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Great question! Our stuff is in a spare bedroom too. I'm considering hanging our seating chart lol. It's really nice and cost around $80 so I can't bare to throw it away. I can't part with my shoes either but I will never be able to wear them again.
If you have an attic, put it in a trunk and stash it away. You may be able to use it for a party or some other form of entertainment.
I'm getting married in 12 days and I have already sold about half of my wedding stuff for brides after me. I figured a lot of my things no one would want becasue I made them out of my own little brain, but honestly there are tons of brides out there who are doing the same thing as you even if you think it's unique.
I would hate to throw those things away too, but it's not like you are ever going to use them again. Sell it or toss it!
I voted "sold it all" because I'm about to ship most of my wedding decor, extra bubbles, vases, etc off this week. However, I kept 2 centerpieces(they aren't made of flowers), my fake bridal bouquet, preserved my bouquet, kept a few ceremony items and I can't bear to part with my wedding outfit. Just can't sell it. I am really happy to have some extra cash and more space in the garage though!
Most of the things I kept are used as decor in our guest room. It works well. The other things, right now they are either in the guest closet or the garage. No where near ready to give any of that up!
Sold what i could, chucked the rest. If it's not gone/used/sold within a year, it's just taking up space and collecting dust! Most of it just got REALLY annoying after staring at it for a few months....
I voted "display," but mainly I'm storing it. I'm planning on organizing a bunch over winter break (I'm in grad school...) so it takes up less room...
I voted other because I just went through our guest bedroom and cleaned out all of our wedding stuff, but didn't throw it all away. I put one or a few of my favorite sentimental things into a large box and stored it in our spare closet. I didn't keep it ALL, but I kept the things that I'm most proud of. I'll probably blog about it!
I have tried to sell it but haven't had much luck. So some stuff is displayed while the rest is currently in boxes. We do plan on having a garage sale sometime soon and we will try there.
stuff I felt I could repurpose I kept, but about half of it I'm trying to pawn off on my cousin who is getting married next year. can't blame her if she doesn't want any of my junk though. :P
I want to send my dress, shoes, veil and clutch off to be preserved and boxed up - the dress takes up a ton of closet space and it will be so much smaller once it's boxed. Still haven't done that yet, but hopefully this winter.
I donated the glass vases from flower arrangements to Goodwill. Nothing wrong with them, but they were just plain glass, nothing special, and I don't need a million of those for my house when I already have nicer ones.
I pressed a few flowers from my bouquet that I may frame or something later - but I threw out the rest.
I have a couple black and white pics on display at home, and my cake topper (a fairly discreet ceramic "love birds" from etsy) on display on my bedroom dresser.
I sold most, hoping to sell the rest i did keep my bouqet, which was custom made. Everything else gone or going
I put other. I really WANT to sell it but i cant. No one wants it :(
Some things Ive saved..some have been thrown away. I saved one vase from our centerpieces, our custom cocktail napkins, our fun striped straws, a couple programs, a menu, the rest of our invitations, our OOT bags and welcome postcards, our table numbers are pictures of our pets and I have 5 of them at my desk! The vase is currently being used as a centerpiece for our table and the other things I am probably going to make a keepsake shadowbox of some sort!
I kept my wedding "stuff" to a minimum. We were married in a historic home that didn't need much decorating. I gave three centerpeices away and kept two for myself and display them in the house (they were silk flower arrangements).
My bouquet was clay and I am putting it in a glass case to display in my spare bedroom.
I am preserving my dress. I doubt I will have a daughter who would want to wear it, but I love the idea of generations from now, they can see my dress and what brides wore at the time.
My tablecloths are going to be stashed and I will use them for more formal dinners at the house (they are embellished white so they will match eveything).
I broke our toast glasses (Set on them in the car- OOPS).
We had a signed frame for a guest book and that is hanging in the bedroom.
We gave programs to everyone who wanted them as keepsakes and that used them up (I only made 60).
We had a bunch of napkins left. I thought I would hold on to some and use them at anniversary dinners down the road. = )
I am using our leftover bells and the groomsmen boutonieres (I made them) as Christmas ornaments on our Christmas tree.
The few other things were borrowed and have already been returned.
Our wedding isn't for another 2 weeks but I'm already putting our stuff on the WeddingBee Classifieds and eBay. It just makes sense! :)
Thanks for the thoughts everyone!
Next questions regarding all this....
Perserving wedding dresses (cleaning and boxing): how much did this cost you in your area? I called around a bunch of dry cleaners who quoted me $150-$250+...is that normal? My husband almost divorced me on the spot when he heard I was considering doing it (kidding, kidding) so my dress is hanging in my closet.
Also, what did you all do with your rehearsal bouquets? I love the thought and idea behind mine but in reality, it's just a bunch of bows....
@VegasBaby: My dress cleaning and preserving cost $160 in Olney, Maryland which is basically the Washington DC area.
I didnt have a rehearsal bouquet!
I have a large shadow box that I displayed some of our wedding items in: the brooch from my dress, flowers and ribbon from the bouquet, invitation, his bout, , photo of us, etc. I also took a photograph of all my something blue, old, new, etc. items grouped together to put in my scrapbook. I also displayed some items above our kitchen cabinets like the toasting goblets, unity candle, and vase for decoration.
I saved some stuff in a big box under the bed -- rehearsal bouquet, garters, veils, shoes, sentimental stuff like that, that I want to keep for sentimentality, but they're not really for display.
We have some stuff on display in our living room, too -- cake topper, some candlesticks from our centerpieces, the wish tree I made instead of a guestbook, my bouquet.
I sold pretty much everything else with any value, only ended up trashing a couple of things.
I voted other because I rented or borrowed from family. We rented the tables and linens, We borrowed bell jars for the centerpeices, strings of white lights too. My mom has the shepards hooks my dad made, I have the big cross he made in our living room. There is nothing else!
We rented most of the big stuff- vases, linens, etc. I have a few vases that we bought that I'm keeping, as well as other items that are meant to be keepsakes like the guestbook, etc. My mom made special overlay linens, which we might cut up and change into table napkins or something else we can use in our home. I still need to deal with my dress which is taking up a lot of space in our guest room right now. I plan to get it preserved (which I know I technically should have done by now) but I haven't felt like spending the money on it yet.
It took me a bit of time, but I sold as much as I could. Other things that I still had I mostly donated and just kept a few things for display purposes.
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you have a ton of stuff leftover? Much of this stuff is very taste specific (my table numbers, for example, that I spray painted gold, a few flower balls and a few ribbon topiaries that I spent months, MONTHS!! working on, but again are taste specific) and that I don't want to throw away? Other things like my rehearsal dinner bouquet, totally trashed but sentimental wedding shoes....the list goes on. These things I don't think could be sold, I don't have the heart to trash them, they are too large or numerous or random to display (or are they??) and are just taking up space in the 2nd bedroom. So the questions is...
What did you do with all your leftover/sentimental wedding stuff??