When it comes to your beach theme wedding, sometimes you just want to have a few traditional touches. Designing your beach wedding reception around a few traditional pieces can make your wedding look both fabulous and classic, so choosing time honored beach wedding centerpiece styles is a great choice.

Candles

Candles make great beach wedding centerpieces, but only if they’re done correctly. If your candles are stand alone, they’ll blow out once a gust of crisp beach breeze hits them. When choosing to use candles for your beach wedding reception centerpieces, choose shorter ones that can be placed down in hurricane vases. Incorporate fresh or silk tropical flowers around the bottom outside of the hurricane glass and you’ve got an instant beach wedding centerpiece that simply screams, "classic!"

Tiki Torches

While tiki torches are less traditional than candles, they’re still an easy and classic way to light your reception tables and they work well when used as beach wedding centerpieces. Tabletop tiki torches are available at many online and retail outlets, and are fairly inexpensive and simple to set up. To add a touch of wedding flair to any tabletop tiki torch, simply tie a color coordinated ribbon around each torch, or surround the torch with fresh or silk flowers, pearls or seashells.

Sand and Seashell Vases

For a classic and elegant beach wedding centerpiece, grab some large glass dishes or vases from the craft section of your local store. Fill with ivory colored sand and toss a few real seashells in for a simple and easy, beautiful centerpiece that won’t overwhelm or overpower your reception tables.

Fresh Flowers

Fresh, tropical flowers have their place at any beach theme wedding. You can use fresh flowers for your beach wedding centerpieces in a number of ways. Simply tie together a few blooms and place them in vases for a classic centerpiece, or cut off the heads of large flowers such as gerbera daisies or tiger or stargazer lilies and float them in a bowl of water.

Premade Beach Wedding Centerpieces

There are hundreds of online stores and retail outlets that sell already made beach wedding centerpieces. They sometimes tend to be more costly than centerpieces you craft yourself, but they’ll save you a ton of time in the long run. They’re great for brides with a slightly larger budget who don’t have the time or personnel resources to fashion beach wedding centerpieces from scratch. There are dozens of different styles of premade beach wedding centerpieces, including stunning beach themed candle wreaths, rustic looking beach wood candle holders and pillar candle holders and much, much more.

When looking for beautiful beach wedding centerpieces, keep in mind that something classic and traditional will work well for an elegant wedding while more creative ideas are more appropriate for whimsical weddings. Traditional beach wedding centerpieces like candles or flowers never go out of style, your guests will love the attention you paid to details and your wedding album will never be dated!