Your dd will love that, Joanie! And Local, that is absolutely lovely. :)

I've done that for friends or friends children. I hope they appreciated it.

A long time ago, pre internet, in 1978 I had our wedding invitation decorated with dried flowers and framed - we have it in our bedroom.

I received one also as a wedding gift. 1988--again pre-etsy and I have no idea if the giver did it or if she had it done. It sits out each October when I bring out my other wedding memorabilia.

Could you provide a link to a seller on Etsy that does this? I have my DS and DDIL’s wedding invitation sitting in a drawer from 4 years ago, that I was going to decorate and frame or put on a plaque. Haven’t gotten around to it, but love the one we received as a gift 33 years ago for our wedding.

HU....I think i just typed in something like “decorated wedding invitations.”. The ones I saw drew the wedding venue next to the invitation.

My gf did paper quilling on my invitation and it's beautiful and I love it...just wanted to mention it as a possibility for enhancing an invitation. This one is not mine, but just to show you.

I'd be hard pressed to even put my hands on a copy of our wedding invitation. I have no idea where one would be.

Note to self - keep a copy of my sons wedding invitation.

I have a framed invitation with paper quilling, it’s been in a closet since I received it. I also have a music box with my invitation shellacked (?) on the top. it is kept in the closet next to the framed thing. My point being be sure it’s something your daughter would like OR don’t be offended if she doesn’t display it.

I know style and tastes vary, and things can be regional so take this with a grain of salt.

I was speaking to a photographer and he mentioned that the millenials don't have their art framed.

Hhireno we posted at the same time. You just said what I was also thinking.

I received a gift of my invite on a piece of wood, embellished 1972-fashion. I didn’t care for it then, and still don’t. But, I have never been much to display things like wedding photos, either.

I had a wedding invitation copied and engraved on a metal cover for a photo album.

I had her mom sneakily "steal" it as I didn't have a copy.

It was expensive to do and did get the wow from The other guests atbthe party.

But.....My cousin didn't seem to especially it. And, it was never displayed on. Side table etc.

Good points about millennials maybe not liking this sort of thing. My DIL had her bouquet artfully flattened and framed (I think she knew the person who did it) and it’s hanging in their LR and is very pretty. Thanks all.

Joanie, I think it's a lovely idea...I have my own that was given as a gift and it's in my bedroom. Even if not displayed, it will preserve it and she'll always have it. I'm sure that by now if mine wasn't in picture form, it would have been misplaced long ago.

I very much like this idea, also, using the wedding invitation.

Pennydesign, now THAT I love, and would use.

I received a few personalized things after mine but will admit, as pretty as they are etc., they’re in a storage bin in my attic. The few framed tabletop photos I have in my bedroom I tend to choose and rotate (frames and photos) based on time of year and other decorative things in the room.

I do really like the ornament idea and I would use that on one of my trees. I might actually dig one of our invitations out and make one.

The Christmas ornaments are beautiful.

I have a dear friend who had an ornament made with our wedding invitation and gave it to us for our first Christmas! It is beyond special to me. She also had it done with my children’s birth announcements. <3 They are some of my very favorite ornaments on the tree.

This thread also reminded me of an unusual gift we received for our wedding. There was a cute couple who were friends with dh’s grandparents so obviously older and had known the family & dh for years. The husband’s hobby was clock-making. You can see where this is going....he fashioned a wall clock in a case and his sweet wife laboriously painted watercolor flora all over my invitation (lol, she told dh’s gma “those children had the PLAINEST invitation!” it was engraved Roman font on a simple Crane off-white, so yes, plain ;) ) They put the clock face sort of over the invitation, you know. Anyway, the love for my dh that these folks put into this project truly touched me, so even though it wasn’t “to my taste, decor-wise,” I couldn’t part with it. Which is fortunate bc several years later, they were attending the theater in the city with their son, and wanted to drop by to see us! Dh’s mom had given us the head’s up that these spry 85 year olds were heading our way...and I fished that clock out of a box in the back of our spare room closet! No time to hang it so I gingerly had it perched on our sideboard, lol. So glad I saved it bc it REALLY made them happy to see it used. :)