Choosing Beach Wedding Centerpieces

Choosing your beach wedding centerpieces can be frustrating but is also a lot of fun! While your choice will be influenced greatly by whether or not you have a theme such as "beach party", "tropical", or "mermaid fantasia", there are a few ideas that can be used without any specific theme, but which will also complement any beach wedding theme. Your choice is limited only by your imagination. Here are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing:

Ideas for beach wedding centerpieces:

1. Hammer a couple of nails into large pieces of driftwood. Skewer some tea light candles onto the nails. Lay a sand coloured table runner on the table and place the driftwood "candelabra" on top. Add some sand, shells and tropical flowers if you like. An inexpensive but stunning beach wedding centerpiece!

2. Get some sea sand and place a few handfuls on the center of the table. Place a large shallow glass bowl either on top of the sand or buried into the sand. Fill with water and beautiful seashells. To finish off the look float some of these pretty starfish candles.

3. Fill a couple of goldfish bowls with live fish. These beach wedding centerpieces can be given to your guests to take home or you can take them home as a reminder of your wedding day.

4. Fill a tin bucket with sea sand and place a large pillar candle ( Kauai Beach Scented Candles will work wonderfully ) or several thin taper candles in the sand. Decorate with seashells.

5. Large conch shells make understated but elegant beach wedding centerpieces. Just complete the look by placing a few lumeria blooms on the table amongst a few tea light candles. You can also purchase or make your own conch shell candles.

6. Place a few handfuls of sand in the center of the table and top off with a miniature lighthouse.

7. A sand castle also makes a truly beautiful beach wedding centerpiece. You can make your own by buying plaster castles (available at craft stores), covering it in some wood glue and rolling in sand. Alternatively follow this link to buy ready made Sand Castle Beach Wedding Centerpieces. Richly detailed with fanciful turrets, arrow slits and crenellated towers, these wax lanterns, lit from within by votives, are dusted with real sand for the authentic look of a seashore creation. Simply light them and add a mound of clean white sand and a trio of shell candles to create an unforgettable setting.

8. Hire some tall silver candelabra (or even a hurricane lamp on a stand will do if you will be outdoors). Place in the center of the table. Cover the base with a few handfuls of sand and decorate with shells. Place one or two carved wooden sea birds on the sand or even a small carved wooden boat.

9. Place beach themed gel candles or bamboo pillar candles and small vases with exotic flowers down the center of each table.

10. Lay a couple of palm leaves on the table. Place a large glass candleholder on top. Fill the bottom with some sea sand and place a large pillar candle in the sand. Decorate around the candleholder with dried starfish, seashells and driftwood and a few smaller candles or tea light candles.

11. Place a few palm leaves on the table and place a large floating bowl on top. Place some frosty blue beach glass (available from Illuminations.com ) fill with water and float some candles and/or tropical flowers.

12. Create a beach scene on your tables by first making a beach out of a few handfuls of sand on a blue tablecloth or overlay. Place some miniature beach chairs and a few flip flop candles on the "beach".

13. Fill a shallow glass bowl with some clean sea sand and coral pieces and complete with a scattering of pretty shells and votive candles or perhaps even some shell candles. These are very easy to make yourself, but are also available from Illuminations.com.

14. Place large pieces of driftwood in the center of the table and finish off with a pillar candle, shells, starfish and exotic flowers, or alternatively with a string of white fairy lights or themed lights.

15. A few simple tealight lanterns and some shells might be your best bet if you are going to be outdoors and are worried about a breeze playing havoc with you candles. These lightly distressed metal and glass tealight candles. The ones featured on the left are available from Illuminations.com and are absolutely enchanting - sure to bring the beach to you even if you are nowhere near the shore!

16. For a bit of a modern (but still inexpensive) twist on your beach wedding centerpieces, try this easy idea: fill two different sizes of clear, square glass vases with clean, white beach sand and decorate with coral, pretty shells, starfish and seagrass. Finish off with a few scattered votive or tealight candles or even some shell candles. This is very easy to put together yourself and can be created from items you have collected while stolling along the beach!

17. Another inexpensive idea is to fill a large clear glass pedistal bowl with a little clean sand and some pretty shells. This is great for a day wedding if you don't need any candles. Should you need some candles, then place a pillar candle in the center of the shells and scatter a few smaller votives or tealights and shells around the arrangements.


18.For a romantic way to bring the seaside to any table try either one or a combination of the two clam shell candle holders. The Open Clam Shell, finished with iridescent luster paint, will hold a resplendent pearl candle or favorite scented votive candle atop sand. The Standing Clamshell Lantern is a lovely decorative object on its own. When darkness falls and it glows with candlelight, it's exceptional.

19.Then when in doubt always go with candles. You can never go wrong with too many candles. For some absolutely stunning candles, candle holders, lanterns etc try Illuminations.com's wedding page.



These are of course just a few general ideas for beach wedding centerpieces. Find more ideas by visiting our Beach Wedding Themes page.