How long have you been married? Do you still have clothing, invitations, other souvenirs?

[clifffaith]

It will be 35 years for us in October -- 10/19/85. My covid project of going through boxes and boxes of photos (1870s to today) morphed into looking in my cedar hope chest to see what might be in there. My wedding dress is long gone -- sold it at a garage sale in the mid-90's for $50 (paid $400). In addition to our wedding album, I found an album of the professional photos not used in the main album, and a scrapbook containing shower and honeymoon photos. Also there was a box of souvenirs. Leftover wedding invitations, scraps of bridesmaid dress fabric, a lace sample, pressed flowers from my bouquet, printed napkins from the reception, swizzle sticks from the Ahwanee and restaurants in San Francisco, etc -- all that went in the trash. Yikes, I need to turn in my eBay "license" -- swizzles may be sellable, need to pull those out of the trash. I tossed all the misc. souvenirs and all but one copy of the invitation. Wondered why my garter wasn't there, but decided a cousin must have used it to take care of borrowed and blue -- probably the same cousin who used my veil in the late 80's. How many of you still have non-photo wedding souvenirs?

 

[DaveNV]

My second marriage. Been together 22 years, married 12 years this coming August. Still have photos, invitations, and a few souvenirs. I had created and printed the invitations myself, and I did the street direction signs that showed the convoluted route to our reception location. I still have those files on my computer, along with our wedding vow words we wrote. Not much to get rid of. I think the top of the wedding cake is still buried in the freezer. Likely rendered quite inedible at this point.

My daughter has the wedding album from my first marriage. She got it from her Mother, who was happy to be rid of it, along with me. LOL!

Dave

 

[MrockStar]

33years and yes dress photos some glasses, cake knife ect.

 

[wackymother]

My wedding dress is around somewhere--it was at my mother-in-law's apartment for years and years, then we brought it back after she passed away. My husband somehow squoze into his wedding suit a few years ago; he wears suits so infrequently that he mistook it for a more recent one. I also have the shirt I was wearing the first day I met him. We've been married 35 years in October, too. Our anniversary is a week before yours, clifffaith.

 

[clifffaith]

We dragged our cake topper (blown glass w/hummingbirds) from home to home (we are on our sixth home since getting married) for years. Even had a glass blower work on it at one point. We don't have it now, so I think it got tossed while at our last home.

 

[TravelTime]

I have been married to my wonderful DH for 14 years as of this August. This is our only marriage. He is the love of my life. I am not super sentimental with material items so I did not save anything from when we got married. I have the photos and the rings, plus I upgraded to a better ring afterwards. All I really need is my DH.

 

[controller1]

Been married 41 years. Still have at least a few wedding presents. One is an avocado green electric knife! It's lasted the 41 years. Of course it is only used twice a year at most.

 

[DaveNV]

Been married 41 years. Still have at least a few wedding presents. One is an avocado green electric knife! It's lasted the 41 years. Of course it is only used twice a year at most.

Useful trivia: Those are great for sculpting styrofoam.

Dave

 

[Luanne]

I still have the champagne toasting glasses from my first wedding. I threw out the wedding photos when we were cleaning out the house to move. From my current marriage I still have my dress and I thought I had a box of mementos but I have no idea where it is.

Married to #1 for 8 years. Current marriage is 34 years.

 

[slip]

Our anniversary is 10-19-84, so one year more than you. It will be 36 in October. We have a few photos it all digital. When we moved to Hawaii we shed just about everything else.

 

[wackymother]

Been married 41 years. Still have at least a few wedding presents. One is an avocado green electric knife! It's lasted the 41 years. Of course it is only used twice a year at most.

I have one from a garage sale that I use pretty often! Also avocado green. I buy them when I see them at garage sales--everybody needs one, they just don't know they need it.

 

[Talent312]

It's been almost 20 years for our 2nd marriage (each).
We still have photos, a few invites, guest book & wedding dress.
The dress is in my office closet. The space remaining is Christmas stuff.
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[pedro47]

52 Years at the end of April 2020. Some of our wedding photos are hanging over my desktop computer, along with her family photo, my graduation picture from college, my son playing little league baseball, our first timeshare vacation in New Bern, NC and many more vintage photos.

