The Party Thai

I decided, after looking at many wedding suggestions, to have a themed ceremony and reception party. So, now all that was left was to do was decide what theme sounded like the one I’d like to have. The country western theme seemed like it would be lots of fun. I pictured a reception party barn dance for our wedding day. We were having our wedding during the hot summer months, so a beach themed wedding sounded pretty great. We could have a great time, swimming, partying on shore and watching a gorgeous sunset in the background. There were a lot of themed weddings and receptions to consider. You could find anything you needed online for a themed wedding from wedding décor to a exquisite wedding server set. With all the themed wedding suggestions they had, I decided to go with the glorious fairytale wedding.

Since, I had made up my mind to use the storybook theme, it was time to find my accessories and reception supplies. First I ordered the lovely wedding invitations for our wedding guests. Then I started choosing all of our decorations and other wedding accessories. 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. I chose some lovely tulle swags to be draped from pew to pew with beautiful satin bows at the end of each row. There were flowers in tall vases placed around the altar and taper candles in fairy tale themed candle holders on each side of our exquisite unity candle.

I also had a unique fairytale wedding guestbook for everyone to sign when they entered the church. I couldn’t have dreamed a more perfect fairytale ceremony than the one I had. The flower girl was so cute, and the ring boy looked very handsome as they perfectly performed their duties at the ceremony. We took a carriage ride to the reception, just like Cinderella and her Prince left their ceremony.

The reception hall was really beautiful with all the lovely flowers everywhere and the lovely tables all set up with crystal and silver. Every table in the reception hall had gorgeous crystal champagne flutes with decorated stems to go with our storybook theme. I found these very exquisite castles to use as place card holders on the reception tables. I filled adorable carriage designed favor boxes with little candies for each place setting at the reception.

Even though all of our reception tables were gorgeous, our wedding table was the most breathtaking. 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. While shopping for our other reception supplies I found the perfect fairytale cake topper there too. Even the fairytale wedding knife they had was special with it’s exquisite styled handle. The wedding cake knife set was so groovy, I wanted to buy more things that matched! The knife set just added to the décor of our wedding cake and topper.

After we were toasted with our lovely crystal champagne flutes, it was time for the bride and groom to have their first dance together as man and wife. We chose our favorite song, “I Swear” by all for one, as our first bride and groom dance. After our song was over, couples filled the dance floor, for the next song. 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. Just before we left for our honeymoon, some of the guests thanked us for the lovely fairytale wedding favors we gave them.

Don’t ever let someone tell you that fairytales can’t come true, it did for us.

  We had decided to let me decide what theme our wedding would be. According to my fiance, it’s a woman thing, and he’d be happy with whatever I decide. He suggested we elope, but I wanted to have a big wedding with all of our friends and family around. This is an important day in a womans life and I wanted it to be everything I’ve always dreamed of, so I wanted to know all my options on themed weddings. I went online and checked out a bunch of them before I made my decision.

   I took a look at the fantastic winter wonderland wedding, but even though it sounds gorgeous, we are getting married in August, so that would just seem out of place. I know that you can still have a winter themed wedding in the summer, but, I just didn’t feel right about that one. So, I went on and checked out a garden wedding theme. There really are a lot of options when it comes to an outside wedding and reception. You’ve got the gorgeous park or garden atmosphere and there are a lot of lovely ideas for decorations, cake toppers, centerpieces and even the perfect wedding cake knife. There was also the beach wedding and reception idea, which I liked very much. I pictured us on the warm sand under a beautiful canopy with possibly tiki torches lit up everywhere. I know all of our guests would have a great time on the beach. There were also quite a few accessories to choose from to make a beautiful oceanside wedding. Everything from cake toppers to the wedding knife. Really gorgeous accessories and supplies. So the beach wedding was a definite yes.

   That is until I spotted the country western wedding and reception idea. As soon as I started checking out all there was for them, I knew this was the one for us. We both were born and raised in Texas and this is the ultimate of wedding ceremonies for us. My brother and sister in law have a ranch just outside of town and they agreed that we could have our reception there. In fact they are both as excited about it as I am. When I told my fiance about the idea, he liked the plan. My brother and his wife are helping us to plan the perfect reception. They even suggested a big cookout, and possibly a good old fashioned barn dance.

   We got married in the little country church down the road and everyone left the ceremony in horse drawn buggies over to the reception. The reception tables looked so nice with these adorable little buckets full of flowers and little cowboy boot mugs. The cookout was great with everything under the sun to eat. Salads of all kinds and plenty of ribs, steaks, and chicken. As far as décor, I got so much by going online shopping. They have everything imaginable for a western motif. I got a terrific western cake topper, western garland for decoration, little cowboy hats for the tables that I used as place card holders and even a gorgeous country western wedding knife set. I even got bride and groom cowboy hats for us to wear at the reception.

   When we left for our honeymoon there was still a lot of dancing and partying going on and everyone seemed to be having a fantastic time. Our honeymoon wasn’t anything fancy, we had a cabin by the lake to spend our time alone in the beautiful countryside. I’m so glad I chose this theme for our wedding and reception. It turned out to be one of the most fantastic days of our lives.