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You’ve had your big day, you looked and felt amazing, now what to do with that beautiful wardrobe filler?Here are a few ideas for you:Trash The DressOur inspiration for this article was spotting these fabulous trash the dress photographs:

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I was always under the impression a ‘Trash the dress’ shoot meant exactly that, trashing the dress with paint/water/mud etc. I had no idea it could be about such beauty and elegance.These were taken from a very talented photographer called Nathalie Talka Rychetnik who has been in the photography business for over 11 years.We asked Nathalie to let us in on her secrets:Where does your inspiration for such beautiful images come from?My inspiration for all shoots comes from a place between being a fashion photographer and being a huge day dreamer! I love putting little magical touch to every photoshoot I do and I always question if I wanted photo like this, before I speak about the idea with the model/bride.What’s been your favorite ever photoshoot?It’s too hard to choose my favourite ever shoot, but the trash the dress shoot with the horse and campaign for ferrero rocher when we kept throwing boxes of chocolates at models faces were definitely amongst my favourite!How much do you charge for a ‘Trash the Dress’ photoshoot?My prices for any portrait session range between £79 – £249.

I wanted to make sure that everyone can afford their very own photoshoot!Any last tips for a bride about to go before the camera?The best advice I can give anyone who is going to stand in front of camera is – breathe and practice your poses! I know how silly this sounds but trust me, even professionals do it! Just have a look in magazines and online and then when no one is looking, stand in front of the mirror and try them all. The more you do this, the more normal it will feel when you have a photographer rather than mirror standing there!I personally love this and would love to do something similar. If anyone read my last blog ‘Why you absolutely definitely need a professional wedding photographer‘ you’ll know that I didn’t end up with a single good picture of my dress! I think this would be a great idea for anyone else in a similar position to make sure they have photos of their dress that they can treasure – or if you just want another excuse to put your dress on!Here are few more ideas for you:Daughter of the brideIf you have a young daughter, put her in your wedding dress, depending on her age it will probably be draping across the floor but this will add to the cute factor! Let her put on your wedding shoes or a pair of your highest heels and snap a photo! Print it and keep it safe and then give this to her on the morning of her wedding, wouldn’t this be a lovely gift?If you can’t wait this long, save it for her 16th of 18th birthday party and have it blown up and put at the front of the party room! I’m sure this will cause a good giggle, especially if it is being seen for the first time!

Frame itIf you choose to keep your dress, you could have it framed and hung on your bedroom door, I loved this idea after I married, although the 50+ underskirts meant it would probably be a bit too difficult to get it flat enough! Still; a gorgeous way to keep your dress on display if you didn’t go for a huge princess style gown!Box ItI therefore had mine cleaned and boxed and it lives in the spare room. As happy as I am to know I can keep it and it will be kept safe, it is so tempting to just tear the box open and put it on! I’d happily wear it at home all day everyday! I’d only be tidying up and doing the washing in it – but at least I’d be a princess whilst I did so!Turn it into the most precious gift you could ever giveThere are also the generous charities that take donated wedding dresses and turn them into beautiful tiny dresses for babies who are tragically born asleep or who lose their lives shortly after birth.On average, a single wedding dress can make 12 or more little gowns for angel babies.I believe this idea needs it’s own article entirely, I have been in touch with several charities who do this so that I can bring you a detailed article dedicated to this very soon!What are you doing with your dress? Leave a comment and let me know! I’d love to hear how you’re reusing your treasured wedding dress..This September The Huffington Post UK Style is focusing on all things sustainable, for the second year running. Our thirst for fast fashion is dramatically impacting the environment and the lives of thousands of workers in a negative way. Our aim is to raise awareness of this zeitgeist issue and champion brands and people working to make the fashion industry a more ethical place.

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Sixty-one years ago, Georgianna Straffi married John Paone and wore a custom-made gown with white Dresden rose lace over satin.

As she walked down the aisle at the Our Lady of Peace Church in Fords, N.J., a Queen Elizabeth coronet with seed pearls and rhinestones with an attached veil of illusion glittered atop her head. Sequins and lace medallions adorned the illusion neckline. The cathedral train was lined with satin.

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Twenty-seven years later, her daughter, Jeanne Paone, walked down the same aisle in the same dress when she wed Thomas Bader.

She met her husband during their junior year of high school. “I told her I would marry her,” he said. “And we would have a daughter and name her Jeannine.”

On July 16, Thomas Bader walked his daughter Jeannine Bader, 32, down the aisle in the same wedding gown at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond.

