Why Dominican Republic – The Dominican Republic is and ideal place for a beach wedding with beautiful beaches and salt water lakes. This Caribbean island is one of the best places in the whole of the Caribbean island to have a wedding.

Best time for the Wedding in Dominican Republic

Tip: The place in the summer is full of carnivals and special festivals that the festivities are there for the asking almost all the year around

The best time for the travel is between November and April. The other times namely between April and June and beyond have rains and storms and those will not be good for your wedding planning.

Places in Dominican Republic for the wedding

Avoid the Santo Domingo and go for something more exotic

Almost all the people have heard about Santo Domingo but the fact is that the best place to get married in the Dominican Republic will be there in the country side which has some of the best Spanish influenced villages.

Best Places – Casa De Campo, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, La Romana, Samana, Santiago

Punta Cana – This is the far eastern place in Dominican Republic in the island of Hispaniola. The area is about 1100 acres and these are full of white sandy beaches and have wonderful scenery. This place is ideal for a nice wedding getaway.

Wedding packages Dominican Republic – I have listed quite a few details as far as the wedding packages are concerned but generally the packages are offered by all resorts and hotels. Please read the reviews of the resorts before signing on with a particular package. Also make sure that you have read what are the things that are included in the package and what things are not included because if the fact that there are so many things which will be offered to you will be charged extra like the wedding photographer and the video shoot.

Dominican Republic Wedding requirements – I have listed all the main wedding things that you will require for the wedding as far as the legal requirements and paper work goes.

Wedding planner Dominican Republic – For the destination wedding the main thing is that you get all things correctly planned so that you are not left stranded at the beach at the last minute scrambling and scurrying for things at the eleventh hour.

For the Dominican Republic wedding make sure that you either get and all inclusive package deal which means the hotel or the resort will do everything for the wedding and will even arrange a wedding coordinator.

Generally the best thing to do is to find a good wedding planner by yourself who will work in your best interests rather than for the resort or the hotel.

Before leaving the US even you can talk to wedding planner and get all things in proper condition and planned for a nice destination wedding in the Dominican Republic

Other activities that you can do after the wedding together are

Windsurfing

Snorkeling

Scuba Diving

Fishing

Dominican Republic may be the best one out there which are also equally good if not better and these are majorly the Caribbean islands and the names are

Anguilla

Antigua

Bahamas

Barbados

Cayman Islands

Jamaica

St. John

St. Lucia

As far as beach weddings are concerned Mexico offers are great deal of places which are perfect for destination weddings

Acapulco

Riviera Maya

Punta Mita

Cancun

In all the destination wedding Dominican Republic can be a very good thing as far as beach weddings go and there can be nothing wrong with your choice of this Caribbean Island

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Apart from the so many other things that you will need to do for the decorations like centerpieces and the favors this is one thing that can actually be the most important part of the wedding theme.

Most the beach themed weddings have the planners who will be able to make sure that you get the cake which you so badly want. You can check with wedding planners and ask for the different wedding cakes designs to be emailed to you or you can suggest a design yourself to the cake caterer.

Make sure that you tell the color of the cake as that is very important and it should integrate well with the theme. primarily your dress should derive the color and then the cake can either be a contrast color or the same color.

The seashell cake is generally made out of brown or the white chocolate and the main aim is to have the decorations on top of it which are edible like the seashells made out chocolate

there cane be other decorations on the seashell wedding cake like the blue shell accents or special piping. the cake can have coral clusters or the pearls along with to have that special beach effect. Do not overdo the decoration and the most important thing the seashells should be prominently appearing on the seashell wedding cake.

The table on which the wedding cake will be kept make sure that table has the variety of silk and dried wedding corals and flowers which will give a rich effect to the wedding cake.

The most common design of a seashell cake is the lighthouse seashell cake with a special lighthouse on the top.

Another one is the blue bows on the cake which look very elegant

here are some of the pictures from the seashell wedding cake.

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Even though you will have to have the extra effort in terms choosing the dress as well as the color for the decorations and then other things like the venue, the accommodations for the guests etc. nothing can do you more harm than the improper  beach wedding decorations.

The decorations that you do think for the beach wedding should be of course based on what you find at the beach and that means a few things

Most importantly the seashells, nets, pearls and star fish.

