Beach Wedding Ceremony Decor

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

For something a little more basic and budget friendly, simply tie some raffia or ribbons in your colors to two points of the starfish and hang them to the chairs by this. Simple but beautiful!

Decorate your pews with simple palm leaves that are cut to size and then hung over the pews with some string or ribbon.

If you are looking for some more color then add some tropical flowers, leis or even shells.

Have a florist make Hawaiian leis out of tropical flowers to drape over your pews, or make your own leis.

You can use real flowers, artificial flowers or even incorporate shells and small pieces of driftwood if your ceremony is not really "tropical".

If you use flowers you make yourself or artificial flowers you can make these days or weeks before the wedding and it would be quite economical too.

Photo Credit: Colin Cowie Weddings

Are you or your future spouse avid surfers? Bring this part of your life into your beach wedding ceremony decor.

Cut out small surf boards from balsa wood and paint them in your chosen colors. Write your names and the date of the wedding on them and hang on each pew.

They also make great keepsakes!

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Fill tin or plastic buckets with your chosen flowers and hang them just like that over your chairs or on shepherds hooks.

Or if pails are not your thing, how about some simple glass jars? Jam jars are perfect and come in many sizes. Fill with flowers, tie a string and hang. Just gorgeous!

Instead of using buckets or jars filled with flowers like the example above, why not fill the pails with some beautiful shells and starfish?

This can look stunning if you also incorporate some green or perhaps some succulents.

Hang them over the side of the chair like in the picture, on shepherds hooks or simply on the floor.

If you don't like the idea of pew markers or perhaps you don't have chairs with anything to hang something from, then shepherds hooks might be what you were looking for.

You can use them in many ways for your beach wedding ceremony decor - hang storm lanterns filled with flowers, buckets or jars of flowers, pomanders, Chinese lanterns or anything else your imagination comes up with.

Storm lanterns or any nautical style lanterns can make great beach wedding ceremony decorations.

If you want a minimalist look for your ceremony decor then simply place them down your aisle with flowers inside or even candles if you are having a sunset ceremony.

Or you could hang them from the pews with some draping as in the photo.

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Make simple flags in your colors or in a gauzy white material and attach to some sticks of bamboo.

This is a very simple decor idea that is easy to make and inexpensive too. It also looks great if there is a slight breeze.

Make or buy some pinwheels in your chosen colors and tie them to the pews or to sticks of bamboo for a playful look that works well in the breeze, and something for the kids (or grownups) to play with. :)

Tie a large, single flower like a sunflower or a Protea to every pier or just plant firmly in the sand for something simple but utterly beautiful and summery.

The flowers in the picture to the left are Proteas from South Africa. You could also use sunflowers or any large, robust flower.

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Large single leaves like the leaves of the Delicious Monster (or palm leaves, banana leaves etc) used in the photo on the left, alone or combined with another element like a single flower or starfish can make a striking and cost effective beach wedding pew decoration.

Another alternative to using flowers to line your aisle is to use succulents and cacti in terracotta pots.

You could also use colored tin pails as containers coordinated to your wedding colors.

If you love the rustic look of burlap then this one is definitely for you. Also another alternative to using flowers to decorate your beach wedding aisle.

Simply plant some grasses in pails and cover the pails with burlap. Simple, rustic and gorgeous!

Parasols do double duty as they not only make a stunning display of color for your aisle, they also serve to protect your guests from the sun!