Valentine’s Wedding Ideas
Great Suggestions if You are Planning a Wedding on Valentine's Day
Some fresh ideas to consider if you are getting married this Valentine's.
Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular days to get married. It is actually the busiest day for weddings in Las Vegas. Here are some ideas that will help add the Valentine’s theme to your wedding in a tasteful way.
Decorating
If you don’t want to decorate exclusively in red, you could make your color scheme pink and white with small pops of red. Something like red chargers under the plates, one red flower in the middle of a pink bouquet, or a red headband on the bridesmaids would work nicely, like the Swarovski Crystal Red Headband. Since roses are very romantic, you could scatter red rose petals down the aisle (if the church approves), as well as on the head table, buffet table and gift table. You can purchase bags of simulated rose petals at places such as Oriental Trading.
At the reception you could make the backdrop behind the head table a drape of red satin. For place cards, use miniature white plaster cupids (which you can get at any craft store) and pierce the guest’s heart-shaped place card through Cupid’s arrow.
Food
If you are serving dessert, be sure to have the chef line the side of each plate with a heart piped in chocolate or raspberry sauce. You could offer your guests a romantic chocolate drink like Godiva’s White Chocolate Liqueur when they arrive or at the end of the evening. You could also embellish your wedding cake with small cinnamon candy hearts.
Other Details
It will cost quite a bit more but you could use raised red velvet lettering on your invitations, or have the inside of the envelope lined in red. You could also plan to arrive at the church in a vibrant red car, such as a Saab 9-5 Sedan in Chili Red, a Jaguar XJ in Radiance Red or a BMW 7 Sedan in Merlot Red.
Your bridesmaids could wear dresses of varying shades of red or, alternatively, different fabrics such as red velvet, red satin, red taffeta, and so forth. A great gift for your bridesmaids, in tune with the theme, would be a bracelet of red glass hearts, such as the Murano Heart Bracelet.
Simple and inexpensive gestures include leaving a large opened heart-shaped box of chocolates on the gift table and beside the guest book. They’ll sign the book for sure. And a great wedding favor to give each guest would be a beautiful Valentine decorated gourmet cookie, like the ones from Eleni's.
When you want your guests to get the bride and groom to kiss, they must tell their own love story or the most romantic gesture they have ever received. Instead of throwing the bouquet to the single women, randomly give each non-married female guest a single rose as a Valentine’s gesture. You could put a fake diamond ring inside of one and whoever gets that one, is the next to get married.
Hopefully these ideas will be useful to you or inspire you to come up with some of your own. For more wedding ideas, please see my articles Customizing Your Wedding Dress and Ideas for a Beach Wedding.
