HOT Beach Wedding!!

My wedding was outside. It was 86 by 530 and super sunny. While there is no way the weather could have been predicted(86 is abnormal for April by me) if I had known I would have done it inside. My husband was melting in his suit and guests were hot! Even I was more than just warm in my dress. If you have time to change your ceremony site I would consider it. You don't want people to skip due to it being too hot outside during the ceremony.

Also hot sand can be really painful.

Over the years, I have officiated 118 weddings in August -- granted not the most popular month, but no one has died. In fact, I've only ever had 1 guest faint (in over 1,600 ceremonies) and it was because she had not drank enough water all day.

Schedule your ceremony for 30 minutes before sunset (cooler then, less chance of rain) and keep the ceremony short (15 mins. max).

@Elphaba, read my post again. I said I haven't seen anyone die after being out only 30 minutes. Sorry you did so much research and copying and pasting, but it's irrelevant and not in response to my complete statement.

Since you went through the trouble of copying those links, I glanced at a few. ALL of them said to be properly hydrated. She's also offering water. Is it possible that you're being a little overly dramatic here?

Lastly, there will be an inconvenience for atleast one guest regardless of the venue, time or date you choose. Some won't like a beach wedding, some won't like a church wedding, others won't like a secular venue. Everyone will feel passionately about their disdain for your choices. All you can do is your best to be as accommodating as possible. I'm guessing you're trying to do that because you asked the question in this list. Hopefully you can parse through the dramatics and find some good nuggets of info that will help you plan the beach wedding of your dreams.

Oh! Make sure you start and end ontime. Don't keep your guests outside any longer than necessary. Try to find a spot that's close enough to the entry locations to shorten your walk down the "aisle". Since beaches are generally public, hopefully you're trying to find a space that as "private" as possible so you won't have random passer by's in all of your pics.

KSquared, really? It's not common sense that the ceremony is for the couple unless it impacts the guests directly? Was I then entitled to take my guests outside in December when the temps were below zero in the mountains and we had a snowstorm for my evening wedding ceremony? Because it was all about me, to hell with frostbite? It's perplexing to me why this is confusing to you. Also, the fact that most people go to the beach in the summer has nothing to do with anything because they're in swimsuits and in and out of the water. Unless the OP is having an underwater ceremony, that's totally irrelevant to the discussion.

Nancy, most of us don't judge the success of a wedding by the death toll.

My FH can't handle that kind of heat even for short periods. He spent rather a lot of time vomiting during our one Vegas trip despite our efforts to keep him cool. We would have to pass on this wedding.

How can a post get eight likes and be pulled because three people flag it?

Just wondering.

The OP has water and fans and beyond moving it inside, which she clearly is not going to do, nothing will make her guests more comfortable except either skipping the ceremony or staying home.

I attended a beach wedding where it was hot. While no one got heat stroke, people were very sweaty and starting to get dizzy (the start of heat stroke?). At the reception, everyone was complaining about it. Many people were so focused in their discomfort that they didn't pay any attention to the ceremony. What a waste.