Using your mother’s wedding outfit for your own wedding – the do’s and don’ts

Buying your own wedding dress is something that every girl dreams of they were young. However, the most important part of your wedding day is not the dress, the flowers, or the gifts. What makes your wedding day special are the memories and wearing your mother’s wedding outfit on your special day can only be construed as lucky. 

Keeping the changing trends in mind, we have a few suggestions that you can implement on your mother’s wedding outfit for your own occasion and some things you definitely should not do. So here goes: 

• Don’t do the following: 
1. Don’t try to merge trends. The classic trains that were prevalent when your mother’s outfit was designed can either come back into style or you can plan a themed wedding around it. However, trying to merge 2 trends from different periods can only spell disaster. 
2. Don’t embroider haphazard patches that stand out in the beautiful wedding outfit. 
3. If you cannot incorporate a wedding dress with a ring into the theme of your wedding, you can always opt for modern methods to puff up the dress. 

While there are several minute mistakes that you could make while altering your mother’s wedding outfit into your wedding ceremony, just remember as long as you retain the essence of the dress former you can always work around it. 

• Things you should do with your mother’s wedding outfit:
1. Consider altering the dress for your shape, size, and preference of style. Make sure that the designs that you select compliments the design of your mother’s wedding outfit such that any new alterations and additions do not stand out. 
2. If some rips and tears need to be fixed, always, always consider getting it done by a professional and only using materials that matched the wedding outfit exactly. 
3. You can add some lacing and embroidered borders if your mother’s outfit seems too drab.
4. You can trim and strip some of the extravagant embroideries but remember not to steal from the essence of the outfit though. 
5. You can incorporate some of the pieces that you trim away from your mother’s wedding outfit to correlate other important outfits in the ceremony. For instance, you could use some of the lace and embroidered fabric to redesign the pillow used during the ceremony. 
6. You can also consider coordinating the flower girl outfit and inducting designs in the bridesmaids’ outfits to your mother’s wedding outfit to pull the whole theme together. 
7. You can also utilize your mother’s wedding outfit to contribute to the design and planning process. For instance, handing out handkerchiefs made out of the fabric, or carrying the family Crest, initials, etc. Could really add sentiment and meaning to the entire ceremony. 

Incorporating your mother’s wedding outfit in your ceremony doesn’t just have to be in the conventional sense. Feel free to let your imagination run wild and design innovative ways the smoothly furnish your wedding plans