beach weddings

Wind & Hair Advice

Beach Wind & Messy Hair Advice ~ GREAT ADVICE FROM 1600+ beach weddings experience ~ THIS cannot be emphasized enough!!! Nothing ruins your wedding photos like hair / bangs of a Wedmate (or an important Guest) flapping loose, unpinned, unsprayed in your eyes and mouth due to wind whipping because: It absolutely WILL flop in your eyes and mouth, always And now you have a large, hairy “squid” covering your face in pics! Frustrated, clawing, repeated hair-flipping, distracted SCOWL faces in your wedding photos,

Wear Bright Colors Advice

Look at these pictures overall from beach weddings-notice the interplay of clothing colors vs. bland background colors. Which photos look best regarding colors? The ones in colorful clothes, or the neutral clothes? For best results, WEAR BRIGHT, COLORFUL CLOTHES to your beach wedding and any beach photo session, too! Traditionally, your wedding party can wear any bright colors, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW WEDMATES CAN WEAR ANYTHING NOWADAYS! So for BEST photos the advice is: AVOID white, ivory, cream, gray, tan, beige, khaki, light

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Weather, Rain, Midday Heat Advice

Rain, Weather, Midday Heat Advice: Good news–Less than 1% of our 1,600+ beach weddings were altered due to rain! Besides us being “charmed” here’s why: For beach weddings along the coastline area between Wilmington NC and Myrtle Beach SC, the weather is relatively stable and dry. Rain is very brief, real storms are few, and sunshine is plentiful. Why? The geography affects the atmosphere and weather pattern: the North Carolina coastline curves inward as it becomes South Carolina. See red circle on our map

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13th & 14th Awards Earned!

David and Margo Sears, co-owners and operators of Beachpeople Weddings, are pleased to announce being 2019 ­recipients of more service excellence awards in the wedding industry.  This brings their grand total of earned awards to 14 since 2013. What does that mean? This means they remain among the top 2% of 250,000 wedding vendors on the East Coast of the USA. Voters for these annual awards were 150+ of their former clients of photography and officiating, thus ratifying these prestigious awards

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Our Signature Shell Horn Herald

A Triton seashell horn (a.k.a. “conch” shell) blowing by our Officiant/Minister is included in all our ceremonies at no additional charge. It’s an ancient tradition, classy, coastal, fun, elegant and sublime! Like church bells and trumpet fanfare, the ancient tradition of the shell horn heralds the beginning of a new marriage and calls in blessings and good fortune for the happy couple. When done properly, the Triton shell produces a low, gentle sound that can carry for miles across land and sea. The

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Off-Season Special: Nov 1 - Mar 31

WINTER DATE (“Off Season”) for Wedding OR a Photo Session: We minus $50 from the Grand Total for EVERYONE for ANY 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-“global warming” is evident here: for example, its Oct 17 today and the high temperature was 83 degrees! These wintertime beaches are clear, sunny, calm, and still very hauntingly beautiful then… and VERY

Our Sand-Groomed Heart with Shells Border

Our Signature Sand & Seashells Heart ~ Among a few other beach wedding services unique to just us, and included 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. Each one is unique, made by hand, and we have made over 1,600 of them so far, since 2011. In our first year of services, this design evolved as we saw and felt the underlying need