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From April to October, Florida is a warm weather state and for our beach weddings, it is a nice touch to have a drink station either at your ceremony site or as a welcome to your cocktail reception.   Consider serving unusual, refreshing nonalcoholic  drinks, such as raspberry-pomegranate punch or a black current and peach tea.  Arrange on a table with tall glasses  and glass kitchen canisters for punches and teas with silver ladles.  You can also float fresh fruit in a pitcher of fruit juice and serve with seltzer water so guests can concoct their own sparkling punch.

If you want something that is fun for the tiny guests, you can take milk crates and lay boards across them and use some matching tablecloths  and decorate with miniature flower arrangements  like the adult tables. Set napkins and  utensils they will need.   Then for seating you can use big squared pillows for seats.

Put a blank book (with table # ), a camera (with table #), and a pens on each table.  Guests  take pictures of themselves  and write a few words in the book.  Later bind the books together and add the pictures.

Arrange to have surprise treats, all made in the area, delivered to your guests’ hotel rooms each day of their stay.  For instance, we are a Florida destination wedding company so we recommend  chips with homemade tropical mango salsa’s and other ingredients from the area, homemade key lime pies,  bottle of wine from a local maker in area and chocolate covered strawberries and orange slices.   You can then list in the itinerary a note letting guests know what time to expect their treat each day.

Naming your tables after places you have been together such as a vacation spot, favorite restaurant,  college maybe where you met, etc. gives a bit of history to your guests.  You can add a story about your association to each place along with a photo of the 2 of you there. 

Even for a beach wedding, a lot of brides want an aisle runner.  Since you can not connect anything to the sand,  why not try a paper aisle mounted on plywood.  Create one with a wallpaper print.  There are millions of beautiful prints that you can find to match your theme or color scheme.  Many wallpaper companies will do this job for you.  Just ask your coordinator how long of an aisle you will need and how wide.  Buy 8 ft sections until you have your length.  They can then be pieced together and placed on raked over and flattened sand which most beach companies will do this extra touch for you,  just ask.

Establish a luau ambiance for your beach theme reception with these easy centerpieces.  Take different size clear glass cylinders and wrap bamboo sticks or even grass skirting around outside of glass and place votive type candle inside.

To determine how much bamboo or grass skirting, just measure height and circumference of each vase.  Then just cut, wrap around the vase and hot glue seam.   Place candle in middle and light.

You can buy inexpensive glass cylinders in a variety of sizes at any Hobby Lobby or Michael’s Craft store and Joanne Fabric stores.   As for skirting and bamboo, I have purchased mine at Michael’s and also had bought bamboo place mats found at JC Penny’s and Pier One Imports.   They are already tied together so be sure to use some glue at end where you plan to cut before cutting so nothing unravels.

Also you can add raffia (at Michaeal’s) to wrap around napkins.  Place silverware inside napkins and fold into cylinder shape, tie off with raffia, maybe one piece of bamboo and let strands hang.

Shane and Jessica’s Beach Wedding held on the beach by Sand Pearl Resort, Clearwater Beach on June 6th, 2011.

Rosemary Cookie Favors

Rosemary or its Latin origins indicate “dew of the sea”, are believed to strengthen the memory which then becomes an emblem of fidelity and a symbol of remembrance.

Because of it’s meaning, “Remembrance”, it is know to be a great wedding favor.  The gift of giving rosemary indicates  that no matter what lies ahead on the couple’s new road together, they  will remember those who saw them declare their love to one another.  You can give a  small rosemary plant for each couple to take home (note to say “In Remembrance of our day!”) or see Rosemary Cookie Favor Picture attached.  Just take a simple butter cookie recipe, chop up some fresh rosemary very fine and add a small bit to your recipe.  Come up with however you will package and add a sprig to the top with a note.

The bride and groom can also use it as part of their wedding ceremony. Each of them can carrying a small sprig and  smell it as they say their vows, promising to commit their lives to each other.  Every time after they smell the loving scent, the promises will be called back to mind remembering  how each felt on their wedding day.   (you can put the herbs in sachets in your drawers, mix it in potpourri and cook with it)  Every use will stimulate the memories you are looking to recall.

Beautiful wedding pictures of Kelsie Paul and Jordan Stricker taken at Sand Key Beach.  Wedding took place down by the beach boardwalk #1 about an hour from Sunset.