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Fall in Love With Fall Wedding Theme
The deep love of a couple for each other may be reflected on how they carry their wedding ceremony. A fall wedding, very popular during the month of September and October, is a perfect wedding theme for couples who are looking forward to a warm and intimate wedding reception. This is a perfect date to spend more time together with family and friends for these months are basically home-coming months.
The Venue
To get you started for your fall wedding preparation, you may consider to think of love story books with fall season setting. Actually, a fall wedding can be casual but elegant with a beautiful old mills or barn yard setting. An apple orchard, vineyard or other place that can create a view of fall foliage can make a great setting option as well. You might also look for an ambiance where it has lots of rich dark wood and warmth to make an intimate atmosphere. You can then include a fireplace to add more sensual accent.
The Decorations
Fall wedding decorations can be a sheath of wheat, corn, hay bales and the like. During this season, good harvest is well known, crops like pumpkins, squash, acorns, cornucopias, gourds and even beautiful flowers like mums and sunflowers. Fall color schemes are rich such as red, orange, brown and yellow. These are the colors that can give rich jewel tones to decorate your wedding venues. You can make your own table centerpieces with handmade flower arrangement of sunflowers or mums placed in containers. And perhaps, squash and pumpkins to add accent on your serving table, bars and gift tables. Or make a jack-o-lanterns with decorative patterns rather than scary ideas, you can use a paper bag luminaria for the same effect. With fall wedding, not only you are getting a beautiful wedding backdrop but also an affordable wedding idea.
The Wedding Cake
Obviously, you can serve any wedding cake during your fall wedding, however adding an autumn-themed touch can make a lot more impressive difference. Consider serving a spiced cake or spice chocolate as well. Another cake option could be a marzipan fruit cake, or might as well serve pumpkin bread or apple; pecan or pumpkin pie instead.
The Favors
Of course, your fall wedding is incomplete without fall wedding favors. One of the popular wedding favors are edible treats like fruit jam, chocolates, candies and mints. An apple tied in a gold ribbon or a maple syrup are perfect as well. If your are crafty enough, you can even make your own caramel fruit recipe to be placed inside a your favor boxes or let your guests take your homemade sweet preserves.
If there no enough time for DIY favors, you can do bulk buying at your local wedding shops and even at online stores. They can offer you amazing favor option including today’s very popular custom-made favors. With custom-made favors, you’ll be able to incorporate your own design to your fall wedding accessories. Consider making them personalized, it could be a personalized wedding gifts, favors, to reception supplies.
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Has anyone done diy wedding flowers?
I’m going to do my wedding flowers myself to save money, but I’m not sure how many bunches of flowers to get. I need a bride’s bouquet, 3 bridesmaid bouquets, a bunch of boutonnieres, about 10 table centerpieces, and a few other vases of flowers for the ceremony and reception decorations. They have a deal where you can get a case of mixed greens for $155, which is 20 bunches of greens, so I think I’m going to get one case of those. I’m also getting 6 different types of flowers in various sizes, shapes, and colors (orchid, craspedia, delphinium, alstroemeria, statice, and iris), but I don’t know how many bunches of each I should get (I’ll probably get about the same amount of each). If anyone has done DIY flowers before, approximately how many bunches did you order, and did you feel you had too much, just right, or not enough?
This is the place where I’m ordering them: http://www.americanfloraldistributors.com/wholesaleflowers.html
Bride’s bouquet, about 24 – 30 stems. Bridesmaids, around 16. Boutinierres are 1-2 flowers (1 orchid OR 2 alstomeria) + 1 green, coursages are 3 or 5 flowers plus 1-2 greens, centerpieces are 18-25 stems, or more depending on how large of a vase you are using. A very large arrangements, such as an alter arrangement is 60-80 stems. Use lots of greenery in these – it is a good filler. Everything you are ordering should be ok with the exception of the orchids. They are a little tricky. The purple ones are more hardy than white and, depending on what time of year your wedding is, will have a hard time in the cold. I personally would go with white alstromeria, it’s cheaper and much more hardy. Be sure to follow their cutting directions, order to get it in a few days early as the flowers have to have time to open.
I’ve ordered flowers online with lots of success, and it really isn’t difficult to arrange flowers – I mean they are FLOWERS – how ugly can they be? You do need to stick with handtied bouquets for you and the girls – the ones in the holders require a lot of skill and are best left to a professional. Coursages and boutieniers are simple, but I would suggest getting some grocery store cheap flowers and working on them so you know how to do it quickly.
Hope this helps!
Wedding Reception Table decorations ideas from Show Me How Wedding Decorations DVD Book
