Tips for Perfect Summer Wedding

 If you’re planning to celebrate your big day during the summer season, you need these steps from your wedding dress to décor for your warm-weather nuptials.

No matter you’ll be saying “I do” on the beach or in a ballroom by the lake, you'll get inspired.

Summer Wedding Bouquet:

We recommend using seasonal blooms accented with lush greenery. For example if you're beach brides, make your bridal bouquet with garden roses, quicksand roses, and café au lait dahlias in soft, muted hues.

Wedding Dresses for Beach Wedding:

If you’re getting married on the beach or near the ocean, you need an elegant gown with flowing fabric that keeps you cool and flows gracefully in the wind is a must.

This gorgeous wedding dress from Promboutiqueonline is the perfect casual beach wedding gown. We love the sparkly embellishment , summery spaghetti straps, and open leg slit.

sparkly casual wedding dresses

Open-Toe Wedding Shoes:

You need a pair of sandal for summer wedding, or go barefoot if you’re exchanging vows on the beach to ensure you're comfortable.

A pair of stunning open-toe wedding heels with ankle straps to stay both cool and chic.

Light-Toned Bridesmaid Dresses

Have your bridesmaids wear bridesmaid dresses in lighter tones to ensure they’re not too hot. For instance, choose soft blush or pastel hues of your favorite colors in lieu of a darker color such as navy or black for your alfresco ceremony.

Pastel Pink Short Bridesmaid Dresses

Drink Station

It will be much appreciated by your loved ones if you offer them ice water, iced tea, lemonade, and other beverages that are sure to cool them down no matter how hot the day. 

Infuse water with your favorite fruits and herbs is Plus.

Iced & Frozen Drinks

Ice-cold cocktails and frozen drinks will make your cocktail hour and reception more comfortable, your guests will keep cool with frozen cocktails throughout the alfresco dinner service.

For personality, you can choose to have martinis served from an ice luge sculpted with their monogram.

Provide Shade for Outdoor Events

It’s important that you provide shade at a summer wedding.

It can be natural shade provided by trees to flowing drapery suspended from pergolas

Just make sure to have some parts of the space – even if it’s just a lounge area – where guests can go to take a break from the sun.

Bite-sized Appetizers Ideal for Summer Entertaining

Light Hors d’Oeuvres work best for summer weddings, it won’t stay chilled throughout cocktail hour. Like lightly toasted crostinis can be wonderful option.

You can top it with your favorite spread as well as fresh fruit, heirloom tomatoes, meats, and more.

Have Fun with Color by Bright, Cheery Centerpieces

Summer weddings offer a wonderful opportunity to have fun with color!

For a Hawaii Wedding, decorate centerpieces with coral shells surrounded by anthuriums, orchids, peonies, and ginger in shades of pink and coral – plus a sprinkling of sea shells.

Bring Sense of Nostalgia to Your Summer Wedding

Ice cream is the dessert guests of all ages will love. Unique nitrogen ice cream carts that provide an entertainment factor.

Notice all you guests with unique summer wedding invitation now.

acrylic summer wedding invitations

Elevated Beach Wedding Ideas

 A beach location can make the ideal backdrop for your wedding day because it has so much to offer, including picturesque views, rhythmic sounds of the waves, a cool breeze, and sunshine. Your design decisions should be influenced by the surrounding natural environment if your event is on the beach. The best use of your venue and the creation of the beach event of your dreams can be achieved by using a color scheme that is inspired by the sea as well as marine and nautical elements.

There are countless ways to use seaside themes in your event. There are countless ways to incorporate the season into your ceremony and reception, whether you opt to serve fruity cocktails, utilize seashell escort cards, or select an invitation suite with a nautical theme. Additionally, there are several beach-inspired themes you can use for your wedding day decor. Go tropical with your table setting by using fruits like pineapples, plantains, and papayas. A laid-back, vacation-mode atmosphere is evoked by wooden chairs that resemble bamboo and are decorated with white seat cushions as an homage to the lush motif.

The information presented here is important to take into account for your beach event, whether you're organizing a summertime gathering on the sand or a tropical destination soiree. There are numerous marine themes you may incorporate into your event planning, including the following choices for cool food and drinks, decor ideas, and themed favors. These concepts will force you to start thinking about having your wedding on the water.

