Sentimental things...

Seffarig · November 2009

The list of things that most couples have to commemorate their wedding day seems long - preserve the dress and veil, preserve the bouquet, keep the engraved cake cutting set, the guest book, the unity ceremony stuff, the photo album, the video, one of the favors, the cake topper, the invitation, the marraige certificate, etc etc etc. While I agree that this is an incredibly important day in anyone's life, the amount of memorabilia that is left after the day is over seems overwhelming. So my question is, what will you be keeping/preserving in order to remember your weding day?

megk8oz · November 2009

FI and I "fail" at the whole "memorablia" thing, it's going to be pretty basic stuff we save, since we're not having a lot of the "extras". I AM getting my dress and veil preserved (But it's supposed to be clean prior, so I'm not freaking out about it getting ruined that day). We are going to have an album, and a friend of ours offered to videotape the ceremony for us (Which, he may totally change his mind, if he doesn't do it, it's not the end of the world). I DID say that I wanted one of our invites framed, though, because we did them ourselves, and I'm just really proud of them. But we're not doing a unity candle or a sand ceremony. I don't think we're having a guest book (I guess if my mom decides to set one up or something, we'll have it). We have a cake knife, but it's not engraved, it's nothing really special (FI works for a bank, and one of his customers gave him a cheap set as an "engagement gift"). Idk if I'm preserving my bouquet yet ... I really like what it's supposed to look like, but I have no idea where on earth I would put it if I kept it. We're not having a cake topper either. Also, we're doing jelly beans for favors, so we plan to eat the left overs, but we're not "keeping one".

Anon I. Mouse · November 2009

We are also going to fail at the whole memorabilia thing. I may keep the dress or not (I will not preserving it if I do, and I may sell it...we'll see). We aren't having pictures or video DURING the ceremony, though I imagine family will take some before after as we are having a weekend destination wedding deal (we are having a very casual, intimate ceremony and do not want photos of it). We would actually be thrilled if a few months down the line all guests could remember were that they felt relaxed and had fun, even if there were no pictures! We are not having a cake, a guest book (there are only 18 guests, we can remember them!), a unity ceremony deal, our wedding favours are gift certificates to our guests for the spa/dining room at the resort, etc).We are incorporating into our ceremony some items that ARE personal to us so we will have those after as well, but they are not wedding-related.Pretty much all we will have will be our rings, and our memories, and we are both perfectly alright with that! We don't need things to remember it by, we will remember (and when we are old and senile, we will just make it up!).

danieliza1127 · November 2009

I do still have my dress but it's just hanging in the back of my closet. I won't be getting it preserved or anything. I did not preserve my bouquet. We didn't have a cake topper. We do have our sand ceremony vase, our guest book, an invitation and program, and leftover cocktail napkins. They are all in a chest in our bedroom except the sand ceremony vase and our guest book. We have been married over a year and still haven't made a photo album yet. We have 2 DVDs full of edited and finished pictures though.

[Deleted User] · November 2009

Well the marriage certificate is legal document more then a sentimental item. I plan on keeping one invite and the photo album of course. I'm selling my dress and not getting most of the other stuff.

SarahPLiz · November 2009

I hate dusting. Period. Anything I have to dust, beyond a framed marriage certificate is not sticking around for too long. I may keep my dress to make a christening gown out of for our kids, but that is a big if. The shoes I will wear again. We will have photos and maybe a video. I think we are having fresh flowers as a cake topper, so no on that one either. We don't eat cake enough to have an engraved set. We may just borrow one from my friend.

megk8oz · November 2009

Oh, yeah, Sarah reminded me:We're not having a cake topper because we're doing cake flowers instead.

jenn.daniel · November 2009

I have a tendency to save everything. Keeping the dress, veil, bouquet, his bout, guest book, photos, invitation, cake topper, and of course marrige certificate. We aren't getting a special cake cutting set, not doiing a unity candle, probably can't afford video. Favors will be edible, so extras wilo be eaten. If we bother with special toasting glasses, we'll be borrowing my parents', so they'll be returned.

StarJay · November 2009

We'll be keeping our toasting flutes, because they were a gift from my BM purchased in Scotland. We're using my grandmother's cake server, which is part of the china set I inheirited from her, so obviously we'll keep that. I do have keep garter, but only b/c a set was the only way to get the garter I wanted. Other than that our photos and the video the photog does as a gift to his brides, and the guest book (which is actually a scrapbook of our engagement photos signed yearbook style) will be it. I have not decided what to do w/ the dress, and I am hoping the veil matches my BFFs wedding dress so she can have it for her wedding next year. I will keep one invite and one program because I spent a LOT of time on them and am quite proud of them. And I am thinking I will have a flower from my bouquet and his boutennier preserved in a Christmas ornament, because it is our tradition to get a special ornament every year for our tree, and that would be a fun one to put up year after year after year.He wanted one piece of memorabilia...we found an artist who makes stuffed kissing dragons in a couple's wedding colors, and he LOVED them. So he gets to keep them along w/ his other "toys" (i.e. action figure collection.)

