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We know your wedding is all about you – and it well should be! However, if you have a destination wedding in mind, or even in current play, your guests have made considerable effort to get there and it certainly would make the entire wedding merrier if everyone was as joyous as you are.
If you have your heart set on looking into beach weddings in Melbourne, you’ll be making a most excellent choice with this popular and lovely location. There are venues for beach weddings in Melbournelike the Brighton Savoy.
The Brighton Savoy has a well-established wedding plan in place and coordinators can help you with whatever customisation you might need for your dream wedding.
Your wedding will always be memorable to you, because of the nature of the event and the impact it will have on your life, but you don’t want your big day to be an obligatory chore to guests.
Here are some ideas to step up your beach wedding “game.”
- Incorporate the beach theme into all aspects of the service and reception.
- In your invitations, let guests know that the wedding ceremony will actually be on the beach, in the sand. Ask that they dress to go barefoot on the sand. This will signal to guests that if they have a plan to wear a full length gown, they shouldn’t measure the dress in their heels, because once they’ve turned in their shoes, the length will be affected. Surely they don’t want to have to be concerned about tripping – the entire wedding.
- Have a cute system set up with two-gallon zipped plastic bags and Sharpies for each person to put their street shoes in, and in which they can write their names on the bag.
- Have baskets with A-F, etc. in which the guests can put their I.D.’s, bagged shoes for easy retrieval.
- If your budget allows, and if your guest list is small enough, consider buying inexpensive rubber flip flops for guests to actually wear.
- If your wedding is in the afternoon or late Afternoon, you know that there’s a possibility it will spill into evening and it might quickly turn chilly. Get some throws (a couple per table); you can hang them on the backs of chairs.
- Consider bridesmaids’ and groomsmen’s gifts which are sea-themed. What about starfish cufflinks and for the gals maybe starfish earrings and/or necklaces. Shell-themed accessories will work, too.
- Create a beach-themed centrepiece with the centrepieces, you could include an actual starfish – you can even add one to your bouquet (or some pretty shells), as well as in your bridesmaids bouquet. Another option is have a centre piece made entirely of shells, a seashell bouquet, if you will.
- There are actually types of Wet Wipes that are tar-off. You might want to include one in each of the two-gallon bags where they’re putting their shoes. Some brides have beach buckets filled with sand and 1.5” to 2” paint brushes sticking bristles up for guests to brush their feet off.
- If you, the bride are planning on going barefoot, consider looking into foot jewellery.
- An ironic nod would be to do a sand ceremony on the beach, where you each have coloured sand and pour it into a glass frame or enclosure.
Use your imagination. A beach wedding worked (the ceremony, not the marriage) for Pamela Anderson and really worked all around for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinz. Make yours wonderful.
