All Things Wedding: The Old, The New, The Borrowed, and The Blue: Valentine's Day Wedding!!!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Valentine's Day Wedding!!!

Ok, if your anything like me holiday weddings are definitely a no go, this is really truly for a selfish reason. I personally want my wedding all to me! I don't want to have to share it with another special occasion!!! However, the more and more I think about it the more fun they really could be. Take Valentine's Day for instance, love is in the air so take advantage of it. this does not mean you have to stick with the old school cherubs and fountains unless you want to.. No, modernize, make it you!

Love the dessert table/candy bar idea?
Great!!! Make it sassy and sexy and fun with reds, and pinks, and all the colors of love!!!

4 Wedding Dessert Tables You‘ll Love

Dessert Table Theme #1: A Pretty Pink and Gray Dessert Table

Amy Atlas a quilted pattern on top of her pink and white fondant cupcakes and added bubblegum pink sugar-made "keys" to finish them off.

Dessert Table Theme #1: A Pretty Pink and Gray Dessert Table

Amy Atlas filled square white dishes with pink Jelly Belly‘s and M&Ms, perfect for guests to grab throughout the evening. As a sweet send-off, she also added individual pink take-hom...

Dessert Table Theme #1: A Pretty Pink and Gray Dessert Table

A dessert bar wouldn‘t be complete without milk! Amy Atlas filled glasses with strawberry milk and added "Be Mine" stirrer sticks to finish them off.

http://weddings.theknot.com/Real-Weddings/63458/detailview.aspx?id=63458&RPID=2&type=3

Want a photo booth at the reception?
Get creative make a backdrop that has red hearts or props. Or better yet make a kissing booth as your background!!!! Turn it into your own masterpiece and I am sure that your friends and family will have a blast!

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http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2009/07/wedding-photo-booth.html

Kissing Booth Anyone?
I don't know about you, but I have never been a huge fan of the dollar dance. Yes, its a great way to mingle with your guests and to get a few dollars for your honeymoon. But the whole shot thing and it takes up sooo much time!!! Since this is a Valentines Wedding why not set up a kissing booth? Set an amount of time that you and your new groom will sit in the booth and have everyone pay you a dollar a kiss... if your shy or you really just want to keep all your kisses for your new hubby.... a kiss on the cheek or a nice hug will work too!!! Same goes for him!

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Doves!!!
Doves are an ultimate classic of romance, Valentine's Day and weddings so bring back a classic and an old tradition of releasing doves.

Here's the history on it from wedding and party network.com

For many cultures white doves released at a wedding signifies, love, unity, and fidelity
An old wedding superstition suggests that if you see a pair of doves on your wedding day, you’ll have a long and happy marriage. This basis of the superstition stems from the fact that doves mate for life.
Symbolically and not to mention beautiful the releasing of white doves at a wedding is a wonderful tradition; where grooms and brides express their love, unity and fidelity, at the end of the wedding ceremony.
http://www.weddingandpartynetwork.com/blog/wedding-traditions/releasing-of-white-doves-as-a-wedding-tradition/

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Decorating!
A great decorating tip for your Valentine's Day Wedding is colored lights you can make a wall any color you want with just light so maybe a vibrant red or lovely pink! Red roses are a must for a Valentine's Wedding! Instead of using red as an accent use it as a main color! It will be more like a blast of color than a pop!

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Favors

Conversation Hearts!! Put a box at each place setting!

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Small Bouquet of kiss roses! These are super easy to make and kind of fun too!

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What you will need:
Hershey Kisses
Red Plastic Wrap (cut into squares)
Floral Wire
Floral Tape

What you do:

Step 1. Take two kisses put the flat ends together and then stick a piece of floral wire up through them. Make sure to be gentle so you don't break the kiss push the wire all the way up through both kisses without going through the top of the top kiss.

Step 2. Take one of your red squares and put it over the kisses and twist at the end around the wire.

Step 3. Take the floral tape and start at the base of the kisses and wrap all the way down the wire so it looks like a stem you can make this thicker by put more than one layer of tape on.

Step 4. Once you have all your roses done you can bunch them together just place them together at different intervals to make it look textured than take your floral tape and start at the bottom of your roses and cover.

*To add to the rose effect you can put leaves on the roses. Just get fake floral leaves from any crafts section or store and put them at the base of your rose then just do the same thing as step 3 and wrap with floral tape.

Inspiration Pictures!!!