I think Valentine’s day is the best day for a wedding. We both agreed that Valentines day would be our wedding day. After we picked the church and the place for our reception, I started shopping for what they called the ‘love favor.’ It didn’t take me long to find some very romantic wedding invitations for our ceremony. The silver hearts linked together on the invitations looked so romantic. I’m glad I listened to my mom and bought extra wedding invitations, because while writing them out I made a few mistakes.
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. When she finally stopped tearing up after I tried on a few dresses, she was very helpful. 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. Since he wasn’t too choosy about his wedding attire, I was a little worried that he’d look more like a pall bearer than a groom. But I was wrong, he did good, and he looked extremely handsome.
Once our wedding party was taken care of, I needed to concentrate on how I wanted to decorate for our ceremony. Since this was a valentines day wedding, there were lots of gorgeous red roses, ribbons and big velvet bows on each row of pews. I also had lots of candles around the altar, including our love themed unity candle. 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. 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. I started with the love themed decorations and worked my way onto love themed favors for our guests thank you gifts. There were bouquets of red roses placed everywhere and little red hearts hung from above. 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. The little white pearls on the place card holders really added to the love décor of the tables. 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. Along with our love themed cake serving set were beautiful crystal heart champagne flutes, perfect for the bride and grooms toasting. But I think our three tiered wedding cake outshined everything on our table. On top of our gorgeous cake sat a love birds cake topper. Our wedding table was exquisitely decorated, from the gorgeous crystal to our magnificent 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. 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.