On a typical summer beach day with your partner, you make sure to grab your favorite cover-up, towel, and hair tie. You never forget your music speaker, goggles, and umbrella, and you pack your favorite beverages, fruit, and sunscreen. The beach is the perfect place to relieve some stress, but you have to be prepared for the day in order to make the most out of it, because if one of you doesn?t, it would mean sitting in the sand sunburnt, wet, cold, and hungry. The same goes for a beach wedding. With the proper preparations, a beach wedding is an ocean breeze.
Get Your Beach Wedding Look
Probably one of the first things you think about before heading to the shore is your whole look. The traditional wedding checklist won’t apply to you and your ceremony, but neither will your normal beach day list. You and your future spouse will have to find something in between.
For clothing, both of you will want something semi-formal as opposed to full on wedding dress and tuxedo. Large heavy dresses will suffer from the sand and spray and will simply be too hot to be comfortable in most beach weather. The same goes for a full tux. Instead, think short or minimalist dresses and light colored pants and jackets. Or ditch the jackets altogether in favor of a plain button-up or a best instead. This will give you both less sweat and stress, as well as less complicated clean up later.
Usually, it is better for a bride on the beach to wear an up-do if she has longer hair, or pull the ha...