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Fall Wedding Ideas

The natural beauty of fall makes a perfect wedding backdrop.

If you relish the beauty of fall foliage and the sweet smells of apple cider and crisp hay, you may want to take advantage of nature’s bounty and have a fall wedding.

Fall Wedding Colors

You can begin planning your fall wedding theme by choosing your wedding colors from nature’s palette. Subdued jewel shades such as burnt orange, muted gold, forest green and rich burgundy are natural choices. Pair these with pale yellow, ivory, celadon and other lighter shades to consider your color theme. You can select one predominant color for your wedding them, and several complimentary shades for accents to use in your stationery, bridesmaids gowns, and wedding décor.

Fall Wedding Invitations

You can pick up your fall wedding theme colors in your invitations – perhaps a crisp ivory parchment inked in a deep evergreen with gold seals, or a mahogany stock printed with gold lettering.

Fall Wedding Location Ideas

For early fall weddings, you can use nature as your backdrop for an outdoor wedding. A romantic winery (like North Salem Vineyards) could be wonderful: imagine the brilliant foliage draping the hills around you, with the sweet smell of hay and apples scenting the air.

Romantic inns and B&Bs are also excellent candidates for a fall wedding reception. As the weather grows crisp, you and and your guests can enjoy sipping mulled cider and local wines by a roaring fireplace.

Look for locations that provide comfortable places for your guests to enjoy the scenery outdoors and the first refreshing hints of briskness in the air.

Fall Wedding Attire

Consider a long-sleeved gown, or a sleeveless wedding dress with a cozy cape or jacket so you can enjoy the crisp weather and get plenty of photographs outside to take advantage of the breathtaking foliage.

Bridesmaids could wear dresses in different, coordinated shades of fall: burgundy, dark orange, apple green, forest green, celadon, muted gold. When selecting their dresses, keep in mind that they will also want to enjoy the brisk outdoor weather and sparkling scenery, so jackets or sleeves might be in order.

Fall Wedding Decorations

Here again nature can be your guide. The fragrance of freshly-cut pine boughs woven as garlands is memorable and sweet. Horn of plenty centerpieces can be filled with fresh apples in red, green and yellow. You can add a beautiful array of natural gourds, nuts and small pumpkins to the mix. The jewel tones of fresh mums, cut or live in decorative pots, will add a delicate beauty to your wedding centerpieces or other decor. Larger pumpkins, carved in delicate relief and equipped with candles, make romantic lighting.

Fall Wedding Food

Hot spiced cider and wines from local vineyards can be served with foods traditional to the fall: pumpkin soup, fresh squash, ripe tomatoes with freshly picked basil, colorful berries and other fruits and vegetables of the season are naturals. For desert, serve sweet apple crisps and pumpkin pie.