What better day for two people to marry than on Valentine’s day? We both wanted a Valentines day wedding. After we picked the church and the place for our reception, I started shopping for what they called the ‘fall in love favor.’ I found the invitations I wanted in no time. They were such pretty invitations with little silver hearts linked together on the front. 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. My mom went with me to find the perfect wedding dress and wedding shoes. She was a big help, once she stopped crying at every gown I walked out in. 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. 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 that wasn’t the case, he really looked fantastic.
After making sure the wedding party’s needs were handled, I started to work on decorations for the church 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 bought a gorgeous unity candle with a love theme and surrounded it with lots of other beautiful candles. 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. It was the perfect wedding ceremony and our church décor was absolutely lovely.
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 in love favors for our guests thank you gifts. I had beautiful red roses all around the room and hearts hanging from the ceiling. We had a heart shaped arch made of red and white balloons placed on the dance floor where the band was playing.
Our tables were so beautiful with all the lovely centerpieces of flowers and a little cupid in each one. Our little place card holders had beautiful little white pearls on them. There were some fantastic favors boxes to choose from for the love favors we bought for our friends and family. Some guests were commenting on how lovely the tables were with all the flowers and the lovely favor boxes. Our bridal wedding table was really exquisite too. Along with our love themed cake serving set were beautiful crystal heart champagne flutes, perfect for the bride and grooms toasting. The wedding cake was by far the most beautiful thing 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.
Shopping online for all the accessories and supplies made this wedding the perfection of glamour and elegance.
After my husband and I returned from our honeymoon, I got started on all the thank you notes for our guests. I also received a few thank you’s from our friends and family telling us how much they enjoyed the wedding and reception and how much they liked their little love party favors. I think that was very thoughtful.