DIY Beach Weddings

Create your own beachside wedding that will impress all your guests.

It takes extensive planning to put together any wedding, and the same is true for a beach wedding. If you do your research and plan carefully, it can be a memorable, enjoyable event for you and your guests. Beach weddings can take place near your house if you live near a beach or in a foreign country, depending on your budget. There are endless ways one can personalize their own beach wedding, making it special for everyone involved.

Instructions

1. Select the location for your beach wedding. Choose a local beach or far away beach if a destination wedding is in your budget. Call to reserve the area for your wedding. Get all the details as far as what you can have on the beach during the ceremony and if there are any fees for setting up and breaking down, renting chairs, etc.

2. Make your save the date cards and invitations for your beach wedding. Create them yourself using card-creation software, adding pictures of the beach and the website of the location if it's a destination wedding. Print them on card stock and send them to guests. Send save the date cards at least four to five months prior to the wedding and invitations a month or two before.

3. Create favors for guests. Assemble beach bags filled with flip-flops, beach towels, local maps for destination weddings, souvenirs from the beach gift shops, postcards with photos of the beach, and personalized beer or wine glasses with the couple's name on it and date of the wedding.

4. Decorate the beach for your wedding. Rent or make your own arch using inexpensive bamboo that you will stand under during the ceremony. Decorate the arch with local flowers or ribbon tulle in the colors of your wedding. Find some beach shells and use them to line the aisle you will walk down.

5. Make your own centerpieces for the tables after your wedding. Use sea shells and palm fronds to create an arrangement to set on each table. Place wedding favors on the tables for each guest by purchasing little souvenirs from the location of your wedding and tying small ribbons with your names and date of the wedding on them.

Tips & Warnings

• Plan to buy guest favors and other decorative items at the location of your wedding, especially if you don't want to overfill your suitcase with delicate items.

References

• Beach Wedding Planning: Do It Yourself Beach Wedding
• Ideas and Wedding Details: Do it Yourself Wedding Ideas that Save Money and Make a Big Difference for Very Little Effort.
• Beautiful Beach Weddings: DIY-Beach-Wedding, a Concept That Can Save You Thousands!