What to do with leftover wedding paper goods and decor?
Deciding how to handle leftover wedding paper goods and small decor items leaves people stuck when they want to keep them as mementos but do not want them sitting in a box forever. They look for ways to repurpose or manage these items so they don't just take up permanent storage space.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Storing items in a garage
- 2Putting items in traditional shadow boxes
- 3Framing invitations and stationery
- 4Laminating custom items to use them
- 5Repurposing signs and stationery into home decor
- 6Putting items on Facebook Marketplace
- 7throwing them away
- 8recycling them
- 9keeping a couple as keepsakes
- 10using them for a scrapbook or shadowbox
- 11sending them out to companies
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What should/can I do with them?”source ↗
“trying to figure out what to do with some of the paper goods and other little details from the wedding that I’d love to keep, but don’t necessarily want sitting in a box forever.”source ↗
“Our wedding was 2 weeks ago now, is there anything we could do with them now other than just throw them away?”source ↗
Where this came up
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