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Shopping for wedding bells

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

The wedding bells rang, rose petals were being tossed and our friends and family were yelling their congratulations as we left the church for our limo ride to the reception. That’s how it was on our wedding day. The wedding ceremony was so beautiful and everything turned out just like I wanted it, thanks to all the super accessories I was able to get. There was everything for to pull off the perfect wedding ceremony and reception.

From the wedding invitations to the wedding favors for our guests, they had everything. The silver print was a lovely touch to our invitations. There was a gorgeous flower girl basket and ring pillow among all the accessories that I decided to buy for our ceremony. It came in a beautiful garnet, and there was also a guestbook and pen set, and a very lovely wedding garter. A five piece wedding set that wasn’t very expensive at all.

There were a lot of other items I ordered too, like my lovely aisle runner for the church ceremony. I’m really glad we went with the wedding bell. After we were pronounced man and wife, everyone at the ceremony rang their little bells as we walked back down the aisle. I really liked the idea of the bell ringing.

I didn’t just order things for my ceremony, I also ordered everything I needed for our reception too. There were all kinds of wonderful ideas for our wedding reception. I have this thing for shiny things, and I found a lot of crystal glassware, including beautiful champagne flutes for our reception tables. I ordered special flutes for us that said bride and groom on them, and beautiful twisted stemmed flutes for all of our guests. Wedding silver bells really made our tables shine with elegance, and I thought it would be a nice gift for our guests as a little something extra to show our appreciation.

It was hard not to order all they had to offer in the way of accessories but I restrained myself for fear of over decorating. I did order some very nice wedding favors for our guests that were lovely glass table coasters. They had a lovely calla lilie design on them that was absolutely beautiful. I found the perfect little silver favor boxes with thank you tags to package the wedding favors in. The silver favor boxes, along with all the other accessories on the tables, really added to the décor. On each reception table was a centerpiece I made up of lovely flowers and some very elegant candles.

On a smaller table at the of our long table, was our fantastically designed wedding cake. Chocolate and cherries three tiers high with a very lovely cake topper resting on top. I really fell in love with the cake topper I bought, with it’s attractive little ribbon made into a bow at the bottom of the heart with calla lilies added. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect wedding and reception. I had to go back online where I bought our wedding album and puchase a second album for all the pictures that were taken at the wedding and reception. We have quite a few pictures of the the cake cutting and sharing of the first piece. There is the most adorable picture of our little flower girl dancing with the very elegant ring boy, our bride and grooms first dance together, and all of our guests having a great time on the dance floor.

The compliments I got from our guests on our wedding décor was really nice, but it really made me feel good to know that they all had such a great time. Someday I’d like to have a renewal ceremony and reception for our anniversary and thank goodness, my husband agrees.

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Shopping for Communion Party Favors!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

We had a lovely little communion party for our daughter. I wanted to give out communion favors that would have a religious theme to them. Religious shops didn’t have exactly what I was looking for, especially in my price range. So I decided to check online and see what items they may have for our communion party. There were quite a few lovely votive candles that worked out perfectly for table decoration. The teddy bears filled with candy were the holy communion favors for the kids, and I picked out candies in pretty little tins for the adults. I decided to get each guest an extra gift and ordered religious photo frames too. They were so pretty that I thought I’d buy some for my bookshelf as well.

It was almost like we were looking for her wedding dress, instead of a dress for her communion. I know that day isn’t as far ahead of us as I would like it to be. All she needed was a little bouquet and she would look exactly like a tiny little bride. I guess a wedding reception and communion party isn’t all that much different. Just like at a reception, there was the decorated cake, a band for dancing and foods of all kinds to enjoy. We didn’t want to lose the fact of the importance of this special day, but we also wanted to make this party a memorable one. I also bought a girls pink photo album for her to have as her very own with pictures of her first holy communion day and the party with her friends and family. We didn’t have a caterer or anything real fancy, it was all home cooked food and some of the other moms helped with preparing the meal. We had fried chicken, potato salad, vegetables and a few different types of salads. Just a nice dinner to share with our friends and loved ones. It turned out to be a very nice evening and everyone seemed to have a good time, including our daughter. Her father and I had her name engraved on a beautiful gold cross we ordered for her, and there were many wonderful communion gifts she received from our guests, too.

