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Weddings Are Fun carries many elegant items for your beach wedding and honeymoon. Custom Made Flip Flops are a favorite with brides and bridesmaids. They are available in 53 ribbon colors and 9 flop colors, and are decorated with Swarovski crystals! Brides will often give these as Bridesmaid Gifts.

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The Custom Made Flip Flops can be worn during the wedding, or they can kick off their heels and wear them to the reception. Your bridesmaids will appreciate being comfy all day, and getting to wear them all summer long. Weddings Are Fun also carries Just Married Bikinis, Barefood Sandals in 17 designs, and Beach Foot Lace Sandals made with pearls, crystals and rhinestones.

Heart Shaped Sand Ceremony Vase Set, Seaside Allure Collection,
Glass Wedding Card Box, Light Blue Swarovski Crystal Piazza Lace Unity Candle

A Glass Wedding Card Box adds elegance at your wedding reception and makes a beautiful keepsake for your home. Your guests will be amazed at how beautiful it is. Each glass wedding card box is engraved with the names of the bride and groom, the wedding date and a unique clipart design that you select. After the wedding, you can proudly display your keepsakes from your wedding and souvenirs from your honeymoon inside.

A fun alternative to lighting a unity candle during the wedding ceremony is pouring sand which symbolizes the joining of two lives together as one. A Unity Sand Ceremony Kit makes a colorful remembrance of your ceremony and a beautiful centerpiece in your home. Weddings Are Fun carries a huge selection of elegant wedding accessories from Beverly Clark, Cathy’s Concepts and Weddingstar. And, lastly, Personalized Unity Candles are still a favorite with brides and Weddings Are Fun carries 175 unity candle designs, including 79 designs made with Swarovski crystals.

To see even more elegant wedding accessories for your beach wedding (or any other wedding theme), please visit Weddings Are Fun. Current specials now running include:
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Are you looking for a unique way to symbolize your marriage? You may want to consider a unity sand ceremony to represent the joining of you and your fiance. According to Danielle at The Wedding Outlet, "There are many advantages to a unity sand ceremony - you'll have a timeless piece to keep, plus you won't have to worry about keeping a unity candle lit (especially if you are opting for an outdoor wedding)".

For those of you that may not be familiar with how a Sand Ceremony works, Danielle joins us today from The Wedding Outlet to share the details:

You will start out with 3 vases (more if including the priest or children). The center vase is the largest as this is the one that will have the sand poured into it by all participants. For the sand, many opt to select a different color for each participant.
Step 1: The groom will begin pouring a portion of his sand into the center vase
Step 2: The bride then pours a portion of her sand into the center vase, creating a layered effect
Step 3: The bride and groom will then simultaneously pour the sand into the center vase

There are variations to these steps, some of which might be:
• Some couples choose to repeat Steps 2 and 3 from above to create multiple sand layers
• Some choose to include the priest in the sand ceremony to symbolize the union with their faith. The priest would follow Step 2 above.
• And, if you have children, you might want to symbolize the joining of both families by having each child pour sand into the center vase. Children would follow Step 2 above.

The end result is a beautiful vase filled with sand that symbolizes your marriage and will be a memory of your wedding day forever. And, many of the Sand Ceremony kits at The Wedding Outlet have the option of personalizing the large center glass vases with names and wedding date.

Is anybody opting for a unity sand ceremony instead of the traditional unity candle lighting? Please share with us.