How to Repurpose Your Wedding Decor in Your Home

Pairing your wedding decor and your home decor is something that not everyone can do, but we are here to make sure you can do just that. Reusing your reception decorations, repurposing your colors, and recreating the magic from your wedding into your home is exactly what we are about to teach you how to do. Keep reading to learn more!

1. Turn Wedding Florals into Art for Your Home

The first way to reuse and repurpose your wedding decor into your home decor is to turn your wedding florals into beautiful art arrangements. Cherish your wedding bouquets forever by getting them pressed and hanging them on your wall. Doing this allows your wedding memories to be cherished forever through art on your wall. Flowers wilt and die after time, but getting your ceremony arrangements turned into art is a beautiful way to keep those memories alive.

Some ideas to consider:

• getting floral bouquets pressed and making an art gallery wall with the art

• Making resin trays, coasters, plates, etc with the saved flower petals from the wedding arrangements

• Drying your flowers and turning them upside down for a hanging, cottagecore look in your kitchen

Transform your wilting florals into longer lasting art to save that sentimental value.

2. Repurposing Wedding Arch

Do you have a wedding arch that you want to repurpose? Luckily for you there are beautiful ways in which you can reuse the wood from your ceremony arch to make beautiful home decor. Consider converting your wooden arch into beautiful outdoor decor. Here are some wonderful ideas that would help you repurpose your wedding arch.

• Using your wedding arch to create an outdoor garden trellis

• Turning the wood into home decor like a mantle, headboard, or statement shelves throughout the home

Repurposing your wedding arch to create beautiful , functional pieces in your home or outside your home is a wonderful way to repurpose items into your home.

3. Candles and Lanterns

Most weddings use candles and lanterns, and if you did, consider using them in your home. Candles and lanterns never go out of style and even I am still using the candles from my wedding in my home today. Candles and lanterns from your ceremony or reception can be used in many ways throughout your home, and here are just a few of those ideas you should consider.

• Using lanterns for decor on your porch or in your backyard

• Using candles on your mantle, on shelves, or on a dining table

• Using candle votives or vases as centerpieces

The beautiful lighting from your wedding can be reused within your home by creating some of these ideas. Recreate that warmth and love from your wedding into your home today!

4. Transform Table Linens

Those expensive and fresh linens from your wedding can be reused again within your home! Consider taking those table linens and transforming them into table runners for your dining table, pillows, curtains, or even a keepsake quilt. The ideas we have for you are endless when it comes to table linens. Here are some more ideas for you:

• Sew curtains, pillows, napkins, or even clothes you can cherish forever from your wedding table linens

• Dye the linens to match different seasonal colors

• Make a keepsake quilt or blanket for future generations to cherish forever and ever

Wedding linens can be expensive, especially when it seems like there's not much you can do with them after the wedding. Take those ideas above and make beautiful home decor with your wedding table linens. Give your wedding textiles a new life by transforming them within your home!

5. Make Framed Wedding Collage Art

Do you have tons of napkins, invitations, menu's, vow books, and more from your wedding? We have the best idea for you. You should make a beautiful wedding art collage with all of the precious moments from your engagement, to your wedding planning, to the wedding ceremony, reception, and even to the honeymoon. Every physical momento you got from the wedding can be put in a beautiful piece of art that you can frame and put somewhere within your home to create a piece of art for everyone to enjoy forever. Here are some ideas of what you could put into the college:

• Invites

• Menus

• Vow books

• Hand written notes

• Seating charts

• Wax seals

• Fabric samples from dresses or wedding textiles

Making a wedding art collage is the best way to reuse special moments from your wedding, and we hope you save all your wedding momento's so you can make one for your home!

6. Reuse Furniture

If you purchased specific pieces for your wedding like furniture, consider finding places within your home to reuse that furniture for your everyday life. Having staple pieces of furniture from your wedding in your home, is a beautiful way to remember your wedding day forever. Here are some ideas to think about recreating:

• Using vintage sofas or chairs in a home library or living room

• Reusing rugs from the reception in your family room or bedroom

• Using benches from your wedding on your patio or in your garden

Furniture can be expensive, so instead of donating or tossing the furniture from your home, use that furniture in your home. This is a beautiful way to recreate the energy from your wedding into your home.

7. Wedding Signage Art

Custom signage doesn’t have to be stored away.

Ideas to develop:

• Hanging a welcome sign in an entryway

• Repainting acrylic signs for seasonal messages

• Transforming wooden signage into kitchen décor

• Turning neon signs into permanent bedroom or patio lighting

Angle: Personalized signage can evolve into everyday design accents.

8. Wedding Memory Wall

During my own wedding several years ago, I had photos of me and my husband beautifully places on the tables at my reception. I still use those photos in our home today. If you had something similar at your own wedding, consider using those photos from your wedding to make a beautiful memory wall or as art throughout your home.

Some ideas to consider:

• Art on shelves or the mantle

• Art wall in your bedroom or living room

These are all wonderful and perfect ways to reuse your wedding art in your home in a non cluttered, intentional way. Consider doing this in your home today!

Why Should I Repurpose My Wedding Decor?

You might be asking yourself why you should be reusing your wedding decor within your home. The reason to do this is to save money and to cherish the special moments from your wedding by seeing them within your home.

Weddings can be very expensive, and by reusing those items that cost you a lot of money, you are saving money in the process. The other point to discuss is to that repurposing your wedding decor into home decor helps to remember the memories form your wedding. Every time you look at that photo wall or floral bouquet art, you will remember the day you chose to marry the love of your life and the day you chose forever. Every time I walk past a piece of home decor that was used in my wedding, I think about when I said yes to marrying my husband and when I married my soulmate.

Reusing your wedding decor in your home is a smart, beautiful, and money conscious way to style your home. It's a perfect way to save money while also creating a beautiful home that you can feel comfortable, happy, and proud in. We hope you decide to repurpose your wedding decor and create beautiful, inspired home decor pieces that are timeless and special.

Choose Your Wedding Decor Based off Your Home Decor Style

If you haven't gotten married yet, something you should 100% do while planning your wedding is center your wedding decor based off of your home decor style. Doing this will allow repurposing that decor for your home to be a much easier experience because the decor already matches your favored home decor style. This should be fairly easy to do throughout your wedding planning experience because all you have to worry about is choosing wedding decor that you could imagine using within your home.

This is exactly what I did when we got married, and we are still using most of that decor today within our home. Another tip I have is to choose wedding decor that is neutral and minimalistic, making it easy to built a beautiful home with simple wedding decor is a lot easier. But if you have a colorful home, then go ahead and get colorful wedding decor that can match that color aesthetic.

Conclusion

Now that we've gone over all the great ways you can repurpose your wedding decor inside your home, we hope you feel inspired to create a beautiful home! Take these ideas and make something that you, your spouse, and anyone who visits your home will love and enjoy forever and ever!