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The wedding is over, you're blissfully happy, but what can you do with this wedding gown (& veil) hanging in your closet? (Your husband is starting to complain about not having any closet space.)

Use pieces of your modest wedding gown to make jewelry. Wear it yourself and pass it down to your daughters someday. Earrings, necklaces, headbands, belts, bracelets.  Wedding gowns with long sleeves are perfect for this approach, since  you can shorten the sleeves, while leaving the rest of the gown intact, and use the removed material for creating your mementos. 

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Vintage Lace Pendants by Laura Beth Love

Have your wedding gown professionally preserved- either framed and hung to remember or to keep safe for your daughter or daughter-in-law to wear someday when they too want a modest wedding dress. 

Have a professional seamstress remake the entire wedding gown into a blessing/christening dress or a baptism/confirmation dress.    

If you want to keep most of the gown intact, the train of your wedding gown can be removed and used for creating little dresses or other mementos 

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Another great idea for a modest wedding gown with long sleeves, is to shorten the sleeves and use the removed fabric to create a purse or clutch from your gown. Lace looks good on everything! 

Repurpose your old veil as a bed net for your master bedroom or for your new babies nursery.

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Give your wedding gown to a worthy cause. Modest wedding dresses can be difficult to find, so sharing yours could bless the life of another bride-
https://www.babble.com/relationships/5-meaningful-places-to-donate-your-wedding-dress/

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Long sleeved wedding gowns come in lots of varieties, and the flirty sleeve of the Amelia gown was perfect for this red rock shoot!

Vendors:
Gown: Amelia gown by Elizabeth Cooper Design
Photography: Sindy Mag Photography
Suit: Mr. Tux
Ring: Morgan Jewelers
HMUA: Danielle Emett
Chairs & table: Taylor Made
Decor: Inside The Robins Nest
Floral: Jocelyn's Floral
Cake: Cupcakes! by Julie
​Ribbons: Iris & Clair

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Who is Elizabeth Cooper? Elizabeth Cooper is a mother/daughter design team- Carrie Cooper & Arin Elizabeth, and the name is derived from our middle names. We design each and every single one of our modest wedding dresses  ourselves, in our studio, together. We work tirelessly to create modest wedding gowns that you will love that don't compromise your standards.  We like to be around during appointments so we can meet the brides that will wear our modest wedding gowns- we love to hear feedback and meet the beautiful smiling faces. It's so special to know that the fruits of our labor and love will be a part of your special day. 
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There are lots of reasons why a bride wants a modest wedding dress, and whatever that reason, we are here to help. Modest wedding gowns with long sleeves, modest necklines and coverage in back are our specialty!  We offer a variety of unique modest wedding gown options, which can be modified to meet whatever level of modesty is important to you.  The best part is we try our hardest to keep our wedding gowns as affordable as we can! Take a look at our collection page and schedule your appointment to come in and find your dream modest wedding dress.
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Where did you and your husband meet?
​1. My husband, Dakota Jacobs, and I met on a LDS dating app called Mutual. The funny thing about this is that my husband HATES that this is how we met. He always tells me that he thinks it is so cliche and that everything else about us dating was perfect but that. It makes me laugh every time we joke about it. 

How did he propose?
2. Well here's a little background information. So our first date was on St. Patrick's Day on 25th St. in Ogden, UT. The night Dakota proposed was a sunday night and he asked me if I'd want to go for a drive. Obviously I'd be in sweats, me just thinking this was a casual night, he came to pick me up dressed nicely and I thought nothing of it. I then made the joke to him saying, "Hopefully it's okay that I'm wearing sweats, ha." He took me for a walk down 25th St. and had a whole thing staged with a photographer friend waiting to capture the moment. He had a other friend waiting in a restaurant on that same street with a sign that he made saying, "Josie will you marry me?" The whole thing was perfect and I loved all of the thought he put into it making it special to us.

Describe your wedding in 4 words:
3. Memorable, Perfect, Loving, Supportive

What did you splurge on?
4. We splurged on the wedding dress, photographer, and his suit. 

What did you save on?
5. We saved on decor for the reception by making the center pieces, other decor, and by having family help with lighting and setting up for the reception.

What was your favorite part of the day?
6. My favorite part of our wedding day was just how loved I felt, how many people supported us and that I was now married to my best friend. 

Any advise for future brides?
7. My advice to any future bride is to just go with the flow of everything and don't stress. Also to live in the moment of everything, it goes by too fast!

Vendor Credits:
-Photographer: Kierstin Jones Photography 
-Florals: Traci Koplin (bouquets real and fake) and Shelia Baird (boutonnieres and corsages) 
-Cake Designer: Jessica Stringham
-Venue: The Union Station, Located on 25th St. Downtown Ogden, UT
-Lunch In: Canterbury Place