Tropical Wedding Invitations: Tying the Knot under a Tropical Sun
Are you planning on heading down to the South Seas for your perfect wedding? Maybe you’ve got something planned at your favourite resort. If you do then you’re joining hundreds of other couples who head to warmer waters to tie the knot every year.
On the other hand, maybe you’re having the wedding in a church or community hall down the street and want to make it feel like you’re in the South Seas. In either case, you’re going to need a wedding invitation that tell your friends and loved ones that their going to be in for a great time when they come you your tropical wedding.
A Word on Tropical Wedding Invitation Themes:
If you’re planning a tropical wedding, you could be envisioning your wedding on a sandy beach surrounded by miles of blue-green water. Maybe you can see palm trees and grass huts, and children dancing in grass skirts. All of this makes for a great wedding, and if you are careful to implement these ideas into your invitations, you can come up with perfect tropical wedding invitations.
Tropical weddings are generally informal and relaxed affairs, and your tropical wedding invitations for your wedding should reflect this. You may want to add a note stating the dress code for the wedding on your tropical invitation. If you want the men in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts, let them know in advance so you don’t have guests over dressed…or worse, under dressed on your wedding day.
There are a lot of opportunities to be creative when it comes to wedding invitation ideas for a tropical wedding. Generally you aren’t restricted by formal wedding tradition and etiquette (unless you want to be!).
Feel free to add colourful images of butterflies or other colourful insects and foods. You want to make people feel the warm tropical breeze and taste the salty sea air just by looking at your wedding invitation, and thinking tropical weather, food and drinks.
Some Tropical Wedding Invitation Ideas:
If your looking for some ideas for the perfect tropical invitation for your wedding, we’ve come up with a few that we hope will get you on the right track. If you are actually going to a tropical area for your wedding, then your wedding invitation could be a postcard from the resort or hotel you’ll be staying at. If you can find postcards that match the tropical place you’ll be getting married, so much the better! Additionally, sending post cards will save you postage money while still having space for all the necessary information on the back of the card.
Another thing you could do is to send all of your guests and loved ones a wedding invitation that comes in a small box filled with sand and sea shells. Open the box, and buried in the sand could be a little card with all the important information.
One couple sent little ships in bottles to their selected guests along with information regarding their tropical wedding plans. In this case, the boats were actually little models of a yacht the couple had rented and had planned to get married on! Their tropical invitations fit perfectly with their tropical wedding plans.
As you can see, all it takes is a little thought and some creative effort for you to have wedding invitations with a tropical theme for your perfect tropical wedding. Feel free to use the ideas in this article yourself for your own invitations, or even better, use them as a springboard to bigger and better tropical ideas for your wedding invitations!
