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Quick, Useful Advice for Wedding Planning, Rain Solutions, Photos Advice, Chairs or Arbors Rentals & More!

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Planning Checklist Guide for Do-It-Yourself

Easy Advice for DIY Planning Your Wedding ~ Below, choose 1 of these 2 simple Wedding Planning Checklists below for planning your Beach Wedding or destination wedding at NC or SC beaches (or a cool Vows Renewal)!  These below steps should take you 1-7 days to complete, depending on how…

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Hair & Wind Advice

GREAT ADVICE FROM 2,000+ beach weddings’ experience ~  Nothing ruins lovely wedding photos like hair / tendrils covering faces and irritating you with flapping loose in your eyes and mouth due to wind whipping! Tips To Help You…

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Wear Bright Colors

Look at these pictures in an overall way–how they “feel” to a viewer. The Feel is SUPER important in sentimental photos from your wedding! Notice the interplay of neutral clothing colors vs. the tons of neutral background colors. Wear BRIGHT OR CONTRASTING…

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Chairs and Arbors Advice

Useful Chairs & Arbors: We offer some beach decoration but not seating or arbors BECAUSE: Among 2,000+ couples, 90% of them didn’t get chairs and 95% don’t use an arbor/arch after they read why … and IF you REALLY want or need them…

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Sand Art Heart & Seashells

Among a few other beach wedding services unique to just us, and included free with every Officiant service we do, is a our popular, sand-groomed art heart outlined in seashells and imprinted with swirls and flourishes–unique to each couple.

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Special Perks Choices List

Below is our list of specially selected, free, Add-Ons or Perks choices for your beach wedding (or indoor or patio or lawn) when there is $200 (or more) Travel Fee. You choose up to…

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Gay Friendly! LGBTQ+ Couples Welcome

ALL couples are always warmly welcome here! Since 2004 when first ordained to wed, we continue to happily serve our LGBTQ+ community with ceremonies loooong before the government came around in late 2013.  Here’s what one couple…

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Unique Shell Horn Herald

Triton Pu seashell horn (a.k.a. “conch” shell) blowing by our Officiant/Minister is included in all our ceremonies at no added charge. It’s an ancient tradition, classy, coastal, fun, elegant and sublime! Like church bells and trumpet fanfare, the tradition of the shell horn heralds the Beginning of a new Marriage and…

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Unique Sand Ceremonies & Bottle

Our Signature Sand Ceremony & Glass Heart Bottle is included free in every ceremony which our Officiants/Ministers perform. It’s easy, fun, unique and very pretty! During the ceremony, as your Officiant guides you through it:

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Wooden Flute Music by David

In high school, David played the French horn and a baritone horn. Later in life, he took up the wooden flute under the tutelage of Shaman Nella Silverspear, a popular flute maker and recording artist. You can hear and learn…

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Winter Special -$50 off

We minus $50 from the Grand Total for EVERYONE for winter / autumn / early spring dates between November 1 and March 31! What’s it like on the coast in those months?  Warmer than you may remember–

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9 More Cool Tips

Beach and outdoor weddings can be among the most beautiful and magical, but good planning is essential! Here is our advice from years of experience:

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WHERE DOES ALL THIS FREE ADVICE COME FROM?

Couples and families sometimes ask us, why do we give away all this valuable and helpful information for no charge.  As the sole owners and operators of Beach People Weddings, we do this as a part of our personal goals to be “Of Service to Humanity” in any way possible for us. So, we share these resources, wisdoms, insights gathered from our experiences over 14 years. It comes from doing 2,000+ weddings and ceremonies, solving wedding issues or emergencies, being flexible and observant, asking questions, learning advice from other professionals, and figuring out how to put it into short, clear wording.  And then identifying helpful pics that illustrated the points made and adding those, too.  

Want to see for yourself, unbiased, how other couples REALLY feel about the quality of working with us? After clicking this link, click on any of the colorful awards badges (The Knot or Wedding Wire) to read what clients posted on those sites ABOUT US. 🙂

Another way we see this free Advice support is that we strive to support and serve our wonderful clients the same custom-made, authentically warm way we would like to be! Getting married or having portrait photos is a VERY personal event for many people. You’ve heard the phrase, “be the peace in the world that you want to see”?  Same thing: we strive to be the best, high-quality service that we want to see in the world!  

You deserve that best for yourself, your partner and your ceremony! Simple or fancy weddings welcome here – come experience our customized awesomeness for yourself: