You could create
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 (available from Candles Just Online
)
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 centerpieces as well. For a fall wedding, the
only limit really is your imagination. You could even do mini
pumpkins or gourds as centerpieces.
As for colors, any
fall or jewel colors I think would be wonderful.
- Kathleen
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Some
ideas for a fall wedding -
Carve a hole in
the top of mini-pumpkins to create festive votive candle holders.
Apples can be used also, but don't hold up quite as well.
For flower
arrangements think mums, wheat stalks, twigs, and feathers (like
pheasant feathers).
Create pew
arrangements 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, then punch (or
drill) holes in sides. I have done this for Halloween pumpkins. Some
I just do a lot of holes randomly. Some I make patterns -- like stars
or words, etc. These are really unique 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 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 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.
One
thing that has occurred to me though are some of the more unusual
things you can decorate with at this time. Many people think about
fall leaves which are great, but as some have found out, they can be
tricky to gather or preserve, so you might want to purhcase some.
Store like Illuminationsoften
have them in the fall. Here are some other things that I have been
thinking of that are great this time of year:
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.
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 arrangments. Besides, these
dried objects keep forever so you don't have to worry about when you
prepare them. Oh, and think about including cinnamon sticks in any
arrangments like that-- they'll smell great!
5)
Cornucopias - The 'horn of plenty' you see at thanksgiving is a
general symbol of harvest and a friend used it as a symbol at her
wedding-- it was very lovely. It can be filled with fall flowers or
with food or with a giant assortmetn of fruit as part of an
"edible centerpiece" for the reception.
6) Dried flowers:
"silver dollars" and "japanese orange lanterns"
in particular would be good for a fall theme but there are many
people who sell dried arrangments and this could be a nice option if
you didn't want to use real flowers but wanted something other than
silk. I've seen such lovely dried arrangments but never been to a
wedding using them 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
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
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