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Hot Tropical Wedding Ideas
There is something heavenly about the tropics – warm climate, lush vegetation and attractive flowers, magnificent sunrises and sunsets, golden sands and emerald seas – that seems to call the souls of engaged couple to look into tropical wedding ideas. It’s a good thing then that ideas for the perfect tropical wedding, whether done in tropical locations or replicated in temperate climates, abound. Here are just a few of them.
Veer Away from the Beach
Who says that tropical weddings must be confined to beach weddings? Of course, you can adopt beach wedding ideas because of the sheer romance and easy casualness of the location. Plus, you need not spend too much on food since even a luau or barbecue will suffice.
There are disadvantages to beach weddings though like seagulls and sea sprays ruining the cake and the dresses, not to mention the cost of transportation and accommodations for your guests.
Indeed, among the more practical tropical wedding ideas for couples who don’t wish to get married at the beach but still want to evoke a tropical ambience, are the following:
• Adopt a nautical theme with quirky touches like seashells as place settings, colored sand as paving material and blue waters as backdrop.
• Pick a tropical flower and then build you wedding theme around it. For example, take inspiration from the simple elegance of the birds of paradise by incorporating their likeness into your cake, invitations, place setting and even your bouquet.
• Pick a tropical color and make it your dominant color. Indeed, many tropical wedding ideas come from adopting a tropical color (i.e., fiery orange red for the sunsets and deep blue for the seas) for indoor weddings.
• Recreate the tropical island of your dreams in an indoor setting! You will be able to enjoy a tropical vibe without the hassles and costs of the location itself.
Just remember that a tropical wedding need not be in the tropics itself. It just takes a little imagination to borrow inspiration from it!
Dress Down but Still Look the Prettiest Bride Ever
You don’t dress in voluminous clothes in the tropics, do you? With the almost year-round warm climate, layers upon layers of textile are ridiculous!
With that said, tropical wedding ideas dress-wise will include a simple, sheer dress that will evoke the casualness of a tropical wedding without looking too much like a glamorized sleeping gown. You can take inspiration from Hawaiian wedding attire of a white dress for the bride and white shirt and colored pants for the groom.
Or you can just go crazy and go in your prettiest bikini with a sheer coverall! After all, you are in the beach so you might as well be in your swimwear. Of course, you might want your guests to do the same.
Truly, you need not be confined to whatever place you are staying in now. Even when you live in a temperate country and you cannot afford a destination wedding (Recession rings a bell?), you can still entertain tropical wedding ideas and actually follow them! Just use your imagination and enlist the support of family and friends to be able to pull a tropical-themed wedding.
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