Tropical Wedding Theme

Scores of couples are choosing tropical paradise destination to tie the knot for their big day! Tropical weddings are perfect for those couples who desiderate to have a wedding that is a blend of splendor and nature's beauty. Tropical wedding ideas can vary from Hawaiian, Caribbean, Jamaican or beach weddings. What's better than using the warm, sandy beaches with their cool breeze and magical aura to your advantage. Different tropical islands have their own unique ways of making the wedding a special one. Depending on the budget and feasibility of the location, you can plan out your tropical wedding.

There are a few factors that need to be taken into consideration while planning tropical weddings. A theme wedding needs to have several arrangements made in accordance with it. Let's have a look at them:

Wedding Invitations
Since you've picked up the tropical theme for your wedding, the wedding cards should be in accordance with the theme. You could have the background of the card to be the ocean or beach scene. You could also have coconut trees, palms, shells, sand, etc. on your invitation. A message in the bottle would also be a splendid invitation idea. The invitation card is the window for the wedding. It's what gets the excitement for the big day rolling!

Decorations
The best part about tropical weddings is that one can use components of nature to create the magical ambiance for the wedding. Fake palm trees are always available on rent, which can be utilized to decorate the wedding venue. To enhance the tropical look, one can get glorious tiki torches, which are nothing but decorative poles with a top fuel reservoir and wick. They come in bamboo as well as cane and simply illuminate the place in the most glorious manner. For the table centerpieces you could place small table lanterns with candles illuminating them from inside. You could also have seashells placed randomly on the tables.

Wedding Flowers
For tropical weddings, using the beautiful, exotic flowers growing on the island, for the bouquets and centerpieces will simply look marvelous. Using the local flowers will add a unique touch to your wedding, because people wouldn't be so familiarized with those lovely flowers. Moreover, these locally available flowers would not prove to be as expensive as other flowers. Some tropical flowers that go really well for tropical wedding themes are anthuriums, ginger, proteas, pikake, plumeria, dendrobium orchids, birds of paradise, crown flowers, etc.

Wedding Cakes
The wedding cake is yet another important aspect of the wedding. Since the theme is tropical, to stick with the theme, the wedding cake can be adorned by fresh, beautiful flowers like orchids, anthuriums, calla lilies, birds of paradise, proteas, etc. The addition of flowers to the cake, certainly makes them gel with the entire theme. Moreover, you do not necessarily need to stop with flowers. You could also use icing starfishes, shells and palms to decorate the cake.

Wedding Favors
You can be as creative as you want with respect to wedding favors. One could either have goody bags with seashell candies or chocolates in them or have miniature nautical or flip flop pieces custom-made and given to guests. Message in the bottle favors, tropical seashell ornaments, palm tree shaped votive candles, etc. make great wedding favors.

Food
The food is another very important aspect of the wedding. Guests fed well are happy guests! In a tropical theme wedding, the menu can encompass a wide range of items. Cocktails like margaritas, pina coladas, fresh fruit juices, smoothies and ice blended drinks are appropriate for tropical weddings. A variety of seafood and local Hawaiian dishes will be great lain courses and desserts such as citrus tarts, fruit filled sponge cakes, lemon cookies, etc. will enhance the tropical theme.

Be it a tropical wedding or any other theme, the two factors that play a significant role in determining the wedding day preparations and settings are the wedding budget and one's preferences. The budget will determine how elaborate the decorations and arrangements will be done, while preferences will determine the way in which the arrangements are done.