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Basic White: It Goes With Everything

20 Feb

Trash it. Strut it. Frame it.

There are endless possibilities.

Some brides just can’t let go of their bridal beauty. And that’s okay; they shouldn’t. I’ve mentioned before how if I could somehow be a bride (parallel universe?), I’d wear my dress everywhere. People would gawk at my bridal beauty as I ate burritos or walked my dog.

frame wedding dressStoring your dress is just lame. It’ll sit in a box.. and stay in a box. Why pay all that money for something so beautiful just to lock it up. I’ve noticed on Pinterest that brides are starting to frame their dresses. Genius! What better way to get more mileage out of your designer gown than to hang it behind plexiglass in your entry hall?

By the way, what are brides preserving their wedding dress for? Do you really think your daughter or future daughter-in-law is going to want it? Did you want your mom’s? (A brief aside: one of my wife’s family legends was the time when her mother and aunt as little girls went into the attic and cut up their own mother’s wedding gown just for fun.  Sent to their rooms without dinner was just the beginning.)

You ladies who’ve had your dresses in storage for years, go unpack that gown, put it on, and strut down the street. Prepare for plenty of well deserved attention (especially if you still fit into it)!  Traffic will stop for you, total strangers will wish you health and happiness for the rest of your life, and who couldn’t use a shot of that once in a while?  So don’t wear it just once.  You never know when two little girls with scissors might be making a big pile of pretty ribbons in the attic.

My Pinterest and Facebook have more bridal bliss!