Archive for April, 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The wedding bells rang, rose petals were being tossed and our friends and family were yelling their congratulations as we left the church for our limo ride to the reception. That was the type of wedding ceremony we had. There was such a wonderful collection of accessories to help plan our wedding and make our ceremony so perfect. We had the best in wedding accessories and reception supplies to make it all a dream come true.
Starting with the invitations and ending with the perfect little thank you gifts, they had it all. The silver print was a lovely touch to our invitations. I also ordered from this fantastic choice of accesssories, the ring bearer pillow and flower girl basket, which came as a set. It came in a beautiful garnet, and there was also a guestbook and pen set, and a very lovely wedding garter. Five items bought as a group, that cost a lot less than you would think.
They also had an aisle runner I really liked, so I ordered that to my list of wedding supplies. The process of selecting bell wedding was really a great one. As soon as the wedding ceremony ended and we were leaving the church all the guests rang their little bells in celebration of our union. It was really a unique idea.
I bought accessories online for our reception as well as our ceremony. There was a marvelous selection of reception accessories to pick from. I wanted our reception tables to shine with elegance, so the first thing I ordered were the crystal toasting flutes. There were twisted stemmed flutes which I ordered for our guests and a special toasting flute set I ordered especially for the bride and groom for our table. Wedding bells favors really made our tables shine with elegance, and I thought it would be a nice gift for our guests as a little something extra to show our appreciation.
There were so many lovely accessories, that I really wanted to buy them all, but that would have been going a little overboard on the décor. Glass coasters was our choice of wedding favor gifts for our guests. Each set of coasters had a special calla lilie design. I found the perfect little silver favor boxes with thank you tags to package the wedding favors in. The shiny gift boxes added that extra sparkle to our guests tables. I purchased flowers and ordered some beautiful candles to make into our centerpieces for the reception tables.
On a smaller table at the of our long table, was our fantastically designed wedding cake. Chocolate and cherries three tiers high with a very lovely cake topper resting on top. I really fell in love with the cake topper I bought, with it’s attractive little ribbon made into a bow at the bottom of the heart with calla lilies added. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect wedding and reception. We had so many photos of the wedding ceremony and reception that I went back online and ordered a second wedding photo album. There were several pictures of us cutting the wedding cake and feeding that first piece to each other. I have pictures of our friends and family, the ring boy and flower girl on the dance floor together and our first dance as husband and wife.
I’m so glad everyone had such a wonderful time, and I received so many compliments on the decorations of the wedding and reception. I plan on having another wedding ceremony and reception for our anniversary one year and I was so glad to hear that my wonderful husband thinks that’s a fantastic idea.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
We had a lovely little communion party for our daughter. I planned on giving our guests lovely communion favors to mark this special party. The gifts in the shops I went to just didn’t strike my fancy. Then I thought about going online to shop for party favors. There were a lot of religious themed items that I chose for the tables, like these beautiful cross decorated votive candles. I chose decorative tins filled with candy for the grown ups and the children received candies packaged in adorable little teddy bear containers as their first communion party favors. As extra party favors I ordered these really sweet religious picture frames with a silver cross. I liked them so much, I bought two more for myself.
It was almost like we were looking for her wedding dress, instead of a dress for her communion. I know that before long she’ll be walking down the aisle on her wedding day. Her beautiful dress and veil made her look so much like a miniature bride. I guess in a way when you are planning a communion party it’s a little bit like planning a wedding reception. We had a cake decorated for the occasion, hired a band and made a buffet of different foods for the guests. We tried to keep things as simple as possible but at the same time show her how proud we were of her and make this a day she’ll never forget. With all the pictures we took at her communion party, I’m so glad we decided to make the pink photo album an extra little communion gift for her. We didn’t have a caterer or anything real fancy, it was all home cooked food and some of the other moms helped with preparing the meal. We had fried chicken, potato salad, vegetables and a few different types of salads. Our family and some of our closest friends enjoyed this wonderful afternoon with us. It turned out to be a very nice evening and everyone seemed to have a good time, including our daughter. Her father and I had her name engraved on a beautiful gold cross we ordered for her, and there were many wonderful communion gifts she received from our guests, too.
