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[clio]

Mine are in a scrapbook in the attic. They've been up there for over 30 yrs.
Liz

[Colexis Mom]

Mine are still in a box somewhere

[Chrissi]

Mine are still in my wedding box - 8 1/2 years into my marriage. Some of the cards are priceless - Walt's grandma and mine have both passed on since then and so has Walt's Aunt Frannie. In fact, it was so long ago that my grandma was able to remember who we were and write her own cards. (She lived with Alzheimers for the last few years of her life and had no idea who I was or what my name was the last few years.) THAT card is very precious to me because she penned and signed it herself.

[lexiemom]

When DH and I got married Hallmark sold a special decorative box to store your wedding cards in. The bridesmaid who threw my bridal shower got it for me as part of my gift. I have it displayed in my guest bedroom because it matches the decor in there.

[Lemap760]

I have no idea if I kept mine. The ex-husband has all the wedding stuff except the pictures and the dress.

[Lori Jakiela]

I will be married 6 years in April and still have my cards packed in the box originally used at the wedding. I also have certain special occasion cards too. It is so nice to have something handwritten from someone who is very dear to you that is no longer here. I say keep them where they are til you know what you want to do with them. They really don't take that much room up!

[B.M.]

Mine are still in a box also......................We were married almost twelve years ago,.......and have been divorced over two (LOL)...........and our wedding card are still in that box.............................Maybe I should throw them out?

[snoozin]

We still have all our wedding things cards, etc; it's been 23 years this year!

[chezp]

I put them all into a scrapbook.

[Ginns1]

I took all my cards, ripped the signatures from them and pasted them kinda like a frame around a wedding picture. Then I put the entire thing in a huge frame and hung it in the family room. The ex got it in the divorce!

[SouthernBelle]

I still have all mine in a box, we have been married 19 years this May. I have my gown, veil, silk bouquet in the closet in the spare bedroom.

[jennsgoingtodisney]

Thanks to everybody who replied. It looks like I will be keeping the cards.

[Caldercup]

Let me preface this by saying that my husband is a pack rat and I'm the absolute opposite -- the only thing I collect is fabric and I use that!!

Anyway, I lost my mother and my grandmother in one month more than seven years ago.

My grandmother was a packrat and we spent ages going through boxes and boxes of paperwork and junk and piles of pantyhose, toilet paper rolls, notepaper, and hotel toiletries. The worst problem was that she didn't keep true treasures separated from the junk and we had to carefully inspect EVERYTHING. Worst of all, my mother was very sick when her mother died and couldn't do anything to go through her mom's stuff. A month later, she was gone.

My mother was much more organized and much more ruthless about throwing stuff out. Even so, she had lived in that house for 41 years, was a professor -- so had more books than you can imagine -- and had taken to hiding cash in her books since she feared that the Y2K fiasco would cause massive problems. When my father remarried and we had to go through their house, I spent months traipsing back and forth to Goodwill, various charities, the local recycling center and the town dump. It was agonizing! The only funny thing about it was that I wound up finding almost 2 thousand dollars hidden in her books!

Ever since this experience, I vowed I'd never leave behind things that my son or husband would have to agonize over, trying to determine whether it was a treasure that MUST be kept or something they could part with.

So... to make a long story short(er), I'd recycle them unless you can stick to a promise to scrapbook them within the next two months. Otherwise, they'll just be an albatross around someone's neck down the road.

Gosh! That sounds so depressing.

If you've ever watched Clean Sweep on TLC, you'll have heard one of my favorite bits of advice -- "You can honor the memory of a nice person or a kind gesture without having to keep the piece of paper, the old trunk, or the broken lamp. Keep the memory in your heart and you won't accumulate junk!"

Just my humble opinion.
Eileen

[RobinKay6573]

I don't have any wedding cards (seeing no one knew I got married...we eloped). I do have graduation cards from college. I put together a scrapbook of all the cards. I found a photo of the person that gave me the card and put it next to the card.

[Disneydiana]

I have the cards in a bag and placed them in the hallway closet. I really should stash them with the rest of my wedding stuff in the basement. But I keep usually forget to do this. I think I'll keep them all. We had some pretty funny ones from friends. The best was from a single guy friend. Apparently he knew nothing about wedding etiquette and didn’t bother to buy us a card. He wrote out his wedding well wishes on a yellow index card and stuffed it in an envelope with his gift check. It was hilarious! He even called to ask us if we liked our “card”. I guess he did it on purpose. We didn’t care; it was the funniest thing ever. ( Especially since he wrote this in huge black letters: “It’s about damn time!”