OUR CEREMONY & RECEPTION

We are getting married May 29, 2011 at Hotel Valencia in San Jose, CA.  We feel so fortunate to be getting married at such a beautiful location.  Its young, modern & chic & totally fits our style. We booked our venue 2.5 years before our wedding day to make sure we had the date we wanted available. Hotel Valencia also offered us such a wonderful package that we just couldn't pass it up. We are getting married on a Sunday of Memorial Weekend, so it will be nice to have all the pre-wedding/rehearsal festivities & hang out with all our friends and family before & after the wedding.

Where our Ceremony will take place!!

I will be making these crystal garlands and hanging them from the inside of the fireplace as our backdrop.  I purchased the acrylic door curtain from shopwildthings.com for $23.99 and will be glueing preserved orchids from save-on-crafts.com.  They will end up looking like these...

I will be putting these large vases in varying heights with different white flowers in front of the fireplace.  We will also be re-using them at our Escort Table.

I will be DIY these pomander balls to line our aisles.  I'm going to jazz them up by added crystal flowing from the bottom and around the handles.

1/4/11:  Inspiration to Reality...I made my pomanders to line my ceremony aisle & I love how they turned out!

 We will be doing a Welcome sign like this for our guest as they arrive to our ceremony.

     <--From LadyESQ

I was able to find the same exact frame at IKEA for $29.99.  I will probably be changing the color to white and need to purchase a floor length easle.  Sarah @ SignaturesbySarah recreated LadyESQ's signage for me.  I love it!

Our reception will take place in the hotel ballroom. Heres a picture of our ballroom set up for another wedding.  We will be taking advantage of the silver chivari chairs that our venue provides with our package. Perfect!!!