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.