Burning Question: To Wreath Or Not To Wreath?
Well the holiday season is officially in full swing and we just had to ask: is there a wreath on your front door?
And if so, what’s your preference? Natural green boxwood or magnolia leaves? Festive feathers and ornaments? Simple red berries or holly branches? We’d love to know what we’d see if we came a knockin’.
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I’m pretty proud of my graduate-student-budget-friendly solution. I bought a fake wreath at Hobby Lobby for 50% off (not ideal, but works for now) and a box of small silver ball ornaments (also 50% off) and attached them with wire. Voila!
Sadly we bought a fake wreath this year. That is the thing I really don’t like about living in such a warm climate! In Oregon we always had a green wreath that we bought from the boy scouts. They were so pretty and smelled great!
We have a plain green wreath with a candy cane striped ribbon at the bottom. It’s not my fav, I actually love the one in the pic you posted!!
We don’t have a wreath on our door, but what we do have is this antique Flexible Flyer sled propped upright against our doorframe. On the sled is a wreath with a Santa face and old gold beads draping down. They happen to be old Mardi Gras beads from home.
Sounds a little odd? I’ll have a picture on our family blog on Monday if you’d like to check it out-or I can send you a link tonight. It’s really lovely, though, and is a nice nod to a vintage Christmas.
I love wreaths & door hangings. I wish I had more doors (or walls) to hang them on. Typically, however, we have a traditional evergreen wreath (purchased through the Boy Scouts) on our front door, and a snowman grapevine wreath (painted white & glittered, complete with top hat and scarf) hanging on our back door.
We have a wreath! I’d tried to sell a “twiggy wreath” with berries on craigslist and it just wouldn’t sell, so I added a bunch of fresh tree trimmings and now I’m thrilled it didn’t sell. It’s hanging outside our glass storm door with a red ribbon that’s invisibly attached with duct tape! The wreath hanger I had hung it way too high. :)
We’re poor just-out-of-college kids right now, so no wreath for us, but my mom has a really lovely red holly berry wreath she found at Cost Plus a few years ago for like, thirty bucks and I kind of love it. Someday!
We have an abundance of tree farms here in Wisconsin, so we always buy a locally made balsam and mixed greens wreath. It has a big red bow and pine cones. Very traditional. After the holidays I like to swap out the bow for something less Christmasy, and leave it up until February 2nd. My mother always said that it’s bad luck to leave a wreath up past Groundhog’s Day. So, you’ve been warned!
like so many other things in life, actresses noses, clevage on playboy models, and our christmas tree, the wreath on our door is fake and its spectacular
This year I found a beautiful wreath at Target that is made of faux Amaryllis flowers. I love that it is Christmas-y but non-traditional. I didn’t put it on the front door because it annoys me when they swing around and scratch up the door, but is hanging on the wall next to the door.
I’ve got a wreath full of different sizes of silver jingling bells!
My family has never been big on Christmas, so little so that we may not be having it this year. Needless to say, we’re not big on decorations either (don’t even have a Christmas tree.)
But when I’ve graduated from college and start my career, I think I’d like to get more into holidays, especially once I’ve started a family of my own. Holidays seem like such fun traditions.
I love the look of red berries, so I think that’s the direction I’d take if I had a wreath.
My brother’s snowboard team sells wreaths every year as their big fundraiser. So for less than $20 each year, we have a real evergreen and pinecone wreath that lasts MONTHS!
You would see this… http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2008/12/bit-o-christmas.html
A bright fushia with tropical flowers and leaves…and joy.
I just pimped out a wreath I got from Target last week. I bought some inexpensive ball ornaments while I was there and affixed them w/ twisty ties.
http://bigbeigebox.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-already.html
My wreath is getting a bit dull and dry. Any recommendations to keep this fresh through Xmas? Do you water a live wreath? Help!
I love wreaths made of pine cones, decorated with ribbon and maybe some red/gold (fake) berries. We don’t have a wreath this year, because I’m still looking for one of those things to hang it on without having to hammer a nail into our front door.