I couldn’t help but feel that this was a practice run for her wedding and reception. Someday, not too far away, we’ll be filling out invitations and picking out wedding accessories together. When that day comes, at least I’ll have a heads up on where to find the supplies and accessories she’ll need. Not only do they have a fantastic communion favor section, but they have pretty nice wedding supplies too. She’ll have plenty of accessories and wedding favors to choose from at my favorite online shopping site. They carry a lot more than communion favors and accessories for weddings. This online shopping spot will come in handy in the future when I have to plan for birthdays, graduations and other important events. They have accessories for baby showers, bridal showers and some great ideas for a girls night out parties. There are all kinds of themed wedding accessories too, beautiful beach wedding accessories, gorgeous winter wonderland supplies and the perfect items for a big country western wedding and reception. Anything you want for the perfect themed shower or birthday party is available, and the choices of accessories are really fantastic. I am sure this online store will come in handy many times over in my household.

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Shopping for Bridesmaids Gifts!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Everything I looked at as far as wedding accessories were fantastic. I purchased almost all of the wedding and reception supplies from them. But when it came to the bridesmaid gifts, I just couldn’t decide on which one I wanted to order. They had so many wonderful suggestion for the bridesmaids thank you gifts. Buying the groomsmen gifts didn’t seem to be half as hard for my fiance. He got them all a special little shot glass as their thank you gifts. With me, I’m on there everyday looking at the selection over and over again, trying to make a decision.

I’d decide on the jewelry boxes and then the lovely bracelet they have would side track me and I’d start considering that. I didn’t have this much trouble choosing my wedding accessories and reception supplies. I already had what I wanted, in mind, for those accessories. There were many fantastic accessories I ordered for my wedding and reception with a fall theme. They had everything to go with the fall colors and décor I wanted. I chose my flower basket and ring bearer pillow that were made for the perfect fall wedding. I ordered everything I needed, including the flower basket and a gorgeous aisle runner.

For our reception there were so many great suggestions and designs for fall accessories. Not only were there lovely place card holders, but really exquisite wedding favors and boxes for packaging them in. I know our friends and family will really be impressed with their party favors we got for them. Infact, I liked them so much, I ordered an extra favor for myself as a keepsake. I never knew glass coasters could be so lovely as the ones I chose for the wedding favors. It didn’t take much time for me to choose the wedding cake topper I liked the best. I went for the heart made of sparkling glass with which I had our names put on. There was a gorgeous little storybook cake topper I would have chosen if we were having a fairytale theme. I would have been ordering the castle topper for a storybook wedding. It was truly elegant and would have made the perfect choice for a fairytale theme.

If I had no problems choosing all my accessories and reception supplies, why did I have such a hard time picking a bridesmaids gift? I was even able to get some of our accessories at wholesale prices. You could even find bridesmaids gifts that you could pick up at a discount. After a few days I had actually made up my mind to choose between the two I liked the best. On one hand I had the idea of the jewelry boxes and on the other was the lovely designed bracelets. Even though I had it narrowed down to only two items, it still took me a little longer to make that final decision. But I did finally decided on what I was going to do. My final decision was to give my bridesmaids the jewelry box and the lovely bracelet. I decided my bridesmaids were getting two thank you gifts from us, the jewelry box and the bracelet. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s not as if they cost us a fortune or anything and my girls deserve the very best.

Thankfully, everything turned out fantastic for our wedding day. The ceremony was beautiful and the reception was a lot of fun. I got a lot of compliments on our fall wedding décor and our guests seemed to like the wedding favors we chose for them. The groomsmen liked the shot glasses and my girls said they loved the bridesmaids gifts we had for them too. This day was everything I hoped it would be, and then some.

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Shopping for wedding knife

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I looked at a lot of wedding options before I decided I wanted to have a themed wedding and reception. Now the decision was which theme to use. The country western theme seemed like it would be lots of fun. I thought maybe we could have an old fashioned barn dance at the reception. Then there was the seasonal wedding themes, and since we were getting married in the summer, I thought about a beach wedding. We could swim, party on the beach and enjoy a lovely sunset. It was a never ending list of possibilities for themed weddings and receptions. And they had every accessory online from decorations to a wedding server to match every theme. All the themed suggestions were quite unique, but it was the fairytale theme that I liked the best.

Once I estabished that I was going with the storybook idea, I started looking for accessories and supplies. First I ordered the lovely wedding invitations for our wedding guests. After that I went on to the wedding décor and the other accessories I would need. I wanted to have a Cinderella atmosphere to the whole thing. First I needed to get the decorations I wanted to use in the church. We used satin bows on the end of each pew row and draped a tulle swag from row to row. Tall vases filled with flowers were all around the altar, and tapered candles in fairytale holders were place on the sides of the unity candle.

