Valentine’s day can be the perfect wedding day. We both wanted a Valentines day wedding. I went shopping for our ‘love themed favor‘ 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.
Now that the invitations were on their way, it was time to do some major accessories shopping. 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.
After I took care of everything the wedding party needed, it was time to consider ceremony decorations. 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 able to have red and pink rose petals for the flower girl, which I had to get permission for from the church. There’s a lot of churches that frown on that tradition, but luckily ours isn’t one of them. It was the perfect wedding ceremony and our church décor was absolutely lovely.
Even though I did quite a bit of shopping for our wedding ceremony, there was even more to do for our reception. Our supplies for the reception started with love theme decorations with a love theme and ended with in love wedding favors. There were bouquets of red roses placed everywhere and little red hearts hung from above. In front of the band was red and white balloons in the shape of a large heart, right on the dance floor.
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. We were toasted with our lovely crystal heart champagne flutes and next to our wedding cake was our beautiful love cake serving set. But the most beautiful thing on our table was our lovely three tiered wedding cake. On top of our gorgeous cake sat a love birds cake topper. Our bridal table was so fantastic with the crystal glassware and the beautifully decorated wedding cake.
We had a picture perfect wedding and reception, thanks to all the accessories and supplies I found online.
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. I think that was very thoughtful.