Elegant Beach Wedding Invitations

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My fiance and I were engaged around Christmas time. He came with my parents and I on our vacation trip to the beach, and little did I know but he had bought a ring and was going to propose. One evening he and I were walking on the beach, and he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said yes in a heartbeat, and I realized very quickly that the easy part was over. Planning for a wedding has proven to be one of the most difficult things that I have ever done. However one thing that was not very hard for me to decide on was the theme of the wedding. My fiance had proposed to me on the beach, and if I could not take everyone to the beach, I was going to bring the beach to everyone else. I decided on a beach wedding.

Most of the decorations were fairly easy to pick out, but one thing that I really wanted to look great were the wedding invitations. I wanted to find some beach wedding invitations, so I started looking around for them. As I looked, I began to notice that most of these shore line wedding themed things were tacky and often made to look like a joke. I am not sure why this is, but I did not want my wedding to be cheesy. I wanted to find some elegant nautical wedding invitations that would match the subtle beach design of the rest of the wedding.

Then I found a website that finally took the idea of a beach wedding seriously and had created some absolutely beautiful beach wedding invitations. They were tasteful but still very much beach themed. The invitations had a picture of the sun setting on the horizon of a beautiful, blue ocean, with a little bit of white, sandy beach on the bottom. They looked just like the night my fiancé had proposed to me. The beach wedding invitations that I picked out were perfect.

Fabulous Beach Wedding Ideas

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Here are some fun ideas for a beach wedding – whether a destination wedding in a tropical locale or close to home, how to have a wonderful beach themed ceremony and reception.

Beach Wedding Invitations

• Get the beach theme off to a good start by putting a small amount of white sand in each guest’s wedding invitation.
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• Fun beach wedding invitations could resemble a vacation postcard with a photo of the bride and groom at the beach with the words, “Hope you’ll be here…” written in the sand.

Beach Wedding Decorations

• To decorate guests’ chairs on the beach, string garlands of mini starfish or sand dollars, or coral between seats to connect them.
• These beautiful Beach Wedding Table Numbers at Etsy as seen in the photo above are a great inspiration for a color theme for your beach wedding.
• Place four large rattan poles upright into the sand and drape white gauze over the top as a canopy for guests to sit under. Gauze is only about $5 a yard and comes in a variety of colors.
• Use decorative pieces of driftwood as place card holders for a beach wedding.
• Give each person a rattan palm leaf fan to stay cool.
• Thread either a beautiful ribbon or natural raffia through a sand dollar to use as a napkin ring.
• Use candles that smell like tropical fruit such as mango, papaya, coconut and kiwi.
• Have white galvanized buckets holding bottles of water in the sand for guests to take as they need.
• Line the base of the gift table, head table or buffet table with real grass skirts – the raffia ones in natural, not the cheap green paper ones.
• Use charms of sandals for wine or champagne glass markers at the wedding reception.

Beach Wedding Dresses and Attire

• Bridesmaids and groomsmen could wear beach wedding colors in shades of ocean green, sky blue, and sand beige.
• Fun beach wedding dresses include a crochet dress, a caftan, a halter dress, an off the shoulder dress or a mermaid (fitted skirt, long train) style dress.

Beach Wedding Favors, Cakes, Music and Other Details

• For a beach wedding cake, think key lime or pineapple or chocolate with a mango sauce.
• Consider having a wedding program fan so guests can cool themselves with it.
• Set the wedding march to a reggae beat and use Caribbean type instruments for the wedding music, such as a steel drum or a bamboo flute.
• Have the bride’s arrival announced by a conch shell horn.
• Decorate a wooden lobster trap with tropical flowers and use it as a money box or, for something more elegant, have envelopes left in a mother-of-pearl bowl.
• A boat captain’s log book would make an interesting guest book for a beach wedding.
• Fun beach wedding favors to give guests would be a small bag of tropical flower bulbs like plumerias, or saltwater taffy.
• Avoid having a beach wedding in the afternoon, instead choose early morning or dusk so guests do not have to sit in the hot sun, and there will be less people using the beach.

From a citrus cake to ocean theme decor ideas to sand filled invitations, all of these beach wedding ideas are perfect to use at any type of outdoor or summer wedding and reception.

Beach Wedding Invitations – 5 Musts for Wording

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Destination weddings to Hawaii, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Maui, Jamaica and more are becoming more and more popular as destination wedding planning online has become easier and easier. The beach is the most popular destination wedding theme these days and many brides want to start their wedding theme off right with a beautiful beach theme wedding invitation cards.

Many beach wedding invitation cards sites like BeachWedlockInvitations.com exist to offer hundreds of beach wedding invitation cards, but beach brides aren’t worried about finding the right beach invitation as much as they are worried about their beach wedding invitation cards wording.

Every bride wants her wedding to be unique and her wedding invitation cards is no different. Finding the perfect beach wedding invitation cards wording is as important as finding the perfect beach wedding invitation cards itself, so here are 5 beach wedding invitation cards wording tips.

1. Know yourself and your spouse to be – Your beach invitation wording should reflect you and your future spouses personalities, love and quirkiness … yes, quirkiness. wedding invitation cards have been done for millions of years, if you want to be original, you are going to have to capture what makes you and your beach love different than other couples.

2. There is no wrong wording – Certain wedding invitation cards wording ethics exist, but most people don’t know them and wouldn’t notice if you went according to the rules or not. Besides, more and more brides and grooms are throwing the rules to the wind these days and just writing what they want. Don’t worry about trying to follow all the rules. The reason you’re probably having a beach wedding is because you didn’t want the traditional wedding ceremony anyway, so have your beach wedding invitation cards reflect the same free flowing spirit that the beach has.

