Divorcee gets wedding dress revenge

THERAPY has many forms, and for the recently divorced Kevin Cotter, it is finding 101 different uses for his ex-wife’s wedding dress.

Some of them are practical, others just ridiculous, but they’re certainly all different.

Cotter said that his wife of 12 years left him at the end of last year – taking everything but her wedding dress when she moved out of their home.

“I just think that she lost that loving feeling,” he says.

“We grew apart, but I really don’t know why or how it happened. I’m not angry at her and I don’t resent her. This isn’t easy for either of us.”

A few months after the split, Cotter began photographing the dress in various states of incorrect usage and launched the blog My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress. He asked readers to make suggestions, and now the list has grown to 50 creative uses for the dress.

Cotter’s ex-wife wasn’t aware of his new hobby until he told her himself this week.

“I’ve been in contact with [my ex-wife] in the last couple days,” says Cotter. “She’s not a fan of it. I wanted a bit of attention for the blog to attract someone to help publish a book, but I didn’t foresee what’s been going on so far.”

Amongst other things, Cotter has used the wedding dress to clean his football boots, as a gym towel, as a scarecrow, a pasta strainer, a sports banner, a yoga mat, to wash the dishes, as an ice pack, and as a drop cloth for painting.

The ex-wife said: “I wish all the best to Kevin and hope he seeks counselling to deal with his anger and resentment.

“His determination, along with his family’s support, to continue with this endeavour after his children and I have asked him to stop is incomprehensible.”

The couple share custody of their two young children, a son aged seven and a daughter aged nine.