If you’re planning a summer wedding or party, its easy to add a unique touch to your wedding with beach inspired favors.  You can find cute placecard holders, darling candles, mini photo frames and more.

Beach Favors

 
These cute flip flop placecard holders will delight your guests.  Use them as place card holders for a beach wedding or bridal shower.  After the wedding guests can use them to hold reminder notes.

 
These beach themed candles will help to decorate the reception tables and when lit will add a sparkle to the reception.  Be sure to check with your facility before lighting candles. 

 
Use these beach placecards frames at your event and then guests can use them to hold a photo after.

  
Use a beach favor box to hold mints or a special trinket for guests.

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Many brides start dreaming of a fairytale wedding as young girls, so when the big day finally arrives they opt for a fairytale wedding theme.  Last year Disney, introduced a line of wedding dresses fashioned after the Disney princesses (Ariel, Jasmine, etc).  After finding the dress that makes you feel like a princess, you’ll want to continue the fairytale theme with wedding accessories and favors.

Fairytale Wedding Theme
Here are a few fairytale inspired wedding accessories:

Fairytale Dreams Collection is by Wedding Star and each item in this collection features the phrase “And they lived happily everafter…”  The collection includes a matching guest book, pen, ring pillow, flower girl basket, unity candle and garter.  The garter even features a silver, slipper charm!

 
The Once Upon a Time Guest Book features a sculpted castle and cinderella carriage and hold up to 500 signatures.  Ideal for a wedding or bridal shower.  The Once Upont a Time ring pillow has a horse and cinderella carriage charm.

  
For the cake, nothing is more fitting than a castle cake top!  Choose from different style castles made from glass or porcelain.

Guests will delight in this cinderella carriage candle.  The candle comes in a clear gift box and will help decorate your reception table.

Direct your guests to their seat with this castle placecard holder.  After the wedding, guest can use this as a mini-photo frame.

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If you’re throwing an engagement party this summer, you’ll want to check Lillian Rose’s new Forever Diamond collection.  This collection features “the engagement diamond” as its inspiration.

Engagement Party Ideas
Here are a few ideas for decorating for the party.

 
Decorate the dinner table at the engagement party with engagement ring napkin holders and a “diamond” tealight holder.

 
Toast the lucky couple with these engagement ring toasting glasses and have them cut the cake with this diamond cake server set.  It’ll give them practice for their wedding day, plus create a great photo moment at the party!

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Guest at the party will enjoying signing an engagement guest book or writing good wishes for the well wisher vase.

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The hottest wedding colors for 2008 are orange, yellow, brown, and silver.   If you’re not ready for orange bridesmaid dresses, you can incorporate these colors via your wedding accessories!

Orange Wedding Accessories
Orange was in all the bridal designers fashion shows this spring and is predicted to be very popular with both Summer and Fall 2008 weddings.

 
Orange and Fucshia Wedding Collection - featues an orange ribbon on top of a fuschia satin ribbon.

Brown Wedding Accessories
Brown became a popular wedding color in 2007 and is still popular with brides in 2008.  One trend has been for the groom his groomsmen to move away from wearing black to brown.

Silver Wedding Accessories
Some bridal expers predict that silver will replace brown in 2008-2009.  Silver is particularly nice for an evening or formal wedding.

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If you’re wedding colors are navy and silver, then you should consider Hortense B. Hewitt’s new Darling Duo Navy & Silver Wedding set. 

Navy & Silver Wedding Accessories
Each wedding accessory is either a striking silver or navy with a contrasting silver or navy satin ribbon.  This wedding color combination is great for an evening or formal wedding.

 
                 Guest Book                                             Unity Candle  

 
          Ring Bearer Pillow                                        Flower Girl Basket

Click here for more silver wedding accessories or here for more blue wedding accessories.

Whether you’re planning an island destination wedding or beach wedding in the states, you’ll find lots of unique beach wedding accessories to help you celebrate.

New Beach Wedding Accessories
Wedding Star has just introduced their Seaside Allure wedding collection.  This collection features a summer linen look.  Each piece is decorated with a beautiful blue ribbon embroidered with seashells, plus a starfish to continue the beach theme.

Beach Guest book has room for over 400 signatures, plus you can get a matching pen.

Beach Ring Pillow features seashell embroidery, a starfish and 2 thin ribbons for attaching your wedding rings to the ring pillow

Beach Flower Girl Basket has a unique shape that is reminiscent of a beach pail.  Perfect for your flower girl to carry either rose petals or seashells.

Beach Wedding Garter includes 2 garters - one for the bride and one to toss!

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If you are planning a garden or summer wedding, you may want to consider Wedding Star’s new butterfly wedding accessories.  Each piece has an elegant silver butterfly and is offered in a selection of pastel colors including pink, lavender, blue and green.

Butterfly Wedding Theme
A butterfly wedding theme is great for a bridal shower too! 

Butterfly Flower Girl Basket - comes in a unique, bucket shape.

Butterfly Guest Book - holds up to 430 guest signatures and well wishes.  (Matching pastel pen is also available.)

Butterfly Ring Pillow - attach your weddings rings to the pillow using the pastel, satin ribbon.

Butterfly Garter - this bridal garter set comes with a dainty garter for the bride to wear and a tossing garter for the groom.

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A few years ago the United States Postal Service introduced customized postage.  With customized postage you can create your own stamps using your photos or artwork.  Think of the possibilities for sending your wedding invitations or thank you notes!  Your wedding invitations could have a stamp with a photo of the two of you or even a graphic that matches your wedding theme.

There are 4 providers that work with the USPS to print custom stamps, they are:
Zazzle (my favorite)
Artistic Postage
Photo Stamps
Stamp Expressions
Picture It Postage

Both Zazzle and Artistic Postage offer pre-designed wedding stamp sets.  (For those of you who are too busy to design your own.)  Here are a few samples:

This set is perfect for a beach wedding theme and includes stamps with a different message for your invitations and thank you cards.

Here are some other favorite stamps:

A great way to continue with the military wedding theme is to place a miltary wedding cake topper on the wedding cake.  

Here are the new Military Cake Toppers for 2008:
Most military wedding cake toppers include groom figurines where the groom is dressed in uniform.  You’ll find grooms for all the branches of the US service.

           Navy Wedding Cake Topper

             Air Force Wedding Cake Topper

            Army Wedding Cake Topper

            Marine Wedding Cake Topper

Click here for more military wedding accessories.  You’ll find military inspired guest books, garters, cake servers, toasting glasses and ring pillows.

We often get calls from couples that are currently serving in the US Services and are planning a military wedding.  One way to incorporate the military into your wedding is by having a camouflage wedding theme.

Camouflage Wedding Accessories
Weddingstar, a leading bridal supplier of wedding accessories, recently revealed their new Discerning Camouflage wedding accessories.  This collection feataures a desert camouflage fabric, with blush embroidery.

 Camouflage Guest Book - all your military friends will get a kick out of signing this guest book.  Holds over 400 signatures.

  
Camouflage Wedding Pillow - your ring bearer will feel like he’s part of the troops when he carries this ring pillow.

Camouflage garter - comes with a matching camouflage tossing garter that the groom can throw to his buddies at the wedding reception.

If you are planning a military wedding, click here for more military wedding accessories.