After the Wedding

Acid-free storage for the dress after it has been cleaned.

~$45 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Professional preservation costs several hundred dollars; a tub of silica dries the whole bouquet in about a week with its colour intact. It has to start within two or three days of the wedding, so buy it before and leave it with whoever takes the bouquet home. Five pounds does one bridal bouquet.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The bouquet dries in the crystals, but only in a sealed container. This one has a lift-out tray, so the flowers come out without breaking. Start within two days of the wedding.

Pairs with the drying crystals.

~$35 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Somewhere for the cards, the vow books, the invitation and the dried boutonniere, so they end up together instead of in three drawers.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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A slip-in linen album for the printed favourites, the ones you actually flip through. Printed photo books come from a print service; this is for the 4x6 prints the photographer sends and the ones guests give you.

~$10 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Photographer galleries expire after six to twelve months and the couple's only copy is a download link. Keep one copy on this drive and one in the cloud. Two terabytes leaves room for the videographer's files.

~$290 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Boutique bags are thin and short. A 72-inch breathable bag with a deep gusset fits a full skirt from the shop to the suite and home again at midnight, and it is the right bag to store the dress in until preservation. Not plastic, so the fabric can breathe.

~$20 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Gets the suit from the tailor to the venue and home again without the dry-cleaner plastic that traps moisture and wrinkles. The pockets take shoes and the stud box. Buy one per groomsman if the suits travel together.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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In a wine box ceremony each partner writes a sealed letter, and during the ceremony the letters, a bottle and two glasses go into a box that is latched shut to be opened on an anniversary. This one fits three bottle widths, so the glasses go in beside the wine; some couples add letters from guests at the reception before it closes.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The suit, the reception dress and a gown that is not boxed need a cotton bag so the fabric can breathe; plastic yellows it over the years. Add cedar blocks inside; mothballs stain.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Where the dried bouquet, the invitation suite, a cork and the boutonniere end up as one piece on the wall. Deep enough for a small dried bouquet; pin everything to the backing rather than gluing it.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Thirty bud vases do not survive a car ride loose in a bin. Divided cells get them to the venue and home in one piece, ready to resell. One box per twelve vases, with a roll of bubble wrap for anything odd-shaped.

~$20 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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One frame per household, engraved with your names and the date, nothing more. Put the engagement photo in it now and swap in a wedding print when the gallery arrives; it sidesteps singling any one parent out.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Most ketubot are 16x20, and this frame's mat fits one straight away so it can hang the week you are back. For an heirloom piece, a framer's UV-protective glass is worth the upgrade later.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Two hundred envelopes twice, invitations and then thank-yous, is where a self-inking stamp earns its place. It is also the first thing with your shared address on it. Order it once you know where the RSVPs are going.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Buy more than you think. Log gifts as they arrive so the notes write themselves.

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The marriage certificate, both passports, the new Social Security card and the name-change paperwork now live together. A fireproof, water-resistant bag is the first thing organisation guides recommend for them.

~$30 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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For RSVP cards, invoices and invitation samples as they arrive.

~$5 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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For place cards, envelopes and thank-you notes. Test them on your paper first.

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For the honeymoon, the gym and working with your hands: the band grooms with a new gold ring buy within a month. Order the same size as the metal ring; one for each partner who lifts, swims or works with their hands.

~$25 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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A page to fill in every anniversary for decades. Start it on the honeymoon.

~$35 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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Another option to Anniversary Journal, for a different style or budget.

A question a day for the first year, answered by both of you. The small version of the anniversary journal.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The first-year keepsake, with your names and the year. Couples buy it for themselves; guests give it with a card.

~$20 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The sky over the venue on the night you married, printed with your names and date. Nearly eight thousand ratings, and a lovely first-anniversary gift.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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The new last name and the year, for over the door or the mantel. A favorite Registry gift.

~$15 · Prices are approximate and can change. Check the shop for today's price.

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