The Party Thai

There was an excellent choice of wedding accessories to choose from. They supplied me with most of my wedding and reception décor. But when I was looking for the bridesmaid gifts, I couldn’t make up my mind which of the groovy items would be the best. There were so many exquisite ideas for thank you gifts for the bridesmaids. My fiance had no problem finding exactly what he wanted for his groomsmen gifts. He found some very nice shot glasses he liked and that was what he chose to buy for the guys. 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. Thank goodness it was much easier picking out our items for the ceremony and reception party. I already had what I wanted, in mind, for those accessories. I got all the bridal accessories I needed for our lovely fall themed wedding. They had everything to go with the fall colors and décor I wanted. They had flower baskets and ring pillows in beautiful fall designs. Not only did I order all of my accessories for the reception, but I sent for my flower girl basket and added on a beautiful aisle runner as well.

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. Our friends and family are going to love the favors we bought for them. But I also ordered one for me as a little momento of our special wedding day. They were such lovely little glass coasters. I also bought our wedding cake topper from there and had no problem picking out the one I liked the best. I really loved the gorgeous storybook toppers, but I chose a lovely glass heart with our names on it. If a storybook were to be our wedding theme, there was one storybook topper I would definitely have used. I would have been ordering the castle topper for a storybook wedding. It was really special and would have fit right in with a storybook themed wedding.

If I had no problems choosing all my accessories and reception supplies, why did I have such a hard time picking a bridesmaid gift idea? They even had discount prices for a lot of accessories and gifts. You could even find gifts for bridesmaids that you could pick up at a discount. After a while I shortened my list of possiblities down to two. 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 low and behold, I did make that decision. 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. Why not, it’s not that expensive and I feel they deserve it.

Our wedding day was all I had hoped it would be. The ceremony was beautiful and the reception was a lot of fun. Our friends and family really liked the wedding favors they received and made comments on the lovely ceremony we had. The guys loved the shot glasses and my bridesmaid gifts were a success too. This day will live in my memory forever.

   When I started planning my wedding and reception I was really surprised at all of the selections for accessories and supplies that were available. From the wedding items available today I could have any type of wedding I want. There are accessories for seasonal themes, ethnic themes, and even country western themes.  I looked at all of them and ran a few past my fiance. We even discussed the possibility of a destination wedding, but decided against it.  There are just too many people we would have to leave off the guest list, so we had to stick close to home. We started talking about all of the different wedding scenarios and weighing the options on prices, and discovered we could get by very well financially if we have a country western themed wedding and reception. We thought about all the accessories we would need for the reception, like, picnic type tablecloths, some bales of hay, barbecue grills and mostly odds and ends for a good old fashioned country wing ding.  The more we talked about it, the more excited we both became.  None of our friends have ever done a wedding like this, and we thought that it would be a lot of fun. So, that was it.  The country wedding and reception was on!

   We made arrangements to get married in a little country church not far from home, and my fiance’s boss has a ranch that he agreed to let us use. He also said to feel free to use anything we might need. I knew he had horses, so I was thinking maybe a hayride would be a novel idea.  Now that we had the place and time, I had to start getting out the invites.  Then I went online and starting checking out all accessories from wedding cake toppers to bridesmaid gifts, and they had them all. I was really surprised at how many country western accessories they had available.  This was fantastic. There were frontier cake toppers, bride and groom cowboy hats, glass mugs shaped like little cowboy boots and so much more.  Everything was just falling into place for this reception. I was able to get everything I needed for a great western reception. There were also some pretty nifty ideas for wedding favors, groomsmen gifts and unique bridesmaid gifts.

   The ceremony was pretty traditional with our bridesmaids and groomsmen, flower girl and ring boy.  We decided to have just a normal wedding ceremony before going to our super different reception. The ceremony was beautiful and everything a bride could possibly want. But, there was one thing that wasn’t too traditional.  Instead of the bride and groom leaving the church in a limo, we left in a horse drawn buggy, and the limo driver was the best man.  Everyone then left the church and headed for the ranch where they could get ready for the reception.  We told everyone to bring a change of clothing, something appropriate for a barbecue, like jeans.

   The reception was an absolute blast, we had a country band playing, ribs, steaks and burgers grilling and long picnic tables set up with little metal buckets of wild flowers for centerpieces. The best part is everything was so affordable. This reception wasn’t gonna put us in the red. With all the great suggestions for wedding favors, decorations, and the cheap bridesmaid gift ideas, it didn’t cost us near what we thought it would.

   Everyone kept telling us all through the reception what a wonderful idea a frontier reception was and what a great time they were having.  I have a feeling people will talk about this reception for a long time to come.