In fact nowadays the starfish is the main theme of a lot of weddings but let is stick to the seashell decorations as well as theme

Where all can you use the seashells

• well practically anywhere you want to but it here are a few main ideas
• centerpieces – I will explain more on these
• wedding cakes
• favors
• cake toppers
• wedding invitations
• wedding bouquet
• guest book
• even the wedding ring
• table decorations
• You can use a lot of seashells in your wedding dress itself
• place cards
• seashell tiaras is another thing that can actually look very good on you if the whole theme is about the seashells.

Accents with the Seashell theme

Use of accents with the seashell theme is very important and there a few things that you can use with the seashells like the

Dried corals, these can be made of silk too

Dried flowers or silk flowers

Aquatic piping

For the centerpieces you need to make sure that you either hand painted small pots in which you can fill the seashells along with dried corals.

The other way to do is to have a glass vase filled with seashells and some marbles in it . make sure to add a candle or special aquatic grass in the middles of the vase as the empty vase will not give a good effect. The candle in the center is a very good idea because the light from the candle will reflect very and it will be a visual treat

As far as favors are concerned the seashell is the best thing that can be given as  a decorative things. You can give paperweights which are seashell shaped or the small vases which seashell shaped.

The other thing can be small transparent boxes filled with painted seashells and it will also look good.

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Without a doubt wedding arches give that added glamour for the photographers as well as the video photographers and it definitely looks great when you the pictures years later.

Styles of Wedding arches and the ideas are not limited to what I say here but also depends on the creativity of your wedding planner as well as yours. In my next post I will also tell about various styles via the pictures of wedding arches so that you know what I talking about.

Various Styles of Arches are

Tubular metal Arches or the Classic Wooden arches

Balloon Arches – these are perfect for the beach weddings and also for the church weddings where there is dearth of the choices just add the balloons . You can read more about balloon decorations for churches here.

Beach Wedding Arches – For the beach wedding arches you can use the arches which are basically made out of bamboo poles and known as chuppah. Once made use organza, ribbons and balloons to decorate this.

Tropical Arch – This would be a leafy style arch with little bit of flowers and white thrown especially palms

Bare Wooden Arch – This is basically a pure rustics style arch with only wooden things and not covered up and only has some organza or tulle and the flowers and petals just thrown over the arch to give it a little soft look .

Gazebo style

Arch Decoration Items

Organza

Tulle

On top of organza or the tulle add floral arrangements and in some cases have a floral wreath at the tip of the arch.

The height of the arch should be minimum six feet or eight feet.

Important Tips – In destination wedding the wedding arch rentals can cost you a whopper and that means anything between 500-600 dollars and these facts may not be told to you when you are selecting your wedding site say like Las Vegas

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There are several other places but these five main things take care of practically everything that you do as far as the church wedding goes.

A little bit of balloons for a church go a long way in adding that special color and festive look to the overall church wedding decorations

Balloon Decorations and Balloon Accents

The balloon decorations can be done alone or with the combination of everything else but as I said the best is to add balloons along with the existing decorations.

For example if you are using the white flowers decoration then you can go in for white and blue balloons to act as fillers at the entrance as well as the ceilings.

Make sure that Ceilings are covered because it is the ceilings which can cause a lot of problem as they are usually not decorated.

You may want the church ceiling to look good but too much of overdoing will not be good as it will take the attention away from the actual wedding and will people will gaze at the ceiling in awe.

In fact as a combination the balloons look very good with the wedding church pew bows.

These pew bows can be used anywhere along with the wedding balloons in a church like the door entrances, Decorations for cars, church signs as well as the reception table.

Balloons Arches

There are vendors who specialize in balloon arches and these can be a good thing in your overall wedding arches. That said the balloon arches are very easy to make. You just need to make the basic half rounds thing of sturdy material and go on making billons and putting them to the arch stand. Most of the arch stands will have holes which can be use for the balloons.

Another great idea is to use the balloons like in a pearl string manner. This means that you can stick each balloon on the ceiling with a tap and add a nice string or a ribbon handing from the neck of the balloon giving it a pearl look when all are hung together.

For balloon church decorations you will need balloon accessories like the balloon weight or the balloon cup as then it becomes easier to use the balloons for anything that you want to do. Then there are quick balloon sealing clips which will help in sealing the balloons quickly for decorations.

