Beach home decor

Neptune would have never imagined that the king of the sea would be so influential when it comes to weddings. From lighthouses to sand dollars, the symbols surrounding nautical themes provide an endless array of exquisite choices. The goal is to plan a beach theme by focusing on unique ways of personalizing the wedding such as implementing creative colors, textures, and materials, while still maintaining one’s wedding budget.



Seashells by far represent the most versatile decorating options particularly when the bride has to visualize every wedding detail ranging from her invitations to guest favors. For this reason, a practical approach is to determine what kind of seashell motif is both appealing and visually complementary to the design of a reception table’s centerpieces, linens, tabletop accents, as well as other components that make a well-decorated reception not only memorable, but also breathtaking - like a snapshot out of a wedding magazine or wedding style book. Moreover, be sure to work with your florist in capturing the look and feel of your theme. Perhaps your florist may recommend some tropical flowers that complement a nautical theme, but with a tropical flare like hibiscus, anthuriums, or plumerias.

Without a doubt, the Internet provides a convenient way of researching the various types of seashells that may be suitable ideas as wedding favors. For instance, large seashells serve the wonderful function of not only being original ideas as candy containers, but also as authentic table decorations to be placed beside each guest’s place setting. Finding exotic pieces of seashell decorations that serve dual purposes is both equally attractive and cost-effective, since wedding costs can begin to mount as planning process progresses.

By finding wedding favors that serve both a decorative and functional purpose, many brides wanting to plan a beach themed wedding can still find creative ideas in order to produce an elegant wedding. Using a variety of sources and inspirations, the application of rich colors, textures, and exotic materials such as real seashells can provide the best ideas for personalizing a beach themed wedding.

Tropical wedding invitations

Wedding invitations are the first thing that tell your joy, officially to people! Though, generally touchy or romantic wedding invitations are sent, mainly because the entire event has a romantic touch to it! But it is of course not compulsory to send only mushy invitations, you could also create some humorous invitations using funny wedding invitations quotes and sayings. If you do not have time and energy for thinking of some unique wedding invitation wordings, don't worry.

Tropical bedding

Your bedroom wall color will set the right background for the tropical theme. The color chosen should have a relaxing effect, a must for any bedroom. Shades of blue or green on the walls will remind you of the natural beauty of tropical islands. You can accentuate these colors further by adding crispy white trims. Even shades of yellow have their own warmth and brightness. Other suitable options that are available are neutral beige or white colors, sand colors, or the colors of the sunrise or sunset. Instead of using paints on the walls, you can give a tropical touch to your bedroom with the help of textured wallpapers.

Flooring and Ceiling
While decorating a tropical bedroom, never use usual fabric carpets on the floor. Hardwood flooring can give you the desired look. A tile flooring covered with neutral rugs that are made of natural materials like jute or seagrass is a good option as well. Ceilings of a tropical bedroom can be painted blue, and sponge painting can be used to create white clouds. Another interesting way of adding a natural texture to the ceiling is to use natural bamboo to cover up the ceilings.

Tropical wedding favors

There are a few factors that need to be taken into consideration while planning tropical weddings.
Tropical Theme 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.



Tropical Wedding Theme Decorations
The best part about tropical wedding themes 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.

Tropical Theme 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. Read more on tropical flower arrangements for weddings.

Indoor Tropical Plants

Caring for indoor tropical plants is not at all as daunting as it may sound. Plants are perhaps the only living organisms that don't need to be constantly fussed over. Just provide them with basic generic care, maybe, except an exotic species, and they will bloom and stay green for years to come.The foremost requirement is an evaluation about its growing conditions. Even though some plants are tropical, they do not do well indoors, outside their native environment. Indoor tropical plants need adequate light, temperature, humidity, fertilization, watering and space. So while selecting your plant, study light and climatic conditions of your home. For most common indoor tropical plants, light need not be direct sunlight. Diffused or filtered lighting would be just fine.

As most indoor plants are pot bound, the right sized container along with the material of the container will make loads of difference to the plant's health. Container gardening is the best medium to grow these plants. So feed your plant well, with compost and coarse sand mixed soil. The pots should be large enough to allow root growth, and small enough to get the best out of the plant's appearance.

Tropical Home Decor

West Indies (colonial Caribbean): If you like classical music, subdued colors, antiques, and the home decor found in historic Charleston or Savannah, this could be your tropical style.
As some colonists established homes in the islands, they had the islanders copy the furniture styles from 'home'. The result? Slightly less refined, and with tropical inspired embellishments, West Indies style was born!




Tommy Bahama Home: If you like Jimmy Buffett, splashes of bright color, whimsical accessories, and some of the decor found in Cancun, this could be your tropical style.
Less purist, more playful, this style combines "a little of this, a little of that" to achieve a unique tropical look. Whereas West Indies (above) only offers dark wood, some TBH collections feature lighter shades.

Hawaiian: You don't have to like Don Ho's music, but colorful tropical flowers and/or surfboarding - yes.
This is a more minimalist tropical decor with clean, straight lines. The furniture is about the function, not the form. Therefore, eye catching wall art is the best way to make a decorating statement. Of course, Hawaiian tropical print fabrics can also make quite a tropical decor statement when used for pillows and drapes.