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Welcome!!! I am doing a beach theme wedding as well! Love your message in a bottle idea! Cute!

WELCOME RH TWIN!!!!!

AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by beachprincess

Hi all! I am new to this site. I have been using it for a while to plan my wedding, but never participated in the chat room. My mom seems to get a big kick out of talking to all of you, so I thought I would introduce myself and give it a whirl. I have actually been engaged for one year now on August 26th. My fiance proposed at the beach at sunset in Ocean City, Maryland. I am from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and my fiance lives in my hometown, but is originally from Kings Park. We are getting married at Chateau La Mer in Lindenhurst on June 21, 2008. I am very excited because I love Long Island and I had to have a wedding on the water. We are doing the whole beach theme. Anyone else doing a beach theme wedding? Anyone else getting married in LI that is from out of state? To those girls who live in Long Island, you are so LUCKY! It is gorgeous and there is so much more to do there than in my hometown. It truly is the wedding capital of the world! Good luck and congrats to all the 08 brides out there!!!

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Hi beachprincess - I'm one of the moms your mom has been speaking with. As you can see my son's wedding is just 11 days away. I just want to wish you a Lifetime of Happiness in the future.

Hmm...The Marriott is charging you WHAT? I am paying $159 per night for a room and $250 I believe per night for the Honeymoon Suite. I am surprised they quoted you a higher rate. Did you tell them it is for your wedding? If you block out a bunch of rooms they give you a discount. Yeah, I hope it works out with them. They seem a little disorganized. I hope they send my web address soon, so my guests can start booking.

Debi

Welcome and Congrats!!!

You asked about centerpieces? Actually, when I was previously engaged (LOOOONG STORY) I had bought these really neat porcelain sand castle tea light holders from Party Lite Candles. They are absolutely gorgeous and not cheesy at all. They stand about 10-12 inches tall and have porcelain seashells molded into the sides. They are kind of an off white or cream color and the shells have faint traces of pastel pinks and blues in them.

I really wanted to use them and get my money's worth, so I was excited to find that the tables at my catering hall are long instead of circular. I am sticking one on each end of the table and using flowers in the middle.

The flowers we are using are white stargazer lillies with just a hint of hot pink in the middle. Also, we are using white roses and this white flower that is called an anenome (not sure if I spelled that right) and looks like a sea anenome that you find in the ocean. My florist is going to dip the tips of the white roses in a tealy blue color and then use a glitter spray on the flowers to make them sparkly. She is also going to put real seashells in the arrangement.

She showed me a sample and I was blown away. It was exactly what I was looking for. The shop that I am using is called April Flowers. Has anyone ever used them before? They are a really small shop, but were the only florist I talked to with ideas I actually liked. They customize everything to meet your needs. Also, they are only charging me $1,500, while the other florists were absolutely outrageous.

I went to James Crest Florist (I think that is the correct name). The man I talked to was sooooo rude to me. I was practically in tears when I left there. He made me feel that I was being too cheap and should not expect much for my price range. I would have been willing to spend a little more, but he made me feel like a real heel. He told me the pics I brought of flowers I liked looked like funeral arrangements and 'they don't do funerals'. He also told me that the colors of flowers in one of the pics I showed him did not really go well together. I thought they looked beautiful! He wanted to basically give me a cookie cutter flower arrangement and really did not listen to me at all. The other florists were better, but he was the worst by far and also the most expensive to boot.

I am having problems incorporating my colors, which are aquamarine and pearl. My shade of blue is more blue than green but falls somewhere between 80s teal and royal blue. It is a tough color to find. I wanted to get an overlay for the tables in that color with matching bows for the chairs and do white chair covers with the blue bows. I am finding out how pricey linens are and am not so sure I want to spend that kind of money.

I do not want white flowers and cream sandcastles on a white tablecloth. It needs some blue in there somewhere. I was thinking about getting some of those colored glass pebbles that people stick in candle arrangements and sprinkling them all over the tables. I can get different shades of blues and greens to give the table more color. Also, I am going to give my florist some seashells and she is going to spray them with glitter and scatter them on the tables as well. If we do the seaglass/pebbles we may not do the sparkle shells. That might be overkill.

As far as favors go, I considered giving out candy, but I think it is always nice to give guests something that they can keep forever and to somehow personalize it with your names and wedding date. I was looking for something beachy, yet elegant, and very cheap. I found these awesome coastal elegance votive candles. They are white with satin rope around them with shells hanging off of the rope. They come in beautiful white organza bags with pearls on them.

I know some people think candles are overdone, but I really had a problem finding anything beachy that was not cheap looking. These look so elegant and will be pretty on the tables. You cannot personalize them, so I am doing the bubbles with a personalized ribbon around them in our color. Then I am going to hot glue a small shell to the middle.

When I was planning my previous wedding I found a lady in Lancaster that suggested making chocolate treasure chests and filling them with white chocolate seashells, edible pearls, and gold foil chocolate coins. It is such a cute idea, but very expensive. I may use it for my rehearsal dinner or some other function of the wedding where there are less people to get them for.

OOPS! I forgot to log in and am on my mom's computer. This is really beach princess.

Debi

welcome!!! and congrats i am also doing a beach theme. i lovethe beach! it`s my fav place in the world

All right girls. I was trying to put a pic up of my favors. Thought you might want to see the other stuff. For some reason it did not show up. Hmmm... I will try it again.

beachprincess

welcome and congrats!!!!!!!

You are soooo sweet! Thank you and likewise to you for your son and future daughter in law. All the best to you and your family!

Debi

Last response was for Liz. Sorry, I have not figured this out yet. When I hit reply on someone's post, why does it post it last and not below what they said?

Debi

Here are some other ideas I had for a beach theme wedding. Hopefully, these pics show up all right.

beachprincess

Thanks for the info. on posting. I will have to try that. I am technologically impaired.