What should you do with your wedding dress after the big day?
Laura Mullet married about a year ago and had been wondering what to do with such a special reminder of her big day.
Many people are happy to sell their wedding dress in order to recoup some of the cost of the big day - but that was never something Laura considered doing.
“The feeling I got when I found that dress,” she told Lunchtime Live. “It took me 10 minutes – first shop I went into.
“I said, ‘Oh my God’, I feel so confident and pretty and my sisters and my Mam loved it.
“They encouraged me to shop around… but when you know, you know.”
Laura Mullet. 19/02/2024. Image by: Laura MulletTo begin with, Laura simply stored it in her closet and then decided she had to do something special with it.
“I just kept looking at it and it was nearly making me sad, it just sitting there,” she said.
“I looked up, what could I do with it and I saw this storage solution where it looks like a Barbie box, where you could see your dress and admire it and I thought, ‘That’s not enough.’”
Instead, she decided she wanted to wear it again and took it to a local woman who alters clothes for her.
“I said to her, ‘I would love to wear this dress again, my first anniversary is coming up, we’re going to New York, it’s kind of like our honeymoon - what a chance to wear it somewhere special and just feel those feelings from wearing it again,’” Laura said.
The dress was cut to the knee and Laura said it is “still super classy and elegant”.
Laura Mullet. 19/02/2024. Image by: Laura Mullet“She did such a great job,” Laura said.
“Is it milking the situation? Probably,” she said.
“The alterations cost a fortune; I feel like this dress was shaped to my body and I’ve just never had a dress I loved in this way.
“It would have been lovely to sell it to someone else to enjoy it but I just don’t know if they'd appreciate it in the way I do.”
According to Entertainment.ie, the cost of an average Irish wedding is €36,000.
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