Former brides and grooms: What wedding mementos do you still have?

For those who have been married, even if since divorced, what wedding mementos do you still have? Approximately how many years ago did you get married?

I've been married for over 22 years. I still have my wedding bouquet (dried), my wedding dress, wedding shoes, wedding purse, silk flowers I had in my hair, one champagne flute (the other broke ) and a copy of our invitation and wedding day itinerary with menu. My husband still has the tuxedo he wore. Neither of us can fit into the clothes we wore, unfortunately.

We also have our photo albums and wedding rings. I no longer wear my wedding ring because my finger became too chunky for it. I do still wear my engagement ring. For some reason that still fits. I also have a dress I wore the day after my wedding at a "second day party" we had.

I am married second time. 4 years ago

From my first marriage (ended a long time ago) the biggest mementos we we have is our daughter. she was born a year after our wedding. One day we will have grandkids my ex likes to joke about that.

I don’t have much left in terms of memorabilia, we had wedding album. We gave it to our daughter. She has it. My wedding ring was stolen (after divorce), my house was majorly robbed. I had like everything stolen. I wanted to make something out of my ring for our daughter, it had a lot of weight to it, gold. Sadly it’s gone. I don’t remember what my ex did with his ring. I don’t recall. We were a bad match as spouses but we did very well as parents and we are friends.

I married second time 4 years ago. We have ton of pictures from the photo shoot we did. Scrapbook I made from our honeymoon. We have and wear wedding bands and I wear engagement ring with my band. It wasn’t a set but it matches. White gold with diamonds, not a solitaire, but clusters of diamonds. My ring is gorgeous, it looks vintage but it’s not. People always comment on my ring if it’s antique

We saved my flowers (fake lol). We also have champagne flutes from the honeymoon. We didn’t have a reception. We eloped, we both had large weddings first time and raised kids so we didn’t feel like doing big commotion. We had nice honeymoon though.

PS my ex is also remarried but way before me. Thanks to him and his wife our daughter isn’t the only child. She has 3 siblings. I remarried too late to have more kids

I have nothing except the dress. The wedding was almost 40 years ago. The divorce almost 3o years ago. I've randomly in manic fits up and moved sometimes leaving everything behind. The only reason I have the dress is because I wore my mums dress and she hung on to it. It's more than 70 years old and still a classic.

We were married in 1988, but we'd lived together for a few years before that and already had our 3 year old daughter. During my childhood I saw nothing good about marriage, so I really didn't want to get married. But we wanted another child and I was pregnant right away. So before I was showing we got married.

It was in May on a very rainy spring day. We were married in my lifelong best friend's house. It was a lovely little wedding.

Anyway...what do I still have left? Our album of wedding pictures. I think that's all I have. The veil my sister had made for me was pretty, but it started discoloring and falling apart some years ago unfortunately, so I threw it out.

My wedding dress was "tea length" (a few inches above my ankle). It was the most beautiful color! The color was called "candle glow" and it was the softest peachy glow...almost not there, but just a warm glow.

My heart was broken when, 5 years ago, I was the victim of a home invasion (yes...terrifying, to say the least). They stole just about everything, including my lovely wedding dress.

So I consider myself lucky to have saved the photographs.

We were married for 19 years. After the divorce, I cleared it all out. It felt good at the time and still seems like the right decision.

We have a professional wedding album and video. The video contains a hilariously awkward “Romantic Video” that the videographer had us perform prior to the wedding. A copy of the invitation was filmed on the video, but I must have saved a paper copy.

The toasting flutes were cheap and I think I recently donated them. The blue garter was caught by my 10 y/o young male cousin who had to put it on the thigh of my grandma who caught the bouquet!

My wedding gown got candle wax dripped on it. I cleaned it and consigned it, getting back nearly as much as I paid for it. I got rid of it because my mom had hers preserved for 40 years and I wanted to wear it, but it came out of the box ruined.

My designer shoes ended up killing my feet all night and the department store where I bought them insisted I bring them back, which I did.

There is also a Jewish Marriage Certificate I have hidden away somewhere. This was the subject of a horrible fight with an even more horrible rabbi and talking about it is still hard. I’m so angry at him for his failure to teach us that we were not supposed to marry on the date we did and why. Then he carried on over this certificate and I cried before walking down the aisle. I think this incident cursed my marriage...but I know I am not supposed to believe in curses.

Omg your house was robbed too! I had literally everything stolen. It’s so violating. Sorry you had that experience

Thanks, everyone, for sharing.

My parents' house was robbed, too, and they stole my father's wedding ring. I guess it's a real target. At first thought, it would seem hard to believe that a wedding dress would be a target, but I guess I can understand, given the prices of many of them. Or would a robber just take it to be extra mean?

My husband was married for about 7 years before I came into the picture. I think my husband still has some wedding photos, but nothing else. He certainly doesn't look at them, to my knowledge. I guess if I survive him, I'll definitely scrap those.

divine, I'm glad you gave your wedding album to your daughter.

I never had children, so won't be sharing any of my wedding stuff with anyone beyond my husband and me. My dress still looks lovely, but it would never fit again. Even if I reached that same weight (things upstairs have grown as a result of a couple meds). I remember that the wedding dress fitter did a lousy job of measuring me. She ordered a dress that was too small. I tried to lose more weight (I wasn't overweight at all), but it was still too big around my hips. They didn't fix it right even after that. I remember crying and crying. My mother simply did a bit of a ripping job on the ultra tight inner skirt/slip part, that wasn't noticeable on the outside, and that worked. She saved the situation

I was married on a slightly rainy May day, too.

I really don't want to keep any memories actually, nothing good in the past...