horseback, even burning it — all while her photographer clicks away.

Brides have long had an admittedly complicated relationship with their wedding gowns, which they struggle to find, spend a small fortune on, and sweat over making fit properly — all for a fabric confection that is typically worn once.

Christa DiPaulo Becker, 31, said that sitting in 2005 for her post-wedding Trash the Dress shoot with John Michael Cooper, the Las Vegas wedding photographer credited with starting the trend, seemed appropriate because she was feeling pretty “antiwedding” after the whole affair. Besides, she had no plans to wear it ever again despite the $2,500 cost of the gown. So submerging it in a mossy spring in Nevada (above) was no loss, she said.

Her only reservation? “The water was hypothermia cold.”

The photo trend in fact began with a yawn. Mr. Cooper, 41, said he was bored with the same old wedding photos, and so he persuaded several of his clients to pose after their weddings in grungy offbeat settings. “In fashion photography, they often put really pretty people in very ugly places,” he said. “I’m applying that technique to weddings.”

Interest in these photos has even led to the creation of a Web site, trashthedress.com, which Mark Eric, a 35-year-old photographer from Alexandria, La., said he started to display his own Trash the Dress images.

So, what of the tradition of saving the dress, possibly to pass on? Ms. Becker said: “I felt a little nostalgic for a second, but then I thought it was so cool to have that photo. I’d rather have that than to look at a dress in a box that is perfectly preserved.”

Elegant Wedding Dress Tulle Beaded

Elegant Wedding Dress Tulle Beaded

Beauty women elegant wedding dress tulle beaded from jovani. The perfect style for any special occasion! Available black tie or colors. A sheer to semi-sheer net fabric often used for skirts and veils. Can also be used as an underskirt to create fullness.

Church Wedding Fantastic Decorations

Church Wedding Fantastic Decorations

Church wedding decorations are often restricted in the altar area and prohibited on the actual altar table. It's important to check with the Pastor when planning wedding ceremony decorations. There are hundreds of ways to decorate the Church for your wedding day, this page has several ideas that can help make your special day go off without a hitch. When you walk down the aisle on your wedding day, in the perfect wedding dress, you'll want for the church to look almost as beautiful as you do.

church decoration idea you come up with can be made fantastic with a little work. The most common decoration would be flowers. Flowers can add to any sort of atmosphere depending on the type. Wild flowers can add freshness, like daisies. More solemn looking flowers can add peace and tranquility.

Altar Wedding Perfect Decoration

Altar Wedding Perfect Decoration

The altar area of the ceremony venue is important for a variety of reasons. If you read on to these great ideas for altar decoration, you will find out that decorating the altar is not as difficult as you think.

When planning your altar wedding decorations, remember that you, along with your wedding party, are the true focus. What colors will your bridal party wear? Choose altar flowers and decorations that complement your basic colors and styles. It is important to decorate the altar in a way that blends with the location's decor. A visit to your church or wedding hall, where you sit down and take in the ambience of the room, may help you decide what types of decorations will best enhance your altar while still maintaining harmony.

Aside from flowers, it would also be nice to have lush of greeneries in the altar area. For example, you can two large green topiaries and place them on either side of the altar. These topiaries can be adorned with tulle bows, flowers, balloons, raffia, and ribbons. The altar will serve more than just a backdrop to your wedding. More importantly, this is a sacred place where you and your partner would make a vow to spend the rest of your lives together for better or for worse so it is only right that you decorate it beautifully.

Creative Wedding Balloon Elegant Decor

Creative Wedding Balloon Elegant Decor

Creativity & expertise will enhance your function - we can provide everything from subtle table decorations to entire balloon constructions. Balloon wedding decor is an exacting, "get it right the first time" activity that often requires the collective efforts of more than one balloon professional to achieve the desired, elegant result. For these activities we at Beautiful Balloons regularly join with other professional balloon artists to help produce each other's wedding decor.

Gazebo Wedding Trend Decorations

Gazebo Wedding Trend Decorations

Planning a romantic outdoor wedding is always fabulous – and when there’s a gazebo involved, there is even more fun to be had! If you are planning to say your vows underneath a gazebo, you already have a great backdrop. Now it’s time to make it your own with some personalized décor!

gazebo is perfect for a sunset or evening ceremony. In case of beach weddings, you can opt for seashells and use colors of the sea (shades of bluish green and warm browns) as a part of the decoration. Choose decorative materials that will withstand the outdoor winds and harsh sunlight.

If your wedding reception is scheduled for the evening, then you can make the gazebo look really attractive with the use of lights. Dim lighting can turn any setting into a romantic one if done the appropriate way. Look for beautiful and interestingly shaped lanterns but ensure they can withstand strong gusts of wind! You can opt for a string of lights instead, which can be placed around the topside of the gazebo. Add some balloons to the corners of the gazebo.