{"id":495,"date":"2009-09-03T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:49:02","slug":"just-for-fun-wear-the-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/just-for-fun-wear-the-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Unholy Matrimony &#8211; Big Love Inflatable Wedding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started <a href=\"weddingdates.ie\">weddingdates.ie<\/a> I asked my aunts for their dresses to use in photo shoots\/promos etc and I was surprised that a few of them had either given their dresses to charity shops, lost them in a house move or simply had them stashed away in the attic.\u00a0 My mothers words to me when I asked her to borrow her dress for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricpicnic.ie\">Electric Picnic<\/a> wedding 2 years ago were: &#8220;well, I&#8217;m never going to wear it again, someone might as well get some use out of it!&#8221;\u00a0 And so I did!! The dress most be the most worn <a title=\"Wedding Dresses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/suppliers\/?provider_type=Bridal%20Wear&amp;q=1\" target=\"_blank\">wedding dress<\/a> ever!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1079\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/08\/bridezilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1079\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/08\/bridezilla.jpg\" alt=\"Did my mother ever think her wedding dress would end up like this?!\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did my mother ever think her wedding dress would end up like this?!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why not get some use (and fun!) out of your old wedding dress?!\u00a0 I previously wrote a post on Trash The Dress suggesting that brides do a second photo shoot after the wedding where they take more risqu\u00e9 shots wearing their dress, maybe at the beach or some other location where you wouldn&#8217;t usually see a <a title=\"Wedding Dresses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/suppliers\/?provider_type=Bridal%20Wear&amp;q=1\" target=\"_blank\">wedding dress<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Calling all previous brides, brides-to-be or just wannabe-brides to join us on the Sunday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricpicnic.ie\">Electric Picnic<\/a> (Sept 6th, Stradbally, Co. Laois) at 1pm at the Inflatable Church wearing a wedding dress, to participate in a Mass-Wedding, where a large group of us will get decked out and be joined in &#8220;unholy matrimony&#8221; and most of all HAVE FUN! \u00a0We WILL be posting photos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WeddingDates\">Facebook Page<\/a> afterwards never fear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I started weddingdates.ie I asked my aunts for their dresses to use in photo shoots\/promos etc and I was surprised that a few of them had either given their dresses to charity shops, lost them in a house move or simply had them stashed away in the attic.\u00a0 My mothers words to me when I asked her to borrow her dress for an Electric Picnic wedding 2 years ago were: &#8220;well, I&#8217;m never going to wear it again, someone [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83010,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}