Are you that romantic couple that is seriously thinking about being married on a beautiful sandy beach with the sound of the rolling surf or beside calm lake waters?
Types of Beach Wedding Packages
Many areas have professional wedding service companies or officiants that offer beach wedding packages. These packages may be all inclusive beach wedding packages or not. Typically, a basic beach wedding package includes your permit (if taking place on a public beach), an officiant to perform the ceremony, and filing of your marriage license in the local jurisdiction. The professional agent will provide lots of information to the bride and groom as to the appropriate regulations to obtain their marriage license for that particular beach location.
In addition, many beach front resorts will offer a wedding package that can include your ceremony, an intimate or grand reception in their garden, patio or ballroom following the nuptials, as well as overnight or honeymoon accommodations at the resort.
Where Should We Have Our Beach Wedding?
Locations for beach wedding packages on the continental U.S. range from such areas as Destin, Miami Beach and Key West Florida, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on the Atlantic coast, to the Pacific beaches of California and along the Gulf Coast near Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas. Barefoot beach wedding packages are very popular in Florida. Packages are also available at some of the larger lakes such as Lake Tahoe. High Mountain Weddings, for example, offer couples a stretch tuxedo limousine, fresh seasonal Flowers, professional minister, champagne toast and scenic Lake Tahoe photography.
If you are leaning more towards a destination location that requires air travel or an ocean cruise, Hawaii and the islands of the Caribbean like Jamaica, Aruba and the Virgin Islands are very popular for tropical destination wedding packages.
All Inclusive Beach Wedding Packages
All inclusive beach weddings will typically include and officiant, permit (if needed) and preparation (raking, etc), chairs for your friends and family, music on CD, champagne toast, cake, some photos, filing of your marriage license and a keepsake such as printed vows, a poem or a unity sand ceremony vessel. However, services such as videography would be an additional charge. Packages may also allow for a set number of guests with additional guests costing a per-person extra fee. These packages will give referrals for dining, accommodations, spa pampering, reception venues, etc.
All inclusive destination beach wedding packages will generally include accommodations for the bride and groom, an officiated ceremony, a designated wedding planner and other things such as a spa treatment for the bride. At resorts such as the Sandals or Breezes brands, meals are also included in the accommodations package and sometimes the wedding is “free” if the couple stay a set number of days at the property.
What Do We Do Next?
The choice of location to exchange vows with the one you love is very personal, so enjoy your search and reserve the beach wedding package that you both love.
