What better day for two people to marry than on Valentine’s day? We both wanted a Valentines day wedding. I went shopping for our ‘in love favor‘ just as soon as we had all the arrangements for the church and our reception taken care of. I had no problem finding the perfect invitations for our wedding and reception. 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.
It was time to start thinking about my wedding accessories and reception supplies, since I’ve got the invitations mailed out. I asked my mom to come along on my venture to the bridal shop for my 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. All the guys in the wedding party and the handsome groom found their tuxes on their very first try. I half way expected him to be dressed like a pall bearer, since he took the first thing he looked at. 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 also had lots of candles around the altar, including our love themed unity candle. The church allowed me to have red and pink rose petals tossed down the aisle by our flower girl. There’s a lot of churches that frown on that tradition, but luckily ours isn’t one of them. The wedding was fantastic and the decorations were gorgeous, it was the perfect wedding ceremony.
I thought there was a lot to buy for the ceremony, but there was a lot more to get for the reception. I started with the love themed decorations and worked my way onto in love favors for our guests thank you gifts. 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. 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. Our guests complimented us on our reception table décor and especially the little favor boxes. Our wedding table looked gorgeous too. There were crystal heart champagne flutes for our wedding toast, and an absolutely gorgeous love themed cake serving set. But the most beautiful thing on our table was our lovely three tiered wedding cake. For our cake topper I decided on these adorable little love birds. Our wedding table was exquisitely decorated, from the gorgeous crystal to our magnificent wedding cake.
Thanks to all the accessories and supplies I found online this wedding turned out to be absolutely perfect.
After my husband and I returned from our honeymoon, I got started on all the thank you notes for our guests. 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.