6 ways to bring your wedding day home
Integrate the energy of your wedding day into your home with these ideas for keeping the magic alive long after the day itself is done.
You’ve dreamed about it for years. For many months, you’ve talked, planned and agonised ad nauseam over details like calligraphy fonts and sugared almonds. Then the big day is finally here and before you can blink, it’s all over. Let’s not forget the small fortune spent as well, often as much as a deposit on a house, so after the music is turned off and all of the guests have gone home, after the flowers have wilted and your dress has been packed away, how do you bring the energy, love, and happiness of that day permanently into your home as you start your new life? Great question! Here are six ideas…
1. Preserve your wedding bouquet
From framing to resin-dipping or pressing, there are many different ways to preserve the flowers from your wedding day. Get your bouquet pressed and put in a suspended frame to display in your home as an ever-present reminder of your day. Other options, thanks to local businesses like Casting Florals and Little Goddess Online, are to have your flowers turned into an art piece in glass-like resin or to use parts of the bouquet to make resin jewellery, key rings, candle holders, and more. Great for your own home or as gifts.
2. Signature scent your day
This one needs forethought. To keep that wedding day vibe alive for many years to come, give your wedding day a signature scent. A fragrance like jasmine could be used for candles, body spray, hand soap, fresh flowers, room sprays and diffusers.
As scent is one of the most powerful memory triggers, it will not only have your wedding day smelling beautiful, it will also help bring the associated love, joy and optimism of the day into your home every time you light a fragrant candle.
3. Create guest art
There are many fun and innovative ways to have your guests create something that could live in your home. For example, commission a canvas with an illustration of a tree that has many branches and leaves. Display the canvas at your reception and ask your guests to write their names on the leaves, one leaf per guest, couple or family. After the wedding, have it framed and hung in your home.
4. Print and frame your photos
Yes, this seems obvious, yet so many people don’t get around to it. You could make a wedding album, create a gallery wall in your hallway, have a single frame on your nightstand, set a wedding photo as your phone background, or update your online profile… whatever it is, get your photos off your computer and into places that you can see regularly.
5. Repurpose wedding signage
If you have a welcome sign with your names on it, it could look great in your garden. Neon signage, a sign with your last name at the entrance, or a cute love quote are all options too. If you had any sort of signage at your wedding, see if there’s a spot you can repurpose it for your home.
6. Custom fridge magnets
Have a selection of your cutest, funniest or most heart-warming wedding photos turned into fridge magnets strong enough to hold up your shopping list, to-dos, bills to be paid, recipes torn out of magazines… and all the other things you stick on your fridge.
