Should I keep my wedding dress from my 1st marriage?

I think that you are right about old memories not being particularly valuable in this case. Chances are that your daughter will not place great value on this old dress either. However, out of respect for your daughter who may one day ask about this dress, I would donate it to a charity. It may not put cash in your pocket (although you could take a tax deduction ) but when that question comes, you can look much better in your daughters eyes. How much nicer to say, "I donated it to a girl who couldn't afford to have a nice dress", rather than "I hocked it for fifty bucks" I think you will find the lost money a small price to have paid for your ability to be able to say the former, rather than the latter

I'd get rid of it. You can try to sell it, but unless it's one of those classic, timeless styles, you may not be able to get much (if anything) for it.

Do a search on line for the style or at least the designer to see what others are selling the same or similar style for. Then put it on ebay, craigslist or in the local paper. You could also try selling it at a consignment shop that specializes in wedding and formal wear, but again, if it's not a current style, a lot of those types of shops won't take it.

Last resort, donate it to goodwill, salvation army or your local community or high school theater. You can write it off on your taxes as a donations. If you did the search for comparable dresses currently for sale, print a copy to show what a similar dress would have sold for as proof for the cost of the deduction. The IRS lets you deduct what it would have sold for if you had it in a garage sale.

I got married 6 years ago and kept the dress, thinking maybe my niece, who was my flower girl, might want to wear it. She's now 14 and mentioned over Christmas that she already knows the dress she wants. Based on what she showed me, there is no way she's going to even remotely want to wear the style I wore. Plus she's probably another 10 years away from planning her wedding, and even though she may change her mind 30 times about what dress she wants, her style is very different from mine.

I ended up selling my wedding dress from my first marriage as I too needed the money but if I had had a daughter from that marriage I would have saved it for her...not necessarily for her to wear on her wedding day (like you I wouldn't have wanted to wear my mothers gown...I wanted my own) but to allow her that choice to make on her own or simply to let her play "dress up" with it. My mother used the fabric from her wedding gown to make my Christening gown when i was a baby which I still have now 44 years later. (LOL..I used to dress up our family cat in it when I was a little girl..bonnet too!) . I have since remarried and now have a daughter. We had an informal wedding in the tropics and to be honest, I feel kinda bad that i don't have a wedding gown to show her.

Keep it. I got rid of mine from my first marriage and I regret it today. He passed away 2 months after I had sold it. I would like to have it now just because he passed. And so would my girls. Keep the dress for just in case. You never know what life may bring and it is not something you can get back once it is gone.

Sell it why hold on to something that can help U financially? Get rid of the old & bring in the new if U don't have luck selling it your dress can be taken apart & make other things from it such as throw pillows a tablecloth lots of beautiful things that U can enjoy

I wouldn't pass it down to my daughter personally, the marriage ended badly and I would see it as bad luck to pass it down to her. If you remarry, and are happy at the time of her wedding, I would pass that one down. Whether or not you should keep it, seeing as you are undecided, keep it and put it away. When you can say with certainty that you want to keep it or get rid of it, then make the decision.

If it doesn't have any sentimental value to it, then sell it. It's old baggage anyway. You said you can't even stant the dress and that he was was horrible to you. What's the point of keeping it?

Sell it and use the money to help you move on. The moment is gone and the dress is just excess baggage.

Why dont you save it for your daughter to wear when she gets married.

I think you should keep the dress.