Mrs. Cherry Blossom, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 27, Administrative Asst.
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, District Sales Manager
Engagement Date: December 23, 2006
Wedding Date: May 3, 2008
Venue: Zen Garden in the East Bay w/ reception in a floor-to-ceiling window Atrium with views of the Zen Garden
About Me: After 5 years of dating, we're finally ready to get hitched! I am a lovah of all things wedding, creative, crafty, and definitely DIY bc I love to add a personal touch to everything I gift or make. In my free time, I like to bake, spend time with our family, friends, and my doggies, read my guilty pleasure celebrity gossip and catch up on TV shows.
What To Do With All That Love?
July 2nd, 2008 @ 3:30 pm by Mrs. Cherry Blossom
Since the pouring of the shower and the two amazing weddings, we’ve accumulated a massive amount of well wishes from friends and family. We haven’t had a moment of free time to go through them because our honeymoon followed right after our wedding, so it was a super sweet treat to have something to look forward to reading together when we returned.
This is only half of our pile…I still have some from our shower in another bag.
I even kept all the wish cards that were attached to gifts that were shipped to us. Did you keep these or am I the only pack rat?
I was thinking of placing them all in one of these simple Kolo Albums and filling the pages with just the wish cards.
My girlfriend made me an amazing guestbook in this same style for our polaroid guest book that I will post about in another entry. Should I just add more pages and add these cards to that book or keep the pictures and the wish cards separate?
Did you keep all your cards? How do you plan on storing them?
16 Responses to “What To Do With All That Love?”
omg, i have no idea what to do with them! i want to keep them all but they are just everywhere right now. i was thinking of putting them in an album too, on a page next to pictures of that guest at the wedding, but some cards are so big that they take up a whole page!…so i’m still figuring out what to do haha.
Definitely keep them…that’s a lot of love, and when people pass on you’ll always have something to remember them by. I came up with a lazy method…put everything in a crate and barrel box (wedding planning book, honeymoon book, invitation extras, cards etc.) and then don’t look at it for six months.
Six months later, I went through it and whittled it down gently (I didn’t need empty Macy registry cards) and then put it away. I look at it about once a year and maybe someday I’ll put together an album, but at least it’s organized and out of the way.
In a cute shoebox after their rotation on display.
We have about a dozen of those cube photo stand thingies and after each event/holiday/birthday, we’ve swapped out the cards with the current ones (or as many of them as we can).
Oh, I’m totally facing this challenge too, and I love the idea of a Kolo album!
@Mrs. Daffodil: I had thought about doing the same … attaching their pictures with their card but some of them, we don’t have pictures of. =(
?@Miss Pomegranate: Nice idea, Pom! Where do you recommend finding said cute shoebox
TOTAL pack rat here! I have all the cards from my shower, and the ones from the shipped gifts! I know I’ll be keeping all the ones from my local shower too, as well as the cards from the wedding.
I like your album idea! It’s a wonder I didn’t think of it myself… when I was little, my mom stored all my birthday cards in albums, right next to the pictures from the birthday party for each year.
I guess it’s in my blood to keep the cards. Ha!
My friend gave me the idea of taping them into a guestbook or another type of album. The guestbook that my friends purchased for my shower was barely written in, so I got out the double sided tape and fit one card per page. Somehow, I managed to fit all of the cards in that book. So many cards had great messages, aside from being super cute wedding cards. I didn’t want to throw them away or have them sit in a drawer.
I would suggest a scrap book.
You could have an album that contains:
1- your save the dates
2- your invitation
3- your returned RSVPs if people wrote nice notes on them.
4- cards/greetings from loved ones.
I’ve seen this done with an 8.5×11 scrap book (just the normal kind from Michael’s, with the plastic slip covers over the paper so that raised areas and sparkles stay ‘trapped’).
You probably have quite a variety of cards - some that are gorgeous but don’t have a lot of heartfelt personal sentiment inside (i.e. just Congrats! Love JohnDoe). Then you maybe have others that are pretty simplistic design, where the sender wrote a paragraph of wellwishes inside.
Use the fronts of those beautiful ones as decoration in the scrapbook (don’t be afraid to cut em up), and intersperse with the sentiments from the simpler cards.
Ummm, coming from the girl who has kept EVERY card, handwritten letter, sweet note on a post it I have received since the 7TH GRADE!- I would say yes, I will probably find some fun way of storing all of my wedding related cards so I can enjoy reading their well-wishes for years to come. I like the photo-album or guest book idea. 
I think you should wallpaper your bathroom with them. Then when you make poops you can think of how much you love all your wedding gifts 
I was just thinking the same thing today as the cards and gifts start to pile in. I’m a TOTAL packrat and like Jessica above, have saved EVERY.SINGLE card, note, letter that I’ve received in my life. That includes all those Valentines’ day cards from elementary school! All of my cards are in various boxes…some at my parents’ home.
I first started out by putting our engagement, shower, etc cards in a Kolo but it has since gotten very thick. One of my BMs made me two wedding scrapbooks and I’m starting to transfer all the cards over. I’m even keeping all the red pocket money envelopes with all the cards. So far, so good. GL!:)
lol at Mrs. Penguin
I feel like I’m going to end up tossing most of the generic well wishes ones after a couple of months, but keep the ones that have more sentimental messages or pretty pictures (I’m totally anti-pack rat. PURGE!)
I cut ‘em up.
Seriously. I cut out the handwritten sentiments (and some of my favorite images/graphics/Hallmarkisms) and mounted them as part of my wedding scrapbook.
I’m keeping all of ine! the little cards are being scrap booked, but teh regular card sized ones are going in a greeting card holder scrap book thingy (yes thats the technical term for it) lol. You can get a wedding one, a plain one or festive one. It’s neat because you can put your prettiest or favorite ones on the front. I got mine from here:
Right now everything is sitting in this super cute bride box I received at a shower from my mom. I love the idea of eventually putting everything into a Kolo album. I think I’m going to keep all of the standard registry cards that come from the stores and paste them together in a neat pattern.
