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Tip: "Falling" in Love
For an autumn wedding, "falling" in love is a whimsical theme that plays off the season and the romance of the day. This theme works well when the wedding is a fun, rather than a solemn occasion -- perhaps a second wedding, the marriage of two people who've been together for years, or simply a wedding among people who don't take weddings that seriously.
Keep the decor and favors lighthearted and bright-colored. Each guest might get a colorful "fall in love" gel candle or a bright tin of mints.
Tip: Autumn Theme Weddings
If you're getting married in the fall, what could be more natural than to draw on the beauty of the season in choosing your wedding theme? For a modern autumn theme wedding, choose personalized mint tins in chocolate brown and brushed aluminum, with your names and the date. For a more traditional event, adorn your reception tables with candle wedding favors with autumn wedding colors.
Tip: Fall Favor Boxes and Bags
If you have time, energy and helpers to assemble your own autumn wedding favors, you can save money and create a unique memory for your wedding day. You can get wedding favor boxes and bags in beautiful fall colors to showcase your homemade chocolates, fall flower bulbs or whatever takes your fancy. Try a ribbon-handled bag in bright fall colors like orange, or two-piece boxes in brown tied with plum-colored ribbon.
Tip: Fall Outdoor Weddings
Fall outdoor weddings can be stunningly beautiful -- or, if the weather doesn't cooperate, they can be too hot, too cold, too wet or too windy. Naturally, we wish you a perfect, sunny day -- but it's good to have a Plan B in case that doesn't happen. Even the little things count. Choose favors that won't fall victim to temperature (goodbye, chocolates and candles) or be too flimsy to hold still in the wind (sorry about those luxury tea bags). Good bets:
Tip: Fall Wedding Centerpieces
Fall wedding centerpieces range from the traditional -- fall flowers in an array of oranges -- to the contemporary. Why not coordinate the centerpieces with the favors for a table theme? For instance, if the favors are pear-shaped silver placecard holders, the centerpiece might be a colorful dish of pears and other seasonal fruit.
Tip: Fall Wedding Decorating
Less is more when it comes to fall wedding ideas for decorating. No need to go over the top -- just let the strong colors of fall flowers and leaves take their place as the central visual focus. If the bride is wearing white, provide backdrops for her in fall colors, and her dress and the radiance of her happy day will shine through in photographs for decades to come.
Designing table decorations for a fall wedding? Keep in mind everything that needs to be there -- china, silverware, condiments and food. Keep favors and centerpieces simple and in harmony with the rest of the presentation. Consider packaging candy favors in pillow boxes covered in sheer organza, which can be ordered in different colors -- ivory, olive, chocolate brown, just to name a few.
Tip: Fall Wedding Favor Ideas
Reflect vivid colors, earth tones, the impulse to cuddle up with a loved one with your fall wedding favors. Ideas to get you started:
Tip: Fall Wedding Flowers
Weddings are most often associated with spring blossoms, but the strong, passionate colors of fall flowers are a beautiful choice, whether you use them as a theme or just as a here-and-there accent for your big day. Besides appearing in your bouquets, corsages, altar pieces and table arrangements, fall wedding flowers can be a theme for your favors, decorating mint tins, chocolate bar wrappers or soap wedding favors to add an extra-original touch.
Tip: Fall Wedding Reception Ideas
Fall wedding receptions can reflect many of the qualities associated with the season -- hearty good will, togetherness, feasting on the fresh harvest and an increased sense of community. The menu is the obvious place to start -- fresh vegetables are a must, and apples make a versatile all-around accent flavor.
This is the season when the days get shorter, so light up your guests' lives with candles for your favors! You can find them in beautiful autumn leaf patterns or choose personalized candle favors to commemorate your day.
Tip: Floral Fall Favors
Autumn provides a rich selection of beautiful in-season flowers to decorate your wedding. Lilies, daisies and roses are among the blooms that can feature on place card holders, soaps, candles and more. Or, encourage your guests' own floral fancies with favors of small pastel-colored vases.
Tip: Halloween Wedding Favors
It takes a special sort of couple to get married at Halloween. Different, perhaps. Non-traditional. You get the idea.
Once you've located a Wiccan officiant, squeezed the maid of honor into her Elvira costume, fitted the best man's vampire teeth, and strewn the hall with spiderwebs, it can be a blast to go through every step of a "traditional" wedding, down to the throwing of the bouquet (of black roses) and the personalized jack-o'-lantern mint tins. This will be one wedding anniversary no one will forget!
Tip: November Weddings
November may not be a traditional month for weddings, but the atmosphere is chilly -- perfect for cuddling! -- and the focus turns to family. What could be more suitable? In keeping with the spirit of the November wedding, turn to the things that keep us warm. Coffee wedding favors embellished with your names will provide your guests with a warm morning memory of your special day.
Tip: "Falling" in Love
For an autumn wedding, "falling" in love is a whimsical theme that plays off the season and the romance of the day. This theme works well when the wedding is a fun, rather than a solemn occasion -- perhaps a second wedding, the marriage of two people who've been together for years, or simply a wedding among people who don't take weddings that seriously.
