From Wedding to Home - Wine Crates

I mentioned earlier this week about how I was going to reuse my wedding decor for a home makeover after the wedding! Well, here is a tip for you to do so. Wine Crates work perfect especially for vineyard weddings. The uses are endless as you can decorate your space by  add your favors or place cards in them or standing your cake on one for an extra touch. Depending on your budget, you could use one for each centerpiece by placing your centerpiece items inside the box. Either way, there really are quite a lot of options wedding-wise!

After the wedding, these are one of the most multi-purpose items you could have. Use them to store items on high shelves which will hold a bunch of clutter, but all that will be seen is the exterior of this beautiful and rustic crate. Also use them to create shelving or as planter boxes.

Source: Apartment Therapy,

For a price tag of about $20,you have yourself a beautiful and rare addition to your wedding, then you have something which can be used constantly in your home! Enjoy!

Found this store online, but you can also check out local vineyards or supply stores!

PS: Check out the full reuseable post here and check out the past edition about Pitchers!

From Wedding to Home Makeover - How to Reuse!

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?

Going Home

While planning the wedding, I am also interested in finding and moving into a bigger house which will then need to be decorated. So, I want to find unusual wedding items like the above, that not only create a personalized wedding space, but can then go into our house as decor there. It poses an interesting and fun problem as I have to think outside the box a bit, but I am also opening up a realm of decor that isn't normally tapped in the general wedding plans. Plus, I can always be reminded of the wedding and all the different parts by having the details of it as house decor :)

I think I can do it without getting too crazy, so I created a bit of a decor plan for the house as well as for the wedding. So far so good!

Photo Source: Pillows, Mantel, Sugar, Board, Vase