Every young girl is fantasizing about her big day! With something around her treasured by her mother for her special day. It will undoubtedly seem like you are taking a story, a legacy with you which is safely boxed by your mother from so many years — that beautiful thing is your wedding attire.
Whether it will be a sangeet, mehndi or a reception, your mother’s wedding attire and authentic jewellery fully fits you and add a charm to your look beside traditional touch. With a bit of twist like alterations, tailoring to the treasured wedding dress will make your childhood’s dream come true.
You are “rewriting the picture again”. We have some special tips and tricks for your re-wearing the family wedding heirlooms on your special day!
Emotional connection with wedding attire
To every mother and daughter, there is some emotional connection which blooms on the wedding day. Where a mother saves treasure from her wedding to her daughter’s special day.
Take out the trunk! Clean the dust and bring out the 25-year-old treasure from the trunk. Seek your mother’s help for alteration and tailoring of the whole dress.
You can also add some trendy touch to the traditional treasure. It would be a great idea and will help you to make your special’s day attire unique. You can also use your mom’s Banarsi dupatta, Kanjivaram saree, Nath, choker neckpiece with a unique style to other functions.
Blowing Up the dust of Treasured Trunk
Since it’s too long! Years and years. Pieces of treasured traditional dresses stored with proper care. But it’s been soo long, so there will be chances of stains or dust on the clothes. It may have absorbed the musty smell. To renew it, consult with your dry cleaner. You have to be more conscious about the restoration process as your clothes have more value to your special day.
Alteration – Major part to do
With the change in fashion or wedding dress, you may not like your mother’s wedding attire. Take a tour to the designer or nearby boutique for alteration and changes to the dress. Share your ideas of alterations to the designer so that he can transform your mother’s vintage attire to a dreamy dress for your wedding. Some of the alteration ideas:
- Fits like a hugging velvet
- Perfect adjustments with length
- Add more details into it with the change in sleeves or neckline
- Give a touch of beads, embroidery, pearls
Reuse the Old Fabric with New Ideas
If you can’t see yourself wearing mom’s outdated dress during your ceremony, or if the seamstress can’t salvage the whole thing, you can find other creative ways to incorporate it into your wedding. Here are some examples:
It’s ok if you are not able to wear your mom’s dress on your big day because of any reason. You can recreate plenty of things with these fabrics, such as:
Kurta or dress
Reuse the fabric of your mom’s dupatta or dress to make a kurta from it. Add patches or embroidery in it to complete the look.
Additional Accessories
It’s a fabulous idea to transform the wedding fabric into accessories like clutch, hair accessories, pillow covers, traditional table runners, and more.
Tips for brides who want to reuse their moms lehenga
- From the wedding fabric, you can choose to take a few embroideries over it and patch it to a new fabric such as georgette, silk or brocade
- Take a tour to your mom’s jewellery trunk, you can pair your newly styled lehnga or dress with the authentic piece of your mom’s jewellery like a choker, nath, rani haar, Kangan, maang tikka, and more
- Eye on the fabric or material of the dress. Sometimes fabrics like silk or brocade get torn over time, so better not use such fabric
- you can also pair the old lehnga with contrast dupatta or blouse. Choose the trendy dupatta style with your mom’s old lehnga
Hope these amazing ideas will add some value to your wedding attire and help in re-wearing your family heirlooms on your wedding day, as it is the most special day to a young girl. Also, check out our suggestions for wedding nail art design for your wedding day!
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