“It’s more than a dress; it’s what it signifies to the family,” Jeanne Bader said. “It’s almost 100 years of marriage.”

Georginanna Straffi Paone, 87, said she saw a picture of the dress in a bridal magazine in 1955. She took the picture as well as a handwritten description to a bridal shop and had the dress custom made. She put down a $10 deposit on the gown and veil, which cost a total of $200.

“My mother was and still is very fashionable,” Jeanne Bader said. “She knew about fashion before the word ‘couture.’ ”

After the wedding, Paone placed her dress in a box and did not know when she would open it again.

“Once it hits the air, it discolors,” Paone said, explaining why she kept the box sealed for years.

Two and half decades later, her daughter opened it.

“It fit like it was made for me,” Jeanne Bader said. Her figure was similar to her mother’s; she was just a little taller.

“The moment I just never forgot was walking down the aisle with my father, knowing that my mother wore the dress,” she said.

Bader knew her daughter would experience the same emotions she had when walking down the aisle.

In 2011, Jeannine Bader met her now-husband, Bryan Mangas, at a car dealership.

“He’s a ‘BOGO.’ I bought my car, and he came with it,” she said. “It’s kind of a joke.”

She leased a Mercedes, and the two drove everywhere together. They racked up the mileage fee and had to pay a hefty bill. She said it was bittersweet turning the car in after making so many memories.

“He’s really the perfect match for Jeannine because he loves tradition. He loves family, and he’s incredibly loyal,” Bader said. “He understands what this dress signifies.”

When thoughts of marriage filled Jeannine’s head, she told her grandmother she would like to wear the dress.

But Paone would not open the box until her granddaughter had an engagement ring and set a wedding date.

The family had a small ceremony and opened the box together at Paone’s house in New Jersey. The dress looked as it did on the day Paone walked down the aisle in 1955. The Dresden lace was still intact and the color still fresh.

“We were shocked,” Paone said.

But when Jeannine tried the dress on, it didn’t fit.

“It was way too small, and we didn’t even know if she would be able to wear the dress,” her mother said. “But then we found Oksana.”

Oksana Vladimirova, a seamstress who works off West Broad Street, had to maintain the integrity of the dress while fitting it to the granddaughter’s curves.

It was challenging, she said. The material was delicate and rare, leaving no room for mistakes.

“The material is rose-point lace, which I don’t think you can get today,” Paone said.

The seamstress bonded with the family during the 10 months she spent working on the sweetheart wedding dresses.

“I’m so glad it’s making you happy,” Vladimirova said, starting to tear up as she held hands with Paone. “It’s very valuable to you and your family.”

As her granddaughter tried on the dress a few days before the wedding, Paone saw herself.

“I guess you could say that’s me,” Paone said. “Sixty-one years ago.”

Whitney Houston’s numerous awards, stunning red-carpet dresses and other personal affects will be up for grabs come June 24 and 25 in an auction held by auction house Heritage Auctions and sanctioned by her estate.

“The [Houston] family actually reached out to the president of our company, ” says Garry Shrum, director of Entertainment and Music Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. “We had worked with a good friend of theirs, David Gest. He knew us and liked what we did and told the Houston [family] about us, and my colleague Margaret Barrett and I went out to New Jersey and listened to what they wanted to do. We gave them some ideas, they gave us some ideas, and we came up with this 119-piece collection that’s basically a retrospective of Whitney from the beginning, from when she first started singing after she left being a background singer for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls. We have her passport from the beginning, all these various awards and outfits, all kinds of cool and groovy things.”

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The most buzzed-about item on the internet is her intricate, one-of-a-kind Marc Bouwer wedding dress, which she wore to wed Bobby Brown in 1992.

Some of the more unique and sentimental items include weathered passports, a jacket given to Whitney by her father emblazoned with her childhood nickname Nippy, and aDisney coloring book entirely in Japanese. “Her and Michael [Jackson], they loved Disney stuff,” Shrum says. “She colored these pages and then autographed it. To get something personal like that, it doesn’t happen very often.”

“This is probably going to do half a million or more,” Shrum predicts. A portion of the proceeds will go to a charity of the family’s choosing.

“It’s a unique opportunity for her fans to actually get personal things that were very close to her coming directly from the estate,” says Shrum. “Usually you pick up odds and ends that were given to fans and fans end up selling them with [Heritage Auctions], but when you get something from the estate, it’s so personal and it has such strong provenance and the backstories that the family has given us to put with the pieces are even more exciting.