I have a green wreath with pine cones on the door, but hope to find a more stylish one in the after-holiday sales this year!
I have a real 24″ wreath that I picked up at garden center today. I think real is the only way to go! They smell, look and feel better than the fake ones. The one I picked up was pre-decorated with a few little pinecones and sprays of little blue berries. I also hung mine with a small clear suction cup hook, stuck to the upper glass portion of my front door. The look of those large metal over the door hangers dosen’t look quite as clean. Dream wreaths that I wish I could snap my fingers and have right now? The succulent embellished wreath from Viva Terra or the myrtle leaf wreath from Smith&Hawken.
Always a real pine wreath. This year – it’s decked out with pale green and white ribbons and silver beads.
I have a red berry wreath with silver sparkle which looks amazing against our bright white front door! It is my favorite Christmas decoration, besides the real tree.
I always have a wreath of some sort on my door…they usually reflect the season or the current holiday. Right now it’s a pine wreath with a red and gold bow with jingle bells tied to it.
Hey everyone,
Thanks for sounding off about seasonal wreaths. It’s super interesting to learn the whats and the whys of everything wreath-related. All that door decor sounds festive and fabulous!
Oh and Court, you do water live wreaths (actually you mist them with water from a spray-bottle) so that might help perk up your dry guy. Happy spritzing!
xoxo,
Sherry
Sherry,
How funny that I just spritzed my guy this morning hoping for a miracle! Thanks for the advice!
Court
What great ideas there are out there. Thanks for doing this post!
I love my last initial (B) and this year bought a faux B wreath from Ballard Designs; they also sell real ones, but I wanted it to last and last and last. I wrapped tiny clear lights around around it, and looped a beautiful aqua blue ribbon through the holder, tied a bow on it and hung the ribbon over our outdoor light, next to our front door–which isn’t wreath friendly due to it’s windows and ledge. It looks so pretty!
We are also grad students on a tight budget, yet I love the smell and look of a real pine wreath and boughs. This is the trick I discovered. The Home Depot near me has a large black bin of discarded pine branches from the Christmas trees they sell and wrap. I asked the person working there if I could have some and she gladly told me to take as many as I wanted. I filled up an entire shopping cart and took them home and made my own wreath with a wire frame and floral wire. It really is easy and so satisfying to make my own free wreath! Also, I buy discounted ribbon after Christmas and use that for a bow. I also look around my own yard and neighborhood for pinecones, bittersweet, red berries or interesting pine branches. In years past I’ve collected enough branches to share with a friend and we make our wreaths together–so fun! I’m sure there are some online tutorials for making your own wreath. Good luck!
Wreath on the door! We have a brick red door on our craftsman style home and we have the Kenneth Wingard Mod Art White Wreath….so simple and modern and you can use it all winter year after year ; )
http://www.kennethwingard.com/modwhitewreath.html.
Happy Holidays!
Most definitely! A wreath with a velvet red bow, pine cones, and fresh pine branches- I absolutely love how it sets the mood.
I love wreaths, but this year I went with a little swag. :)
(made from frasier fir extra branches)
http://alifesdesign.blogspot.com/2008/12/o-chirstmas-tree.html
I make my own wreaths. We have a fake one, sinec I get sick from real evergreen. But it’s more cost effective that way. This one cost $10 and then I decorated it by wiring on pinecones, berry garland, some little snowflake ornaments, and a pretty bow.
i made a gumdrop wreath for our front door, after seeing one on etsy that i loved. (inspiration seen here: http://ny-image1.etsy.com//il_430xN.109641729.jpg) ours has big and little gumdrops, and a big red bow where the hanging loop hits the wreath. it cost about $15 and two hours, so it’s totally re-do-able if we decide to pitch it when we take down our christmas decor, but i just love it, so i think i’ll varnish it over and keep it for years to come–a sweet reminder of our first christmas married. =)