I couldn’t help but feel that this was a practice run for her wedding and reception. Someday, not too far away, we’ll be filling out invitations and picking out wedding accessories together. When she’s ready to start planning her wedding and reception, I’ll know the perfect place for her to go shopping. I’ll go to the same place I bought our decorations and communion party favor, right here on my computer. I know she’ll be able to find just about any kind of wedding accessories and favors she needs for her wedding day. There is even more than communions and weddings to check out too. In fact, I saved this particular site to my desktop, because there are also quite a few suggestions for birthdays and graduations. If you are planning a bachelorette party, or a shower for a bride to be, or maybe you want to throw a baby shower for a close friend or family member, if so, this is the place to find all of your accessories. You can choose from many themed ceremonies and receptions like oceanside weddings, or seasonal ones like winter wonderland and my particular favorite, western themed receptions. You will also find great selections of themed shower accessories, special birthday party themes and a lot of more choices for the kind of party you plan to have. I am sure this online store will come in handy many times over in my household.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
There was an excellent choice of wedding accessories to choose from. I purchased almost all of the wedding and reception supplies from them. But when I was looking for the bridesmaid gifts, I couldn’t make up my mind which of the lovely items would be the best. They had a fantastic list of gifts to say thank you to my bridesmaids. Buying the groomsmen gifts didn’t seem to be half as hard for my fiance. He got them all a special little shot glass as their thank you gifts. But I have to revisit the site everyday and check them all out again to try and pick out the best one.
I thought about ordering the beautiful jewelry boxes they have to offer, then I would see the gorgeous bracelet and start thinking about that gift. Thank goodness it was much easier picking out our items for the ceremony and reception party. My mind was already made up on the supplies and accessories. I got all the bridal accessories I needed for our lovely fall themed wedding. All the accessories had the lovely autumn colors to add to the fall motif. There were even flower girl baskets and ring bearer pillows that came in an autumn motif. I ordered everything from the flower basket to an aisle runner.
There reception ideas for fall accessories were really sensational. There were place cards and holders, wedding favor boxes and some of the most beautiful wedding favor gifts I’ve ever seen. Our friends and family are going to love the favors we bought for them. But I also ordered one for me as a little momento of our special wedding day. I never knew glass coasters could be so lovely as the ones I chose for the wedding favors. I also bought our wedding cake topper from there and had no problem picking out the one I liked the best. I really loved the gorgeous storybook toppers, but I chose a lovely glass heart with our names on it. If I were having a fairytale wedding though, I know exactly which topper I would have chosen. I simply fell in love with the castle topper. It was really special and would have fit right in with a storybook themed wedding.
I couldn’t understand why I was having such a hard time picking out a nice cheap bridesmaid gift, when it was so easy to choose my wedding and reception supplies. I was even able to get some of our accessories at wholesale prices. There were cheap bridesmaid gifts that looked expensive, but was very reasonably priced. After a while I shortened my list of possiblities down to two. On one hand I had the idea of the jewelry boxes and on the other was the lovely designed bracelets. So now the debate was on with just the two gifts to choose from, and that took another week or so. After a very long debate with myself and a couple of more trips to the wedding accessory site, I made up my mind. I decided to buy both. I decided my bridesmaids were getting two thank you gifts from us, the jewelry box and the bracelet. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s not as if they cost us a fortune or anything and my girls deserve the very best.
I was so happy that our wedding day turned out to be so perfect. Our wedding ceremony was absolutely filled with all the romance and beauty any bride could have wanted, and we all had a wonderful time at the reception. I got a lot of compliments on our fall wedding décor and our guests seemed to like the wedding favors we chose for them. The groomsmen liked the shot glasses and my girls said they loved the bridesmaids gifts we had for them too. This was the best day of my life.
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
I looked at a lot of wedding options before I decided I wanted to have a themed wedding and reception. All I had to do now, was decide which theme I wanted to go with. I took a look at the country western theme, and it seemed like it would be a lot of fun. I thought maybe we could have an old fashioned barn dance at the reception. We were having our wedding during the hot summer months, so a beach themed wedding sounded pretty great. We could party and swim until the sun sets on the beautiful blue water. It was a never ending list of possibilities for themed weddings and receptions. And they had every accessory online from decorations to a wedding cake server to match every theme. All the themed suggestions were quite unique, but it was the fairytale theme that I liked the best.
