Wedding dress to Blessing dress

I had been mulling over this idea of getting my wedding dress made into a blessing dress for Hannah for about a month. I didn't think Hannah would want to wear my wedding dress when she gets married (by then my dress would have been at least 28 years old) because styles and things change!  I was worried about someone cutting up my dress and making a terrible dress for Hannah.  But what else was I going to do with my dress?  I couldn't even fit in it anymore because when I was in the best shape of my life after one of my kids I tried it on and my rib cage had expanded so I couldn't even zip it up.  I asked around, looked on the internet.  A lady in Lehi was recommended and she was going to cost $100.  All the dresses I had been looking at buying were around $65-$85. I decided that for just a little bit more money I could get a dress that would be extra special to me and hopefully to her one day.  I felt good about it and decided to go for it.
I took tons of pictures of my wedding dress before handing it over to Monique.

It took 10 days for her to make the dress and when I picked it up I almost lost it.  I was so incredibly happy.  It looks so similar to my wedding dress but in a baby girl way!  Some may think this blessing dress is extravagant but to me it was perfect. The plan was to surprise my mom on Hannah's blessing day but I just couldn't hold it in.  When I went to pick up the other kids (the seamstress lived 5 minutes away from my mom) I ended up telling her.  She was shocked at first but very happy for me.  The seamstress and I talked and I have enough of my dress to make a baptism dress for Hannah.  We will need to get a bit creative because she had to cut up more of the breaded part than she had originally thought but I'm thinking just a plain white dress with a band around the waist with the beading would be beautiful.  Anyway, that's still 8 years away! I can't wait for Hannah to wear her special dress at the end of the month!