Weddingbee Blog

Ssshhhh! Don’t let Mr Pretzel hear you call it that. To him it is still an office/guest bedroom, but between you and me it’s become the Wedding Room.

I noticed a fair amount of interest in the concept of a Wedding Room when I merely mentioned it in another post. Let’s be honest, it was destined to be a Wedding Room from the start. Right before Mr Pretzel and I got engaged we bought a house. The guest bedroom was extremely empty, with just Mr Pretzel’s desk in it. He and I both knew that it would remain empty like this until I moved in after the wedding. As I started to accumulate wedding stuff (i.e. the boxes started arriving from my online shopping) I tried hard to keep all of it corralled at the duplex that I rent. Soon the boxes and Rubbermaid tubs of crafting supplies started to grow into an obstacle. Plus there was the problem that when I as at our townhouse I never had the supplies I needed to do a project. Without a word, I started to move all the boxes over to our townhouse and up into the guest bedroom.

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I’m the first to admit that there was absolutely no organization going on.

As I got packages in the mail I just dropped them in the “wedding room” in their original packaging. With every box I quietly dropped off, Mr P was getting increasingly anxious. The room was a hot mess and I was the only person who understood the rhyme or reason to it… well, sort of. The straw that broke the camel’s back? I needed something and could not find it. As I waded knee deep in wedding “stuff” and dug through boxes, Mr P stood at the door and said, “For the love of God, can we organize this?”

Organize we did. I’ve corralled, stacked, and labeled my wedding stash. We set up a crafting space. Recently, Mr P bought me a giant sticky flip chart so we could make a Master Wedding To-Do list. It’s a little scary, but reassuring at the same time. So, as long as you promise not to call it the “wedding room” (so Mr Pretzel feels better) I’ll take you on a tour.*

My craft table and the wedding craft shelves. The mess in the lower right corner? That’s Mr P’s to recycle/shred pile

Close up of the organized shelf. I spy: Flip flop basket, Mason jars, box of adhesives a la Miss Sewing, box or Ribbon a la Miss Ribbon, a Gocco and tons of supplies, and lots of colored tissue paper

Part I of the Master to-do list. There is more wedding stuff next to the shelves and Mr Pretzel’s desk.

Close up of the pile next to the shelf. I spy: Birdcage for cards, bouquet bases, milk glass, mustaches, curved wood lantern holders and many many more Pretzel projects.

Part II of the Master To-Do List

The “wedding gift closet”. Mr P and I are waiting until our households are combined to start using our gifts.

Do you have a “wedding room” or “wedding closet”? What tips do you have for controlling the sprawl of wedding items?

*Please notice the wall color—not.our.cup.of.tea—we’re too busy to paint walls yet, but trust me, post-wedding those walls will be a drastically different color.