What better day for two people to marry than on Valentine’s day? We both wanted a Valentines day wedding. After we picked the church and the place for our reception, I started shopping for what they called the ‘in love favor.’ I found the invitations I wanted in no time. They were such pretty invitations with little silver hearts linked together on the front. Mom’s suggestion of buying extra invitations was really a good idea since I messed up two of them while writing them out.
With the wedding invitations out of the way, I knew it was time to start on the wedding and reception supplies. My mom went with me to find the most radiant wedding dress and shoes. Once she got past the tears at the first sight of every wedding dress I tried on, she was a big help. After hitting every shop in town and checking out the many styles that were available, I found the perfect wedding dress for me. It only took the groom to be and his groomsmen one stop to find their tuxes. 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 very nice.
After making sure the wedding party’s needs were handled, I started to work on decorations for the church 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 remarkable unity candle with a love theme and surrounded it with lots of other glowing candles. The church allowed me to have red and pink rose petals tossed down the aisle by our flower girl. 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. The wedding was fantastic and the decorations were gorgeous, it was the perfect wedding ceremony.
I had many more accessories to buy for our wedding reception than I did the ceremony. There was everything to buy from love themed reception decorations to in love favors for our guests. The decorations were really quite romantic with hearts dangling from the ceiling and flowers everywhere. We had a heart shaped arch made of red and white balloons placed on the dance floor where the band was playing.
The centerpieces we had made up for the reception tables had bouquets of flowers with a little cupid sticking out of each one. Our little place card holders had beautiful little white pearls on them. I packaged the beautiful love favors in favor boxes that were very decorative. Some guests were commenting on how lovely the tables were with all the flowers and the lovely 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 the most beautiful thing on our table was our lovely three tiered wedding cake. On top of our gorgeous cake sat a love birds cake topper. Our bridal table was so fantastic with the crystal glassware and the beautifully decorated wedding cake.
We had a picture perfect wedding and reception, thanks to all the accessories and supplies I found online.
As soon as the honeymoon was over, I began filling out thank you cards for our friends and family. Many of the guests sent us thank you’s for the great time they had at the wedding and reception and for the love party favors gifts they received. That was such a thoughtful thing to do.
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