Beyond her glamorous wardrobe and treasure trove of awards, Whitney Houston left behind an even greater legacy. “Her music’s going to last more than a lifetime,” Shrum says. “A hundred years from now, ‘I Will Always Love You’ will still be a song that people shake their head when they hear it.”

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Armed with lookbooks, magazine tear-outs, my Pinterest app, and the image of my dream dress playing on repeat in my mind, I was ready for my very first wedding dress appointment. I had done the research for weeks, zeroing in on the single Amsale bridal gown I was sure I’d wear down the aisle. Only, after chatting with the bridal salon, I learned it was no longer available, a relic from the Fall ’13 collection that had been circulating all over Pinterest. The designer had crafted new renditions in her subsequent collections, but they were all missing the details I’d regrettably fallen in love with. How did I get it so wrong?

Well, it’s nearly two years later, and I’ve come out the other side, happily married in a dress I still love. It wasn’t a perfect process — I don’t know if it ever is — but to help with your own search, I’m sharing what I’ve learned, namely how to stay emotionally sane and in control of what you want.

1. Do Your Research, but Come Open-Minded

Being prepared is one thing, but (pardon the pun) being married to a dress you haven’t met — or tried on — yet is another. When you call ahead or book online with a bridal boutique, they’ll often ask you for a list or links of the red bridesmaid dresses you’re interested in, and this will help guide the appointment and help your sales associate be most helpful, especially since you’ll likely have a limited time frame. On that note, be prepared with designers and silhouettes you like that also fit within your budget. Still, don’t rule out a wild card once you’re there. Especially early on in your search for the dress, be willing to experiment with an unexpected style. It might not be what you thought it would look like, but you might just fall in love all the same — just make sure it’s in your budget before you do.

2. Don’t Fight Your Body Type

Like so many women, I’ve poured over the wedding pictures of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, her lithe frame carrying off her slip of a wedding dress flawlessly, wishing I might have the same bridal grace, the same elegant silhouette. The truth is, I’m just built differently. I pulled on a slinky satin gown at my second bridal appointment to channel her iconic look. I loved the way it hung on display, a minimalist cut with a sexy draped back, but on me, it looked entirely different. It clung to the wrong places, exposing parts of my body I didn’t even know existed but I knew instantly I didn’t like — at least not in this dress. No pep talk from Mom (who sat patiently with me in the dressing room) or wedding diet was going to change that. Knowing that was another step toward finding the right blue bridesmaid dresses.

3. Stay True to Your Style

No one else is wearing this dress — not your maid of honour, not your mum, your mother-in-law, your dad, or your grandma. So when you seek out the dress, make sure it’s one you love. Likewise, don’t let the location or the event dictate what you’ll wear too much. For instance, just because it’s a New Year’s wedding doesn’t mean the dress should come with tulle and a feathered skirt, unless you want it to. Clear your mind of what you “should” wear, and fill it with images of what makes you happy. And more importantly, be honest with your loved ones — and with the sales associate — about what that is, so you’re all on the same page right up front.

4. Crying Is Allowed, but Not Required

When I finally thought I’d found the dress, my dad joined my mum and my sister and came to see me in it. There I was, standing in front of my family having that bridal moment in a white ballgown; my dad smiled and I remember him saying, “I could dance with you in that green bridesmaid dresses.” I’d seen Say Yes to the Dress so many times, I knew it was my cue to cry, but I didn’t. I didn’t get emotional at all, in fact. I threw up my hands and said, “This is it then. Let’s do it!” Days later I would replay that in my head as a sign that I’d picked the wrong dress. I’d call my mum with doubt; “I didn’t even cry,” I’d reminded her. To her credit, she put it all in perspective: “It’s a dress, Hannah. I think that’s OK.” And it is — it’s OK if you cry, if you lose your sh*t, or if you don’t. It’s all OK. As long as you’re comfortable and happy and you feel like yourself, who really cares if you shed a tear just because TV or movies made you feel like you should? Remember, there are no “shoulds” here.

5. You Could Search Forever, but Don’t

There are countless pink bridesmaid dresses, new trends every season, new designers, and a million options out there. You could actually search forever and still not be satisfied, afraid you’ve missed the next great style or over-looked a dress that might be the one. I was admittedly caught up second-guessing myself long after I’d found my dress that I forgot to enjoy just being done with it. Every time I stopped to remind myself that the search was over, that I didn’t have to scour the Internet or call every boutique in NYC for appointments, I could breathe easy again. It doesn’t matter what every dress on the market looks like, just the one you’re calling your own.