Unique Summer Wedding Ideas To Beat The Heat

Summer weddings are beautiful, colorful, and incredibly fun to plan. There’s so much to celebrate, from bright flowers to amazing weather, Summer weddings give you a chance to be out and about, enjoy the atmosphere and tie the knot. However, for couples who are choosing to get married in the summer season, and are concerned that their wedding guests will be hot, we have some ideas for you. Sure enough, we get it. Planning a wedding is not easy, especially when you’re planning a summer wedding. You’d have many things to consider, from thinking about the kind of venue to choose and which events to have indoors and which ones to have outdoors, you’ll also wonder how you will keep your wedding guests cool and happy. Well, if that’s the case, we have just the things for you! We have compiled a list of some ideas that will help you to keep your wedding guests cool, happy, and involved with your wedding celebrations! 

Frozen Treats! 

So, let’s start off with the first idea to beat the summer sun, and that is with lovely frozen treats! We say lovely because who wouldn't love something cool and sweet on a hot summer day? So, obviously, one of the classic wedding frozen treats for summer days is ice cream. And sure enough, we love the idea of serving ice cream at your wedding. From serving ice cream in cones to choosing a few scoops for your wedding guests, there are so many ways to serve ice cream at your wedding. More ways of serving ice cream at your wedding are to have a variety of flavors for your wedding guests to enjoy by choosing to have an ice cream bar or station for your wedding, have an ice cream cake at the wedding, or serve yummy root beer floats. Now that we have talked plenty about some other kinds of frozen desserts for your wedding guests! You can choose to serve different flavors of ice cream sandwiches for your wedding guests. Serving ice cream sandwiches will be a great alternative to serving ice cream. Another alternative to serving ice cream but also giving your wedding guests a shot of caffeine for the wedding is to serve affogatos with yummy vanilla ice cream! This is a great combination of espresso and ice cream.  

Apart from ice cream, if you want to serve frozen treats to your wedding guests, then you can choose two more ideas. One of the ideas to use is to serve snow cones at your wedding. Snow cones are one of the best ways to keep yourself cool and will be pretty cool for everyone at your wedding. Also, snow cones are colorful, and have multiple flavors, which will not only be loved by your adult wedding guests but also by the children attending. Another idea to help your wedding guests to beat the heat for your summer wedding, then you can also choose to have a milkshake bar for wedding guests. You can choose a few flavors to have, much like signature cocktail options, and have some regular or most popular options at the bar for your wedding guests.

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Another idea that you can use for your wedding is to serve frozen fruits! But when we say frozen fruits, we don’t just mean your regular fruits, we mean delicious and pretty-looking frozen fruits. To do this, all you need are either small pieces of bananas, whole strawberries, or even cherries, and white or milk chocolate, molten, of course. You can dip these pieces of fruit in the molten chocolate and stick them in the freezer. Then you can bring these out only when you need to serve them. If you have a small wedding, you can even do this yourself and add a DIY touch to your wedding! 

Delicious Coolers 

One of the best ways to elevate a summer wedding is to inject something delicious, something pretty, and something colorful into the entire wedding ceremony! This idea to beat the summer heat for your weddings is perfect for outdoor and indoor wedding ideas. Before we get into the ideas that you can use, let us talk about how you incorporate them into your wedding. So, the first and easiest thing to do is to use a station or a bar. If you have a station, you’d probably have some pre-selected flavors for coolers. And if you have a bar, you can have multiple flavors and also let your wedding guests experiment with some flavors as well. That aside, if you want to enjoy the bright and lovely summer outdoors, then you can have your wedding ceremony or wedding reception party outdoors, you can have a cooler handed to every guest as they enter the space, or have small tables set up with the coolers you have for the wedding. Now that we have that said, let’s talk about the ideas or flavors that you can use for your wedding. Let’s start at the top with the classic idea of coolers, virgin mojitos! You can have the regular, lime, and soda mojito for the sake of keeping the regular on your drinks menu and consider other summer flavors. For example, you can have watermelon mojitos, peach mojitos, raspberry mojitos, or blueberry mojitos. Another idea for your cool and fresh iced tea recipes for your wedding. You can choose to serve Pomegranate and Lime Iced Tea, Lemonade Iced Tea, Mint Team, or Peach Iced Tea at your wedding. 

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To serve these cool drinks at your wedding, you can not only have an amazing bar or station, as we discussed. However, for a longer event, you can simply have glass water dispensers, and fill them up with the options of these cool drinks that you’d like to serve to your wedding guests throughout the wedding. These can be two or three options. To make your wedding’s options better, you can also have a bar or station, depending on whatever strikes your fancy. That aside, you can also have a pretty glass bottle and have these colorful drinks transferred in the bottles and arranged for your wedding guests to pick up. A beautiful glass dispenser with drinks or even colorful bottles will make a great spot for taking some colorful photos. 