Once I estabished that I was going with the storybook idea, I started looking for accessories and supplies. Of course the very first thing to do is get the invitations for our friends and family. After that I went on to the wedding décor and the other accessories I would need. I wanted a wedding fit for Cinderella. I started with the decorations for the church ceremony. We used satin bows on the end of each pew row and draped a tulle swag from row to row. There were flowers in tall vases placed around the altar and taper candles in fairy tale themed candle holders on each side of our beautiful unity candle.
We had a beautiful wedding guestbook in the front hall of the church which our friends and family all signed when they came in. This was the most beautiful storybook wedding ceremony I could have ever wished for. The flower girl was so cute, and the ring boy looked very handsome as they perfectly performed their duties at the ceremony. As anyone knows, when Cinderella and Prince Charming married they didn’t leave the castle in a limo, they rode in a carriage, and that’s what we did.
All the tables at the reception were sparkling with crystal and silver and the entire reception hall was lavishly decorated with flowers. Every table in the reception hall had gorgeous crystal champagne flutes with decorated stems to go with our storybook theme. Little castle place card holders were placed at every guests table. I filled adorable carriage designed favor boxes with little candies for each place setting at the reception.
All the reception tables looked elegant, but the wedding table of the bride and groom outshined them all. It was a table fit for a king and his queen. At the end of our wedding table, was the wedding cake table, with our beautiful five tier cake and gorgeous storybook topper. They have everything where I bought our reception supplies, even the perfect wedding cake topper in a storybook theme for our gorgeous cake. I saw a gorgeous wedding knife in a storybook theme with a very decorative handle. I wanted the complete wedding cake knife set instead of just a plain knife because I wanted it to be special. The knife set just added to the décor of our wedding cake and topper.
As soon as the bridal toast and the best man’s speech was over, my husband and I had our first dance as husband and wife. We danced to our favorite song, “I Swear” by all for one. Other couples came up to dance as soon as the next song began. With all the photos that were taken, my storybook wedding album will be filled with memories in no time. Many of our friends and family commented on what lovely storybook favors we had given them as gifts.
Our wedding and reception was truly unbelievable and I know now that fairytales can come true.
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
When my fiance and I set the date for our wedding, I started planning and shopping for all my accessories and wedding supplies, right away. I’m an online shopaholic, so, my first course of action was to hit the web. I’m glad I did too, with all they had to offer there was no problem finding everything I needed to plan the perfect wedding and reception. From invitations to fantastic wedding favors gifts for our guests, they had it all.
We decided that a lovely theme wedding would be what we would like, and the theme we chose was a beach theme. We’ve always lived near the water, even as kids and it has been a favorite place of ours and our friends for years.
So the first thing I did was to order the beach themed wedding invitations and get them in the mail as soon as possible. All the guests we invited said they would be there and that they can hardly wait to watch us walk down the aisle. With that out of the way it was time to start looking for all of my bridal accessories I would need. I was surprised at all the wholesale bridal accessories they carried for weddings and receptions, and I shop online quite a bit. The first thing ordered was the exquisite hair comb and tiara to wear on my wedding day. The wedding jewelry I found was just as gorgeous as the hair accessories I chose. I ordered a beautiful necklace and earring set that looked absolutely fantastic with my gown. It had little pearls and crystals entertwined and gave such a luxurious sparkle to my ensemble.
There was so much in the way of a bridal hair accessory that was absolutely exquisite, and the best part was, it wasn’t all that expensive. I ordered some things for our honeymoon too. Even though we were getting married on the beach, I insisted on a floor length wedding dress. There were satin summer dresses for my bridesmaids and my flower girl, that had a knee length hemline. They all looked so lovely in their wedding attire.
There were tiki torches and those little white christmas lights everywhere and a dance floor my fiance had fixed there. On the reception tables there were seashells and starfish scattered about and place card holders that were adorable little sailboats. I didn’t want to give our guests some useless wedding favor that would be stuck in a drawer and forgotten, so we gave them beach themed picture frames as thank you gifts. I think they all liked the frames as much as I did.
On the bride and groom table were our toasting flutes, lovely candles in their beach theme holders and lots of lovely tealights. All the supplies and accessories for our wedding reception was decorated in an oceanside motif, and so was our cake topper. Our topper was a bride and groom taking a walk along the beach. I’m so glad they had all the supplies and bridal accessories we needed to plan the perfect beach wedding and reception. For those that weren’t into seafood, we made sure we had plenty of steaks and chicken for them. Everyone danced, ate and just had a fantastic time. If it wasn’t for going on our honeymoon, I never would have left our terrific beach party.
