Using Wedding Memorabilia to Decorate Your Home

There’s no reason to put all that wedding memorabilia away where you can’t see it or even throw it away. Why not instead reuse all those mementos to decorate your first home with your spouse? Here are some easy and fun ways you can use your wedding items in the décor of your home.

Decorate with Your Wedding Pictures
Frame your favorite wedding pictures and use them as decorations as an easy way to incorporate items from your wedding into the décor of your home. Hang these on an empty wall, or they can sit on a fireplace mantle or a table instead. If you have a portrait you really like, consider blowing it up and hanging it on a wall in your bedroom or above the fireplace. You might even take a few different wedding shots or pictures from your honeymoon and put them into a collage to hang on a wall.

Make a Shadow Box with Your Wedding Memorabilia
Create a unique addition to your décor by gathering your wedding items together and displaying them in a shadow box. You might include your invitation, the program, favors, a piece of the wedding dress, and dried flowers. You can arrange all these items in the shadow box in a pleasing way. Then hang the box on the wall or place it on a shelf. Once put together, this decoration makes a great piece for your bedroom so you can be reminded of your wedding every day.

Decorate with Your Wedding Flowers
If the flowers you used in your wedding were real, then dry them out and make potpourri. When you place the dried flowers and some essential oil in a decorative basket or vase, you then have a sentimental addition to any room.

If your flowers at your wedding were fake, then you have many more decorating options. For an instant decoration, simply leave them the way they are and place them in a vase or basket. Or, if you like, you can alter them a bit. Take a number of different bouquets from the wedding and either create one large flower arrangement or split it up into two slightly smaller ones. You can place these flowers in practically any room of the house to add instant color and brightness to the décor. You will also be reminded of your wonderful wedding day every time you walk by.

Make a Decoration from the Wedding Dress
If you’re not planning to reuse your wedding dress, you always have the option of making it into an easy and attractive home décor item. This works just as well with a bridesmaid’s dress—providing you have someone who’s willing to part with her dress after the wedding. First, take a nice piece of fabric from the dress and wrap it tightly around either a picture frame or a canvas. Then secure the whole thing with a nail gun and, presto, you have a nice fabric décor item to hang on the wall. By hanging one or more of these pieces on the wall of your bedroom, you can really add some style.

When it comes to decorating your home on a newlywed’s budget, work with what you have. By reusing your wedding memorabilia, you can create unique decorations that have a lot of emotional impact.

About the Writer…
Leon Tuberman has four decades of experience in the home furnishings and interior design industry. He is the owner and manager of popular furniture store in Los Angeles. They offer a huge assortment of solid wood furniture for your living room, home office and dining room that's built in the Heartland of America. It doesn't matter whether you're shopping for oak filing cabinets for your home office or a oak dining room table for your dining room then they carry everything you need.