Beautiful Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Alabama
Beach Wedding Destinations
These cities are famous for romantic beach weddings and unforgettable honeymoons. The fabulous beachfront hotels, condominiums, and vacation houses provide wonderful accomodations for wedding guests.
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are resort cities with large, white sand beaches and tend to be popular destination wedding spots for couples from all regions of the United States and around the world.
Orange Beach offers direct access to the Gulf of Mexico for vessels, via Perdido Pass. The greater area is home to a very large charter fishing fleet. Gulf Shores is served by Jack Edwards Airport, which is located on the north side of town on Highway 59.
Alabama Gulf Coast beaches are renowned for its bright, "sugar white" sand. This is because the grains of sand that make up the beach are composed of quartz.
This quartz sand although quite abrasive to CDs, sunglasses etc., is also very powdery, soft and comfortable to the feet.
The warm Gulf of Mexico waters along the beachfront tend to have an emerald green tint due to the close proximity of the Mobile Bay estuarial system to the west, where the Mobile river delta meets the Gulf of Mexico.
The prevailing west to east current along the beach brings suspended silt from the Mobile river delta toward the Florida panhandle thus giving the water its green tint.
Gulf Shores Alabama is well known for soft, white sandy beaches, incredibly romantic
beach weddings, breathtaking sunsets and an unpretentious, deep-south culture