We had a beautiful wedding guestbook in the front hall of the church which our friends and family all signed when they came in. Our fairytale wedding ceremony was everything I had hoped for and more. The flower girl and ring boy did a wonderful job at the wedding ceremony and really looked elegant in their wedding attire. After the ceremony we didn’t leave in a limo, we left the church in a horse drawn carriage the same way Cinderella and Prince Charming did in the fairytale.

With flowers everywhere and crystal and silver shining on the tables the entire reception hall was so elegant. Every table in the reception hall had gorgeous crystal champagne flutes with decorated stems to go with our storybook theme. Little castle place card holders were placed at every guests table. I also got the idea to purchase little carriage favor boxes and fill them with candies for each guest at their tables.

All the reception tables looked elegant, but the wedding table of the bride and groom outshined them all. It was a table fit for a king and his queen. Our cake of five gorgeous tiers, with a fairytale wedding topper, sat at the end of our wedding table on a smaller table. I found the most exquisite storybook wedding cake topper for our reception at the same place I bought all our other reception supplies. I saw a gorgeous wedding knife in a storybook theme with a very decorative handle. I really liked the wedding knife set, so now I wanted to make everything else perfect! The knife set just added to the décor of our wedding cake and topper.

We danced our wedding dance right after the best man said a few words and toasted to our happiness. We danced to our favorite song, “I Swear” by all for one. Once we were done with our wedding dance, the other couples joined us on the dance floor. There were so many photographs taken at the wedding and reception, I’m so glad I bought my fairytale wedding album for all these memories. Many of our friends and family commented on what lovely storybook favors we had given them as gifts.

Our wedding and reception was truly unbelievable and I know now that fairytales can come true.

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Shopping for bridal accessories

Monday, April 27th, 2009

When my fiance and I set the date for our wedding, I started planning and shopping for all my accessories and wedding supplies, right away. I’m a dedicated online shopper and so, of course, that’s the first place I went to find what I needed. 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 decided that a lovely theme wedding would be what we would like, and the theme we chose was a beach theme. The beach has been a special place for us and our friends ever since we were kids.

I immediately picked out our beach wedding invitations and made sure our potential guests received them promptly. There were no no’s in the RSVP’S, and they all seemed to be really looking forward to our wedding day. Now, since the invitations were taken care of, I could concentrate on finding the bridal accessories I want for my wedding. Even though I shop online all the time, I never expected to find such a big selection of wholesale bridal accessories. I saw a gorgeous tiara and hair comb in the selection, and I just had to have them. I also found wedding jewelry that I really wanted to wear for my ceremony. I ordered a beautiful necklace and earring set that looked absolutely fantastic with my gown. The pearls and crystals on the necklace set really added to the elegance of my wedding dress.

There was so much in the way of a bridal accessory that was absolutely exquisite, and the best part was, it wasn’t all that expensive. There were even a lot of honeymoon accessories available that I ordered. A short wedding dress would have probably been the wiser choice, since we were getting married on the beach, but I had to have my full length dress. 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. The wedding favors I chose were lovely photo frames with a beach design, because I thought they were so pretty and I know that’s something that they can always use. I think the picture frames I chose were to their liking.

Our wedding table was beautifully set with beach themed champagne flutes, little beach tealights and lovely beach themed candles and holders. Our wedding cake topper was especially designed for a beach wedding just as all our other accessories for our reception. 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 bridal accessories they had available, it was easy to make this wedding and reception a total success. For those that weren’t into seafood, we made sure we had plenty of steaks and chicken for them. Everyone danced, ate and just had a fantastic time. 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. Whenever I want to remember my wedding day, I’ll take out my beach themed photo album and look at all the pictures we had taken.

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Coolest affordable sweet sixteen ideas

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I needed some fresh ideas for my daughters sixteenth birthday party. I was told by my friend that a good place for accessories was online where she got the supplies for her daughters party. So, I figured I’d see what they have. It was surprising to find so many ideas for party supplies for the tables and little gifts. There were a lot of accessories I found that would be perfect for her party. There were cookie cutters I used to make cookies in the shape of the number 16 for her guests.

