From Wedding to Home Makeover – How to Reuse!
May 11th, 2010 by Allison Silber
I absolutely love home decor, and plan on creating a beautiful nest as soon as possible. As you may know, I am paying for a chunk of my wedding, and choosing to keep the budget at a very low amount. My goal: $10,000. Since I am paying for a chunk, I thought my home makeover would have to wait.
When I got to thinking about it, $10,000 is not a lot for a wedding, but it is definitely a chunk of money which I could think of tons of other ways to spend. I had a problem with the fact that the only tanglible things I will end up with after the wedding come in high quantities and will probably end up in my closet or for sale on the Internet. I feel like it is wasteful to spend so much and come out with nothing you can reuse in the end. (I am talking merely about decor logistics and not about what this special day will mean for the both of us)
So, here is what I pledge to do for my wedding:
I will work very hard to create a wedding with all reusable decor. Everything I purchase will have a duel purpose; wedding then into my home!
This plan will allow me to spend my $10,000 budget even better and stretch that amount to it’s absolute value. This is a very green approach to planning my wedding as the wastefulness will practically not exist.
In the end I will have a very personalized and unique wedding that is very special to the both of us, then I will have a house makeover! My home will be filled with items from the wedding which will make the space we share together that much more special.
Source: Tumblr, Tumblr, Young House Love
Want to join me??? Each week I will post more and more tips on how to go about doing this. Even if you don’t do it 100% don’t you think it would be nice to get a few great home decor items from your wedding? Most tips are incredibly easy!
Would love to hear your thoughts- are you already doing this? Do you want to do this for your wedding? Or do you think it is just too much to worry about?
May 11, 2010 at 9:02 am, Cindy said:
I love this idea! I don’t know that mine will be 100% reusable stuff but I look forward to reading your ideas and “borrowing” some of them :) We’ve already bought 16 glass vases for our centerpieces and I plan on re-using as many of them as I can around the house afterwards!
May 12, 2010 at 1:00 am, Carol Corbett said:
GREAT idea — posting tips on reusable items. I also tried to do this with my wedding, a year and a half ago. We used a lot of candles in our ceremony and so I’ve reused those throughout the house. The holders the florist used to attach the pew bows are actually table cloth fasteners and work great. I reused the bows themselves (thick silk ribbon) to decorate Christmas wreaths, wrap presents, and tie-back the curtains. I’ll try to keep thinking of other examples.
May 13, 2010 at 5:53 am, Allison O'Grady said:
Thanks to the both of you! I feel like it will be a bit of a challenge because I am adding a whole new aspect to the purchases I make, but it will be very worth it in the end when I get an entire wedding, and a home makeover out of my budget!
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