Nautical Wedding Theme Ideas that Help your Big Day Set Sail

Just about everyone likes boating and boats, and some of us are even feeble-minded enough to own one or two. Using a Nautical wedding theme to set the mood for you wedding is a popular and fun way to incorporate the day’s special qualities with the fun and adventure of the lake, river or sea. This is especially true if you belong to a sailing or yachting club or enthusiasts group.

Water holds mystical qualities for most people. It is peaceful yet reflective most often, but can rear its ugly head out of the blue and become menacing and awesome. There is nothing so relaxing as being on the water on a nice summer day and allowing it to help clear your mind, erase worry and even lull you to sleep.

For most people, one of the most enjoyable ways to appreciate water is to do so on a boat. Boats provide us with access to water that dry land cannot and they allow us to crate “island refuges” where the worries and pressures of the world are held at bay until we set shore once gain. Boats also help the water calm us, as nothing is more relaxing than a softly rocking boat, whether moored to dock or drifting aimlessly around a lake.

A Nautical wedding theme commemorates the interest that one or both of you have with water and boats. It also allows you to give your guests a “window” into what you two like to do as hobbies or what is important to you. Further, the nautical theme enhances the mood of fun and adventure as you embark upon your new life together.

Your options are many when it comes to a nautical wedding theme. Depending on what extent you want to incorporate the theme, you literally can include some nautical theme into every aspect of the wedding or just have one or two trinkets that reflect what is important to you but does not dominate the entire day. You get to decide to what extent you want to include a nautical theme and in doing so, you can narrow the options that you have to your avail.

Some people prefer a nautical theme throughout their day’s events, particularly if they are avid boaters, sailors or if they live on the water. Beachside or pier side weddings are common in some areas as are holding receptions on the beach, pier or restaurant on the ocean or bay. In New England, clam and lobster bakes are common themes incorporated into a reception.

For favors, metal boats filled with mints are a good idea as is the mini lantern with hanger. A boat wheel favor / place card gives your guests a memento that commemorates your day and infuses the event with a nautical theme, as do wooden deck chair candle holders. Boat flag stickers also inject a boating theme into the wedding events and they are easy to hand out and guests can have them as a keepsake without worrying about them breaking or setting them down and losing them.

Color options for a nautical wedding theme include sea green, aqua blue and they can be incorporated into decorations and wedding collections. Food also can provide your reception with a nautical taste by using the aforementioned clam and lobster or other seafood such as shrimp or haddock. Just remember to have non seafood alternatives as not everyone likes or can eat the fare. When choosing the food, try to balance fish with other meat and it is best to offer vegetables that blend well with seafood as almost all of those foods also do well with other foods but the reverse is not always true.

A Nautical wedding theme gives your guests a good idea of what is important to you and creates a warm, fun and light atmosphere that captures one of America’s favorite pastimes. By using the theme throughout your wedding selectively, you can set a mood that enhances the events rather than dominates them. Your choices are many and varied and depending on your own preferences, you can have a wedding day that uses the nautical theme from start to finish, in parts or very selectively just to give guests a taste of the sea, lake or river that is dear to both your hearts.