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Having a money dance, also known as the honeymoon dance, at your beach wedding could be a great way to have fun with your guests, do something unusual and raise some extra cash for the actual honeymoon. However, if you’ve never been to a wedding celebration that included the money dance, you probably have a lot of questions about it – what is it, how it’s done and most importantly, would it be appropriate to incorporate it in your beach wedding celebration?

When shopping for bridesmaids dresses, use the same guidelines you used when choosing your own wedding dress. Your bridesmaids play a big role in the wedding ceremony so enabling them to look great, feel comfortable and walk gracefully is extremely important.

Bridesmaids and the bride should be dresses in the same style so if you chose a linen dress to wear at your beach wedding, choose a similar style for your bridesmaids. If you will be wearing an elegant, chiffon or organza dress make sure your bridesmaids have coordinating dresses too. That doesn’t necessarily mean identical, just don’t mix casual and elegant. Bride, groom and their entourage (bridesmaids and groomsmen) should look like a perfectly matched puzzle – the colors can vary but all the pieces must fit.

After a beach wedding ceremony, your guests will probably expect to attend a casual reception with the same theme. Some couples prefer to have the reception done on the same beach, right after the ceremony, while others choose the comfort of an air-conditioned hall and compensate the lack of nature’s elements with beach themed decorations and favors. Organizing a beach themed reception inside does have its good sides: your wedding cake won’t melt, you are safe from unwanted rain or wind and you can have your first wedding dance with your shoes/heels on. But, maybe you’re having a winter wedding back home? No problem! Organizing a beach themed wedding reception can make you and your guests forget it’s a cold November day outside.

Out of town weddings mean that most or all of your guests will be traveling to the selected destination.  A great way to thank your bridal party or even all of your guests for travelling so far for your wedding is to prepare an out of town bag for them, also known as an OOT bag. An out of town gift bag can look however you want it to and contains whatever you think your guests might find useful while staying in the destination you chose for your beach wedding. A beach wedding theme gives you a chance to be creative and make nice, personalized and practical out of town gift bags that will most definitely let your guest know how much you appreciate their efforts to attend your wedding.

Not knowing what you should and shouldn’t do is completely normal since there are so many ways to do a wedding and so much to think about. Planning a wedding is stepping into an unknown territory since the options are endless, but planning a beach wedding far away from your city or even country can be downright frightening. No need to worry though, beach weddings have their own set of rules and traditions and are a bit more casual. Below are a few tips for your beach wedding planning process:

The flower girl may be tiny but she sure is an important part of the wedding ceremony.  In old times, a flower girl’s duty was to entertain the guests, after all, is there a person who could restrain from smiling when a cute, little child, all dressed up like a porcelain doll shows up? Today, a flower girl represents a sign of bride’s arrival, she lays down flowers or confetti to mark the bride’s path and she still looks unbelievably cute and makes all the guests say “awww” when she appears.

Kids are not really good at being quiet or staying still for a long time so weddings are usually not the best event to leave them unattended. However, if you do your beach wedding preparations right, it could turn out to be an event they will enjoy. You see, your little guests don’t enjoy the same things grown-ups do, so you’ll need some fun things to keep them busy and occupied. Most people tend to get a bit scared when thinking about organizing a child-friendly wedding but the truth is that you can have it all- a perfect beach wedding both you, the kids and their parents would enjoy.

A wedding cake has been and always will be an inevitable wedding dessert. After all, a cake cutting ceremony is one of those special wedding moments that are just picture perfect. However, if you’re planning to do a complete beach wedding, with the ceremony and the reception right there, next to the sea, you might find standard wedding cakes a bit unpractical. Even if you schedule the wedding ceremony before noon a reception will definitely last long after that and your gorgeous, three layered wedding cake will start melting. So, a mid-day beach wedding reception may call for some changes in the dessert section of your wedding menu.

The culture and traditions you were raised by play an important role in who you are today. So, it’s only logical to be proud of them and try to incorporate those traditions into your beach wedding. A beach wedding is indeed an interesting and exotic event and adding some cool, unusual traditions can make your wedding unique and memorable. In order to personalize your beach wedding, you can choose to incorporate traditions from your culture or borrow some other traditions you like.

Tying the knot on the “old continent” is definitely a one of a kind experience and if you’re really looking to add that romantic, historical note to your beach wedding, why not see what Italy has to offer? Colorful landscapes, beautiful coast and the rich history has attracted many celebrities, so it’s only fair to say that Italy is one of the most glamorous beach wedding destinations you definitely want to have in mind. Whether you decide to go with the upscale north or the colorful south, one thing is for sure – you’ll definitely feel like Romeo and Juliet only without the tragic ending. The traditional, romantic coast of Italy has everything you need to have an elegant memorable beach wedding.