Summer Wedding Reception

If you are having a summer wedding reception, there are many themes to choose from.

If you are having an outdoor reception, please be considerate of your guests and set up an air conditioned tent where the guests can eat and get cool. The tent can be decorated beautifully and guests can come and go as they please, enjoying the beautiful outdoors, but cooling down when they need to. A tent also protects from bug bites, especially in the evening.

A beach reception will be more casual with flip flops and lots of running around in the sand for children. Yet a tent will still be needed to protect the food and cake from heat and blowing sand.

Most of the summer wedding receptions that I have attended have been indoors with air conditioning due to extreme heat. Most of them have been in Texas.

If you live in a cooler place where the summer heat is not extreme, such as the upper peninsula of Michigan or Colorado Springs, to name just a few cooler places where I have lived, air conditioning may not be necessary everyday of the summer. It just depends on where and when you have your wedding.

You can have a tropical Hawaiian paradise reception, using coconuts and pineapples as centerpieces. Accent them with shells. Put a wick and pour some melted wax into some of the shells and light them.

Give sacks of dried tropical fruit to guests as favors. Serve shrimp kabobs made with veggies and pineapple over rice.

Whether your reception is indoors or out, make your guests feel special. Set up a smoothie or a frozen coffee station where guests can order fruit smoothies or frapuccinos. Offer snow cones to younger guests.

Set up an ice cream sundae station or a Popsicle station with frozen treats made with real fruit.

Decorate with flowers, citrus fruit, or shells and sand.

If the reception is outside, set up a volleyball court for the younger guests, especially if you are at the beach.

If your summer wedding reception is inside, set up a cake walk circle for the younger guests and have an adult or an older teenager run the cake walk. Have lots of cupcakes on hand for this game. Kids love it.

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