What better day for two people to marry than on Valentine’s day? We both wanted a Valentines day wedding. 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.
Now that the invitations were on their way, it was time to do some major accessories shopping. 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. I finally found the wedding gown I was meant to wear and it only took seven or eight shops and 25 or maybe, 30 dress styles to try on. In the meantime, my fiance picked out his tux and so did the groomsmen at the first shop they went to. I half way expected him to be dressed like a pall bearer, since he took the first thing he looked at. 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. 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. I was given permission for the flower girl to toss the red and pink flower petals on the aisle. Most churches won’t allow that anymore, but ours was pretty nice about it. It was the perfect wedding ceremony and our church décor was absolutely lovely.
I thought there was a lot to buy for the ceremony, but there was a lot more to get for the reception. Our supplies for the reception started with love theme decorations with a love theme and ended with love wedding favors. There were bouquets of red roses placed everywhere and little red hearts hung from above. 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 place card holders were covered with gorgeous little white pearls. I also found very decorative favor boxes for the love favors we had for our guests. Some guests were commenting on how lovely the tables were with all the flowers and the lovely favor boxes. Our wedding table looked gorgeous 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. For our cake topper I decided on these adorable little love birds. Our bridal table was so fantastic with the crystal glassware and the beautifully decorated 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. 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. That was such a thoughtful thing to do.