2011 December

Everyone wants a wedding to remember and this is why themed weddings have become popular these days. Planning your special day and not just following everything that tradition says but adding things and incorporating ideas that would bring fond memories makes it all worth it. Having a beach wedding and taking it up a notch by making it an exotic beach wedding is a sure way to make fun memories out of your wedding.

Just imagine yourself exchanging vows with your partner in an island surrounded by the blue ocean not wearing the traditional white long wedding gown but a Hawaiian dress and carrying a bright yellow sunflower instead of a bouquet of roses and button mums. Imagine not having to decorate so much and just feeling the moment. Imagine learning the wedding tradition of the native people in the land and incorporating some of the rituals in your ceremony. And by going exotic, you can still choose themes under this category.

A Caribbean theme brings bright colors, exotic flowers, and a white dress for the bride which could be long or short, a pirate suit for the groom and a chance for the guests to wear pirate costumes. The main attraction for this event aside from the bride and groom would be the Black Rum wedding cake and a lot of booze. A buffet meal is typically served wherein everyone could mingle in the serving table rather than stay isolated in their tables. You can do the ceremony in a docked boat while the guests are on the shore. Since pirate movies are popular it would be easy to find invitation, keepsakes, and favors that would match the theme and you can even get them from thrift stores. You can find clothes in Renaissance Faires and you could order them at the same time to be sure that they are made from the same material. A good idea for invitations would be scrolls or messages in bottles.

Another exotic wedding idea is to have it Hawaiian style. Hawaiian themed weddings include brightly colored clothes, Hawaiian music played from guitars, and big bright flowers. Bridesmaids could wear sundresses with flowered patterns or Hawaiian skirts with flower bracelets and crowns. The bride can also choose to wear a Hawaiian dress with more flowers while the groom could wear lei to match the theme. To incorporate Hawaiian wedding traditions, you can ask several family members to form the circle of love by placing a circle of tropical flowers around you and your partner. This symbolizes everlasting love. By the beginning of the ceremony, the bride and groom should exchange leis as a sign of love, respect, and commitment. You can also present leis to your in laws as a sign of respect, gratitude, and a union of two families. If you are going to get a Kahuna Pule or holy man to officiate the wedding, it is part of the Hawaiian tradition for him to bind the hands of the couple with a Maile Lei. Maile lei are open ended lei that signify honor and respect. Haku is a leu typically worn by the bride and is composed of intricately woven flowers, vines, and foliage. The traditional leu is worn around the neck and is made from typical flowers. This can serve as your wedding favors and have the guests wear them when they arrive.

If you are thinking of a simpler exotic wedding idea, a tropical island wedding is also a good choice. Both the bride and groom and including the guest would be wearing their swimming attires and flip flops on the beach. The bride would be wearing a white swimsuit with huge tropical flowers in her hand and little white flowers on her hair. For the ceremony, a good spot would be somewhere near coconut trees where everyone can feel the heat of the sun and smell the ocean water. A small island with lots of trees would also be a good venue wherein after the ceremony; you can all go back to the main island to celebrate a cocktail party while enjoying good music and good food.

All exotic wedding themes use tropical flowers as accessories and wedding decorations. Some of these flowers include the birds of paradise which resemble the beak of an exotic bird by the orange sepals and its plumage could be seen in the midnight blue petals and the orchids which are among the most beautiful wild flowers with different sizes and colors composed of a slender stalk, three inner petals, three outer petals, and a cupped petal. Another tropical flower is the anthorium, known for its heart shape and brightlorsof red, pink, orange, and green. The plumeria s a fragrant flower with five petals like a pinwheel and is colored white, yellow, red, pink, or combinations of these. Hibiscus flowers have e petals that measures four to eight inches. They only bloom for a day and is therefore hard to find.

These themes are simple yet full of adventure and opportunities to make your special day a happy memory.

Every wedding starts off with an invitation. The invitation will give your guests a first peek at what your wedding is going to be like, so you’ll want to make sure that it perfectly fits your theme. For tropical weddings, invitation styles run the gamut, from the simple, to the creative and complicated. Here are some Tropical Beach Wedding Invitations that you must see.

Passport

What better way to announce that you’re going to have a tropical wedding than by sending out invitations in the shape of a passport? You can work with a reputable design shop to mimic the passport of your nationalities. Or you can get creative and keep the basic look of the passport, but customize it with your own colors, font and graphics.

Boarding Pass

This is another great way to announce your tropical wedding. Guests will feel like they’ve just hopped on a plane. What’s great about boarding passes is that you can add as many passes as you need for your wedding invitation boarding pass envelope. This means that you can include you and your hubby’s favorite song or poem that would’ve been too long to fit inside a traditional wedding invitation.

Flip Flops

You might think that flip flops are just for feet, but guess what, you can also use them for wedding invitations! Cut a pair of flip flops out of your favorite colored paper. Then glue the rectangle of paper that contains your wedding invitations to the flip flops that you’ve just cut out. You’ll want to make sure that your wedding invitation is short and succinct so that it’ll fit all in one page.

Travel Bag

Everyone wishes that they could simply pack their bags and go off to a tropical beach, so why not make your invitations into a nifty little travel bag? The bag will open up to reveal your carefully worded wedding invitation. Now how cute is that?

Airplane

Go all the way and make sure that everyone knows that you’re so happy to be getting married that you’re literally on cloud nine. You might need the help of a wedding invitation company to get these invitations done, as they will need to lay out everything carefully to make sure that it still makes sense once the invitation is folded up as a paper airplane.

Beach Chair

Emphasize the easy and laid-back vibe of your tropical beach wedding by opting for beach chair invitations. Again, you might need help from a wedding invitation company in order to help you figure out how your beach chair invitations should look. Some companies make invitations out of perforated card stock. Certain parts of the invitation can then be detached and folded to make sure that a three-dimensional beach chair comes out.

Printed Invitations

The beauty about printed invitations is that you can put anything on them. And I mean anything. An invitation printed with a sunset would look lovely for a tropical beach invitation. So would an invitation printed with a palm tree. The bride and groom can even opt for a picture or drawing of the very beach where they plan to get married. The possibilities are endless. Make sure that you sit down with your spouse to be and choose a pattern that you both love.

These are only a few of the wedding invitations that you can use for a tropical beach wedding. Don’t limit yourself to what’s been listed here. There are a whole slew of invitations that haven’t even been covered. Just remember, the vital information – who, what, when and where, should be there. After that, you can go crazy with the layout and design of your tropical beach wedding invitation. You can choose one of the invitations tackled here, or they can merely serve as inspiration for your own one-of-a-kind wedding invitation. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just needs to be the right invitation for you. Set a budget so that you can be sure to get what you want without spending too much. And above all, make sure to have fun while choosing and making, or ordering your wedding invitations. You shouldn’t stress yourself over what is supposed to be a happy event.