The 15 Best Wedding Keepsakes to Remember Your Special Day
From beautiful décor items to boxes to store your wedding shoes, we round up the loveliest wedding keepsakes you'll want to look at again and again
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You wedding day will go by in a flash, but you’ll have memories that last forever.
The best way to remember your special day is with some beautiful wedding keepsakes that you can either buy for yourself or that make a great gift.
We’ve got 15 keepsake ideas – from wedding certificate holders to photo boxes – that’ll help you hold onto those memories for future generations and to look back on every anniversary.
NB: We have included third party products to help you navigate and enjoy life’s biggest moments. Purchases made through links on this page may earn us a commission.
The Best Wedding Keepsakes
Personalised Scrapbook – £13.95, Etsy
Even before the wedding takes place, you can start saving up all the bits from your wedding planning journey that you’ll want to look back on in the future. How about dress ideas, themes, cake colours, the first draft of your wedding vows, the leaflet from your first venue visit, engagement party photos? The planning process is as important as the day so don’t forgot to make a scrapbook keepsake of this too.
Personalised Initials Guest Book – £25, Not On The High Street
Without doubt you’ll have decided to have a wedding guest book so that your loved ones can write you a message on your special day. You’ll be able to read these time and time again and get the same warm feelings inside. This personalised guest book is sleek and modern and will fit in perfectly with your future home furnishings. It comes in two sizes and a choice of six colours.
Wooden Peg and String Alternative Guest Book – £18.94, Etsy
There’s lots of alternative guest book ideas, which can make beautiful artwork in your home. We love this rustic frame with pegs and twine to attach polaroid photos of guests and messages on kraft paper tags. You can hang it up in your house after the wedding with a few dried sprigs of your bouquet.
Personalised Botanical Wedding Keepsake Box – £34.50, Not On The High Street
You’ll have so many things you’ll want to keep safe from your big day: a copy of your invite and order of service, a Champagne cork, your wedding cards and photos, honeymoon mementos, all the way up to your shoes and veil. A keepsake box will keep them safe for years to come, and we love this simple birch box with personalised laser engraving that’ll fit in with any home decor.
Wedding Ring Holder Box – £13.69, Amazon
If you’re having your rings delivered down the aisle by your best man or a page boy this is a lovely box to keep them in. This geometric, clear glass ring box is encircled in gold-coloured copper that looks good and will keep your rings safe before and after your big day. It doesn’t come with the engraved names but you can get them here from just 65p.
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Leather Wedding Photo Album – £95, Not On The High Street
This incredibly elegant album is handmade in England with pale ivory Italian leather. Inside are 50 double-side pages of acid-free card topped with a luxurious vellum interweave to make sure your wedding photos look perfect forever. It comes in a tissue-lined presentation box so your photos stay completely safe.
Personalised Glass Framed Photograph – £25, Not On The High Street
What a stunning way to show off your favourite wedding photo! This glass circle is printed with a photo and text of your choice, in either black and white or colour, and comes ready to hang on your wall.
Wedding Keepsake Suitcase – £150, Not On The High Street
This beautiful white suitcase is bound with leather and lined with vintage-print fabric. It’s deeper than most keepsake boxes so is ideal for storing your wedding shoes or a tiara in. You can personalise the tag with your initials, names or wedding date. You’ll want to display this for every guest to see.
Personalised Silver Wedding Certificate Holder – £27.50, Amazon
Preserve your wedding certificate in this silver-plated tube which is engraved at no extra cost. It’s beautifully designed with a heavyweight and high-quality feel that looks endlessly more expensive than it is. The tube comes in a fabric drawstring pouch and presentation box to store it. A brilliant gift to give the newlyweds or to purchase yourself to put the certificate straight into.
Hardback Photo Book – From £60, Papier
If you’re not planning on printing out your photos, you can upload them and create a photo book through Papier with a customised layout, personalised cover and captions for each moment. It’s a lovely way to tell your wedding story and is a great gift idea.
Letterfest Personalised Wedding Illustration – £83, John Lewis
A striking hand-drawn illustration of your wedding ceremony or reception venue is perfect to put as art on your walls. These clean and contemporary drawings are done by artists in North Devon on a blue or stone background, topped with your choice of text and completed by a shabby-chic wooden frame. It’s ready to hang.
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Personalised Vintage Wedding Cake Fork Set – £28.70, Etsy
What great forks to eat your first bite of wedding cake with! Treat yourself to a cake every anniversary and eat it with these silver-plated, personalised forks. Each set comes hand stamped on vintage cutlery, all tied with a chiffon ribbon. It’s a wonderful gift to give to an engaged couple to keep for years to come.
Personalised Name Frame with Wedding Flowers – From £43, Etsy
Getting your wedding flowers preserved in those wonderful resin letters is a great way for them to become keepsakes of your day. The resin letters can be used to spell out your name or your wedding date, and you can add extra details in text above and below. It even comes framed, so you can hang it in your home straight away.
Wedding Photo Box – £40, Not On The High Street
Store all your photos in this carefully crafted photo box, customised with your favourite photo from the day. You can choose to have an engraved memory stick made too and there’s space in the box to store it separately. It means you can print out your most loved photos and keep the digital copies of all of your pictures in one place with them.
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Personalised Wedding Horseshoe – £5.99, Amazon
Giving a horseshoe to the couple ahead of their wedding day has traditionally been a gift of good luck. This laser-engraved horseshoe make a wonderful memento to display afterwards too. It’s a brilliant rustic gift idea for any engaged couple.
We’ve got loads more ideas for newlyweds, like gift ideas for your first married Christmas and 25 unique date ideas for newlyweds.
