Beach Wedding ideas?? HELP!

[Shanti]

Hello!

My DF and I are getting married in September this year and having a beach wedding. Just about everything is organised (except for the bridal and groomsmens clothes but that won't take long to get, it's only a basic beach wedding)... not really formal or anything. We don't want anything really formal as we are "casual" people by nature and don't feel comfortable dressing up to the max!!! I***WIM???!!!

The reason i'm posting is that I am wondering if you girls have any ideas what we can use for "beach ceremony" decorations. We are getting married by the water outside DF's parents house on the grass in front of the sand and water (so it's not too sandy that way!)... we are thinking about having just a few chairs, a bamboo aisle mat to walk down and what else?? We would like to have something in the background of the photos where we stand!? There will be about 50 ppl at our wedding...

Any ideas? Did your sister or friend or someone you know get married by the beach and use any really nice decoration setup that looked effective? I don't just want chairs and an aisle mat, i'd like something more.... I have been looking in weddings catalogues etc but nothing has given me ideas...

I'm starting to stress out about it all because 6mths is not far away!! and time creeps up on us because we are such busy ppl!
Thanks for reading