Your Beach Wedding

A beach wedding reception is usually low stress partly attributed to the calming environment of sand, sun, and water. The wedding reception can be setup as a formal even but a lot of couples go for the more relaxed and informal kind of gathering. Here are some things to consider for your beach wedding reception menu:

Drinks and Appetizers

Beach weddings often follow a tropical theme if you are not yet in your chosen tropical paradise. Think of tasty cocktails, juice, or smoothies served with the little umbrellas. Be creative and you can use a small boat as your cooler for your bottled water, wines, softdrink cans, and soda bottles. You can also use and old trunk for this purpose.
You can also serve shrimp cocktail with sauce, crackers and dip, or crab salad. You can also server tropical fruits alongside the usual fruits like apples, oranges, and grapes.

Main Dishes

You should definitely have great seafood for your beach wedding. Have shrimp skewers with a choice of sauces, past with shrimps, or maybe coconut shrimp. You can also prepare local seafood delicacies depending on where the wedding is. If you are having a sit-down style dinner, choose fish like sea bass, cod or halibut. You can also have a sushi bar.
Another great idea is to have roasted pig as part of the main course. You can also have jerk chicken or other specialty dishes of the region.

Wedding Cake

Collaborate with your cake designer to have a cake wedding following your beach themed wedding. The choice of design is endless ranging from sand castles, sailboats, yachts, treasure chests and a lot more. You can also go for traditional tiered wedding cakes and have it topped with tropical fruits and flowers.