Inspiring Ideas For Beach Theme Wedding Invitations

Tired of the formal, ho-hum beach theme wedding invitations that everyone seems to receive? Then it's time to get creative and design your own inspiring beach invitation that delight your guests with its uniqueness.

Use your imagination to mix and match graphics, backgrounds, layouts and wording text. If you're not comfortable with using a computer to create your own beach theme wedding invitations, try and find a friend who's good with computer programs and see if they'd be willing to help out (most people are very happy to pitch in).

You can print the invitations yourself on good quality cardstock or purchase invitation kits at local stationary stores. Your other option is to take a copy of your invitation on CD to your local stationary store and have them print out your invitations, thank you cards, etc. It may cost a bit more, but you will be assured of a good quality printing job.

Here are some unique ways to design your wedding invites:

• Cut the invitations into the shape of a large seashell, starfish or conch shell. This invitation style would work beautifully with a seashell theme wedding.
  
  
• Create a "Message In a Bottle" invitation. Have your invitation printed on parchment paper. Roll it up and place in small plastic bottles. Carefully pack the bottles in cardboard tubing for mailing. This site has a nice tutorial on how to do this. A "message in a bottle invitation" works well with our ocean theme wedding and our pirate wedding ideas.
  
  
• Inflate a beach ball and write your invitation on the ball with a permanent marker. Deflate the ball and mail it in a large envelope.
  
  
• Buy blank CD's and a CD label kit. Create your invitations on the labels to look like a beach song CD. Burn some of your favorite beach tunes on the CD. Guests not only recieve a beach theme wedding invitation, they also get some tunes to listen to while getting ready to attend your wedding! Use this for a surf and sand wedding or a tropical wedding theme.
  
  
• If you are having your wedding on a beach or if there is a very special beach that you are both fond of, take a few photos of it (such as at sunrise, sunset and during the day). Use the photographs for the front of a folded card or as a faded background for a single layer card with the wording printed overlaid on top.
  
  
• Embellish the front of your card with fine beach sand or colored sand (you can pick this up at craft stores). Use modge podge (glue that dries clear) and paint a section across the bottom of the invitation or even around the entire outside edge. Sprinkle sand on the wet glue and allow to dry. You can set the sand by putting a light coat of modge podge thinned with water over the sand.
  
  

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