3. Know your audience – Even though we just mentioned that your beach wedding invitation cards wording should be about you and your future beach spouse by placing your quirkiness in your beach invitation wording, remember who your audience is. If you are sending this invitation to an 80-year-old grandma, you probably don’t want to use profanity or other inappropriate language.

4. Beach phrases – Find a single beach phrase that fits you and your spouse but also suits the beach setting you will be married in. “Once upon a time on a beach …” or “What happens on the beach … stays in our hearts,” are just some examples. More examples can be found at BeachWedlockInvitations.com.

5. Match your wording to your invitation – Simple beach weddings with simple beach themes should have simple beach wedding invitation cards themes as well. A beach wedding with 10 – 50 people is an intimate setting and the invitations should reflect that. Don’t bog down the wording with a 20 line poem to begin the invitation. A beach wedding with over 500 people can be reason for the 20 line poem.

Beautiful Beach Wedding Attire to Inspire

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Beach wedding can be as romantic and charming and their counterparts in the church, but also more informal and perhaps more intimate and personal, if you plan carefully – including clothing and comfortable environment free air.

Brides beach can leave a long skirt, formal and wedding hairstyles poof you can catch the wind and rather more elegant, casual or classic and elegant simplicity. Dresses that are closer to the body, with more than a “picture film,” tend to be a better choice for a wedding dress here – if you are getting married in a company or other indoor location by the sea. We talk about the wedding in the sand and sea, the sea breeze – perfect tends to work better if you do not want to wind gusts to expose her ass! Maybe there’s another reason, sarong style wedding dresses are gaining popularity. They are slenderizing, elegant, yet soft and feminine, and guests are comfortable, whether formal or informal.

Did you know that nothing cools, such as natural substances, so light cotton dress is the perfect choice for you? It can be formal or informal, to fit your personal style. The thing you want in a wedding dress for comfort on the beach, so you can enjoy a really special day and all events – and wants you to feel beautiful!

While I like natural materials, is not obligated to do so. Many brides choose a beach dress with cellulose surface specially designed to be able to fly gracefully, gently, seductively in the wind. Beautiful! But your body that something “swallows”. And beware: No matter how formal or informal, maybe you think that you should avoid heavy bills or more layers of material – natural or not – because it gets hot. Transmit and display, sweat and fear!

Length of dress is also important. Try a short length cocktail or tea length to prevent the implementation of sand or water. But if you want a long dress, formal wedding, just remember to do the dishes a little sand.
Bridal veil is not necessary, however, many brides choose to be on the beach is a short to match the dress. Select another bouquet bride, stone brooches with pins or headbands or Polynesian-style flowers in your hair. Most hairdressers with books attract hairstyles “formal” occasion at the beach, where the hair goes up or down. Wedding hairstyle that will largely determine the veils and other bridal accessories hair will work for you.

Your hair may be difficult to look great. Many brides choose a beach wearing a hair to avoid blowing in the wind, but other bride’s long airflow and dance freely to express their own happiness. Still others prefer to pull your hair into a ponytail a sleek, surrounded by flowers and pearls.

If your dress is casual, then you want casual footwear such as flip-flops decorated with, or even some tape sandals. Or maybe you want to go barefoot in the sand, “sandals wedding” in the state of accounts as a decoration and shoes only. After all, sand is expensive white satin pumps!

What is Good about Beach Wedding?!?

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Beach wedding is becoming more popular. Both you and your guests can enjoy the beautiful scene of the seaside. You can also walk, or even run on the beach with the bare foot. There are a lot of advantages for a beach wedding. The followings are the most essential advantages.

Less Formal

This is certainly the number one advantage of a beach wedding. As discussed above, both you and your guests can walk on the beach with the bare foot. Everything can be less formal. The wedding cake can be less formal. The wedding invitation can be less formal. The reception can also be less formal. It really suits couples who do not like a wedding which is too formal.

Because it is a less formal wedding, the dressing code of the guests can also be a bit casual. Some guests will even thank you when you are hosting a beach wedding because they may not like formal dressing. I myself am one of such guests.

Sometime children can be quite annoying in a formal wedding. Of course we should never blame the children for that. It is just because they are still small and they may not know and understand the importance of etiquette well. However, this will not be any problem for a beach wedding. The children can even play and have fun on the beach.

Save Money

According to surveys an average wedding will cost about USD27,000. This is quite a large amount of money. You may need to seek for wedding loans if you find this a financial burden to you. A beach wedding, however, can cost you less money.

For the reception of a beach wedding, you will probably adopt the idea of buffet or food station reception because it serves the purpose of a beaching wedding – to make the wedding less formal. And at the same time such a reception will be a lot cheaper than a formal reception because you can easily organize the stuff yourselves and eliminate the spending on the caterer.

Besides, since a beach wedding will probably host in daytime, what you are going to prepare is either breakfast or lunch for the guests. This results in saving in money since it will be more expensive to prepare dinner for the guests.

Convenient

Some couples will have their wedding ceremony and reception in two separate venues. This can be quite inconvenient. A beach wedding can totally solve this problem. You can have your ceremony and reception at the same place on the beach.

This is not only convenient to you but also your guests. Both you and your guest can enjoy a longer time of getting together because they do not need to waste their time on traveling. This means that you can really share the romance and sweet moments with your guests. At the end of the day the most essential meaning of a wedding is to share the joy and happiness together.

If you are going to invite only a limited number of guests, it will be even simpler because you do not need to “book” and reserve the beach in advance.