Is it bad luck to wear your wedding dress after the wedding?

Question

Back in the early 1900s, brides used to use their bridal dress after the wedding. Women shortened their dresses and wore them out, etc.

Nowadays, I am wondering, Is it bad luck to wear your wedding dress after the wedding day? Say if I am wearing a strapless sheath in white eyelet to my wedding, then had it shortened, it would make an excellent sundress! Is this seen as bad luck or bad fashion sense?

Answer 1

no.

there dear enough if you can get it altered why not.

Answer 2

That's a lovely idea.  I am going to have mine made into a christening gown for our children.  

Answer 3

Bad luck isn't real. If your wedding gown can be worn again, you should definitely do it!

After all, marriages tended to last longer in the days when women wore their best clothes, regardless of color or newness, to their weddings. So how can it be "bad luck" to re-wear them?

Answer 4

nope

you just remember the good times  

Answer 5

No and the majority of the population these days are not superstitious either.

Along the same lines, white wedding dresses were absolutely unheard of before Queen Victoria introduced them in 1800s. Prior to that time, even in Biblical times, brides wore a colored dress. Very few people could afford a new dress that would only be worn once, so they wore either their best dress they already owned or they had a new dress made in a color that could be worn in the future and not get dirty.

Do what makes you happy. Your marriage will not be doomed by wearing a dress a second time.  

Answer 6

there is no such thing as "bad" luck.

there is no such this as "good" luck either.

so h**l do what you want, good and bad things are going to happen all the time.

Answer 7

If you wish to, do whatever you want with it. Cut it off and wear it, save the material you cut off for a matching purse or wrap. Take some of the material for a collage of keepsakes, put it in your scrapbook or photo album. Gee, make a fabric frame for your wedding picture!

Save the dress for the next bride, or not. Wear it for Halloween, save it for somebody's else's costume.

I never heard of any bad luck being associated with wearing your wedding dress again. LOL,  just not to your  wedding with a second, or third husband! Just kidding.

Answer 8

What happened to preserving the dress and saving it for your daughter to have for her wedding some day or you may want to hand it down to a future daughter -n-law.  I think that it could be bad fashion sense.  It's all in the eye of the beholder.  It's your dress, do what you want to with it.

Answer 9

It's just a piece of clothing. It has absolutely no bearing on the length or happiness of your marriage.

It's fine to wear it afterwards. It's fine to donate it or save it or throw it out. It's fine to let your husband see you wearing it (or a photo of it) before the wedding. It's just a dress.  

Answer 10

People should wear their dress more than just for the wedding, especially for what some people pay for them.

To put it in a box just to *hope* that someday someone will wear it is just kind of silly. My mother-in-law offered me her mother's dress. It didn't fit and was so old-fashioned I wouldn't have wanted to wear it anyway. She had not worn it either. Why would you bring out the dress and pressure someone else to wear it? What if it fit but they really hated it?

Just do what you want with it. I will be wearing mine to different locations with a friend to take pictures (she will also be wearing her dress) so we have awesome pictures. But we often go different places with different outfits to take pics - that's just us.

Later, we're hoping to write it into one of the little horror movies I do for fun. In one of the last films I did, a lady had her old dress and absolutely destroyed it when she turned into a zombie bride and started chasing everyone around the woods! She had a great time, and it was a great scene in the movie. I doubt I'll do that, but whatever.

Answer 11

Its Fine!

bad Luck and good luck are just

something people made up don't believe it!

=D

Answer 12

There's no such thing as luck! Life is as it is. Do what you  want! Don't worry about it!  

Answer 13

Back then the bride would wear the "heck" out of it, to every formal event that she would attend for the first year, if she so chose. I wish I could wear mine again, but it's a ballgown... TOO much fabric! Go for it, and more power to you!

Answer 14

wear it!

I'm having mine dyed and shortened and it was an a-line ball gown. I feel like its such a waste of silk just sitting in my closet!

Answer 15

I don't think so.  I am having a tiny wedding and just wearing a pretty little ivory suit.  I plan on wearing it to church some next spring.  Honestly, nobody will know that I got married in mine, and if you shorten yours, nobody will know unless you tell them.  

Answer 16

It seems like bad fashion sense to me.  I wouldn't say that it is bad luck.  I have never heard of any bride wearing their dress after the wedding.  I just feel that it wouldn't be special to you if you wore it after your wedding.  I have heard of people storing their dress in case someone else wants to wear it.  I have also heard of making it into a Christening gown.  My cousin turned her gown into a cover for her bassinet.  It was beautiful.

Answer 17

It's fine (don't buy into any 'bad luck' myths anyway). I turned mine into a Halloween costume because it had gotten water damaged on my wedding day due to heavy rain. I was an awesome Bride of Frankenstein. ☺

Answer 18

hopefully not! I'm having a destination wedding. then when i get home we are having a marriage blessing at our reception...ill be back in my dress a week later! lol

i think its a great idea to get more use out of your dress!