{"id":213002,"date":"2023-08-28T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=213002"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:15:10","slug":"what-should-you-do-with-your-wedding-photos-after-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/what-should-you-do-with-your-wedding-photos-after-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should You Do With Your Wedding Photos After Divorce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ll never forget how I felt when I realized I found \u201cthe one.\u201d Forget the guy, I\u2019m talking about my wedding dress! Standing in front of the mirror in an off white strapless Werkstatt<\/i> gown, sophisticated with a little bling, but classy and elegant, I felt so beautiful and happy. All my dreams were coming true. Until they weren\u2019t, and 8 years later, I found myself divorced <\/a>with a wedding dress in a box, along with my wedding photos after divorce, and all my other marriage mementos.<\/p>\n

So, when you get divorced<\/a>, what do you do with your wedding dress? What do you do with your wedding photos after divorce? And what do you do with all your other wedding stuff?<\/h2>\n

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It\u2019s kind of funny. During COVID, when everyone was home with lots of time on our hands, I cleaned out my entire basement and storage room. That is where my wedding dress had been sitting since the year 2000 in an airtight box.<\/p>\n

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\"Joanne<\/a><\/p>\n

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I took it out of the box and tried it on, and so did my daughter, and wow, what a GREAT experience. I laughed when I put it on. I couldn\u2019t button it up all the way, but I still loved wearing it again. I didn\u2019t cry or get emotional or feel angry or bitter, I actually got a huge kick out of trying it on!<\/p>\n

As for my then 16 year old daughter, I think that even though we are divorced, she loved it so much that she wants to wear it as a bride. Now, a lot could change by the time she gets engaged, but what was noteworthy was the fact that her parents being divorced did not deter her from loving the dress and wanting to wear it at her wedding.<\/p>\n

It makes sense actually. Her parents were in love when her mom wore the dress, so that\u2019s good karma, isn\u2019t it? She and her brother were born after Mom wore that dress, so that\u2019s a good thing, isn\u2019t it? Why does a wedding dress have to be doomed because the couple ended up divorced? It doesn\u2019t! If they were in love when it was worn, then maybe it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

So, bottom line, keep the wedding dress! You don\u2019t know how you are going to feel down the road. You may want to set it on fire at the beginning of your divorce when the raw feelings of pain and heartbreak<\/a> are so fresh. But you don\u2019t know how you are going to feel later.<\/p>\n

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\"Alyssa<\/a><\/p>\n

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Every divorced person has different opinions on what he or she wants to do with their wedding dress, wedding photos and other wedding mementos.<\/p>\n

Some people tear up wedding photos in anger,<\/a> some secretly try on their gown and cry, some sell their rings because they need the money, and two divorced women even went on The Steve Harvey Show, where they gave their wedding gowns to a fashion expert who had the gowns made into fun, cocktail dresses. I was on the show as a divorce expert, by the way.<\/p>\n

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\"Feig<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here are some suggestions on what you can do with your wedding photos after divorce, your wedding dress, and other marriage mementos.<\/p>\n

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Wedding gown and veil:<\/b><\/h2>\n

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1. Save it and give your daughter the option of wearing it. Let her decide how she feels about it.
\n2. Give it to a resale shop and get some much needed cash, or buy yourself something really nice with the money.
\n3. Donate it to a charitable cause to give a happy, young bride in love the chance to wear a beautiful dress she might not otherwise have the money to buy.<\/p>\n

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