You should use latex balloons Mylar balloons which are printed with different things as far as the special as the wedding reception decoration ideas are concerned.

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Multiple Colors – If you want to go with blue colors then use the various hues of blue to get a good effect as in the violet or the periwinkle so that the same blue color decorations do not look boring.

An important for those who are for tips for planning a beach wedding decorations then do not do the blue color but instead choose a blue and a ivory theme as the beach wedding are much more festive in nature.

The best Theme for blue is the Tiffany blue Color. This is very classic and very elegant blue color and much better than a royal blue color. This Tiffany blue is the best when you have to have centerpieces, candles and other decorative items as well as having the Blue ribbons for almost anything you have on the decoration list.

Another very good combination with blue reception decoration is light yellow and also you will get so many various flowers in light yellow be it rose or silk flowers.

For chairs the best bet is to go with the blue sashes. As far as the blue color decoration go in terms on the table decoration you nee to make sure that the blue flowers are there along with a smattering of cream or white roses. Blue and white are the ideal combination.

The Blue wedding flowers can be the Hyacinths, Hydrangea, Delphiniums, Statice and Sea Holly.

Flower vases and Table decorations

The flower vases can be draped in blue organza or you can have special blue ribbons tied on the vases. You can use these blue ribbons to tie the favors.

On the tables you can also use the blue napkin rings as well as blue napkins. But I think the best is white or cream napkins with blue napkin rings.

Another decoration is that you can use fish bowls filled with blue pebbles. Use Satin ribbons for a lot of things that you need to tie.

Use the blue border in the numbering card on the table for that added effect. Then for added effect you can use the silk rose petals in blue color for sprinkling it on the table.

As favors also you can use the transparent jar which has blue colored jelly bins as special gift and tie it with a ribbon which is of a different hue than the blue color of the jelly beans.

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In this post I will be describing the various tips and ideas for beach table decorations. I am sure you are here because you have already decided about the wedding venue and that has to be a beach and if you have not then please read my ealier post on planning a beach wedding.

There are a few things that you need to keep in mind while going for beach table decorations and these are

1) Beach Table Decoration Accents

The accents are those small things that you use for decoration of tables to give it a themed look like using the sea shell accents for giving the theme which is all about sea shells. This though is the most common theme at beach weddings so if you are thinking about sea shells or sand dollars then make sure that you shun the idea.

Try to be creative and that means think about something different. The best thing is to get some ideas by looking at the place where you are getting married and that will definitely give you a few ideas about the theme as well as the table accents.

You can use fine bamboo threading to put alongside the table centerpieces to give it a Hawaiian look or use the natural shrubs and nice small flowers for use if you are trying to give the natural look to the overall beach theme.

2) Beach Table Decoration Centerpieces

The most common of the centerpieces are the candles and these never go out of fashion. Use these as the beach table centerpieces and make sure that you do not light them.You can tell the guests that these are also beach favors from you. For putting in the candles make sure that You use again some accents like the sand dollar holders or small bamboo mat candle holders.

Talking about other centerpieces you can also use the centerpieces which are a nice sand castle or any porcelain decoration like flower vase or the candle holder.

Then there are other centerpieces which can do well such as balloons or the bamboo trays. If you are trying to go traditional then get some nice  or traditional items made up of cloth or use the special sea shell motif cloth for use as the wrap around for all the centerpieces.

The best one which I have seen till now is at my distant cousin’s wedding and that has been the special Palm Tree Candle Holders. These are actually made of wood with a shape of a palm tree and a nice candle holder at the top. It was simply amazing but yes make sure if you are renting these to let the guests know that these are not favors. You can tell the guests during the initial speech itself . Do it politely as to not offend anybod’s sensibilities.

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Some Do It Yourself Ideas

Here are some of the do it yourself wedding reception decoration ideas

The Floating Candles

The floating candles as a concept is very old but since it is a beach wedding make sure that you use the water filled small bowls and get some small tea candles to float in it. You can also add the nice flower petals from fresh flowers in that.

Jute Wrappers for Vases

Get some jute cloth with a green or sand color and then wrap all the sea shells and vases and candles holders with the jute wrappers and the and a small palm leaf to each one of those with a star fish clip. That way it gives a natural look as well has a beach theme because of the starfish.

If you have some other ideas then make sure that you send it to me and I will post it here.

