Valentine’s day can be the perfect wedding 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 had no problem finding the perfect invitations for our wedding and reception. They were such pretty invitations with little silver hearts linked together on the front. I messed up the writing on a couple of them, I’m so glad my mom suggested I buy extra just in case.

With the wedding invitations out of the way, I knew it was time to start on the wedding and reception supplies. I asked my mom to come along on my venture to the bridal shop for my dress and shoes. When she finally stopped tearing up after I tried on a few dresses, she was very helpful. 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 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.

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 also had lots of candles around the altar, including our love themed unity candle. The church allowed me to have red and pink rose petals tossed down the aisle by our flower girl. 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 thought there was a lot to buy for the ceremony, but there was a lot more to get for the reception. There was everything to buy from love themed reception decorations to in love favors for our guests. 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. 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. Everyone commented on how lovely their reception tables were and the little favor boxes too. Our bridal wedding table was really exquisite too. There were crystal heart champagne flutes for our wedding toast, and an absolutely gorgeous love themed cake serving set. But the most beautiful thing on our table was our lovely three tiered wedding cake. For the crowning glory of our cake I chose a love birds cake topper. Everything on the wedding table was perfect, starting with our sparkling crystal all the way to the three tiered 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. 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. That was truly very thoughtful of them.