Draw inspiration from the sea when designing your invitation suite

For example, using textured pieces of blue-and-white paper with hand-torn edges, will remind your guests of ocean waves.

If you want to include nautical elements in your beach wedding without going overboard, your invitation suite is the perfect way to do so. This creation from Happyinvitation nodded to the weddings theme by including several motifs associated with the ocean, including anchors and stripes. The suite's navy, pink, and white hues also drove the idea home.

Order: Anchor And Ribbon Bold Wedding Invitation Cards HPI060

Planning a destination wedding? Let the landscape guide your invitation design, like this couple did. 

The Green Leaf Suite, we love a simple invitation suite that nods at the theme without being too kitschy, and this green leaf wedding invitation suite by Happyinvitation creation executes that sentiment perfectly. Included green leaves illustrations over a white background with green and black lettering complements this couple's casual Hawaii wedding.

Order: Forest Green Leaves Pocket Invitations for Wedding HPI296

Palm Backdrop, Lilac Arch

Use tropical flora, such as sago palm and robellini leaves, to evoke a lush environment in your event backdrop.

For instance, place dendrobium orchids, stock, and white snapdragons in front of the greenery.

Even while the beach makes a lovely background for your wedding ceremony, why not enhance the idyllic scenario by building a stunning arch to further emphasize the location's beauty? Create a floral arrangement that looks as beautiful as it smells by using a lot of lilacs and foliage.

Lush or Orange Tablescape

Allowing your location's landscape to be your guide will make choosing a color palette for your table display simple. Like your venue has a lush, tropical feel, consider trying arrangements of oncidium orchids, lisianthus, ranunculus, and parrot tulips in varying hues of orange were eye-catching when accented by palm leaves and displayed next to hand-painted shot glasses and bone white dinner plates.

Other hues like blues, greens, and neutrals can also give your tablescape a beachy vibe. 

We adore this table setting, which featured velvet napkins, black flatware, and orange-print chargers on top of placemats with frayed edges. Each place setting had a clementine for a citrusy pop of color. a beachy vibe. 

Bud Toss, or Pink Blooms

Walk down the aisle as newlyweds in style by tieing cones of chamomile to chairs so guests could throw the buds as they recessed back up the walkway. 

The daisy-like plant, which looks like something that'd grow wild on oceanside cliffs, is perfect for a carefree beach event.

As demonstrated by this arrangement by Vintage and Lace Weddings, vibrant flowers may give dimension to your ceremony decor. Bright pink flowers and palm fronds were artfully positioned around the arch and in the aisle of the venue to complete the arrangement.

Casual Dress

Choosing a flow-with-you design casual wedding dress to speak to the location.

Take notes from this woman of the hour, who wore a open back, airy look that moved in the breeze.

Order: Flowing Casual Wedding Dress

Match your flowy casual wedding dress with maxi flowy chiffon bridesmaid dresses.

Order: Flowy Maxi Bridesmaid Dresses

Shell Escort Cards, Coral Reef Cake

Make thematic escort cards TK something about the beach to take advantage of what the water has to offer. The ideal illustration is a calligraphed escort of shells.

Don't simply rely on décor to make a point; sweets can also suggest a beach-themed gathering. Consider this layout: Blue and white icing was used to simulate breaking waves, and coral reef symbols were artfully positioned all over the cake.

Go to the poolside

Consider having your wedding reception in an oceanfront site rather than on the actual beach if you want the beach ambiance without the hassle of sand. We adore the concept of this affair that took place poolside and was held at Pool Side. It combined the opulence of a country club with the vibe of a seaside event for the attendees.

Lemon Cake, Summer Flavors

Desserts with citrus flavors are usually acceptable for a seaside wedding. Their cool flavors will instantly transport guests to beach summers. 

Create a dessert table that is inspired by tropical motifs using a design similar to this Cakes: 

The bottom tier of the couple's traditional white cake featured coconut flakes and a palm leaf decoration, conveying a tropical holiday vibe while yet being classic. 

Refreshing Sips, Coconut Sips

Guests may become uncomfortable during a lengthy ceremony while seated on a sandy beach in a warm, sunny environment for your seaside wedding. Offer artistically arranged drinks like cold water with lemon to help everyone cool off.

Want to really commit to the island look? Start out cocktail hour with coconuts filled with rum punch, just as this couple did. Each fruit had the names and table numbers of the visitors etched on the front, thus the beverage served two purposes.