Autumn Weddings September 3, 2009

Ahh, Autumn, what a romantic, wonderful time of the year.  The smell of Autumn is simply intoxicating… fresh fallen leaves, pumpkin pie, the crisp air, there’s nothing else like it in this world.  All the fall elements combined create the perfect recipe for a delicious wedding day!

It is harvest time. The summer heat is gone. Yet the days are still warm and sunny, how much more could you ask for?  The leaves are turning into an incredible array of colors (Burnt sienna is my personal favorite) and as they fall off the trees, create a soft, lush colorful carpet.
Halloween and Thanksgiving are here and can serve as wedding themes or be incorporated for a most unique personalized fall theme wedding.

Can you see the possibilities? Whether you want your autumn wedding to be very formal, most casual or somewhere in between, you have an enormous variety of possibilities.

In this article, we’re  putting on our thinking cap and getting creative.

Ideas to help you plan a fall wedding.

WEDDING LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Following are traditional and not so traditional locations that will enhance your autumn wedding and make it unique and special. Picture your wedding at a:

Park

Bed and Breakfast

Country Inn

Winery

Ranch or on a farm,

Barn

Gazebo

Open Field

Orchard

Nature Preserve

Botanical Garden or in a private Garden

Wooded area

Riverbank or Lakeside

Or anywhere where nature presents its glorious backdrop.
 

ATTIRE
Fall weather is unpredictable. It may get chilly so, consider heavier fabrics and at least some sleeve for the gown and dresses or top them with matching boleros, stoles or shawls that can, but do not have to be worn.
The wedding gown can be white, ivory, champagne or gold.

The gown and or veil may show embroidered leaf motif or dainty gold embroidery.

Bridesmaids may wear either the same color or to really represent the autumn theme, have each bridesmaid represent a different fall color.The bride may wish to wear a fall theme garter and carry a matching hankie.
Bridesmaids and flower girl will look great adorning garlands of fall flowers and leaves.

 

  

 

The themes and centerpieces

 

 Place A Horn of plenty, a basket or a hollowed pumpkin lined with fall leaves or popcorn and filled with fall fruit, berries, nuts, gourds, mini-pumpkins and-or acorns as your centerpiece.

Pumpkin Ice Sculpture

Carve out the inside of pumpkins and place candles in them. If you plan a buffet, you may line hollowed pumpkins with foil and using them as serving dishes.

Fall floral arrangements in a straw basket or hollowed pumpkin.

Place 3 or 4 fall color candles of various sizes in hurricane lamps. The candles may be cinnamon, cranberry, spice or apple scented.

Place leaf or pumpkin shaped floating candles in a bowl, set it on a layer of fall leaves or straw.

Paint or spray mini pumpkins and gourds and group them together.Display  bales of hay

If you have children, let them participate. Ask them to string cranberries, candies and popcorn and add them to your table decorations.

Display balloons in fall colors

Fall theme ribbons and bows, garlands, paper lanterns or luminaries with amber light bulbs, balloons, chains of stringed popcorn, cranberries, candies, paper chains, bales of hay, ivy, garlands etc…
Accent the doorways and tables with tulle and ribbons in your wedding colors. Adhere leaves and silk flowers for inexpensive, elegant displays.

 

Cake
Decorate your cake with leaves, fall flowers, mini pumpkins, mini apples, marzipan fruit etc…
Flavors: Spice cake, pumpkin cake, dark chocolate cake, nut cakeFood items you may wish to consider

Nuts

DRINKS: Apple cider, Sparkling cider

MAIN DISHES especially if close to Thanksgiving: Turkey, stuffing, corn, potatoes, cranberry sauce etc…

DESSERTS: Pumpkin pie, Apple pie, Pecan pie

Wedding Favors

Now, this is my forte! http://www.ChocolateTreasureChest.com has tons of fun personalized and edible wedding favors to choose from.  If you have a design in mind or would like to add a picture, www.chocolateTreasureChest.com will inorporate your picture and wedding theme into personalized candy bars or on a tag for chocolate covered oreo’s with a fall theme, chocolate covered pretzels or some chocolate lollipops.  Here are a few of the favors that you can find there:

FUN IDEAS

Hay rides, Horse and Buggy rides, blowing soap bubbles,

To reflect the season, the men and boys could wear tan, beige and brown attire instead of the white, black or dark blue. Their ties should be of fall colors matching the bridesmaids dresses and their boutonnière should be a fall flower.

 

FALL COLORS

white, ivory, champagne, muted gold, tan, beige, various browns, hunter green, burnt orange, rust red, deep red, burgundy, cranberry, wine, navy blue, sky blue, eggplant purple, pewter, silver, pale yellow, pumpkin and orange.

INVITATIONS AND STATIONERY

Accent your invitations and wedding stationery with your chosen fall color.
If you print your own, you may add fall graphics such as leaves, acorns, fall flowers, seasonal fruit, or a horn of plenty. If you purchase fall theme print your own invitations, fall theme is available.
Cut the place cards to look like a fall theme item leaves, pumpkin, turkey siluettes etc…

We have found som georgous wedding invitations at http://www.tgkdesigns.com

 

FLOWERS

Chrysanthemums, roses, daisies, dahlias, lilies, yarrow, orchids, hydrangeas, sunflowers, baby breath, fall leaves, tallow berries, natural or dried wheat.

CEREMONY

Decorate the ceremony site with fall flowers.
Instead of rose petals, fill the flower basket with colorful fall leaves.
Make pew bows from ribbons in your wedding colors and embellish them with fall silk flowers, leaves, fruit, wheat, Indian corn etc…

RECEPTION
Instead of numbering your tables, name them. For example:
Fall, Autumn, Acorn, Horn of plenty, Cornucopia, Maple, Oak, Apple, Pear, Pumpkin, Cranberry etc…
To add more interest and make it easier to remember give your table addresses. Just add Circle or Square depending on the shape of your tables and you send your guests to Fall Circle or Autumn Square etc…
Use fall color linens.

 

However you chose you incorporate Autumn into your wedding design, I am sure that it will turn out spectacular! Best wishes of your Wedding day and there after from http://www.ChocolateTreasureChest.com

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