After we returned from our honeymoon, I had to get down to writing all the thank you notes to our guests. That was a day I’ll always remember and I’ll have lots of photos in my beach wedding album to look at and relive again and again.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
I was planning a birthday party for my daughter, who was turning sixteen and needed some suggestions. A friend of mine said she went online and found a lot of accessories and party favors for her daughters party. So, I decided to check it out. It was surprising to find so many ideas for party supplies for the tables and little gifts. There were a lot of accessories I found that would be perfect for her party. There were cookie cutters I used to make cookies in the shape of the number 16 for her guests.
Since it was her birthday, I let her decide what she wanted and she decided to party at the roller rink and have her friends stay overnight. So I made the arrangements, and reserved tables with the roller rink in our neighborhood. I sent all of her girl friends special party invitations. It didn’t cost as much as I thought it would. Refreshments, pizza and hot dogs were also part of the package, and didn’t cost very much at all. The party was to continue at our house after the skating, so I had to get everything ready. I put up decorations, fixed a table with a few goodies to snack on, along with the sweet 16 cookies I prepared earlier.
When I was searching the web for birthday ideas, I ordered a few other things besides the cookie cutters. Since I saved money on the roller rink deal, I decided it would be nice to get the girls a few sweet sixteen favors. I found pink photo albums for the girls and gave each of them a disposable camera for party pictures. Everyone got a camera before we went to the roller rink party, but no one got an album until later that evening. Even though they took a lot of photos at the roller rink, they all saved some picture taking for the sleepover.
I also bought each of them little cosmetic bags with their initials on the front. The cosmetic bags were just the beginning, I also bought manicure sets and purse mirrors for each of the girls. Each of the girls also received a very decorative favor box filled with candies. At home, her sweet sixteen party favor and presents awaited, and we took care of that as soon as we got there. So, with all the other snack foods, soft drinks and the chick flicks we picked up on the way home, they were a bunch of happy campers. After they got tired of dancing to their favorite tunes, they decided to give make overs and manicures to each other. From all the noise and laughing you knew they were having the time of their lives.
After they tired themselves out, they decided to put on a movie and grab the popcorn. I tried to stay out of their way as much as possible and just let them have a good time, but they asked me if I wanted to watch a movie with them. I thought that was so sweet of them to ask. They actually made it through the first two movies before they started nodded off, one by one. Soon, the only ones awake were me and my daughter, but she didn’t last much longer. Just before she closed her eyes, she let me know how much she appreciated her super birthday party.
The next morning the girls were up before I was and had already had their breakfast and cleaned up from last nights festivities. I thought that was very thoughtful of them to do that for me. Most of the girls went home after a couple hours of hanging out with my daughter. They told me they had a super time and they thought the sweet sixteen ideas were really cool. I like that my daughter and her friends now consider me to be a cool mom.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Planning an outside wedding wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. In fact, it didn’t cost as much as an indoor wedding would have cost us. Since we had the beauty of nature all around us, it wasn’t too expensive to decorate. I checked out a lot of places to have our summer wedding and reception. Instead of having our wedding ceremony and reception on the beach or in a garden, I chose to have it in the park. I found several perfect parks that would work fine for our wedding day.
Since I never planned a wedding like this before, I needed all the help I could get. When you plan to be married in the great outdoors, it seems you have to have a backup plan just in case the weather turns from sunny to pouring buckets. So we arranged to have a tent set up to move the ceremony into if necessary, just as a precaution.
We had canopies arranged for our reception and barring bad weather, planned to be wed under a lovely trellis. The only real decorations I needed were those for my wedding table and the guests reception tables. With the park as our main theme, I basically had to make sure I had our table settings and maybe throw in a few extra bouquets of flowers. I decided to go with artificial flowers because I didn’t want to have our wedding to be the target of a bee swarm. The flowers were absolutely gorgeous and didn’t look artificial at all. Planning this wedding wasn’t all that hard, but there was a little more than I expected. Like, making sure there were citronella candles all around, rest rooms close by and making sure our cake was kept cool until ready to be cut.
