Repurposing Special Memories

This is the final phase of my wedding dress. It's a little bitter sweet but the baby girl I made it for will be carrying my name (as her middle name) and that makes it a little bit sweeter. Little Miss will be blessed in Utah later this month, but this dress goes out in the post tomorrow!

I used new fabrics for the entire dress, but the appliques and beads are from the original dress I was married in. My BFF from high school was married in the same dress and that is why I made her this dress for her little girl.

 

 Front                                     Back

 Jack-Jack wasn't the most willing model, but she sure looks pretty!

 Applique headband

 

 Barefoot sandals

 Here are the other pictures of what I made out of my dress. 

(Both girls are wearing the same dress.)
The boy blessing outfit was for Little Miss' big brother.

Repurposing Special Moments

A wedding is planned for over several months, or years. It lasts for one very (hopefully) happy day and then the flowers are dried and hung, the presents are opened and used, or regifted. The dress is hung at the back of a closet or preserved, never to be seen again. I always thought the dress was the best part of the whole day and it was sad it wouldn't be reused. These items have been made out of various wedding dresses or special occasion clothes.

This Baptism dress was made out of my wedding dress.

This is the same dress as above on my older daughter.

This outfit was made with new fabrics with buttons from the same wedding dress that was turned into the above Baptism dress. The rest of the dress will be made into a baby girl blessing dress in the future.

These baptism pants were remade from a pair of ordinance pants

This outfit used fabric from the train of a wedding dress for the pants and the buttons on the vest are also from the dress. It has new fabrics for the shirt and vest. The rest of the dress will be turned in a baptism dress to be used next November.

Holding onto the memories of my wedding day keeps them safe but sharing a piece of that precious day with children has made the memories grow by leaps and bounds.