Valentine’s day can be the perfect wedding day. My fiance and I both agreed on that day, we would get married. As soon as we had the church and reception locations taken care of, I went looking for the ‘love themed favor,’ as it was called. I found the invitations I wanted in no time. The silver hearts linked together on the invitations looked so romantic. I messed up the writing on a couple of them, I’m so glad my mom suggested I buy extra just in case.
With the wedding invitations out of the way, I knew it was time to start on the wedding and reception supplies. I asked my mom to come along on my venture to the bridal shop for my dress and shoes. She was a big help, once she stopped crying at every gown I walked out in. After hitting every shop in town and checking out the many styles that were available, I found the perfect wedding dress for me. All the guys in the wedding party and the handsome groom found their tuxes on their very first try. I was praying that he wouldn’t give the appearance of a pall bearer standing at the altar, because he picked the first suit he tried on. But that wasn’t the case, he really looked fantastic.
Once our wedding party was taken care of, I needed to concentrate on how I wanted to decorate for our ceremony. I hung big red velvet bows at the end of the pews and made sure there were plenty of red roses arranged around the room and at the altar. I bought a gorgeous unity candle with a love theme and surrounded it with lots of other beautiful candles. I was given permission for the flower girl to toss the red and pink flower petals on the aisle. You have to have permission from churches now to follow that tradition, because many of them would rather you not throw things like petals on the aisles, thankfully, that wasn’t the case with our church. It was the perfect wedding ceremony and our church décor was absolutely lovely.
I had many more accessories to buy for our wedding reception than I did the ceremony. Our supplies for the reception started with love theme decorations with a love theme and ended with love wedding favors. The decorations were really quite romantic with hearts dangling from the ceiling and flowers everywhere. On the dance floor just in front of the band was a huge heart made of red and white balloons.
Our tables were so beautiful with all the lovely centerpieces of flowers and a little cupid in each one. Our little place card holders had beautiful little white pearls on them. There were some fantastic favors boxes to choose from for the love favors we bought for our friends and family. Our guests complimented us on our reception table décor and especially the little favor boxes. The bridal table was decorated pretty elaborately too. We were toasted with our lovely crystal heart champagne flutes and next to our wedding cake was our beautiful love cake serving set. But I think our three tiered wedding cake outshined everything on our table. For our cake topper I decided on these adorable little love birds. Everything on the wedding table was perfect, starting with our sparkling crystal all the way to the three tiered wedding cake.
Thanks to all the accessories and supplies I found online this wedding turned out to be absolutely perfect.
I got to the thank you notes for our guests as soon as we got back from our fabulous honeymoon. A lot of the guests sent thank you cards saying what a great time they had, and how much they appreciated the love party favors we bought for them. I think that was very thoughtful.