There was a variety of accessories available for the outdoor reception. As centerpieces for our reception tables I used citronella votive candles and place them in glass globes with flowers around them, and used park bench place card holders for each guest. For each of our guests there were beautiful chrome bottle openers in lovely designed favor boxes, as a summer wedding favor. For our wedding table, of course, was our fabulous wedding cake with a very unique wedding cake topper.
I saw this cake topper when I was checking out all the wedding accessories they had to offer, and I knew this was the topper I wanted. They were especially customized for the bride and groom. All I had to do was send in a head shot picture of me and my fiance and they custom made a bride and groom cake topper with our faces. Talk about the best wedding keepsake you can get. Our friends and family were really loved the cake topper and gave us a lot of compliments on it. Our crystal champagne flutes and silver cake serving set was just a few of the fantastic accessories I ordered for our ceremony and reception. You wouldn’t believe all the nice accessories you can buy online.
It was the perfect wedding and reception, just like I had hoped for. Thank goodness the weather stayed perfect throughout the entire ceremony and reception and we never had to put plan B into action. The DJ we hired was really exceptional and I’m sure that the music played on long after my new husband and I left for our honeymoon. A lot of good things were said about our wedding ceremony and everyone said they had a fantastic time at the reception. The park turned out to be the perfect place to have our wedding and reception. I’d love to do this again and have a wedding renewal in the park, maybe for an anniversary, someday.
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
I went right to my computer and started ordering from the same place I bought all the bridal shower decorations and favors from. I turned on my computer and started ordering supplies online as I did for my wedding accessories. There you can find so many party items and great ideas if you are planning a party. So I went online and started picking out all of the baby shower favors supplies and decorations I could find. I found many good suggestion there. I ordered all of the accessories and decorations I needed and as soon as they were delivered, I started decorating. All tables was set up with baby in mind. My every baby guest had his own cute baby box filled wuth candies and one adorable teddy bear card holder with his name on the card. My guests complimented me on how lovley my tables looked with all the decorations and accessories. In honor of the mother to be, I ordered a chocolate cake and of course set up a buffet with different kind of snacks and candies. Just for my unborn niece, I decorated the cake with pink icing and other small cake decorations. I had these really cute baby blocks as the cake topper. I was proud of my cake and the decorations I chose, it looked so perfect.
The baby bootie candles I chose as baby shower favor ideas were the perfect gift. I was really impressed with the supplies I bought, and the cute little baby gifts I bought from there too. I ordered a pink baby photo album, baby blankets and an adorable pink layette set. One of the best things about buying online is that it’s so easy and convenient, not to mention the money I saved. There was everything I needed in baby shower supplies for the perfect party, and I only had to place my order. I was even able to order a baby bingo game for the party.I bought the bingo game for kids from there too. There is just so many great selections for a baby shower.
We had so much fun with the games and everything, and my guests seemed to like the baby shower party favor I got for them. We had a lot of laughs together as we watched her open all the baby gifts and played silly games. One of the best games we played required filling baby bottles with something to drink. Then when someone saids go, each person must drink from their baby bottle until it’s empty and the first one done wins the game. I also had everyone give me a picture of them when they were babies and pinned them on a board. Then each person had to try and match the baby with the adult. The prize went to whoever had the most matches. I bought all the prizes the same place I bought all of my fantastic party accessories. I found the cutest picture frames, candles and soaps that I decided would make the perfect little prizes for our games.
There was a fantastic selection to choose from, for everything you need from weddings to baby showers. They also had accessories and supplies for graduation and birthday parties too.
You must wonder how I know about this site for baby showers and their great selection of accessories? Well, I saw all they had when I ordered my accessories and decorations for my wedding.
They’ve got some great wedding supplies, for almost any type of wedding and reception you can imagine. They have accessories and supplies for many themed weddings too, even for destination weddings. Doing online shopping was one of the best decision I ever made. I wouldn’t go anywhere else for party supplies.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
I thought online shopping would be a good idea to get a wedding guest book pen and other reception supplies. I was right – there were so many options, not just on styles and colors but on weddings as well! They had a lot of themes for weddings and receptions that you could choose from, that I really liked. Our wedding date is set for January, so I was thinking about having a winter wonderland ceremony and reception. When I think of a Christmas wedding ceremony, with a tree and decorations, I almost which we had chosen December as our wedding date. But a winter wedding is gorgeous too, at least all the accessories I’ve seen were. A winter wedding was the one I chose. Next I had to get everything together for my beautiful wedding.
