I looked at a lot of wedding options before I decided I wanted to have a themed wedding and reception. All I had to do now, was decide which theme I wanted to go with. I took a look at the country western theme, and it seemed like it would be a lot of fun. I even considered having a barn dance for our reception party. A beach wedding sounded nice for our summer wedding. We could party and swim until the sun sets on the beautiful blue water. It was a never ending list of possibilities for themed weddings and receptions. You could find anything you needed online for a themed wedding from wedding décor to a beautiful wedding server. Even though I found a lot of themed wedding ideas I liked, I chose the fantastic looking fairytale theme.
Once I estabished that I was going with the storybook idea, I started looking for accessories and supplies. Of course the very first thing to do is get the invitations for our friends and family. After that I went on to the wedding décor and the other accessories I would need. I wanted a wedding fit for Cinderella. The decorations for the church were the first thing I wanted to get. Tulle swags were draped from each row of pews with a bow of satin pinned on each end. There were flowers in tall vases placed around the altar and taper candles in fairy tale themed candle holders on each side of our beautiful 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 and ring boy did a wonderful job at the wedding ceremony and really looked elegant in their wedding attire. 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. All the tables had crystal champagne flutes with storybook designed stems. I found these very exquisite castles to use as place card holders on the reception tables. Another suggestion was to fill favor boxes with candies for the guests, and I chose little carriage style boxes for everyone.
All the reception tables looked elegant, but the wedding table of the bride and groom outshined them all. It gave the appearance of royalty to the reception. At the end of our wedding table, was the wedding cake table, with our beautiful five tier cake and gorgeous storybook topper. While shopping for our other reception supplies I found the perfect fairytale cake topper there too. I saw a gorgeous wedding knife in a storybook theme with a very decorative handle. I wanted the complete wedding cake server and knife instead of just a plain knife because I wanted it to be special. 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 chose our favorite song, “I Swear” by all for one, as our first bride and groom dance. Other couples came up to dance as soon as the next song began. I’m glad I bought the gorgeous fairytale photo album to store my wedding pictures in, because I’m going to have quite a few of them to treasure. 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.