Why toss all your wedding memorabilia or store it away where you can’t see it? It’s easier than you might think to reuse all your wedding mementos to decorate your new home. If you’re looking for ways to put your wedding items to good use in your home, then here are some tips to consider.
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. Also, you can make a collage to hang on an empty wall combining a few different wedding shots with pictures from your honeymoon.
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. Assemble these items together however you like and then place the box on a shelf or hang it on the wall. Not only does this make a great décor piece for your bedroom, but it will remind you of your wedding every day.
Decorate with Your Wedding Flowers
You can always make potpourri from dried flower petals if you used real flowers for your wedding. Find a decorative basket or vase to place the dried flowers in and add essential oils, and you will have a sentimental decoration to add to any room in your home. Fake flowers, on the other hand, offer many more decorating options. Leave them the way they are, placing them in a vase or basket, for an instant decoration for the home. Or you might choose instead to alter them a bit. Either take a bunch of different bouquets from the wedding to create on large flower arrangement, or split them up, creating two slightly smaller ones. You can add instant color and brightness to just about any room of the house when you use these flowers in the décor. Even better, you’ll remember your wonderful wedding day every time you walk by them.
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. Once you’ve taken a piece of fabric from the dress, wrap it tightly around a canvas or even a picture frame. Once you secure it with a nail gun, you’ll have a nice fabric décor item to hang on the wall. When you hang one or more of these pieces on the wall, you can really add some style to your bedroom or other room.
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 Author…
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 file cabinets for your home office or a dining room table for your dining room then they carry everything you need.