Use Sand

Always use sand wherever possible to make it look natural. The prime example being the nice small trays that you can fill with sand then stick small bamboo shoots or palm leaves in that for a very natural looking centerpiece.

3 ) Tips And Tricks for Table decorations

1) Explicitly state that the centerpieces are favors or not. It is always better to not have the centerpieces as favors

2) The money can be saved if you use simple ideas like the sand (which is abundantly available) or plam leaves or the banana leaves

3) Get some rose or other flower petals to make sure that the vases as well the tables can be made to look good with those even if you do not have centerpieces or accents

4) Visit the local shop in the beach area for a wide variety of things that you can easily decorate the table with. Make sure to negotiate well for price as these areas will generally have marked up prices.

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The first and foremost thing that you need to take care of is the wedding site and it can be on a boat in or in a big mansion or even in a special restaurant or a church. The site makes a huge difference to what kind of wedding reception decoration you intend to do. There are some kinds of themes which will never look good in particular setting and even some colors for the flowers and the overall decoration will never fit in well for a particular setting.

The next important thing is the money part and that can play a large part in the wedding reception decorations. If you go to wedding decoration shop and let us say ask for wedding decorations for let us say arches then the shop can you show things which start form $50 to $5000. Each with a variety and a different style. That said you need to decide which part you want to spend the most and which area you want to spend the least and also how much is your wedding budget.

When you want to select a particular theme then make sure that you have the exact photographs of the site to give to wedding designer or the weeding retailer so that they know what kind of a site it is.

Last but not the least you will need to select the areas which need decorations and here is my list of areas

Altar /pews

Chair backs

Walls and doors

Accessories

Tables

Getaway car

Ceilings

Banisters

Arches

Additionally there are a few personal things that you will need to take care about like the wedding dresses, wedding rings ,wedding shoes etc which are not about decorations but they should gel with the overall theme of the decoration.

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No part of the wedding can be complete without the whole cornucopia of flowers.

Flowers are in fact the mainstay of any wedding and that means that you will need to basically select flowers from a wide range of choices as well make sure that they go with the theme of the wedding.

From a choice stand point you can select wedding reception and ceremony flowers all together with the same color choice of you can have different flowers for ceremony and the reception. From the cost stand point it makes sense to order flowers which are the same for both the occasion as that means that you will order in bulk and especially from a wholesale florist who can easy give you bulk discounts.

Wedding reception flowers decorations may be little different than the ceremony for example for the reception you may have a different style of flowers decoration on table.

To select the flowers make sure that you read enough magazines and see the photos of wedding reception decorations to arrive at a final decision.

Now if you have engaged the services of a wedding planner then make sure that the wedding planner shows you all the pictures of the wedding reception decorations as that will give you an idea about what look you want.

Also make sure that you get a professional floral designer to do the wedding reception flowers because they know the color scheme and the way to design each table and the entrance and the ceilings.

Now you can choose a flower color based on your personality or based on the season you have the wedding like fall wedding flowers or summer wedding flowers. The colors in fall are darker in hue than the summer ones. there are blue wedding flowers which are available through out the year.

Similarly you can select the type of flower that will predominate the wedding reception like the calla lily or the rose.

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The balloons have the ability to make the thing look very elegant especially if the wedding is being done outside on a beach or a back yard. The free flowing balloons provide that extra decoration item and when the breeze is flowing then they look all the more special.

Plus as an extra advantage they definitely keep the whole young kid’s gang busy during a wedding reception.

The wedding balloons for the wedding reception decorations can be provided by a any balloon vendor if you find your local area or you can procure it on eBay or Amazon. Once you have procured the balloons you will need to blow them up and then decorate it tastefully. All this can be done by a certified balloon artist. These balloon artists have the expertise to know which shape of the balloon goes with what kind of decorations.

Also you can order custom made balloon which you can use for decoration of arches or the altar and the pews. You can even decorate the passage way with the balloons.

Remember too many balloons can look bad if they are not done tastefully.

The color of the balloon can be crucial so some colors on the balloons may look too childish but if have blue themed wedding or a white themed wedding then blue or white colored balloons definitely have more elegance than the red colored ones.

Make sure that you have chosen the balloon decorations person with experience and get one who has already done a few weddings. You get these by reference or searching for them in the yellow pages. Make sure that you have the examples of the previous work that he has done.

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