Keep the decor and favors lighthearted and bright-colored. Each guest might get a colorful "fall in love" gel candle or a bright tin of mints.
Tip: Autumn Theme Weddings
If you're getting married in the fall, what could be more natural than to draw on the beauty of the season in choosing your wedding theme? For a modern autumn theme wedding, choose personalized mint tins in chocolate brown and brushed aluminum, with your names and the date. For a more traditional event, adorn your reception tables with candle wedding favors with autumn wedding colors.
Tip: Fall Favor Boxes and Bags
If you have time, energy and helpers to assemble your own autumn wedding favors, you can save money and create a unique memory for your wedding day. You can get wedding favor boxes and bags in beautiful fall colors to showcase your homemade chocolates, fall flower bulbs or whatever takes your fancy. Try a ribbon-handled bag in bright fall colors like orange, or two-piece boxes in brown tied with plum-colored ribbon.
Tip: Fall Outdoor Weddings
Fall outdoor weddings can be stunningly beautiful -- or, if the weather doesn't cooperate, they can be too hot, too cold, too wet or too windy. Naturally, we wish you a perfect, sunny day -- but it's good to have a Plan B in case that doesn't happen. Even the little things count. Choose favors that won't fall victim to temperature (goodbye, chocolates and candles) or be too flimsy to hold still in the wind (sorry about those luxury tea bags). Good bets:
- Wedding mint favors in fall colors -- go on, have them inscribed with your names and "Mint to Be Together!"
- Maple leaf coasters
- Wooden placecard holders (these can double as picture frames later)
Tip: Fall Wedding Centerpieces
Fall wedding centerpieces range from the traditional -- fall flowers in an array of oranges -- to the contemporary. Why not coordinate the centerpieces with the favors for a table theme? For instance, if the favors are pear-shaped silver placecard holders, the centerpiece might be a colorful dish of pears and other seasonal fruit.
Tip: Fall Wedding Decorating
Less is more when it comes to fall wedding ideas for decorating. No need to go over the top -- just let the strong colors of fall flowers and leaves take their place as the central visual focus. If the bride is wearing white, provide backdrops for her in fall colors, and her dress and the radiance of her happy day will shine through in photographs for decades to come.
Designing table decorations for a fall wedding? Keep in mind everything that needs to be there -- china, silverware, condiments and food. Keep favors and centerpieces simple and in harmony with the rest of the presentation. Consider packaging candy favors in pillow boxes covered in sheer organza, which can be ordered in different colors -- ivory, olive, chocolate brown, just to name a few.
Tip: Fall Wedding Favor Ideas
Reflect vivid colors, earth tones, the impulse to cuddle up with a loved one with your fall wedding favors. Ideas to get you started:
- Apple-shaped candles
- Personalized teas
- Wine stopper and corkscrew sets
- Personalized small jars of honey
- Personalized pens (particularly appropriate if the couple includes a teacher, student or writer)
Tip: Fall Wedding Flowers
Weddings are most often associated with spring blossoms, but the strong, passionate colors of fall flowers are a beautiful choice, whether you use them as a theme or just as a here-and-there accent for your big day. Besides appearing in your bouquets, corsages, altar pieces and table arrangements, fall wedding flowers can be a theme for your favors, decorating mint tins, chocolate bar wrappers or soap wedding favors to add an extra-original touch.
Tip: Fall Wedding Reception Ideas
Fall wedding receptions can reflect many of the qualities associated with the season -- hearty good will, togetherness, feasting on the fresh harvest and an increased sense of community. The menu is the obvious place to start -- fresh vegetables are a must, and apples make a versatile all-around accent flavor.
This is the season when the days get shorter, so light up your guests' lives with candles for your favors! You can find them in beautiful autumn leaf patterns or choose personalized candle favors to commemorate your day.
Tip: Floral Fall Favors
Autumn provides a rich selection of beautiful in-season flowers to decorate your wedding. Lilies, daisies and roses are among the blooms that can feature on place card holders, soaps, candles and more. Or, encourage your guests' own floral fancies with favors of small pastel-colored vases.
Tip: Halloween Wedding Favors
It takes a special sort of couple to get married at Halloween. Different, perhaps. Non-traditional. You get the idea.
Once you've located a Wiccan officiant, squeezed the maid of honor into her Elvira costume, fitted the best man's vampire teeth, and strewn the hall with spiderwebs, it can be a blast to go through every step of a "traditional" wedding, down to the throwing of the bouquet (of black roses) and the personalized jack-o'-lantern mint tins. This will be one wedding anniversary no one will forget!
Tip: November Weddings
November may not be a traditional month for weddings, but the atmosphere is chilly -- perfect for cuddling! -- and the focus turns to family. What could be more suitable? In keeping with the spirit of the November wedding, turn to the things that keep us warm. Coffee wedding favors embellished with your names will provide your guests with a warm morning memory of your special day.
