August 2010 Weddings
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What did you do...
...with all of your wedding crap?! We have lived in our house for a year as of tomorrow (whoa... went by fast) and we are still not 100% unpacked. Here's why: I have no clue what to do with all of that wedding crap--like the unity candle, guest book pen, 20 black dollar store frames, etc.--that has been sitting in boxes in my downstairs bonus room since the day after we got married. I want to keep the unity candle, but where do I put that? The photo guest book I've got displayed, but that silly generic one my mom forced me to have at the church just has signatures, no personal messages, so I could care less what happens to it. Did you just chuck all of that kind of stuff? Or where did it find a home?
Re: What did you do...
Do the creep.
In a box in my closet I have the champagne glasses we will use for each anniversary and my veil that my mom made. Oh and also my garter that my MIL made for me. All other stuff was meaningless and was removed... by my DH. Basically I had these boxes of things, and slowly he has been asking me what I want to do with them, and each time I was making a sad face - sad as in I don't want to throw them out, but I know we one day will because it's only stuff... so one day he started taking them out for me... slowly one by one they were gone...
about a month after he threw all the stuff out, he asked me if I could do away with his broken plastic airplane what he did for me with our wedding stuff... one day, I threw it out for him
this will be horrible admission but my dress is still hanging on my closet door in a bag
what do I do with that?
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I have a memorie box with meaningful cards, favors, and the ceremony program. We did a sand ceremony and it is displayed over the fire place with a wedding picture and a blown glass orbe that I recieved as a a shower gift that are our wedding colors. My guest book and wedding album match and are together on a book shelf with other photo albums.
Some of the decore went to my parents. We use the chalk board, that had the dinner menu on, every week at the farmers market and they use the chinese lanters at farm parties and in the tree house.
Other then that most things have been tossed or donated when we moved.
e_jakela- by wedding dress is also still in its bag in my closet. I'll either donate it to brides against breast cancer. Or have it made into a Christmas tree skirt. http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/wedding-gown-into-christmas-tree-skirt
We didn't do a unity candle or have a special cake cutter or anything like that, so less stuff to deal with there.
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I guess I don't have anything. But we didn't have anything to start with.
Unity candle- we didn't do
Garter- we didn't do
Guest book- we did a tree so it is hanging up
Dress- got preserved
Champagne glasses- we didn't do
Centerpieces- we just used the ones that came with the hall
And I think my logic of not doing most of this was for this exact reason. You spend so much money on it and then there is nothing to do with it.
I did save a lot of stuff - and have it in a box in our garage.
My garter is around one of my DH's gauges in his muscle car
We didn't do any type of unity ceremony thing
Our centerpieces were just flowers - so they were given away and/or tossed out
Our toasting flutes are on a shelf
My guest book is in my hope chest
My wedding dress was cleaned and is waiting for me to take it somewhere to be turned into a baptismal gown for my future children
Besides that... nothing is really "out" in the open. Just stored away for mementos to look at when were old and grey.
My dress is also still in its bag in the closet.
As for the other things. We have a plastic bin in the basement with a couple extra programs, the extra kippot, and a few other small things we wanted to keep. The vases from the flowers are also in a crate in the basement.
Our guest book, Unity Sand jar, and one left over favor is on display. My card bird cage is just sitting in the guest bedroom (which actually has two vases and the guest book pens in it...I really need to take the pens to school so that someone else can use them). The rest of it (which isn't much...picture frames from table numbers, place cards, ribbon, and tulle) is packed into one box and it's in the attic. I'll probably keep the box until we need the room.....especially since it's out of sight out of mind at the moment.
Sadly, my dress is still in it's bag under (I know the horror and the shame) the guest bed. It was the only flat, temperature controlled spot that it would fit. I'd love to have it cleaned and preserved...but I haven't quite put the money aside to get that done.
Hmmm I haven't really had a chance to feature too much wedding stiff in our new house, mostly pictures I'm thinking of tho, as we didn't have special toast glasses, or a unity candle, etc.
However...
The wedding dress is waiting for the day I throw a princess tea party with other former brides (remember that suggestion from the knot?? I thought it was hilarious.)
Garter gets whipped out on occasion...like game day...it's a Steelers garter...hubs is a homegrown fan! Why not prance in it sometimes? :-)
The "guest book" was a time capsule and we get to open it on our anniversary next weekend and read what everybody wrote finally! What I'll do with after that I don't know, but it's not a real book anyways.
My kitchen has our giant letter "M" and our "Y-U-M" letters which were featured on the cupcake table, and which go with my kitchen perfectly.
All centerpieces were given away after the wedding, I still have some votives and holders that I use for big dinner parties but those were given away also, the paper lanterns have come out for a garden lunch. I mostly made sure my guests took things.
I really did not have a lot of extras...and if you're not going to use 'em ever, toss them without regret. You have the photos and the memories to prove what happened that day :-)