All The Things You Can Do With Your Wedding Dress After Getting Divorced
After saying “yes,” spending months planning a wedding, and looking forward to life as spouses, the last thing any bride wants to do is get divorced.
Regardless, splits happen anyway, and in their wake, you may be left with a major conundrum: what to do with your wedding dress.
Whether you planned to pass down your gown to your daughter one day or simply kept it as a keepsake, it can be difficult to decide if (and how) you should part with it.
Aspyn Ovard (@aspynovard), a popular YouTuber and social media influencer, is grappling with this very same question.
“What are you supposed to do with your wedding dress after you get divorced?” she asked in a recent, now-viral video with over 346,000 likes.
It’s completely valid if some brides want to hold on to their gowns. After all, they represent a special time in your life and bear memories you might not want to let go of. Aspyn, on the other hand, is thinking of donating her dress.
“Do I just donate it? That’s probably what I’ll do. I don’t want to save it for my kids because I feel like it has bad juju attached to it,” she explained.
If you’re asking yourself the same question, there are a lot of options. First, you can choose a specific cause with which to donate your wedding dress, like for soon-to-be military brides.
Or, you can always upcycle your dress and turn it into a wearable, everyday garment. Some freshly single women may not love the idea of literally wearing a reminder of their previous marriage; meanwhile, others relish turning their past into something beautiful and renewed for the present.
Maksim – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only – pictured above a wedding dress hangs in a garden
And, of course, selling your gown is always another avenue you can explore, listing it on digital marketplaces like Poshmark. There are plenty of women on a budget out there who are searching for second-hand wedding dresses.
In the comment section of Aspyn’s TikTok, commenters shared more creative ideas and things they did with their own gowns post-divorce, too.
“Check with your local NICU to see if they have an Angel Gown program. This program takes donated wedding dresses and makes special gowns for stillborns,” wrote one user.
“My mom donated it to a local drama group. It has been used as Cinderella’s dress in every pantomime since,” shared another user.
“I’ve had this idea for years! Sell it and invest the earnings. It’s called the ‘wedding dress fund.’ Let that grow, and your dress might pay for a whole wedding one day,” commented a third.
“I wore mine for Halloween last year. I told everybody I was a clown,” joked a fourth.
One child of divorced parents also chimed in and urged Aspyn not to pass the gown down.
“Don’t save it for your kids! My mom did this for me, and I just felt weird looking at it and knowing the story behind it,” they detailed.
Still, what you choose to do with your wedding dress is a deeply personal decision, and thankfully, there are many good causes the garment could go to if you choose to say goodbye.
@aspynovard maybe donating it will refresh the energy…
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