TheSquirrelsRWatching · November 2009

Pretty much everything except the cake cutter. I'm a very sentimental person.

Kaikaleanae · November 2009

StarJay: Where can I get the stuffed dragons? I love that Idea!!!

jolynn326 · November 2009

I hadn't thought too much about this. I suppose I'll be a sentimental one and save it all. At least for a while... I tend to need time to let go of things, lol. So, photo album, dress, flutes and cake stuff, unity candle, PHOTOS, etc. One idea that I have seen but probably won't do is a "trash the dress" photography session. The whole point is getting high fashion photos in your dress (with or without your husband) after the wedding day. I've seen pics of girls in mechanic shops, at the beach and in the ocean, painting, etc. There are lots of youtube videos about it.

tayley · November 2009

We're really not planning on keeping much. I agree with you that all the stuff becomes overwhelming, and we've both already got enough stuff we'll be bringing into the marriage! Like Stage, our unity candle holders will decorate our house, but not with wedding candles. I will most likely hold onto my dress in case my daughter wants to use it (even if she only wants to cut it up and use pieces of it!), we'll keep the guest book, toasting flutes, and then we'll have pictures and video of the rest!

tommyandy · November 2009

i agree with pp. the more we keep the more i have to clean. i will be selling my wedding dresses (i have 3, north florida in nov can be 90 or 30 degrees in temp, won't know until day of - yes it's a pain), veil(1), vases, etc. we will keep the guest book/photo album( fmil is a scrapbook queen!) & the wish rocks/shells & vase. the guest book will have our invite on the front page. our flowers are going to a local hospice.

ObLaDi · November 2009

Just an idea for something different to do with your dress: I donated mine to bridesagainstbreastcancer.org. It was something I wasn't even really aware of until after the wedding, and I'm so glad I found it. I'll still have things like photos to cherish my wedding memories by... the foundation is a Make-A-Wish of sorts for women with stage 4 terminal breast cancer, and a great way to provide these women and their families with memories to cherish also. I think it's a wonderful way to round out the celebration of my marriage.

fnl007 · November 2009

We aren't super sentimental but plan on keeping some things. *Dress & Veil - Keep *Bouquet - making it into a piece of art (Flowers Into Paintings) *Cake Cutting Set - will not be engraved, it will match our serving set and go with the rest of our serving pieces in the dining room *Guest Book - is a photo album of our engagement photos so it will go on the bookshelf with our wedding album *Invitation - framed *Toasting Glasses - FIs family in Germany is sending us Crystal BeerSteins instead of champagne glasses since we like beer instead of champagne. Will keep these. *Cake Topper - monogrammed "L' ... plan on keeping as both our last names begin with L right now. Unity Candle - Not Doing Favors - Not Doing Video - Not Doing Wow !! When you look at it like that it really does seem like a lot of stuff to keep.

blueorchid05 · November 2009

Things I am saving and why:Dress & veil because the cutest thing I've ever seen was my great Aunt putting hers on a dress form as a decoration for their 60th wedding anniversary party. Cake top if I have one (because it will be swarovski swans and I collect their christmas ornaments)Toasting flutes because they will be out only champagne flutes & we plan on breaking them out for New Year's etcCake Knife & server because they are in our china pattern Lenox opal innocence Our favor they are crystal prisms to hang in our windowGuest book, photos, & video (obviously marriage certificate)

bethziobro · November 2009

I'm not really one for saving sentimental things either, but I wanted to find a cool way to save some wedding things, especially my bouquet. So what I did was I had a shadow box made with my bouquet, tiara, invite, favors, matchbook, photo, etc. It hangs on the wall in our living room, and I wasn't left with stuff everywhere. There was a local vendor I used, and i guess its pretty popular for people to do this. Google "Wedding bouquet preservation" and you should find a better explanation than mine..

Tessy87 · November 2009

i am preserving my flowers and shadow boxing them and the dress and veil are getting donated to breast cancer or battered women havent decided its a great cause and get the closet filler off my hands and anything i can do to make someone else day special im down. my flowers will also be donated to a hospital and we are having pictures other then that we arent saving anything

phoeny_moonstar · November 2009

My bouquet, my headpiece, and the cake serving set is all.

Rachel soon to be K · December 2009

I tend to keep everything!

We'll be keeping our toasting flutes because they are a very expensive gift from his grandmother and we'll use them every year for our anniversary and New Years, and maybe other events. We'll have a guestbook and photobook and I'll probably tuck an invitation and program into the books, so they're always there.

I always thought it was neat to look through my parents wedding things when I was little, so if we ever have children I want them to be ablet to look through our things.

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