Beach Wedding Ceremony Decor

Your beach wedding ceremony decor can be as simple or as elaborate you you choose. Sometimes I personally think that simple is often better when it comes to having this intimate part of your wedding on a beautiful beach. Nature has provided you with a spectacular backdrop and ambience. What more could you ask for!

Below are a few things you can do to personalize your ceremony venue (whether you have it on an actual beach or in a church or chapel) with some unique beach wedding ceremony decor:

Pew Markers:

Pew markers offer you great opportunities for beach wedding ceremony decor as it will not go unnoticed - everyone needs to walk down the isle to their seats. Here are a few ideas:

1. For a luxurious and upmarket feel hang lush tassles in a neutral sand colour from your pews and attach starfish or beautiful shells to them.

2. Decorate your pews with bunches of tropical flowers and palm branches.

3. Make your own leis from the same type of flowers in your bouquet or from shells and small pieces of driftwood and hang on the pews.

4. Cut out small surf boards from balsa wood and paint them in your wedding colours. Write your names on them and hang on each pew.

5. Fill small tin or plastic buckets with some beach sand and a few pretty shells and hang from every pew.

6. Instead of pew markers plant some shepperd's hooks at every pew and hang with storm lanterns decorated with flowers and ribbons, or hang steel buckets filled with roses or your wedding flowers - simple but beautiful beach wedding ceremony decor!

Other Ceremony Decorations:

1. Line your isle with palm branches and tropical flowers, sunflowers, tiki torches, paper luminaries or even pinwheels in your wedding colours for a dash of fun.

2. Hire (or make) a beach wedding arch out of latticework, driftwood or palm leaves. Decorate your beach wedding arch with fairy lights (if you don't have electricity on site then consider battery operated fairy lights which you can find in any specialized lighting store), flowers, drapery or ribbons.

3. Hire a portable beach wedding gazebo. Don't just think of the type of canopy hawkers use at your local market, many hire companies have special gazebos or Chuppas for weddings. Decorate with strings of flowers and shells, or hang rosebuds in different lengths from pieces of coloured ribbon.

4. Build a wooden isle and paint it white for a contemporary feel to your beach wedding ceremony decor.

5. You can also create your own beach wedding canopy with driftwood or 4 pieces of bamboo and a gauzy type of material like tulle.

6. Instead of a traditional red carpet, run a long strip of coloured material down the isle. Just make sure you weigh it down properly or the wind might take it!

7. Plant poles on all 4 corners (4 should suffice for a small ceremony) of the patch of beach you are thinking of utilizing. Tie pieces of sting from one to the other and hang large pieces of fabric over the seating areas. This not only creates a stunning visual affect, but will also give much needed shade to your guests.

Other decor tips & considerations:

1. Instead of having a traditional ring pillow, why not use two beautiful shells to hold your rings? Just make sure to fill the shell cavity with tissue paper or cotton wool to ensure that the rings are displayed at the entrance to the shells and does not fall inside.

2. If you are planning a summer wedding then it is sure to be hot on the beach even in the early morning or at sunset. Make sure you offer your guests refreshments before the ceremony. Leave two large woven baskets with bottles of cold mineral water or fill a small paddleboat with lots of ice for a dramatic effect.

3. Hand out fans to your guests or print and fold your ceremony program into a fan.

4. Have a few small umbrellas in a neutral colour or your wedding colours in umbrella holders at the entrance to the ceremony.

5. If your beach wedding ceremony is at sunset, then make sure you have tiki torches or luminaries to light the area.

6. If you wanted to use unity candles at your ceremony, but are rethinking because of a possible breeze then why not try a sand ceremony instead. This is a contemporary twist to this wedding tradition that is just the special touch you are looking for in your beach wedding ceremony decor.

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