Anyone have ideas for a beach theme wedding?

Question

Will be indoor,but I'm clueless on how to decorate the tables.

Answer 1

You can get small shells, sand dollars, and other beachy items to either sprinkle on the tables or put in a vase as a centerpiece. Tropical flowers would look nice as well, either as a centerpiece or tucked into a folded napkin on each guest's plate.

Beach-themed favors (such as cookies shaped like sea creatures) would be a nice touch. Also, use beachy colors (whites, tans, bright blues and aquas) for table linens.

Answer 2

I had one. At michaels they have these cools shells that were made out of paper. And used beads. Make hurricane glasses with sand?? Sand unity candle. Made fan programs. Used sand dollars as seating placements and had a cake that had chocolate candied shells on it.

Answer 3

have the tables covered with a white table cloth.  for center pieces get a large or medium size glass jar fill with sea shells, sea glass, and sand.

Answer 4

Brightly colored table clothes. Obviously you can do the lai's. Oh my friend's bridal shower was beach/hawaiin theme and with the lai's all the way down the center of the tables they placed them in heart shapes. it was cute!

what else...if you go to the party supply stores they have a whole isle of just beach/hawaiian stuff so that will give you a lot of ideas. However, I'm sure you don't want it to be tacky so be careful with all of the blow up "cliche" stuff. I might do for the center peices...a glass bowl (there is a large selection at walmart, joann fabric, michaels, or any craft store) buy some sand for the bottom of them, get some themed floating candles (maybe a bright flower, or something) and voila, simple, elegant and beach theme. Good luck and have fun with it!! :)

Answer 5

We had one recently, and the venue supplied white tablecloths.

We put down a large overlay of aqua fabric and on top of that, we put a large glass vase filled with sand, tan and blue sea glass and seashells and a sprig of artificial seagrass coming out of the top. We propped a large starfish up against the vase. It was really pretty-everyone commented on them.

Answer 6

I wish I could find the picture...we went to a bridal show where they had glass bowls filled with sand and a flower in the center.  It was soooo simple and yet extremely beautiful.

Sort of something like this:

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Answer 7

Unless you collect these already or live near the ocean, you can get little bags or jars of sea shells at craft stores like Michaels. And little bags of gem rocks as well. Do you live near the ocean? When is the wedding?

Also as favours at each table you could have little boxes of sea shell chocolates- you can either order them or make them-the plastic molds are available at Michaels or other stores that sell chocolate molds.

I live near the ocean and I have a whole ton of sea shells, because I collect them and I use them to make specialty chocolates. But also at the resort I work at, we use them for setting up our brunches/banquets/buffets. We decorate the tables with sea shells, little rocks/stones you can also get at a store like Michaels, pieces of driftwood, little decorations that are ocean themed, like wooden rowboats or sailboats, things you might find from an antique or second-hand store, or you know, little knick knacks that people decorate their shelves with at home. Look around at these little shops and you won't have to break the bank. As for table centerpieces, maybe tea lights set in sea shells, I do this a lot, and use them for lots of things, the bigger ones, for soap dishes, candle holders etc.

Find some netting, as I said I'm not sure where you live, I don't know how you'd go about finding this locally if you don't live near the ocean, but craft stores, online sources, if you do live near the ocean, some local boater/fisherman will have some you can borrow or buy (clean it first obviously), to drape across the front of the head table- there are ways of doing this to make it have a 'natural' feel.

If you were really going a step further you could have little beach pails, miniature ones, on the tables as centerpieces, not plastic, but little metal ones, with tea lights in them, and or little miniature plastic shovels in little pails of sand in the middle of the table with a candle on top? These ideas may not appeal to you by themselves, or how I'm describing them, but I'm putting them down and if you see something you like you can twist into something better or modify a couple of ideas into something else, go for it. I do this when I'm brainstorming lol.

Somehow integrate beach blankets into the decor? Not sure how. Depends on how beach you want to go, could put them on the tables?

Anyway first and foremost, the sea shells/drift wood/small gemstone thing is quite elegant and traditionally used for ocean/beach themes, without going overboard with the other stuff.

Have fun! And congrats on your wedding

Answer 8

My friend just had a beach wedding. She decorated the tables with a hurricane vase filled with blue and white sand and a candle. Seashells were placed around the top. It looked really nice. She also gave out these little beach chair candle holders for favors.  

Answer 9

Try to find an old postcard stand of ebay and unused cards, would be really cool to have your guests write on them and then keep as a keepsake