Parasols and Fans 

One of the best ways to keep your wedding guests cool and happy during a summer day, then how about taking it a step further by leaving your wedding guests some fans and parasols. Both of these ideas will be great ideas for your summer wedding because they will help you to allow them to make your wedding guests feel cool. Since summer weddings are all about colors and cute details, you can use fans and parasols to add more color to your wedding. Well, we love both of the ideas so, we’d like to give you some ideas as to which idea to use, then we have some ideas for you. Let’s discuss parasols first, you can use paper parasols or have vintage parasols for your wedding. If you have paper parasols for your wedding, then you can easily choose to add some monogram stickers for your wedding or have little details like flowers, greenery balls, or cotton balls to add more details to your wedding. For vintage parasols, you can simply have these as they are. Next, you can use wicker or wooden fans for your wedding! These will add a lovely vintage touch to your wedding. If you’re a fan of colorful fans for your wedding, then you can choose a few different options. For example, an idea that we absolutely love is to use wedding programs as your fans! You can choose thicker paper for the fans and have one created for every wedding guest. Apart from this, you can choose to have these in the wedding theme colors or choose to have a multicolored arrangement for the fans. Your wedding guests can also keep these as a keepsake. And if you’re skipping wedding programs for your wedding, then how about using some cool monograms for your wedding fans? You can have these shaped in traditional fan shapes or in modernist shapes. You can also leave a note at the table or wherever you have placed these fans or parasols for your wedding guests that these are also wedding favors. However, you can also have other wedding favors, and these fans could be an addition to them.

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Here we want to discuss a couple of things related to the idea we just mentioned above. The first thing that we want to discuss with you is as simple as using wicker baskets to help your guests find the parasols and fans for your wedding guests. For example, if you want your guests to have options, you can have hats, parasols, and even fans, and let your guests choose whichever one they like! Also, you can choose to place these for your wedding guests as though they are escort cards, which are on a table with every guest’s name on it. These fans or parasols can be used as escort cards as well. The way to use a parasol, fan, or hat for your wedding guests is to leave a small, hand-tied note that not only leaves a “name” of the wedding guest but can also add the number of the table that these guests are placed, this will only make sense if you’re numbering your tables. Additionally, if you’re not happy with these ideas, you can also have your guests use some amazing umbrellas! This will help your guests beat the heat as well. 

 Creative Boozy Ideas!

The last idea on our inspirational blog for you is to use a variety of alcoholic beverages and cool ideas for your wedding. This will help you to improve your wedding’s ambiance and help you to add more interesting drinks to your wedding menu. One of the best ways to add boozy treats to your wedding drinks menu or just the wedding menu is to add some alcohol to popsicles! You can have your wedding caterers create some alcoholic popsicles for your wedding guests to enjoy. You can also have ice cream floats with any alcoholic beverage. Another way to add more flavor and ideas to your wedding is to use colorful cocktails, which will add colors to your wedding photos. You can also have booze added to desserts and cakes, this will only add to the experience. Additionally, you can have some custom drinks created for your wedding. 

Bonus:

Since summer weddings will be hot, one of the best ways to keep your wedding guests cool is to use beer! You can have craft beer, have some of the most popular brands for your guests to enjoy, or even have beer on tap! This way your wedding guests will not only have a beer at hand but will also help them beat the heat. You can also have beer on tap put right next to the yummy summer drinks dispenser!

Other Things to Keep in Mind for Summer Weddings

Well, apart from all the ideas that we have mentioned above, we’d like to let you know that you can also rent some misting fans for your wedding guests. You can strategically have them placed all around your wedding venue so that everyone gets to enjoy the cool breeze. To make these look even better, you can simply add some colorful, or shimmering glitter streamers to the rims so that when you turn on the fan, it flows in front of the fan. Next, you can also choose to switch your wedding time. During your wedding planning, if the idea to keep your wedding guests cool is taking too much out of your wedding budget, then consider changing the wedding timeline. One of the best ways to beat the summer heat is to switch your wedding time, so, instead of a daytime wedding, you can schedule it for much later. Another way to enjoy a summer wedding with everyone is to make use of indoor and outdoor spaces wisely. You can have your wedding ceremony indoors and have the reception party outdoors. The logic behind it is simple: by the time your reception party rolls around, the weather will be cooler. Lastly, the ideas we mentioned right now will typically work for the days when the summer heat is not too much, so on those days, you can easily have an outdoor wedding ceremony. However, if you are convinced that you want to have an outdoor wedding event, any of the ideas from our blog will help you to have a great wedding!

With that said, we hope that these ideas that we have mentioned help you pick out the best details for your wedding! When it comes to keeping your wedding guests cool, it is crucial to understand that all you need to do is to be creative with the ideas and details that you add to your wedding. The ideas above can be used for the wedding as it is, or you can use the ideas above to inspire something new. We also hope that your wedding planning is fun, and you talk to your partner about the ideas that you want to incorporate into your wedding day, it is their wedding day too. Besides, you never know, they may have better ideas. With that, we come to the end of our inspiration blog, Happy summer wedding planning!