♥ Select recycled paper invitations! Some invitations are plantable with an embedded seed for your guests to plant in their gardens after the wedding day!
♥ “Go paperless” by creating a wedding webpage for your guests to gather information, such as directions and registries.
♥ Find a wedding dress that is made with organic/recycled materials. Shop vintage, choose a classic timeless style.
♥ For sustainable guest favors, consider little herb plants. This idea can also be used in place of escort cards. Choose two to three types of plants to  indicate the different entrée selections.
♥ Our Island House Spa has the lastest Naturopathica organic spa products. Perfect for welcome bag gifts or for your bridesmaids and guests! The Lavender Moisturizer is a favorite!
♥ Decorate with bamboo — one of the most sustainable materials, and the mini stalks are considered good luck! Other natural decorations are seashells, sand dollars and starfish (just please don’t remove live sea life from the beaches).
♥ For centerpieces, select locally grown flowers that are in season or potted blooms that can be planted afterwards. Consider an herb bouquet pictured below by our local florist, Beneva Flowers (www.beneva.com) (Made with mint leaves, green hypericum berries, bupleurum, white bouvardia, Queen Ann’s lace, lambs ear, rosemary with touches of white freesia, small green hydrangea and monte casino.)

Photography Vendor Credits:

Kimberly Dyer - www.kimberlydyerphotography.com 

Pixel Art - www.pixelartphotography.com

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Summertime at Longboat Key Club & Resort can be the perfect time to have your wedding on our beautiful beach.  You may be asking yourself “Isn’t it a little warm in Florida during the summer months?”  Well the answer lies in how you choose to approach your summer wedding.  There are plenty of ways to stay cool on the beach and still maintain the elegance of a princess on her wedding day. 

You can look like a goddess on your wedding day with a one shoulder dress in long, flowy chiffon.  Don’t like long dresses and want to show off your legs?  Go with a short cocktail style and ditch the straps to feel the sun glistening on your shoulders.  Try to steer clear of tight bodices and full, heavy skirts for the summertime weddings.  Instead of a long veil and headpiece, opt for the back-in-style birdcage veil or go light with a couple of pretty, decorative orchids in your hair.  One of our recent July brides even made baby starfish clips for her hair, it was beautiful and fitting!

Finally the best part of a beach wedding in warmer weather is the array of libations you can provide to cool off your guests!  From our fruit infused spa water, to bottled water on the boardwalk, my favorite is a champagne bar on the beach—this is always a great treat for your guests.  Imagine their surprise as they travel down the boardwalk towards the white sand and blue green Gulf waters, and they see that there’s a bar setup on the beach, offering cool libations.  You can even jazz it up and offer some strawberries or have a couple of raspberries dropped into each glass for aesthetic appeal. 

Another bonus of summer weddings is the savings you can get.  Longboat Key Club offers great deals with our “Say I Do” weddings http://www.longboatkeyclub.com/Events/Weddings.  Be sure to visit our website for more details or call our Catering office and a Wedding Specialist will be happy to assist you.

No matter how you choose to cool off during your summer wedding here at Longboat Key Club, our Wedding Specialists are here to assist with every detail and make your day perfect. 

Photography Vendor Credits:

Kimberly Dyer - www.kimberlydyerphotography.com 

Pixel Art - www.pixelartphotography.com

Rudy and Marta Photography - www.rudyandmarta.com

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