June 17th, 2009
No matter what kind of wedding you’re holding, you find more excellent possibilities for products to puchase than you can even imagine. There is even an abundance of suggestions for all types of weddings these days too, from themed seasonal to fairytale, and ethnic to a country hoedown style. Today, there really are no limits to what you can do for your wedding day. For their wedding day, a man and his beautiful bride have a ton of choices. There are even some pretty fantastic destination wedding and honeymoon ideas to go with also. You will have to purchase quite a few things in order to hold your wedding, regardless of the type of theme of style you decide to go with. What I decided to do was go on the Internet and check out what it had to offer in terms of the products and supplies that I would need for the day I got married. I saved money by not limiting myself exclusively to the bridal stores in the area, and it saved me some headaches, too. By going online, I found personalized glass wedding favors, invitations for our guests, and just about anything else you can think of.
There were also pretty awesome crystal wedding favors to choose from. There were these really neat crystal perfume bottles that you could put on a keychain and carry with you everywhere you go. I thought that might make great crystal favors for the ladies. There was also crystal swans that I found to be exquisitely gorgeous and even thought about how nice that would look in my bathroom on the vanity. I think the hardest part is trying to pick just one favor out of the list of suggestions they have. There is just so many ways to go when it comes to choosing the right thank you gifts for your friends and family.My fiance kinda leaned towards the glass favors for the guys. He liked the shot glasses and the beer mugs that you could get personalized for your guests. He thought the guys would probably like that as their thank you gifts. Also he liked the mini tool gadget he found at the online shopping store. It has all kinds of tools and is about the size of a pocket knife. We finally made our decision, and I went with the crystal swans for the ladies and he chose the pocket mini too gadget for the guys, he also bought one for himself. I guess it is a pretty handy thing to have. This online store we shopped at has just about anything you can think of and they have some super prices and bargains. There are even discount accessories and collection set for bridal accessories. We bought almost everything for our wedding and reception from there. The cake topper, the cake serving set, champagne flutes and so much more, and didn’t spend anything near what we thought we would have to spend. They have even more to offer than wedding accessories and supplies, there are items for almost any type of party.
The party accesssories they have, I discovered as I browsed through their inventory, aren’t just for weddings. Like baby showers and wedding shower parties. There were baby carriages and baby socks and so forth that were really cute. I will have the hostess check out this website when I ultimately have the baby shower that I anticipate having some day. I know I found all I needed and like I said before there were a lot of items that I was able to obtain at a discount. The money you save can always be put to good use, especially when you’re in the beginning stages of marriage.
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June 14th, 2009
We were planning a big Valentine hearts wedding in February, which meant I had a lot to take care of before then and it was already November. It takes a while to get everything together and make sure you have everything from invitations to heart favors for you guests. I wanted this to be a heart wedding ceremony everyone would talk about for a long time to come. I went online and started checking out all the decorations and accessories I could find for both the ceremony and the reception. I was amazed at all the lovely things I found and they even had special package deals on some of the accessories, like guestbooks, pen sets, flower baskets and more. I’m glad I took a look at what they had before running from shop to shop.
But that was only the beginning, after I mailed out the invitations I had to start planning the décor and ordering the supplies I would need. On each of the pews I had big red velvet bows with ribbon strung from one pew to the next. At the altar were candelabras and our beautiful unity candle with the heart of little roses on the front. We used red roses all over the wedding ceremony, like in my bouquet, where they were mixed with pink roses, and throughout the church. I even went as far as to have caged doves to be released as we exited the church.
Everyone had their wedding attire taken care of, including our little flower girl and ring boy. I picked out a white satin basket that had bows and lace decorating it for our flower girl. For the ring boy to carry down the aisle I ordered a gorgeous white double hearts wedding pillow with the two gold hearts entwined, and a white satin ribbon for the rings. My flower girl was going to wear a small tiara, and it was very similar in appearance to the one I had picked out for myself. She wore a pretty pink dress, made for a flower girl, and she did such a wonderful job as a flower girl and looked so brilliant that I thought she did look like royalty. With his tiny tuxedo and red boutonniere, the ring bearer boy did as good of a job and he looked just as adorable. He carried the ring pillow like a pro and kept in step with the rest of the wedding party. I was very glad that I chose to include both of them.
The centerpieces we had made up for the reception dinner had tiny hearts intermixed with roses that were white, pink, and red. I got a place card holder that was the prettiest I had ever seen for each place setting, and two hearts wedding candles that made it feel like love was in the air. The wedding favors we got our guests should be a terrific souvenir from our wedding; they had handles in the shape of a heart attached to tiny silver bells. There were frosting hearts all around the bottom layer of our wedding cake, and each layer was decked out in pink and red roses all around. On top sat our very special keepsake hearts wedding cake topper made of white porcelain, which looked so elegant with all the other cake decorations.
Everything at our wedding and reception was the perfect picture of a true valentines day wedding with all the hearts and flowers imaginable. I feel fortunate that I was able to use the Internet to the extent that I did because it made everything much more efficient.
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June 4th, 2009
As soon as we set our wedding date, I got busy with my planning and shopping for everything I needed. I’m an online shopaholic, so, my first course of action was to hit the web. With all the great accessories and reception supplies I found online, it was easy to find what I needed for our wedding. Starting with the beautiful invitations I chose, and finishing with the super wedding favors for our friends and family.
We had no problem choosing the theme we wanted for our wedding and reception, it had to be a beach theme. The beach has been a special place for us and our friends ever since we were kids.
I found the perfect wedding invitations to send to all of our potential guests and sent them out to everyone, after that I went straight to my computer and started checking out wedding sites to find the best in bridal accessories that not only looked great, but stayed within our budget. It didn’t take long to find the perfect bridal hair accessories that would look fantastic with the wedding dress I had chosen. The tiara I chose had the same little pearls in it as my gown. I even found a gorgeous pearl necklace that came with matching earrings to go along with it. They were so lovely. In fact all the bridal fashion accessories they had were exquisite. I was really surprised at all the money I saved on my accessories.
There were a lot of accessories that were so beautiful and most of the items were reasonable in price. I also bought a few items I can use while on our honeymoon. I know that a short thin materialed dress would have been more appropriate for a beach ceremony, but I had my heart set on my full length gown. 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. The reception tables had been decorated in an oceanside motif and the little sailboat place card holders was a great addition. As wedding favors I wanted to give them something special from the seaside collection, so I chose the beach themed photo frames for each of them. I think they all liked the frames as much as I did.
There were tealights and candles to light up our beautifully set bridal table and lovley beach themed flutes for the wedding toast. All the supplies and accessories for our wedding reception was decorated in an oceanside motif, and so was our cake topper. A man and woman taking a casual walk on the shore was the wedding cake topper I chose for our reception. With all the items and wedding accessories they had available, it was easy to make this wedding and reception a total success. We danced, ate tons of seafood, like shrimp, crab, lobster and of course we had other foods for those that didn’t like seafood. We all had a wonderful time enjoying good food and good music to dance too. It was a little sad when we had to leave for our honeymoon and everyone was still partying it up.
The first thing I had to do when we came home from our honeymoon was get out my wedding guest book I bought online and make out all the thank you notes for the people that shared our wedding day with us. My beach themed picture album has all the memories within its beautiful covers for me to enjoy anytime I want to look back on our special beach wedding and reception.
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December 2nd, 2008
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