Weddingbee Blog

I used to keep everything thinking that I’d scrapbook it all one day… but I know the reality is I’ll never have the time so I don’t keep every thing like I used to. But like you one thing I would never delete is his emails. For our first anniversary, he printed out all the emails that were significant in our relationship. Since we were long distance, we had a lot o emails.

Poor Mr. Bee… he must be one of the most talked about husbands online. hahaha….

I’ve never kept stubs, things like that- even though I’m a bit of a pack rat. The one thing I DO keep? All the flowers he gives me, I hang them upside down in our closet. I have NO idea what to do with them after they’re dried, though!

Miss Kiwi, you could make potpourri out of the petals. I heard about one bride who kept all the flowers she had ever gotten from her FI, made potpourri and gave it to guests as favors, I thought that was pretty cool.

I guess I’m not very sentimental. I did have a box with a hotel key card from our first vacation together, stubs from movies we saw together, and cards he wrote me with flowers.

Then I lost it in one of my many moves.

Now, I just keep cards from flowers he sends me. Like right now, I have a card in my desk that he wrote me on my first day of teaching that talks about what an amazing teacher and person I am. And that was over a year ago.

I had kept all the flowers he’d gotten me (I’d told him long before that flowers were appreciated more than silly trinkets, etc.) but threw them all away (what was I going to do with them!) when we moved in together.

I do have every card he’s given me–some left at the sorority, some sent in the mail when we were long distance, some for no reason! LOVE those.

I do have all the movie stubs–somewhere. In fact, FI now keeps things for me, knowing I will scrapbook them! i.e. Plane tickets, pamphlets from tourist excursions, concert tickets, game tickets, etc.

I don’t consider myself to be overly sentimental though, let that be known. :O)

i took a tin box that he gave to me (once bearing cookies!) and I keep all of our notes, ticket stubs, ribbons, pictures… i know it was a blast for me to go through my mom’s hope chest and see all of the letters my dad wrote to her so i knew i want my children to have the same gift.

I keep everything. I’m a packrat! Luckily, I started scrapbooking this year, and I plan to have scrapbooks for every one of our years together…:) I enjoy it, and it’s a good “quiet-time” activity. Just hopefully my skill level will increase as the years go by!

But I have pictures of course, movie stubs, tickets from everything imaginable, along with flyers/ maps/etc. When we go to a new fun place, I even scout out pamphlets, and get extras, so I’ll have extras to cut up and put in the scrapbook. I may be a little crazy, but it’ll be great in the end. Andrew doesn’t even know about the scrapbook I started for 2006, and I plan on surprising him in early 2007 with it!