Wedding Dresses Used For Stillborn Babies

Cherished gowns uk gifts bereaved parents with beautiful burial outfits for stillborn babies handmade from donated wedding dresses.

Wedding dresses used for stillborn babies. Donating old wedding dresses for stillborn babies may help make things easier for parents even if only slightly. A group of women in michigan has come up with an unexpected but touching way to recycle used wedding gowns. We are a fairly new organisation who rely solely on donations contributions whether it be helping make gowns donating dresses materials or spreading the word if you feel you can help us please get in touch. These gowns are prepared by volunteers and given as a gift to bereaved families most often through hospitals or funeral homes.

Several countries already had very active movements that are often referred to as angel dresses. They re transforming them into dresses for stillborn babies and babies who die shortly. Donated wedding gowns are used to sew lovely gowns for babies who have died too early. To bring a ray of sunshine into special children s lives we use the left over tulle from wedding dresses and transform it in to the most beautiful tutus which we also donate to hospitals and other children s charities all.

We are based on surrey. Cherished gowns uk transform these wedding dresses in to carefully crafted burial gowns for babies that are born too soon too late or too poorly. In 2015 4 395 babies were stillborn or died shortly after birth. From donated wedding dresses we lovingly hand craft angel gown garments which are then donated to hospitals funeral homes and directly to families through special orders.

Find out how you can donate your dress. They reflect just how precious and loved each tiny life was. In reality most wedding dresses end up hanging in your wardrobe taking up space or left unloved in a box in the loft for decades hidden away never to be used again. Within days kim had appealed on facebook for old wedding dresses that people would not mind being chopped up to make gowns for stillborn babies.

Within the first month we had 37 wedding gowns.