Since it was her birthday, I let her decide what she wanted and she decided to party at the roller rink and have her friends stay overnight. I immediately got on the phone and reserved tables at the local roller rink. Then I invited all of her best girl friends. It wasn’t nearly as expensive as I thought it would be. Refreshments, pizza and hot dogs were also part of the package, and didn’t cost very much at all. At home I had everything set up for the party to continue. I put out the cookies I had made, along with a few other snacks, and set up birthday decorations.

I ordered more than the cookie cutters when I went shopping online. Since this birthday party wasn’t costing me what I thought it would, I decided to order a few sweet sixteen favors for the girls. I ordered some adorable pink photo albums for all the girls, and disposable cameras for them to take pictures of the party. I gave them the cameras before we left for the roller rink, but they had no idea about the albums until later. I’m glad they only took a few pictures at the skating rink, so they would be able to take pictures of the sleepover too.

I also bought each of them little cosmetic bags with their initials on the front. With the cosmetic bags I bought manicure sets and little purse mirrors to go with it. I bought festive little favor boxes and filled them with candies for each of the girls. As soon as we got home, we celebrated with a sweet sixteen party with cake and ice cream and she opened all of her presents. So, with all the other snack foods, soft drinks and the chick flicks we picked up on the way home, they were a bunch of happy campers. They danced for a while, then they gave each other manicures with their new sets, and of course, they did the make up thing. You could tell they were all having a fantastic time.

After they tired themselves out, they decided to put on a movie and grab the popcorn. I wanted to give them as much space as I could and not intrude on their girl time, but I got an invitation to join them for a movie. I thought that was so sweet of them to ask. After the second movie, one by one, they started falling asleep. All that was left was my daughter and I, at least for a few minutes. But before she passed out, she thanked me for giving her such a great party.

When I got up in the morning the girls were already downstairs and had eaten, then straightened up everything from the party. I thought that was very thoughtful of them to do that for me. They shared a couple of more hours together and then some of the girls had left for home. Each of the girls said they had a great time at the party and they loved the sweet sixteen party favors I got them. So, I guess that makes me a cool mom, hey?

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Coolest Summer Wedding Ideas!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

It was a lot easier than I thought it would be to plan my outside wedding and reception. It turns out that it was a lot cheaper in cost than it would have been to have an indoor wedding. Since we had the beauty of nature all around us, it wasn’t too expensive to decorate. The first thing I had to do was to find the perfect location to have our summer wedding and reception. I could have had our wedding ceremony on the beach, with a fun filled beach party reception, or an elegant garden party, but I chose a ceremony and reception in the park. I found there were several great locations that would work out perfectly for an outdoor wedding.

I decided to go online and get some expert advice on how to plan the perfect outdoor wedding. If you’re going to have your ceremony outside, it’s a good idea to have an alternative plan just in case the weather turns on you. It’s a good idea to have a tent ready to continue your ceremony if it becomes necessary.

In our original wedding preparations, we had a lovely canopy set up for the reception and a lovely trellis for our ceremony. The only real decorations I needed were those for my wedding table and the guests reception tables. With the park as our main theme, I basically had to make sure I had our table settings and maybe throw in a few extra bouquets of flowers. I decided to go with artificial flowers because I didn’t want to have our wedding to be the target of a bee swarm. You couldn’t tell they were artificial they were so beautiful,they looked like the real deal. Although planning wasn’t as difficult a chore as I thought, there were quite a few things to take care of. Like, making sure there were citronella candles all around, rest rooms close by and making sure our cake was kept cool until ready to be cut.

As far as table décor, I found so many fantastic accessories for our reception. Each of our guest had a park bench place card holder and the centerpieces were flowers arranged around a glass globe with citronella votive candles inside. I found very decorative favor boxes and used them to package the chrome bottle openers we bought for our friends and family as a summer wedding favor. One of the most decorative things on our wedding table was our gorgeous wedding cake with the beautiful cake topper I ordered.

I found it while browsing online for my other wedding accessories, and fell in love with it. They were especially customized for the bride and groom. All I had to do was send in a head shot picture of me and my fiance and they custom made a bride and groom cake topper with our faces. What a wonderful momento of our wedding day. Our friends and family were really loved the cake topper and gave us a lot of compliments on it. All the wonderful accessories I ordered for our reception and wedding ceremony came from the same place, including our champagne flutes and silver cake set. It’s unbelievable all the lovely accessories you can purchase from you computer.

