Even though it was a lot of hard work planning and putting together a wedding and reception, I have to admit, I enjoyed every minute of it. It meant so much to me to spend time with my mom checking out wedding dresses and bridal accessories. I swear, she was as excited about this wedding as I was. She was a big help and I was grateful for any input she had for me, and she always had some great suggestions. She helped me pick out the wedding invitations and thank you cards for everyone. They were so lovely with a gold border around the edges. We worked on them together, a little at a time each day until we had them all ready to be mailed out.
I wanted a large, but simple wedding ceremony. No theme, just the traditional ceremony and reception, from the bride and groom cake topper to the personalized favors. No fairy tale, no beach or winter wonderland theme, just a regular wedding. Although if I were to go with any of the themed weddings that are available today, it probably would have been the storybook one. I think that would be awesome to feel like Cinderella or Snow White. Maybe even rent a castle to have the ceremony and reception in. Yes, that would be wonderful, but I had my heart set on tradition. I had a gorgeous white gown and lovely flower bouquet with satin ribbons hanging from it. All of my wedding party had beautiful lilac dresses with bouquets of lilac and babybreaths with hanging ribbons. The men all looked so handsome in the tuxedos and my fiance was the perfect prince charming for me.
The wedding ceremony was exceptionally beautiful and as we left the church to go to the reception, everyone started ringing these little wedding bells they were given when they entered the church. Now a days many churches frown on tossing rice or rose petals, even the silk ones, so we decided on the bell ringing instead. I hear it has become quite popular in ceremonies today. It did sound lovely.
At the reception everyone was talking about how impressive everything looked. I have to thank my mom for that. She worked so hard at helping me to organize it all. She did a fantastic job decorating the tables and arranging the seating for all of our guests. She even helped with picking out the wedding favors for them all.
We looked at several suggestions for favor gifts, but, no matter what I was going to choose, I knew I wanted to have them personalized. I just think it shows that I really care and how appreciative we are that they decided to share this special day with us. By giving out personalized party favors it shows that they are worth that extra mile or two and lets them know just how special they are to us.
There were adorable choices of favors to choose from. I chose some very exquisite glass coasters and I had them put in special packaging as personality favors. They matched up with the décor of my reception tables. It’s really nice to be able to choose favor boxes that coordinates with your wedding reception decorations. I also had each and every favor personalized with little tags.
We also gave out special gifts for the people in our wedding party, and extra special little gifts for our flower girl and ring boy. They were definitely the cutest couple in the room. Our traditional ceremony and reception was phenomenol and we all had a great time, and everyone seemed pretty happy with their wedding favors gifts.