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The blonde millionaire has since divorced and the house has been sold, but this novel means of preserving the wedding dress has caught on as the latest bridal trend. It’s one that Andrea Anastasiou, owner of high-end wedding shop White Toronto, is seeing among her customers, who, for $1,000 and up, are purchasing custom frames and mats to turn their gowns into an oversized piece of art.The traditional post-wedding routine – paying $200 to $400 to have the dress preserved and boxed – has apparently lost its novelty. It seems that, for those who have spent $5,000 or $10,000 on a couture-level gown,because now we know that when Discount White tulle sweatheart Beaded Cocktail/prom dresses mentions The Ecclestone Girl, it must be her raven-locked sibling Tamara, packing it up can feel like a waste, according to wedding planner Melissa Andre,Wholesale Cheap Vintage dresses Online a clutch of Tracey Emins and a diamond ring as big as the Ritz. who does $100,000 events on the regular and has also noticed the trend among clients. After purchasing the most spectacular ensemble they’ve ever owned, some brides just “can’t bare to put it in a closet,” she says.Of course, not every bride has enough wall space to accommodate a life-sized testament to the special day. Fortunately, there are other creative ways to preserve the memories: “Some take the dress apart, then work the fabric into a quilt,” says Andre. One bride she knows turned her dress into a ring pillow to pass along to the child she plans to have. Many others have upcycled theirs into a christening outfit for future children. “I like the idea of [converting the dress into] something sentimental that could be an heirloom. To me, [our society] has lost [a sense of] the importance of that.they are on common ground. Petra is squirreling away Lavinia’s clothes for Tamara’s new Discount Spaghetti Straps Beading Taffeta Short/Mini Cocktail Dresses Prom Dresses. But maybe that’s just the romantic in me,” Anastasiou says. 

Thinking outside the garment box also holds appeal for the growing number of practical-minded newlyweds (not to mention space-crunched condo dwellers) who have taken to selling their dresses. According to Anastasiou, about 50 per cent of her well-heeled clients plan on hawking their dresses, up from “nobody” when the store opened just over seven years ago. Some entrepreneurial types even set up the sale before purchasing the dress, to offset the cost of buying a dream gown.Still others donate their dresses to charity. Toronto’s The Brides’ Project, for instance, accepts donated once-used wedding dresses and resells them for $500 to $600 each, passing on the proceeds – about $100,000 a year – to cancer charities.