Beach wedding favors give your guests a seaside treasure to take home and remember your special celebration. Remind everyone of your nautical nuptials and express appreciation to your guests with these beautiful tokens of appreciation.

Many couples are choosing carefree beach weddings over traditional marriage ceremonies. Instead of tying the knot in a house of worship and having a reception at a separation location such as a country club, couples are exchanging their vows outdoors with nature all around them.

Surrounded by sandy beach, crystal seas and warm sun, couples proclaim their eternal love. After the ceremony, guests attend a seafaring reception and receive their beach wedding favors to remember the moment.

Beach weddings are less formal so couples can wear whatever they prefer. Often brides opt for gauzy dresses in white or ivory with beading, sequins, embroidery or shells. The bride may decide to wear a short veil or a halo of flowers on top of her head as opposed to a long, formal headdress.

Many brides go barefoot, wear just married flip flops or slide into dressy, strappy sandals. Grooms can wear casual dress slacks and a neat button up shirt with no shoes or huaraches.

At a beach wedding, you can invite as few or as many guests based on your budget and the size of the beach. Some beach weddings are intimate gatherings with immediate family and a few friends while others are elaborate events with hundreds of guests.

Whether you have a large or small beach wedding, find out the rules for the area you use. Follow all regulations to ensure your wedding is a complete success.

You would not want to be faced with legal penalties in the middle of your wedding ceremony or reception. After all, your guests may never receive their beach wedding favors if a problem with the venue arises!

A beach wedding can be held locally or at an exotic location. When you travel to your destination, it is referred to as a destination wedding. If you don’t live near a beach or have the budget for a destination wedding, you can create a beach environment wherever you are with seafaring decorations, seashells accents and simulated waterfalls or ponds.

No matter how big or small your beach wedding is, all your guests will look for beach favors when they arrive at your reception. Do double duty and put out decorative place card holders that double as favors. Your guests will be amazed at the detailed features on beach memories miniature Adirondack chair place card holders and photo frames.

This adorable little Adirondack chairs will guides guests to their seats and become lasting keepsakes to display your wedding photo when it arrives in a thank-you card. If your beach wedding is on a boat, shining sails silver place card holders are the perfect way to show your guests to their places.

Match your place card holders and beach themed favors. Guide your guests to their seats with beachcombers flip flop place card holders so place cards don’t blow away with the first gusty sea breeze. Give your guests flip flips genuine leather key chains as a token of your appreciation.

After the wedding, everyone will want to look at the photos they took of all the festivities. A thoughtful gift is a beach memories guest photo album. These useful beach favors will be proudly displayed in many of your guests’ homes so they can keep looking at the pictures of your special day.

Candles are popular favors because most people use them. Your guests will love a whimsical margarita glass gel candle in a tropical tiki hut gift box as a lasting keepsake of your nautical nuptials.

Set sail frosted sailboat tea light holders are elegant beach wedding favors for your guests. Everyone can bring the beach home with seashells gel candles in clear gift boxes with raffia ties and thank you tags or darling seaside tea light candle sets.

Beach themed kitchen accessories are useful, thoughtful favors. Everyone will love a palm tree cookie cutter in a beach-themed gift box or a chrome seashell bottle stopper. These practical gifts will continually remind your guests of the wonderful time they had sharing your big day.

The beach is always a popular motif for weddings because it is so versatile and almost everyone has at least one good memory associated with the beach along an ocean, lake, pond, or cottage life. As a society, we spend countless hours on the beach playing as children, sunning as teenagers and adults, taking long walks on the beach to find shells and enjoying the rising and setting of the sun from a well-appointed perch or during a morning or evening stroll.

The beach means different things to different people, but there are some common themes. Beaches represent tranquility and consistency. They also are very busy places where people recreate, birds scour for food and water-creatures and fauna live just feet away. Beaches represent cleanliness and a new beginning; with each incoming tide, beaches are swept clean, leaving an interesting deposit of shells and wildlife each morning.

Beaches are also beautiful to look at. The colors that encompass even the most mundane beach are spectacular as are the wildlife. Sea grasses, the color of the water, the sky and the sand all provide an interesting cornucopia of colors that can be incorporated into any beach theme because they merge so great together and match just about any other color scheme.

Beaches also represent life. Even an inland pond beach is bustling with activity. Dragon flies flit from perch to perch, ducks swim offshore, fish jump and frogs, lizards and other wildlife use the beach as a highway, food source and refuge. Ocean beaches can be astounding in the amount of wildlife they support besides humans. Clams burrow into the sand as to some crabs, fish swim offshore sea gulls scavenge and tidal pools support hundreds if not thousands of different life forms.

Incorporating the beach into your wedding is easy and almost always a good match. Beach theme wedding favors are no exception. Because the beach is so diverse, you have an array off article and color options that will fit almost any wedding perfectly.

In terms of the favors themselves, you have a lot of options. The beach is rife with wildlife, shells, sand and rocks and each specimen is likely included in a beach theme wedding favor somewhere.

Ready for purchase are starfish wine stoppers, wooden deck chair candle holders, beach theme wooden trinket boxes and so much more. Miniature folding beach chairs dress up any table and evoke a sense of carefree bliss as do flip flop shaped notepads celebrating the day and the Bride and Groom. Mini Lanterns with Hangers evoke damp, fog-laden nights and foghorns bellowing in the background.

Miniature metal pails remind people of blissful days spent building sand castles. In addition, to set a lighter mood you can select Starfish Shaped Stickers, Beach Towel Stickers or Boat Flag Stickers. Each of these remind people of how fun the beach is and how fun your wedding is because of your good taste in themes.

Like the beach theme wedding favors you choose, you also have lots to pick from in terms of color. Aqua blue is by far the favorite because it is airy and light, but it is by no means your only option. Sea green is very popular as is sea-grass greens and sand. Other popular colors are derived from deep blue skies, the colors of wildlife and the pastels that people paint houses, boardwalks and piers. Since so many colors make up your average beach scene, your choices of colors run the gamut.

Beach theme party favors are a great way to celebrate something almost everyone enjoys in one way, shape or form. Even people who do not like spending a lot of time on the beach usually at least enjoy the wildlife, colors and landscape and just about everyone appreciates the views of the ocean, tranquility of a pond, picturesque beauty of a lake or the power of a river. Beach theme wedding favors can add a light, fun and lively flavor your event and come in so many different shapes, sizes and forms that finding the perfect set of favors is easy.