First I found the perfect winter wonderland wedding invitations to send to our friends and family. Next, I picked out the accessories for our ceremony, including the ring pillow and flower basket. I was thinking I had everything for our winter wedding I could possibly need, but I found out that I had forgotten something. The wedding guestbook and wedding pen completely slip my mind. So, back through the wedding accessories I went and checked out all the winter wedding guest books and wedding pen sets they had, and found the perfect one for us. Our wedding guest book had little snowflakes and hints of blue and little crystals placed on it. There were also the wedding pens to match with our guestbook. Since I was looking for the perfect guest book and pen, I decided to choose our photo album too. Not only did they have a great selection of wedding albums, but some pretty nice anniversary albums too. I planned to keep this in mind for future references.
It was time now, to check out ideas for decorating our reception and getting our supplies. They had it all as far as winter wonderland wedding supplies, and the first thing I bought for the reception were the champagne flutes, designed to match our wedding guest book and pen. They were so fantastic looking. The glassware, gel candles and lovely winter centerpieces I chose really made our tables look spectacular. We were also able to get quite a few accessories and supplies at a discount and save money on our wedding expenses, which really helped us out. I was surprised at what little we paid for such exquisite accessories.
They have a terrific selection of wedding toppers for you to pick from. Our cake topper showed a bride and groom in a whimsical winter activity. Our wedding cake was a five tiered with white sugar snowflakes and winter designs of icy blue and reds. This beautiful winter wedding cake was displayed on a silver sled cake stand. Our sled cake stand got a lot of compliments from our friends and family and I had to thank my fiance for that creative suggestion.
On our the reception tables for our friends and family I had chosen these adorable little snowmen place card holders. We gave our guests little snowflake gel candles as wedding favor thank you gifts. One of the prettiest decorations to the reception table was the gorgeous snowflake boxes the wedding favors were boxed in for our friends and family. They really added to the winter décor of the reception tables. The wedding favor pens went over surprisingly well, and everyone really had a wonderful time at the reception. The wedding ceremony and the winter reception was everything I wanted it to be, and I’m so glad I decided to give the online shopping a try. It gave me a lot of help for planning the décor.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
After it was decided that we were going to have a beach wedding, I went shopping for accessories and supplies with a beach theme in mind. First things first, I bought our beach themed wedding invitations. Since I had a couple of invitations I had to do over again, I was really glad I bought extra. Now that the invitations were in the mail, it was time to find my beautiful beach wedding dress. With all the selections of beautiful beach dresses and wedding gowns, I had a difficult time deciding what I wanted to wear. The full length bridal gowns were so beautiful, but I was afraid they may be too uncomfortable for a beach wedding. I found a beautiful beaded knee length dress made of light weight materials of satin and lace, with spaghetti straps for my wedding.
Linen beach dresses with a crocheted halter covering was what I chose for my bridesmaids. My handsome groom wore a sky blue linen shirt and white linen pants and his groomsmen wore white linen shirts with sand colored linen pants. The little ring boy wore a white cotton shirt and khaki shorts, and our flower girl was so cute in a light fabric sundress. All of the wedding party looked great in their wedding attire and the flower arrangements for our bouquets were the most gorgeous I’ve ever seen.
I kept thinking how I should have bought two leather wedding albums, because I wanted lots of pictures of our wonderful beach wedding and reception. I want pictures of everything and everyone at our wedding, all the gorgeous decorations, and our lovely reception. Pictures of our satin canopy and flowered arch where we stood to take our vows was a definite must. When the ceremony was over, my new husband and I went to our hotel room to change into some more comfortable beach outfits. Some of the bridesmaids and groomsmen wore their swim wear under their wedding clothes, and some went home to change. The guests were informed on the invitations to wear casual clothing.
Our reception was such a big success, and everyone complimented us on our gorgeous wedding accessories and how lovely all of our tables were. I bought everything for our tables at the same place I bought our lovely beach themed wedding album. The little beach chairs I found worked out perfectly as place card holders and they made great little picture frames too. I think our friends and family thought they were cute, I know I did. The beach wedding favors I chose for our guests made the perfect little thank you gifts. We bought them little tea lights in the shape of sand castles to represent our oceanside reception. I found everything we needed, as far as accessories and decorations, for our wedding table and our guests reception tables. Not only did I find the perfect wedding cake topper, but I also bought their beach themed crystal flutes, wine glasses, cake serving set and so much more.
