Dive/Underwater themed reception

I think you probably have enough there. I was going to suggest table names maybe of UK reefs or wrecks, but if you're not having them they're no good! Re: Bowls of fish themed chocs, why not have some sort of sweetie bugget, you could get some of those pink foam shrimp too. Use fishbowls insteadof sjust bowls, and maybe decorate the table with some shells or something. You could have a dive themed cake toppers? Or maybe just snorkels and fins if you didn't want to go the whole hog with the tanks and BCD's etc.

Here are lots of fish themed sweets (and some other random stuff the search threw out) http://www.chocolatebuttons.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=fish&x=0&y=0 Also you could get some of those fortune telling fish? OK I am getting far too in to this.

Can't really help but just wanted to say what a cool idea for a theme that is ?

Sounds cool. I am another who thinks you have plenty of sea-life stuff!

It all sounds really cool! How about a sea-life quiz?

When you said about the chocolates my first thought was those Guylian Chocolate seashells. Is that what you had in mind?

Pebble centrepieces would be cool too.

WSS- if you were having place names on the tables you could write names on the pebbles with chalk (but you're not so ignore that!)

All I can say is GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Lol

Our theme has been starfish, sand, shells, pebbles and its taken real effort to find nice things available in the UK, if we lived in America it would be a doddle!

Here a flash of some things I have seen/used along the wa. Table plan I made myself

I think if you don't want to go OTT, then you probably have enough if you've chosen to have your reception in an aquarium. (Are you having your ceremony underwater with the sharks?)

I love the idea of themed weddings, I'm having a winter themed one, but i'm worried about it being OTT and ending up too christmassy!

And these are our favours which are chocolae pebble sweets

Belinda- I LOVE your decs. These look really classy, well done! I have seen sea-side done tacky, but yours looks very tasteful.

My favorite item being the "I Do" sign :-)

Ahhh thank you very much

Its been really hard lol! The shells we are using as the place cards holders and our centrepiece is like the one in the photo, so its kind of a star fish theme haha!

Thanks very much, everyone, for your replies. I think I might just leave it at what we've got - less is more!

The real fish will provide plenty of entertainment, with the sharks watching us eat our dinner :-)

I love your 'I DO', Belinda. Where did you get it, or did you make it?

Sounds amazing!! I think the fact that you're having it at the aquarium means you really don't need to really hammer the theme home - there are real fish!!

Can't wait to see pics of all this, wow

(If you do find a way to incorporate fortune telling fish, please do, I love tat like that LOL)

In keeping with the vague beach/sea-side theme, I thought about hiring an old-fashioned ice-cream cart for the reception.

Good idea or not?

Hey, I cant actually remember where I got the "I DO" sign from, I got it ages ago, have tried doing a little google and cant find it. If I remember I will let you know.

We thought about an ice cream van but logically it wouldnt have worked for us, because we are having a canape reception and did think about swapping canapes for ice cream but then thought that eating an ice cream before a sit down meal would be a bit sickly... then after the meal everyone will be full and then the evening we have too many guests for it to be an affordable extra.

Belinda, I understand your problem! We're having a buffet reception, but I was thinking about having the ice-cream van right by the entrance to the aquarium.

When the guests arrive they're being taken on a tour of the aquarium by a staff member while we have our photos done, so I was going to have ice-creams on arrival (instead of a glass of champagne), then have the champagne when the tour finishes and we all meet up for the buffet, so they don't miss out on their booze!