Christmas Wedding Theme: Tropical Theme Decorating Ideas

For a few ideas on how to decorate for a tropical wedding theme for a Christmas wedding, put the book Christmas Style (DK Publishing, 2004) on your short list of reference materials. Inside is a short section titled “Tropical Delight” with pictures and information on how to decorate with a tropical Christmas theme based on one of the projects completed by the authors. Those few pages will familiarize you with how to decorate for a tropical wedding theme for a Christmas wedding.

The most prominent of the tropical Christmas decorations pictured in the section is a Christmas tree decorated with a staggering array of cocktail umbrellas. As explained in the caption:

Several hundred cocktail umbrellas serve as bright, tropical bursts of color on a tree grounded with lime-green packing peanuts! Hawaiian-themed designer ornaments add special flavor.

Setting up a few similarly adorned Christmas trees would be an obvious way to decorate tropical wedding receptions infused with Christmas spirit. If the wedding ceremony will be held in the same location as the reception, then you can consider using several of them as wedding alter decorations. For even more of a dazzling display of wedding alter decorations, use trees of varying heights to create a multilevel forest of tropical Christmas trees for extra good looks.

Of course, you can extend those tropical theme decorating ideas to the wedding aisle. One of the better ideas on how to decorate an aisle for a wedding ceremony is to use short slim line trees so they will not intrude on the walk down the aisle or obstruct the vision on the guests. Also keep in mind that if you use small slim line as wedding aisle decorations, you will only need a few on each side of the aisle; and make sure to stagger their positions from one side of the aisle to the other so as to not create bottlenecks that may disrupt the walk down the aisle.

Various sizes of slim line trees are excellent decorating ideas for a wedding reception with an elegant tropical theme as well. You just may want to tone down the cocktail umbrella Christmas tree decoration idea and add a string of clear Christmas lights. An alternative is to copy the idea found on page 95, which has a picture of an artificial Christmas tree decorated solely with tropical colored ribbons infused with small clear electric lights. Such elegantly simple tropical Christmas wedding theme props are a great evening wedding decorating idea for any season.

The other ideas on how to decorate for a tropical wedding theme for a Christmas wedding found in the book, and already mentioned above, is to use tropical Christmas decorations such as the ones pictured on page 94. These colorful eye-catching glass Christmas ornament decorations include a Moorish Idol reef fish, a clip-on hummingbird, a designer bauble with graphics that “depicts a white ship floating through an idyllic ocean sunset” and that is further embellished with white “raised flowers and leafy palm-tree fronds circling the ornament,” and a small captivating hand painted Hawaiian shirt ornament.

Such tropical Christmas decorations can be used to assemble quick and easy tropical themed Christmas wedding centerpieces. A couple of great ideas for wedding reception centerpiece decorations can be found on page 92. One is to simply use a couple of green-cactus cocktail glasses containing tropical glass Christmas ornament decorations. In the pictured example, glass ornament pineapples, conch shells, bird-of-paradise blooms, and seahorses are used.

The second of the potential tropical themed Christmas wedding centerpieces is an arrangement in which a “garland plays host to a variety of sweet, tropical delights.” These include “fresh limes, blown-glass pineapples and watermelon slices, and paper strawberries and pears….”