Wedding Style: Fall Themed Wedding Style Ideas

The Decor

• Think rustic elegance: stalks of fall flowers tied to tent poles, glass jugs filled with cider, or dozens of bales of hay for guests to sit on.
• Go all out with rich: chocolate brown burn-out velvet table linens, brown velvet curtains and chair cushions, and brown beaded candleholders for the cocktail tables.

The Invitations

• Incorporate an autumnal icon such as a maple leaf or pinecone.
• Send your wedding invitation in a velvet pocket featuring stitching of your first names.
• Use metallic gold paper to give any color scheme a fall feel.

The Flowers

• Pair your favorite flower with bunches of berries or a ring of leaves.
• Include fruit, such as tiny pears, in the centerpieces.
• Combine flowers with colorful votives in rustic antique lanterns.

The Menu

• Use small pumpkins and butternut squashes as bowls for creamy pumpkin soup.
• Use colorful seasonal produce in interesting ways -- serve a bright red beet puree or a salad of miniature vegetables.
• Give a nod to Halloween by serving chocolate martinis with Hershey’s Kisses, or green-apple martinis with apple-flavored Jolly Ranchers.

The Cake

• Try a basket-weave style wedding cake topped with fresh seasonal berries.
• Dazzle guests with a cupcake tower or tower of donuts.
• Go for drama with a four-tier confection wrapped in dark chocolate fondant and covered in green sugar-paste apples.
• Opt out of a traditional wedding cake and serve slices of apple, cherry, and pumpkin pie instead.

The Favors

• Give out pieces of homemade fudge with the family recipe attached.
• Create a bundle of cookies packaged with a monogrammed label.
• Offer spice-scented -- think gingerbread -- candles.
• Make a jar of homemade jam adorned with a label reading "Spread the Love."
• Give a kid treat: caramel-dipped Granny Smiths wrapped in cellophane.
• Give a small potted plant in a cool container.

Too traditional? Get out-of-the-box fall wedding ideas.

-- Allison Micarelli

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