There were a lot of nice comments made by our guests on how lovely everything looked. I added some tiki torches everywhere and put gel candles on all of our guests wedding reception tables to help add a touch of atmosphere to everything. Planning this beach wedding and reception was a lot easier than I thought it would be, with all the accessories and supplies they had. Everything was like a dream come true, with the beautiful ocean waves and the warm summer sands as our wedding chapel and reception location.
Every once in a while I take out our beach themed professional wedding album and remember our special day.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
I knew there were a lot of wedding supplies needed when planning a wedding and reception, but I never realized just how much. I’m glad I listened to the girls at work, when they told me I better start my wedding shopping right away. I was more concerned with the dresses, tuxedos and wedding party attire, I never realized that would be the easy part. I found out there is much more to planning the wedding than just the attire. The first thing I bought was our unique wedding invitations for our very unique country western wedding and reception. With my discount wedding supplies list in hand, I’d take it one item at a time, and then mark it off. Country themed decorations were the first thing on my reception supply list. First I checked online, through the suggestion of a friend, before starting a store to store search for everything. It worked out better than I thought it would, there were quite a few selections to choose from.
Who knew that if you shopped online for wedding accessories for themed weddings that there were be so many great ideas, not just for my country themed wedding, but for many others too. The adorable place card holders I chose really looked super on our reception tables. The little barbecue grills were the ideal place card holders for a reception that was having a cookout too.
The wildflowers in metal campfire cups with western garland made perfect country type centerpieces. There were really super wedding supply for our wedding guests included in all the wedding reception supplies. In the wedding accessories selection were some super cowboys hats for the bride and groom that I ordered. I ordered the lovely western champagne flutes for the wedding toast that they had, too. I also had them hang white christmas lights all around the reception area and scatter a few old western type lanterns here and there. Our wedding table was pretty cool too, with our gorgeous wedding cake and it’s western themed cake topper. With all the themed accessories and decorations for the reception and the tables, anyone could pull off the perfect western wedding. I also bought a cake knife set, tiny little cowboy hats, my wedding album, and wedding guest book and pen set all in a country western theme. I got everything for my western themed wedding and reception accessories by browsing the web, and it was all so easy to do.
Obviously I couldn’t get the bales of hay, large barbecue grills and a few other things like that online, so I did have to do a little store shopping. Actually my fiance and his best friend picked up those items for me. They even made a super dance floor for the reception. Along with the super cool floor to dance on and a country band that sounded great, we had all kinds of fantastic food to eat. There was all kinds of meat for barbecuing, like chicken, steaks, ribs and more, plus lots of different salads too. We all had a lot of fun.
I got a lot of compliments on our western décor idea, from some of our guests. I’m so glad I went online searching for wedding accessories and decoration ideas. The convenience of sitting at home and shopping, then ordering my choices,and just waiting for delivery was the best part of all. I had no time to go from store to store looking for all the accessories I needed, this way was so much better. What was really a big help was the fact that I was able to find a lot of discount wedding supplies from their great selection. If you’re planning a wedding and reception, then I advise you to check out what there is to offer online.
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Valentine’s day can be the perfect wedding day. We both agreed that Valentines day would be our wedding day. I went shopping for our ‘wedding favor love‘ just as soon as we had all the arrangements for the church and our reception taken care of. It didn’t take me long to find some very romantic wedding invitations for our ceremony. 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 and I went shopping for my bridal dress and shoes, together. 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. In the meantime, my fiance picked out his tux and so did the groomsmen at the first shop they went to. 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. The altar was covered in candle light and I found the most beautiful themed unity candle for our ceremony. 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. Everything went off without a hitch and the decorations were as perfect as our wedding ceremony.
Even though I did quite a bit of shopping for our wedding ceremony, there was even more to do for our reception. There was everything to buy from love themed reception decorations to falling in love favors for our guests. 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. The little white pearls on the place card holders really added to the love décor of the tables. 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. 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.
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. That was such a thoughtful thing to do.
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