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WhiteRoseBlessings -> RE: Wedding Dress? (6/27/2008 9:36:32 AM)
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That's sweet! [:)]
My first wedding dress (1982; traditional long, white bridal gown) . . . I have absolutely no idea what I did with it; I most probably discarded it early on after the divorce.
There was (obviously) no sentimental value in my first wedding dress (neither pre-wedding nor post-divorce).
There was A LOT of sentimental value in my second wedding dress . . .
It was a light sage-green flowy lace gown that, back in the late '90s, used to belong to someone else until she brought it to church one day and said, "This is for you." I instantly loved it (not as a wedding dress; just as another dress).
A couple of years later (2000), I moved to Wyoming.
A couple of years later (2002), I met CS.
5 months later, we started dating.
1 month later, we went to a going-away party for some friends of mine.
CS came to pick me up, and I was wearing my light sage-green flowy lace gown . . . it was the first time he had ever seen the dress, and he absolutely loved it. He kept telling me how beautiful I looked in it.
About a week later, CS called me up and said he wanted to do a Western dress-up photo-shoot of the two of us on the property of where the Moulton Barn is. He choose one of the smaller buildings on the property and we spent a couple of hours posing for what would later become our very own "Old Tyme" photos (CS was a film-photographer and he hand-developed all his black and whites and also did his own sepia / brown-toning.) I wore my light-sage-gree flowy lace gown and he wore some of his dressy Western garb (including his 2 pearl-handled six-shooters). We had such a blast that day; just him, me, the Tetons, that rustic old building, his camera equipment and some curious onlooking buffalo.
He titled the pictures from that day, "The Cowboy and His Lady".
I didn't wear that dress again until 2004 . . . we had chosen the summer of '04 to get married, he asked me if I would wear that gown for the wedding.
I enthusiastically did so - and he wore his same outfit from the photo shoot, 2 years earlier.
After our wedding, the gown went back in to the closet and I only wore it one more time . . .
When he died in 2005, it was an absolute no-brainer as to what to I should wear to his memorial service . . . my light-sage green flowy lace gown that he loved and never stopped talking about.
After that, I realized that I would never again wear that beautiful dress; and so last year as I was packing to relocate, I donated it to one of the local thrift shops in hopes that some other woman would get a chance to enjoy it. I would much rather such a wonderful dress be used and enjoyed rather than simply hang in a closet never to be worn again.
My memories of that dress will always be with me, though . . . as will the pictures of our photo shoot and also our wedding-day photos.
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