diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76fbaeb..cad24fe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ This should work with Python 2.6 and 2.7, and [pypy](http://pypy.org).
 
 Currently I've only tested this with urllib2, urllib3, and requests.  It's known to *NOT WORK* with urllib.
 
-##How to use it
+##Usage
 ```python
 import vcr
 import urllib2
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ pass, even if you are offline, or iana.org goes down for maintenance) and
 accurate (the response will contain the same headers and body you get from a
 real request).
 
+You can also use VCR.py as a decorator.  The same request above would look like this:
+
+```
+@vcr.use_cassette('fixtures/vcr_cassettes/synopsis.yaml'):
+def test_iana():
+    response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.iana.org/domains/reserved').read()
+    assert 'Example domains' in response
+```
+
+All of the parameters and configuration works the same for the decorator version.
+
 ## Configuration
 
 If you don't like VCR's defaults, you can set options by instantiating a
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 697a6af..eb7bb41 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ setup(name='vcrpy',
         'vcr.compat': 'vcr/compat',
         'vcr.persisters': 'vcr/persisters',
       },
-      install_requires=['PyYAML'],
+      install_requires=['PyYAML','contextdecorator'],
       license='MIT',
       tests_require=['pytest','mock'],
       cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_urllib2.py b/tests/integration/test_urllib2.py
index d0e66c0..5db1b63 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_urllib2.py
@@ -114,3 +114,17 @@ def test_cross_scheme(tmpdir):
         urllib2.urlopen('http://httpbin.org/')
         assert len(cass) == 2
         assert cass.play_count == 0
+
+def test_decorator(scheme, tmpdir):
+    '''Test the decorator version of VCR.py'''
+    url = scheme + '://httpbin.org/'
+
+    @vcr.use_cassette(str(tmpdir.join('atts.yaml')))
+    def inner1():
+        return urllib2.urlopen(url).getcode()
+
+    @vcr.use_cassette(str(tmpdir.join('atts.yaml')))
+    def inner2():
+        return urllib2.urlopen(url).getcode()
+
+    assert inner1() == inner2()
diff --git a/vcr/cassette.py b/vcr/cassette.py
index e478082..37dedfb 100644
--- a/vcr/cassette.py
+++ b/vcr/cassette.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ except ImportError:
     from .compat.counter import Counter
     from .compat.ordereddict import OrderedDict
 
+from contextdecorator import ContextDecorator
+
 # Internal imports
 from .patch import install, reset
 from .persist import load_cassette, save_cassette
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ from .serializers import yamlserializer
 from .matchers import requests_match, url, method
 
 
-class Cassette(object):
+class Cassette(ContextDecorator):
     '''A container for recorded requests and responses'''
 
     @classmethod