Re: Do you feel sentimental attachments to your wedding paraphernalia?

I'm very sentimental. I had my boquet preserved in a shadow box with the invitation, and I look at it everyday and smile. My dress is preserved in a box in my closet. I just can't part with it and wanted to keep it in the best condition possible. I still have my cardbox. I will probably get rid of it after I put the cards and response cards in my scrapbook.

Edited because I thought I quoted someone but I hadn't.

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Yes, I went thru alot of items when we moved and threw out alot of what I was saving, but I kept one of everything in a memory box... invite, reply card, cocktail napkin

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Attached? Well some things I guess yes I am!

Cake Toppers: by Charming Tails....a little set of forest creatures in various wedding day get ups! The are displayed with my Tiara & my Toasting Flutes.


My shoes, while I will NEVER wear them again, I will keep because it was such an accomplishment to get someone to dye them red, white & blue for me!! They are in a box with our cards, extra invites and stuff. It's not a huge box, so I will keep it!



ETA that since I hated my BoK I tossed as we arrived at the hotel! No attachment there!

Message edited 10/3/2007 5:06:08 PM.

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I am sentimental about a lot of the stuff, but it's wierd, I think it has more to do w/ my Mom than my DH.

My Mom did a lot of the wedding planning with me, paid for almost all of it, and her taste is reflected in much of it.

I moved upstate to be with DH after I got married, and I moved the following with me:

- Gown and Veil: Cleaned and preserved taking up an obscene amount of space in our guest closet.
- Invitation: Professionally matted and framed
- Boquet: Dried and on display in my entertainment center
- Returned RSVP cards
- Card Box (my Mom and I made it together)
- Cake Cutter (not sure where this is though)
- Tiara (in a box in my basement)

Message edited 10/3/2007 5:29:56 PM.

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Sort of...

It took me exactly a year to get my dress cleaned.

I had a personalized runner and I just found it the other day and cant throw it out, so I am going to cut out the personalized part and hang it in the garage.


I love my album. but never had any prints made.

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I have most everything saved in my hope chest in my room.

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I can't think of anything I deliberately threw out, except for my bouquet, which I tossed to my then-future SIL.

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Some things yes, but most no - but I was never really into wedding planning, etc. to begin with.

I did preserve my gown. My veil and tiara are around (not preserved) and not too attached to either. I had my shoes dyed for a wedding that I was in a few weeks later.

The only thing I am attached to is my wedding pictures/album. I have an absolutely beautiful album that is filled with pictures of my family and friends and I do like looking at to remember them all being with me. My photographer did a phenomenal job with it.

Other than that, I don't think I have anything else saved!

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Nope not at all....

My boo-k is hanging upside down on a hook in my parents kitchen as with most of my other stuff.

My dress don't get me started.... I took it back to Macy's Bridal when we got back from our honeymoon. They put a faulty zipper when they did the alterations and it went off track 2 hours before me ceremony. When they asked me if I wanted it back, I told them to stick it where the sun don't shine.

I celebrated my 3 yr anniversary in July and I still have yet to pick the photos for my album or give Duet the songs for the video.

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Hardly....my stuff is in a box in the attic. My dress is in a box in a closet. My bo-k, however, did dry out nicely and is on display in my china closet.

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Sentimental attachment only to my dress. I would like to make something from it one day.
I do still have my shoes and tiara. Shoes I can use and the tiara I'll save in case DD or one of my nieces needs it for something (even a halloween costume)


eta: We are coming up on our 3 year anniversary soon and I only did my album 2 months ago!

Message edited 10/3/2007 7:16:43 PM.

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Posted by imthecindyofcindyandkevin

Absolutely!!

I still have our returned RSVP cards!!

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I also still have all the cards we got and the bag we put them in.

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Posted by kms717

Posted by imthecindyofcindyandkevin

Absolutely!!

I still have our returned RSVP cards!!

WOW, I was beginning to think I was the only one.

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Nope, I'm the same as you.
My dirty wedding dress is laying in the bottom of a closet somewhere in the bag it came in. We never picked out pictures to make an album. My husband's family has even watched our wedding video more times than we have. (I think we saw it twice, once when we got it and once because my family wanted to watch it when we were over)
I was going to throw something out recently that was from our wedding and my husband got upset that I wanted to throw it out so I didn't.

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Posted by jxnoscar

Posted by Ophelia

Posted by chikita315


I feel an attachment to the mood that day. The feeling I had in my mind and heart I will never forget. The rest is material and I could really care less about it.

this is exactly how I feel.

and it is THAT feeling. on THAT day. that has gotten me to where I am today.

everything else can go out with the bathwater.

Agree, except my veil. It was the one thing I totally (and probably stupidly) slurged on. I love it and many a drunk night I walk around the house with it on. Which may or may not annoy DH, depending on what I may or may not have on

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i'm very attached to everything from my wedding

*dress is preserved
*dried out the bouquet and DH flower and they are in a vase
*light unity candle every year on anniversay
*tiara is put away

i'm a geek, i know

ETA: my veil ripped so that's in the garbage

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Re: Do you feel sentimental attachments to your wedding paraphernalia?

Yes, I love the items I chose.

Love my dress and veil
Love our toasting flutes and cake set
Love my hair jewlry and can wear it on special occasions
Our Cake topper has tarnished but I made it into an ornament on the Xmas tree.

Re: Do you feel sentimental attachments to your wedding paraphernalia?

i am attached

i have my dress cleaned and preserved
my bok is dried out and in a hat bo
i have some favors
an invite
my tiara
jewerly the day of
cake topper
cake cutter and knife

thats about it i have no idea where my shoes are

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OH MAN...you are NOT alone in this........I always felt like the wedding was great, but my marriage was the most important thing and so I dd not go very over the top with the wedding.

Dress---- still has horse poop and pee on it It's hanging in the David's Bridal bag in the basement almost 4 months later
Flowres----- Don't EVEN get me started....I threw that trash out after they died. Such a HUGE dissapointment
Tiara, Purse, Toasting Flutes--- on display in our living room along with our Christmas ornament.

Most of this I have offered to others I know getting married because it really isn't that important to me. The only things I am in love with are my married bears, christmas ornament, purse and toasting flutes.......I'll save my dress in case we have a daughter, but if she wants to cut it up and use parts of it that's ok with me.....it is after all, just a dress I wore for 1 day........

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I am sentimental towards some things more than others-

my gown- I never got it cleaned- it is still in a bag- I wont part with it but I didn't feel the need to have it cleaned-
although I did want to have my veil cleaned- I thought MAYBE my daughter could wear that?!?

My BOQ was tossed after the wedding-by the time I got home it was all old and dried up and ugly- threw it away

I have a beautiful album- we look at it sometimes- I love my video and still cry when I watch it- but it's been way over a month since the last time I saw it...

I have my cake cutter and knife- I loved it- it was a present from my aunt and uncle for our engagement gift- It is beautiful

my toasting glasses are the swarovski crystal ones and I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!

I have my headpiece, garter, hair pins, invitation in a shadow box- I do love my headpiece- I don't think I would let anyone borrow it at this point...daughter...neice...of course- lots of years from now

And my shoes- they were super comfy ... I should have them dyed black!

I almost forgot- my diamond earrings my DH bought me for our wedding day- I love them and wear them often- Other than thiose, I didnt wear any jewelry besides my rings

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