If you’re starting to feel chilly, Douglas and Daniel’s beachside wedding at Aruba’s Bucuti Resort will warm you right up! This wedding has a ton of charming details — succulents, gold necklaces engraved with the couple’s wedding date, and Douglas and Daniel themselves.
These two met three years ago online, and quickly discovered a “mutual love for good food, cocktails, and laughs.” Right before Thanksgiving 2011 they decided they were tired of waiting for America to get it together and they wanted to get married now. Luckily they live in Massachusetts, and were able to legally wed before heading to Aruba to celebrate with friends and family.
The couple places a huge emphasis on all that is eco-friendly and worked hard to have their wedding do the same. For example, the invites were printed on birch tree wood from sustainably harvested forests in the US. Douglas and Daniel wanted to keep the day “simple, natural, and beautiful” and I daresay they pulled it off.
Vendors!
- Photography: Timeless Pixx Photographers
- Venue: Bucuti & Tara Beach Resorts Aruba
- Planner: Aruba Bucuti Wedding
- Floral Design: Shars Flowers
- Cake and cupcakes: WCakes, Aruba
- Arch Design: Letz Aruba
- Calendar Keychain: PunkyJane
- Equality cufflinks: Human Rights Campaign
- Turtle Steampunk Cufflinks: Antiqued Silver Metal by Emmagemshop
- Invitation Cards, Welcome bag tags, RSVPs: Woodchick Studios
16 responses to “A succulent-themed lavender and blue beachside destination wedding”
Gorgeous! I’ve been trying to figure out how to pull off blue and lavender, so this is great inspiration! 😀 As for the couple – you both look so handsome and happy!
Great wedding!
But now I have to find that calendar date circled key chain!!!
Hey there! The vendors are listed at the bottom of the post — the calendar key chain is right here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/59574766/keychain-hand-stamped-and-personalized.
I was thinking the same thing!
I love the keychain and the birch wood invites.
Oh man, I want a cheese station for my house. Great beach wedding. You were right, I did feel warmer.
Love love love every details! PERFECTION!
LOVE this – but especially the invitations.
btw – YAY Massachusetts! now let’s get the rest of the country up to speed. this couple shows how right marriage is when two people love each other.
What a beautiful event! And I’m going to have to jump on the invite-love train. Those might be exactly what we’ve been looking for!
Having discussed it with my partner, this post has totally made a sale for Wood Chick – those invitations are 100% what we were looking for, and we didn’t even know it!
I LOVE the Bucuti resort! I stayed there on my recent trip to Aruba. I totally remember the wedding planner telling me how excited she was about this exact up-coming wedding! Congrats, guys.
Mmm, cheese station! 😀
Oh man, such handsome grooms, and your rings are gorgeous! And a cheese station! Brilliant! Stealing that idea!
Seriously: the cheese station is the best.
It’s even awesomer when you know exactly how that sugar sand feels between your toes. I stayed at La Cabana on Eagle Beach a few years ago and I’ve never felt more peaceful. Gorgeous wedding! Congratulations to both of you. 😀
And if anybody needs just a little more “get away” than those amazing photos, there’s a live cam feed of the resort’s beach: http://www.bucuti.com/photos-videos/live-bucuti-cam (Just watch out for the iguanas. They’ll steal your lunch.)
I gave my husband one of the calendar key chains! So cute. I got mine here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PunkyJane