ROMANTIC: The story of the traveling wedding dress...
A wedding dress that is living a full life, not stuffed in the back of the closet, but traveling around the world...
We have to be honest, we rarely hear about brides wanting to use their wedding dress after their wedding day. It is sort of a given that once you wear it, it has a specially designated space assigned to it at the back of your wardrobe.
However, there are many brides that are more savvy and realistic. When it comes to tradition, some couples would rather be the authors than the readers. They want to create their own unique traditions that can be the foundation for their children and their children's children.
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We think that this is not just practical, but super romantic. It's what sets aside the love stories from the once-in-a-lifetime love stories. Sam Mathews and her husband, Andrew Mathews, have a love of travel and when they got married they didn't want anything over-the-top.
Sam did not want to spend a lot of money on her wedding dress. The way she and her husband approached all of this, as much as it was practical, it was also something that has a deep sense of sentimentality and romance.
"Spending a lot of money on a dress she would wear only once seemed highly impractical to Sam, a behavior analyst who works with children who have developmental disabilities. Initially, she had hoped to buy a used or very inexpensive dress, but her mother had other ideas. She resolved that if an expensive dress were in the cards (hers cost about $1,300, she recalls), she would definitely wear it more than once." (CNN)
The couple decided that they would create a tradition. So they have "adopted to celebrate their marriage and their love of travel. They've posed for honeymoon and anniversary photos in front of some of the world's most recognisable landmarks, the gauzy dress swirling around Sam.
"It's a tradition born out of her desire to wear the gown as much as possible." (CNN)
We love the idea of re-wearing your wedding dress and celebrating your love again and again. It is a great reminder of where they were on that day and how far their love has come, both literally and figuratively.
They have been to many places thus far; London, Marrakech, Rome, Kenya's Masai Mara, Bali, Bangkok, Beijing, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, and Croatia.
We have to say this sealed the deal for us when it comes to ending off a beautiful love story. When the couple revealed their plans for the dress...
"She and Andrew don't have any more international travel booked yet for themselves or the dress, "but the plan is to keep going and just bring it out and let it breathe as much as possible until maybe there's only a scrap left. And then maybe we can sew that into our daughter's dress or put it in a frame. I don't know, do something with it," Sam said.
"There must be more memories to be made from this one very well-traveled, well-worn gown." (CNN)
This reminded us of that scene from 'Bride Wars' where Olivia (Kate Hudson) asks her fiancé what do boys learn in school when it comes to her Vera Wang wedding dress...
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