For weddings or receptions in warm climates or during summer months, weddings held on the beach are not as unusual as you might think!  Unfortunately, you need to be a little more creative when it comes to decorations and wedding favors.  Weddings and receptions held outdoors are not really conducive to table linens and paper place markers.  It’s for occasions like this that you need to bring your imagination into play.  This is why so many weddings on the beach use beach wedding fans as a wedding favor for guests to keep.  Nothing lends itself better to hot summer days than a fan!

Beach wedding fans are a great way to add style to your wedding in keeping with the setting.  You can go with almost any material as long as it is heavy enough to withstand sudden breezes or ocean sprays.  For this reason many brides choose bamboo or silk wedding fans.  Paper just seems to fold back in on itself too easily. 

Remember that beach wedding fans can also be personalized and can be thematically decorated as well.  If the day is still and hot they can actually be used as a handheld fan even if they were intended as a keepsake to remember this day by.  Beach wedding fans can be embellished with tiny shells or other seaside decorations.  The ribbons can be printed as well with the names of the bride and groom and the date and time of the wedding.  Beach wedding fans can be used as a place to hold eating utensils tucked into the ribbons or they can be merely decorative.