When my mom passed away in 2009, we had to make a lot of quick decisions and her wedding dress and my wedding dress were given away.
If I had thought about making ornaments with them, or other items I would have kept them. But knowing me, I never would have the nerve to take a pair scissors to either one. Her dress was 59 years old and mine was 36 years old.
It was funny, at one point when we were planning my wedding and I suggested having her dress altered for me, she really balked at the idea. So it would have been hard for me to cut it up even to make items for the family.