Well, the wedding was beautiful and the reception was just as perfect. Thank goodness the weather stayed perfect throughout the entire ceremony and reception and we never had to put plan B into action. We all loved the super DJ and the fantastic job he was doing, and if I’m right, he probably kept the music and dancing going on for quite a while after we left to go on our honeymoon. A lot of good things were said about our wedding ceremony and everyone said they had a fantastic time at the reception. The park turned out to be the perfect place to have our wedding and reception. If we celebrate one of our anniversaries with a wedding renewal, I want to have it in a gorgeous park again.

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Coolest Baby Shower

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I went right to my computer and started ordering from the same place I bought all the bridal shower decorations and favors from. I ordered everything from the same place I bought bridal favors, through my computer. Plenty of ideas and a great variety of party items can be found there. I searched all online stores looking for baby shower favors supplies and decorations. There was quite a few great suggestions to work with. I found and ordered all everything I needed for our wedding decorations and right after I got them, I started decorating. All tables was set up with baby in mind. There were little baby buggy favor boxes filled with little candies for each of my guests, and these cute little teddy bear place card holders for each of their names. My guests complimented me on how lovley my tables looked with all the decorations and accessories. I had a buffet set up with all kinds of foods and snacks, and the cake I bought was chocolate, in honor of the mother to be, who is a chocoholic. Especially for my niece, I covered the cake with adorable decorations and colored it with pink icing. The cake topper was fantastic too,with different colored baby blocks. I was proud of my cake and the decorations I chose, it looked so perfect.

I found great favors for baby shower for all of my guests that were such adorable little baby bootie candles that came in their own decorative boxes. I was really impressed with the supplies I bought, and the cute little baby gifts I bought from there too. I found such adorable little gifts, like the picture album, baby blankets, and layette sets, that I bought for the baby. This online buying is the best thing I had ever done before: its easy,convenient and much cheaper. There was everything I needed in baby shower supplies for the perfect party, and I only had to place my order. I was even able to order a baby bingo game for the party.I bought the bingo game for kids from there too. This is where you can find really great accessories for your baby shower.

We had such a great time and everyone seemed happy with their baby shower favor idea. We played games, the mother to be opened presents and we all really enjoyed ourselves. I think one of my favorite baby shower games is where you take baby bottles and fill them with liquid and pass them out to each guest. The winner of this bottle game is the player to empty her baby bottle first. I also had everyone give me a picture of them when they were babies and pinned them on a board. Everyone then had to try to find a match of a baby photo to the adult person. Whoever got the most right, wins a baby shower prize. I bought all the prizes the same place I bought all of my fantastic party accessories. There were adorable little candles, fragrant scented soaps and adorable picture frames as prizes.

You can find so much online for baby showers, weddings and other special events. They also had accessories and supplies for graduation and birthday parties too.

You must wonder how I know about this site for baby showers and their great selection of accessories? Well, I saw all they had when I ordered my accessories and decorations for my wedding.

You can find almost any kind of wedding acessories and reception supplies you need there. If you are looking for supplies and accessories for a destination wedding, or any themed ceremony, you can find it there. Getting my accessories online was one of the best ideas I ever had. If I ever need party supplies again, I’ll know where to go.

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Wedding Guest Book Pen

Monday, April 20th, 2009

I thought online shopping would be a good idea to get a wedding guest book and pen and other reception supplies. It was a good idea, I found all sorts of styles and decorative colors, and I also found different weddings you can choose from. There were a lot of choices I was rather captured by, as far as themes for weddings and receptions. Our wedding date is set for January, so I was thinking about having a winter wonderland ceremony and reception. At first, I kinda wished we were getting married in early December so we could have a Christmas wedding, with a big tree and everything Christmasy. But from all the themed wedding accessories I’ve seen, a winter wedding is beautiful too. So, I decided it was definitely a winter wedding. Now I had to get started with all my wedding plans.

I found the best invitations for a winter wonderland wedding. Then I went for all the winter accessories for our wedding ceremony, from flower girl basket to ring boy pillow. I was sure I picked out all the accessories I had to have for our winter wedding, but that wasn’t the case. I forgot all about the wedding guest book and wedding pen! So, I searched through the wedding supplies and found the beautiful winter wedding guestbooks and wedding pen sets, and picked my favorite. There were snowflakes, hints of blue and perfect little crystals on the cover of our winter wedding guestbook. They also had the wedding pens that went perfectly with this gorgeous winter guestbook. While I was on the search for our guest book and pen, I also decided to find our wedding photo album. I couldn’t believe all the gorgeous wedding albums you could get, there were even anniversary albums to choose from. I’ll have to remember this site so I can come back in a few years for my anniversary album.

