What do you do with your wedding dress, after its all over?

Since my wedding in June I have been going over and over in my head as to what is next for my dress?

So here are my options:

1. Get it professionally cleaned. Box that up.
• AKA Let it sit for years and years in my closet, unless I guess I decide to wear it as a Halloween costume or want to get hitched again? (haha just kidding Kyle) Or wait to see if my kids would want to wear it if and when they decide to tie the knot? Highly unlikely.
2. Make art? 
• Use a piece from it and adorn a canvas? Or display some portion of it in a shadow box. Place the entire dress in a shadow box? Make jewelry out of a part of the dress (although this option seems like you are destroying the dress too)
3. Trash the dress.
• I've seen really creative ways that ladies have chosen to destroy their dresses; like jumping off docks, paint-balling, four wheeling, you name it and it can be done! But for the amount of money, sheer waste and in the name of the environment I don't think this route is for me.
4.  Create new items for other special occasions.
• There are places that will turn your dress into a christening gown or you can have your dress turned into lingerie. There are also trends to make fancy garters for your possible future children to wear keeping the whole "something old". The ideas are endless!
5. Donate.
• There is a great organization called The Brides Project located here in Toronto, ON. They accept donated wedding dresses from all over and in turn sell the dresses at approximately half the retail price. All of the profits are then given to cancer charities such as the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, The Terry Fox Foundation, The Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre etc. By the end of 2014 they are projecting to raise over half a million dollars to charities.

I will keep you posted!! Where will my dress end up???