The reception is the time the guests really get to celebrate with the couple and it is a great way to end the beach wedding ceremony on a high note. Beach weddings or beach themed weddings offer the couple interesting options for sharing their personality with their guests and sometimes the choices can almost be overwhelming. Here are a few basic rules that will help you get going and then you can jazz it up with your own preferences.
The bride and groom have picked their attire and have a sense of how everything is coming together. And then here is the compelling question of the day. What will adorn the bride’s feet at a beach wedding? She should probably rule out the spike heeled Jimmy Choo pumps or the Manolo Blahnik sling back sandals. While they are beautiful, the bride should not have to worry about slipping and falling while walking across the sand.
A beach wedding where you are surrounded by sand and surf comes with in-built set décor so to speak. What can be more naturally elegant than the beauty of the splashing water and the swaying palms? But you can choose to add a little bit more of your personality to the setting when you decide on a beach wedding. You are making an effort to get your attire right and it is only appropriate that the background where your vows are to be exchanged be part of your perfect vision also. And here is where you have to choose for you can go with anything from real simple to royally elaborate. Your guests can take their cue from your décor choice about the kind of experience you are creating.
You have found the partner of your dreams, you have both agreed to tie the knot and now you are faced with the realities of planning a wedding. Do you feel like you have to climb off your romantic high and get into the muddy details of booking a church and caterer and decide on mundane details such as dinner seating? Well, maybe you don’t have to get far from your romantic high if you consider a beach wedding and here are five compelling reasons you should:
1. Cost Effective
2. Less Hassle
3. Quality Time with Family and Friends
You are planning a beach wedding – you feel that the natural setting and the sense of connectedness with the natural world makes for a beautiful start to a new relationship. How to continue that connectedness in all you wedding related choices is the question now. Clothes are a big part of this day – yes, a dress for the bride and a nice outfit for the groom but also for the other members of the wedding party. The bridesmaids and the groomsmen and the children in the wedding need to be in spirit of the wedding. This is not a matter of just coordinating color – it is a matter of getting the beach theme right.
If you’re opting to have a beach wedding you’re obviously looking to be different and adventurous! The whole point of having such a wedding is that you get to let go of orthodox norms and express your true emotions freely! It only makes sense that your partner and you both signal your freedom of thought and expression in the way you dress as well! What you wear on your wedding day is what truly speaks about the way you feel that day!
Probably the most crucial ingredient involved in getting your beach wedding attire right is colour! You’ve absolutely got to get it right in order to set the right mood for your wedding. White is probably the most commonly used colour. While this is a safe option which can never really go wrong, it is my opinion, that you should look to bring some color into your wedding ensemble. So what other options do you have? Well….pastel colours are a good bet. They’re breezy, light and in sync with the beach wedding idea itself. Pastel yellows and blues suit most people however you’ve got to exercise caution when experimenting with the reds, greens and violets. Men should team this up with neutral simple pants which again look better in lighter shades, especially in beige.
And then of course there is the option of highlighting your outfit with dashes of colour, in which case you should start of with a light, neutral base and add dashes of brighter or darker shades. A white dress with maroon accents and highlighting for example, could prove to be a gorgeous beach wedding dress!
You’re the best judge when it comes to deciding this particular matter, but seeking the assistance of professionals skilled in this could prove quite handy! Just remember though, the colour you wear will determine the colour of the moment!
For all you men that are lucky enough to have a beach wedding this is a message of warning. Just because you’re privileged enough to not have to walk down a concrete aisle in a suffocating suit does not mean that you can show up looking like a castaway either! The beach wedding look isn’t an informal one, nor is it semi-formal. It’s what I like to call a formal “light” look which implies that you’ve got to look casual but with a formal, sharp edge to it!
The most exciting part of having a beach wedding is that you have the opportunity to mark your special moment at some far off, adventurous place! Okay, far-off isn’t an essential criterion but adventurous and exciting are absolute musts! The point being made here is that in order to truly have the most gorgeous wedding ever, you need to first figure out where you want to be on that special day!
Planning a wedding is most often a tiresome and irksome process! The long drawn out process of a church wedding complete with all the rituals and ceremonies can take away all the fun from your wedding itself! What then can you do? You can leave it all behind in the city and run away with your spouse to some gorgeous locale to exchange vows! And where better to do so than where the land meets the sea, where the two halves of the earth become one, where Mother Nature becomes complete – on the sexiest beaches on the planet!