52 years ago I was a 27 in waist and 147 pounds.
The Commander in Chief still have her white dress and I still have my big smile.
We have our wedding picture. But guess what! Our minister for got to sign our marriage license. My beloved Mother-in-Law caught the error. The minister signed it after about two (2) weeks. LOL
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[Glynda]

It will be 52 years in August for us. I still have my dress, wedding photos, guest book, and a couple of shower gifts and some wedding gifts. The gift that we have used the most is a big, shallow, lightweight wooden bowl that we've always used for popcorn! The sterling sits in a drawer. I got rid of the china and crystal years ago.

 

[Glynda]

52 Years at the end of April 2020. Some of our wedding photos are over my desktop computer, along with her family photo, my graduation picture from college, my son playing little league baseball, our first timeshare vacation in New Bern, NC and many more vintage photos.

You beat us!

 

[1Kflyerguy]

We are married May 1986, I checked with my wife, and we still have her dress, our toasting glasses, and the basket that was used to hold the favors.

As for gifts, we still have and use a set of glass mixing bowls, and some Pyrex casserole dishes.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

3 happy decades. We met before the Internet was invented. Still have my dress, and a few other items.

 

[dagger1]

41 years for us, we got married in January 1979 during a blizzard in Casper, Wyoming. My beautiful wife has a large storage box containing her wedding dress and lots of other pictures and memorabilia. I haven’t seen any of it in 35 plus years. Hoping for another 25!!!

 

[dayooper]

23 years and we still have my wife’s dress and shoes, invites and napkins and pictures, of course.

 

[northwoodsgal]

35 years here. Still have it all - wedding dress, glasses, candle bases, ring pillow, some napkins, invitations. Just easier to keep it than to decide what goes.

 

[pedro47]

41 years for us, we got married in January 1979 during a blizzard in Casper, Wyoming. My beautiful wife has a large storage box containing her wedding dress and lots of other pictures and memorabilia. I haven’t seen any of it in 35 plus years. Hoping for another 25!!!

Ar Forty-one (41) years, we were still honeymooning.

 

[clifffaith]

It will be 52 years in August for us. I still have my dress, wedding photos, guest book, and a couple of shower gifts and some wedding gifts. The gift that we have used the most is a big, shallow, lightweight wooden bowl that we've always used for popcorn! The sterling sits in a drawer. I got rid of the china and crystal years ago.

I have service for 10. Sold 2 sterling sets on eBay, piece by piece, figuring to start out getting down to 8 of everything. I fear there is no market for the china and crystal, but did so well with the Hispanic community on Facebook Marketplace with my Princess House crystal, that I will start there. In fact I thought I had to renew FB listings, and hadn't after covid hit the fan, but for whatever reason a set of coasters and of juice glasses renewed by themselves and women contacted me, I left items in the bin under my mailbox and they left money in the mailbox. Easy peasy no contact transactions!

 

[heathpack]

We will celebrate 20 years in May but we were together 9 years before we were married. So... 29 years. Wow.

Heck no we don’t have any of our wedding stuff. Definitely still have quite a few gifts. But I’m not sure either of us even knows where our wedding rings are. The symbolic/ritual stuff really means very little to either of us.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

+1 Heathpack LOL After 30 years my DH cracked his gold band. The diamond is ready to fall out of my ring so I don't wear it everyday either. The marriage is great - the rings...well not so much. We would rather travel together than spend money on jewelry.

 

[WinniWoman]

Married since 1977 and I threw out everything- even our wedding album, 500 honeymoon 3D photos, and one of our wedding photo plaques, as well as my wedding gown and newspaper articles, etc. I suspect hubby might have grabbed some of the photos and hid them somewhere but I haven't seen them and we downsized big time.

As I mentioned in another thread, my wedding band got cut in half because I dislocated my finger and I kept it only because it has meltdown value. So it just sits in my drawer in case I need to bring it to a pawn shop. I have a cheap band now. Hubby's band is intact.

I do have our framed wedding photo that actually belonged to my parents on display in our bedroom. And I do have our marriage license.