How much wedding memorabilia do you keep?

[MummyLongLegsss]

I've been having a clear out and have a 'keep sake' box which needs sorting. I've kept all of the cards we received on our wedding day but now, being really blunt, I don't see the point. They are dusty, take up space and I don't feel at all sentimental over them . (DH doesn't even know they exist.)
Married 40 years .

I think I thought everyone kept stuff like this mainly as my Mum does yet it's not really 'me'.

My friend did this, enjoying her breakfast orange, every morning, in champagne flutes!

I'm not married but I have just had to chuck out all the telegrams (!) my grandparents received on their wedding day in 1952. Please, wedding junk hoarders, clear it all out yourselves and do your descendants a favour!

I still have my wedding dress from 1992 (a pale aqua shift) and wore it again at my niece's wedding, with a different jacket six years ago. It was a little tight if I'm honest, so I changed for another dress in the evening, but I bought that dress for DS christening, and wore it with a jacket I bought in summer 1985, and he's just turned 25. It has been on the beach and to fancy parties, with different accessories. I keep good clothes.They come around again.

18 years ago. I have photos, order of service, and my dress. And I'm a words person, so I cut out all the lovely messages in cards from people we're actually still in touch with, and still re-read them every so often.

I have kept the cards from the wedding, so far, because they are my memories, but I expect DS to junk them. I want to bin the sentimental bits (like the loveletters) from my deceased PIL's because they are personal and private, between them, and nobody now alive needs to read them. I would burn them ceremonially but DH feels he's the only person with the right to do so.

@BlueEyedLeucy

Congratulations!

30 years here. I have my suit (it still fits, but after 2 kids I’m not quite the same shape - it was also my interview suit at the time) and three photos - I took one of DH, he took one of me, and we found someone that looked like they wouldn’t steal the camera to take one of the both of us.

My parents gave us some money and insisted that I bought a bone china dinner set - still have that and it’s used occasionally, when I can be bothered to hand wash it before and after use.

I'm about to be brutal with my stuff.

No one cares! It was 25 years ago, my sons couldn't care less. The nicer bits might go to charity, the rest in a bin.

Does it?!

🤣🤣🤣 27 years😱

Just about....... in a good week. A bit tight around the shoulders and upper arms - due to my 'lovely muscles'... 😊

40 years here too. I have a menu card, an audio recording of our ceremony which I have never listened to and our photographs. My dress is up in my mums attic. It's an 80s meringue so no one will ever want it!

We got married nearly 44 years ago. I've still got all our cards, my dress (a floaty purple hippie style Indian dress which I wore many times afterwards), and some of the flowers from our wedding cake. We had a small DIY wedding and didn't have anything like an order of service, menu cards etc, but I expect I would have kept them if we had. We didn't have a photographer and just have the pictures that my mother in law took, and a couple of friends. I still use one of the casserole dishes we were given on a regular basis, and still have all the dinner service my mother in law bought for us, and my electric frying pan, which I still use from time to time.

Three decades after the event and I still have my dress and shoes, rings, photos and the cake topper that flew back with us. Still have the husband and he still wore his suit at weddings and funerals until last year when the trousers split.

We married abroad without family or friends but had a couple of parties when we got back so I don’t have any menus or order of service cards but I doubt I’d have kept them. Of the gifts my sabatier knives are used daily

OMG I think our top tier may also be around. Also have a 27 year old.

My wedding dress is in the wardrobe - it isn't a conventional wedding dress and doesn't take up much room. We have copies of our vows and a wedding invitation in a drawer. My sister gave me a photobook with some candid photos of the day. That's it I think - it wasn't a big wedding, not the first for either of us, and it was a humanist wedding so we basically wrote the service with our celebrant. Because it was so intimate and we only had people we loved there I really enjoyed the day and have really fond memories of it.

I have kept the cards as so many of the guests at our wedding are no longer alive and its a reminder of their presence and good wishes. Also some of the receipts/confirmations of various bits and pieces connected with the wedding. We didn't have a photographer so not many pictures.

My GF kept memorabilia from his wedding in 1930 in a shortbread tin - the cake decorations, order of service, some cards and telegrams and some pressed flowers from my GM's bouquet. He kept the tin in his sideboard until he died in the late 90s. We found it when clearing his house. I have it in my sideboard now and open the tin for a look every now and then to remind me of them both.

Okay. I've got my dress and veil. I had my dress cleaned and it's stored in its box under a bed. I think there is a horse shoe there too. I don't know what to do with it. I thought a DD might want it but doubt it as fashions have changed a lot. It's a very pretty dress.

I'm keeping the order of service. And possibly one newspaper announcement. I'm ditching a photo of myself in the local paper as my Mum entered it without my permission for 'bride of the week'!

The cards are going to go. My kids won't be interested in them. I have two photo albums but they were taken by a friend of my parents as we didn't want the expense of a professional photographer.

It's really interesting to read what everyone else does/ did.

My mum is a hoarder of stuff like this and when I was younger I thought it was 'the thing to do' but I'm rethinking it all.

have nothing from my 3 weddings not even the grooms but I do have a lovely invitation and all my mum and dads wedding photos