Beach Wedding Programs

Make Beach Wedding Programs All Your Own

Beach theme wedding programs will provide useful information to your guests so they can follow the proceedings.

These can also serve as mementos from your special day. Wedding programs can be as simple as a homemade leaflet or as elaborate as a custom-made booklet.

When it comes to wedding programs, the general rule is for it to be concise. But that doesn’t mean that you have to follow the rules. A wedding program can be written on a single sheet of paper that outlines all the events of your special day or it could be a full pamphlet complete with lyrics and passages or it can even be a booklet with personal notes to guests and pictures of the couple that chronicles their relationship.

While those ideas are great, you don’t want to make a very elaborate and extensive program that your guests would be flipping through all throughout the wedding ceremony and provide a distraction for everyone involved.

A wedding program is really just something that guests would read between the time they sit down and the time the ceremony starts, or something to follow as the ceremony goes on.

Choosing Your Stationery

There are many wedding boutiques that offer a variety of stationery and options for wedding programs. There are even some templates that you can download from a website and print on your own if you are looking to save some money.

Since you are having a beach wedding, Here are a couple ideas to create your programs:

Find stationery that has elements from the beach like embossed shells, a sandy color or texture or a backdrop of the sea.
You can have the stationery itself shaped into a shell, flower or any other element from the beach.
you can put the programs in a bottle with some sand.
You made a booklet for the program and tie it with a piece of faux seaweed or a string of faux pearls around it. Place them in a box covered with seashells.
Make a fan beach wedding programs.

The sky is the limit when it comes to making your beach wedding programs unique and all your own.

Elegant Shells Trifold Wedding Program (50 Pack)

What to include in the programs

As for what goes into the beach wedding programs, these typically contain 3 parts:

Introduction
Ceremony Proceedings
The Wedding Party and other VIPs

The introduction should contain the basics, the names of the bride and groom, the wedding date and location.

The ceremony proceedings should serve as a guideline of the service. This is where you can elaborate on special customs that will take place and where you can list any special readings.

The last section lists the wedding party and their relation to the couple. This is also where you can put the name of the officiator and other people involved in the ceremony.

Add Up to beach wedding programs:

Some couples who want an elaborate program even have short stories on the people included in the wedding party, like who’s responsible for introducing them, how much someone has impacted their relationship or how much they credit their relationship by learning of love from their parents. You can also add a thank you message to parents and guests in your wedding program. Some even add a little memorial to some of their loved ones who are deceased but have played a key role in the couple’s lives.

I also suggest making a program for the reception or just adding another section for that in the wedding program. This is where you can list the first dance, the father-daughter dance, the bouquet and garter toss and other details.

To be honest, you can put anything you like on a beach wedding program. However, I highly suggest excluding a list of wedding vendors. If a guest asks about who’s responsible for the catering services, let them ask. Putting a list of wedding vendors is just tacky and highly unnecessary. With these things in mind, you’re beach wedding program will definitely make your wedding all the more special.