Traditional Island Shell Wedding Horns

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Following in the South Seas tradition of all Pacific Islanders, Conch and Triton seashell horns are always blown to herald the new wedding. A pair of first men blow the horns in concert as the new couple is pronounced man and wife. The blowing of shell horns to celebrate the new wedding is a very romantic moment! That moment will be remembered forever with these beautiful engraved heirloom pieces that will be a keepsake for a lifetime.

Celebrity Wedding Tradition

These tropical island wedding horns were used at the wedding of Nicholas Cage to Lisa Marie Presley and many others! Many celebrity weddings have celebrated their island weddings with the blowing of these shell horns.

Shell horns will turn your own celebrity wedding into an occasion of jubilation and high spirits! Engraved shell horns are wonderful lifetime keepsakes, and they make perfect groomsmen gifts. Shell horns are easy to blow and make a thunderous sound. Be sure your groomsmen or bridesmaid practice before the wedding, and then watch the fun. Shell horns are now being used all over the world to celebrate weddings in true island fashion!

Traditional South Seas Shell Wedding Horns

Legendary horns have a brass mouthpiece and a unique yacht line lanyard with an engravable nameplate. Legendary Shells makes their own engraving with a process called sand carved engraving. Any font or any symbol can be engraved. Usually the couples names with date of the wedding and the location is added. Small dolphins or doves can also be added.

Legendary Shells are the worlds only makers of shell trophy wedding horns, with over 30 years experience! Their consistent quality is well known. Their horns are now used and sought after by numerous foreign as well domestic symphony orchestras! See their feedback page to see what people are saying about these lovely real natural seashell island wedding traditions that have been used for centuries to celebrate all South Seas weddings.

They have also been used by the Royal British Navy for over 500 years. And by all sailors and fishermen as signal horns since the dawn of sailing ships. Seafarers, whether whalers, explorers or traders. would encounter conch horns being used in all of the southern waters of the world from China to southeast Asia to South America and the Caribbean. They would naturally see their usefulness and carry them with them back to England or Spain or even Scandinavia wherever they were from. Their use in recorded seafaring history goes back a very long way even in places such as Europe, Russia and Japan ! They were used extensively by the British Navy for hundreds of years, and now today as sailing trophies, wedding horns or special award trophy gifts!

These shell horns are very much part of the soul of the islands and seafaring history. Truly Unique beach style wedding gifts that anyone who loves the sea and boats and the Islands will treasure forever. To hold a conch is to hold the history of the sea and some of its most ancient sounds! Cheers!

- The Conch King 04/28/2006

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