Fall Wedding Ideas
... Ideas From Creative Brides

You could create wedding centerpieces with horns of plenty. Fill them with ornamental fruit (like luscious grapes) or real fruit, sprinkle candy corn on the tables, or fill votive candle holders  with candy corn for favors. You could also fill in around candles with candy corn or other fall items.

You could create fall potted flowers as wedding centerpieces as well. Stores like Walmart or Home Depot sell these for fairly cheap in the fall - much cheaper than going to a florist and saying your want to order flowers for a wedding, that's for sure.

For a fall wedding decorations, the only limit really is your imagination. You could even do mini pumpkins or gourds as centerpieces and other wedding decorations.

As for colors, any fall colors or jewel colors I think would be wonderful for decorating an autumn wedding.

- Kathleen

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Carve a hole in the top of mini-pumpkins to create festive votive candle holders for decorations for the reception tables. Apples can be used also, but don't hold up quite as well.

For flower arrangements at a fall wedding, think mums, wheat stalks, twigs, and feathers (like pheasant feathers).

Create pew arrangements for wedding ceremony decorations using short pieces of corn stalks, pods, and feathers.

Place corn stalk arrangements in corners, entrances, to cover pillars, etc.

Hand-tied bouquets of mums encircled with wheat.

Pumpkins (real ones, or you can use paper mache pumpkins) - hollow them out, then punch (or drill) holes in sides. I have done this for decorating Halloween pumpkins. Some I just do a lot of holes randomly. Some I make patterns -- like stars or words, etc. These are really unique decorations with a votive candle in them. Instead of cutting the top off, I do the bottom -- so the pumpkin sits over the candle instead of the candle sitting inside the pumpkin.

Backdrop for decorating behind head table -- HUGH harvest moon, stars, and clouds (made from paper, wood, foamboard, etc), suspended from ceiling.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Janlyn

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As for the fall wedding, I think it's a fabulous time and I'm sure whatever you choose for decorations will be beautiful. I've been to a few fall weddings, and the more I drive around in the gorgeous foliage we've been having this year in Central Pennsylvania, the more I wish I could do something like that.

1) Those fabulous colored gourds that are on sale this time of year (and mini-pumpkins! I love those!).

2) Mixed nuts in the shell (that was a fond thanksgiving memory for me-- my granddad always had a big bowl of them around at Thanksgiving and I'd sit and shell nuts while waiting for the 'big people' to finish cooking dinner).

3) Sheaves of wheat -- florists often use these in fall arrangements and the "amber waves of grain" are really a nice and wholesome symbol of hearth, family and harvest - perfect symbolism for a wedding.

4) Pods, seeds, etc.: I don't know the names of all these things, but go to craft stores and you'll probably find them-- or if you have a walnut tree anywhere nearby you'll know that the casings outside nuts are often very unusual and decorative -- great for decorations and flower arrangements. Besides, these dried objects keep forever so you don't have to worry about timing when you prepare them. Oh, and think about including cinnamon sticks in any wedding decorations and flower arrangements like that-- they'll smell great!

5) Cornucopias - The 'horn of plenty' you see at thanksgiving is a general symbol of harvest and I have a friend who used it as a symbol or motif at her wedding. She had it as an ongoing theme running through all her wedding decorations -- it was very lovely. It can be filled with fall flowers or with food - or with a giant assortment of fruit as part of an "edible centerpiece" for the wedding reception.

6) Dried flowers: "silver dollars" and "Japanese orange lanterns" in particular would be good decorations for a fall theme wedding, but there are many people who sell dried flower arrangements and this could be a nice option if you didn't want to use real flowers but wanted something other than silk flowers. I've seen such lovely dried fall lower arrangements but have never been to a wedding using them for decor, so it might be something different.

Hope some of those ideas are helpful! I just love thinking of these things!

- Melanie

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"The fall wedding is so beautiful. I am planning a fall wedding for next September. I wasn't thrilled at first about the date my fiance picked, but I love it more & more everyday. It turns out that there is so much you can do to decorate with fall colors. We are having leaves everywhere and we are making our church look outdoors. We are having leaf covered arches and all. I am really excited!"

~ Kelly