Color Ideas For Decorating Your Beach Wedding Reception

Beach Wedding Dinner Table Decorations

Beach weddings can be colorful! Your beach wedding reception can assume whatever color scheme you want, consistent with your chosen theme. Some couples at exotic destination wedding locations even wear tropical prints!

Sea tones - deep blue, teal and aqua - are extremely popular, fresh and vibrant. They stand out beautifully when mixed with colors from the opposite side of the color wheel - such as orange, apricot, or red.  They can be very exciting when mixed with bright colors such as lime, or very elegant when mixed with the jewel tones - such as deep purple or emerald green.

Sashes on chairs or even the bridal gown can carry forth your color scheme.  But bright flowers are perhaps my favorite way to infuse the wedding with brilliant color.  Flowers can be tied to palm trees, to white fabric that's strung between the trees to frame a wedding altar the way a wedding arch would do.  Flowers can line the wedding path, and adorn an altar table and guest table. 

Even avoiding expensive floral arrangements, flowers can be your main decorative touch -- such as having a stream of flower petals down the center of the tables with candles placed in them. 

You can even skip napkin rings for a seated dinner by placing a colorful flower on top of the napkin - whatever flower is local and fits your beach wedding reception theme.  The more formal table in the photo had frangipanes at the individual places, but another choice is lilies. Some of them are even edible! 

---