Now I was ready to move on to the supplies and decorations I needed for our wedding reception. They had it all as far as winter wonderland wedding supplies, and the first thing I bought for the reception were the champagne flutes, designed to match our wedding guest book and pen. They were so fantastic looking. Our reception tables were absolutely exquisite with all the crystal, candles and centerpieces I picked out. Another great thing about the place I got all my wedding accessories and reception supplies is that they had quite a few items at discount prices, which really helps a couple just starting out. I was surprised at what little we paid for such exquisite accessories.

They also had the most adorable wedding cake toppers to choose from. Our cake topper showed a bride and groom in a whimsical winter activity. We had a gorgeous five tiered winter wedding cake with sugar snowflakes along with icy blue and red winter designs. This beautiful winter wedding cake was displayed on a silver sled cake stand. Everyone thought the sled cake stand was quite a unique idea, but I can’t take the credit for it, my fiance came up with that idea.

On our the reception tables for our friends and family I had chosen these adorable little snowmen place card holders. We gave our guests little snowflake gel candles as wedding favor thank you gifts. One of my favorite decorative accessories was the snowflake favor boxes we packaged their gifts in. They really made the tables look so festive. The favor pens went over surprisingly well, and everyone really had a wonderful time at the reception. The wedding ceremony and the winter reception was everything I wanted it to be, and I’m so glad I decided to give the online shopping a try. It really helped out a lot with the planning and decorating.

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Items for wedding album

Monday, April 20th, 2009

I started shopping for my themed accessories and supplies as soon as we were sure we were having a beach wedding. I started with our beach themed wedding invitations. Since I had a couple of invitations I had to do over again, I was really glad I bought extra. After I got the invitations out of the way, my next step was finding the right dress for a beach wedding. With all the selections of beautiful beach dresses and wedding gowns, I had a difficult time deciding what I wanted to wear. I fell in love with two of the floor length gowns, but wasn’t quite sure if it would be uncomfortable to wear to a beach wedding. So, even though I loved the gowns, I chose a lightweight knee length beaded satin dress with a gorgeous lace covering and spaghetti straps.

The bridesmaids wore lovely little linen halter beach dresses with a crocheted bodice covering. All the groomsmen wore linen white shirts and sand colored pants and my husband, to be looked so handsome in his blue linen shirt and white pants. The little sundress our flower girl wore looked so adorable on her and our ring boy looked so cute in his little khaki shorts and white shirt. All of the wedding party looked great in their wedding attire and the flower arrangements for our bouquets were the most gorgeous I’ve ever seen.

With all the pictures I wanted taken of our wedding ceremony and reception, maybe I should have bought two personalized wedding albums. I expect photos of every person here and everything at our wedding including our reception and the beautiful beach décor. Pictures of our satin canopy and flowered arch where we stood to take our vows was a definite must. Directly after the ceremony we left to change into more suitable beach wear for the reception party. In fact a few of the bridesmaids and groomsmen also left to change, while others just wore swim suits under their wedding attire. The guests were informed on the invitations to wear casual clothing.

Everyone thought our reception tables were so beautiful with all the beach themed wedding accessories I had found for them. The place I shopped not only had the beach wedding album I wanted, but so many more accessories to go with it. The place card holders I chose were these miniature beach chairs that can later be used as photo frames. The guests seemed to like them, and I thought they were just adorable. They also had beach wedding favors that I just had to have for our guests. The little tea lights I chose were in the shape of miniature sand castles and to help them keep the memory of our wonderful beach reception. There was so many terrific accessories and beach décor for our reception tables and our wedding table. I not only bought our beach themed wedding cake topper there, but also the cake knife server set, beautiful crystal champagne glasses and lovely wine glasses too.

There were a lot of nice comments made by our guests on how lovely everything looked. To help add to the atmosphere, I also bought some of their beautiful gel candles and placed them on all the tables, along with a few tiki torches here and there. Planning this beach wedding and reception was a lot easier than I thought it would be, with all the accessories and supplies they had. The beautiful ocean whitecaps and the warm sandy beach made the perfect dream wedding and reception location.

Every once in a while I take out our beach themed wedding photo album and remember our special day.

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