You've got your fall wedding dress. You've chosen your wedding photographer, tasted 100 different wedding cakes, picked your fall wedding location and you've mailed out your save the date magnets and wedding invitations. Any chance you can keep to your budget as you put the final touches on your fall wedding decorations? Absolutely. Here are five fall wedding decorating tips to help you do exactly that.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #1: Take Advantage of Nature
One of the most often cited reasons for choosing a fall wedding is the outdoor beauty that defines the season: the gorgeous shades of scarlet, pumpkin oranges, rustic browns and reds create a fiery sunset whether your choose a morning, afternoon or evening fall wedding. Take advantage! Maximize nature. Choose an outdoor location for your fall wedding near a wooded area right after the leaves change, somewhere with tree-lined mountains in the background. There need not be a church or reception area. There need only be chairs divided into two groups creating a natural aisle and facing in the direction of the most brilliant vista view, the foreground of which will be lit up by the bride and groom.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #2: Make Centerpieces Serve Double Duty
You can maintain your fall wedding budget by hundreds when you make your wedding centerpieces serve double duty as wedding favors as well. Pyramids that break apart into gifts for each place setting, baskets full of wedding favor gifts, and other arrangements that easily transition into individual wedding favors at the end of your fall wedding reception are the best way to bring beauty to your day and savvy to your budget. Create fall centerpieces that allow your wedding guests to take home a little piece of your special day.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #3: Harvest Themed Weddings
Fall is harvest season, and with that means that nature has given us tons of big beautiful crops... and free or cheap wedding flowers as well. Why not use them to decorate your fall wedding on a budget and create a harvest themed wedding? Big pumpkins and gourds can serve in place of wedding flowers, decorating the cake and gift table, or even serve as wedding centerpieces. You may even choose to serve tiny stuffed pumpkins as appetizers or use them as soup bowls for the opening course. Pick a fall color and pull the whole thing together with matching tulle, satin ribbon and table cloths, all of which can be had for a bargain at your local fabric store.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #4: Do It Yourself
Just like anything you need to do on a budget, it makes sense to decorate your fall wedding yourself. Let the wedding planner go. Ignore protests that you need a coordinator or a florist. Search in the internet for wedding flowers, farm direct flowers and do it yourself flowers and pick out the freshest blooms of the season. Get your bridesmaids and flower girl working to make the boutonnieres and bouquets. Put your skills and talents to work: if you can sew, make some decorations if not your wedding dress. If you can cook, consider making some of the food for an outdoor fall wedding or even baking your own wedding cake. Make it fall wedding cupcakes! It's your fall wedding. When you do it yourself, you make sure it's done right and for a price you can afford.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #5: Be Unexpected
Don't let the trappings of tradition force you into buying things for your fall wedding that you neither want nor need. You'll find that if you question many of the expected characteristics of a fall wedding, many things will simply fall off your wedding budget because they are unnecessary. You don't need to buy out the local wedding supply store or perfectly recreate a celebrity wedding. Make it unique by making unexpected choices in your fall wedding decorating ie. Fall color roses, gerberas, sunflowers, alstroemerias, callas, hydrangeas, bells of Ireland, hypericum berries, Asiatic lilies and make sure that your money is spent only on things that serve to highlight you and your new spouse.
Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #1: Take Advantage of Nature
One of the most often cited reasons for choosing a fall wedding is the outdoor beauty that defines the season: the gorgeous shades of scarlet, pumpkin oranges, rustic browns and reds create a fiery sunset whether your choose a morning, afternoon or evening fall wedding. Take advantage! Maximize nature. Choose an outdoor location for your fall wedding near a wooded area right after the leaves change, somewhere with tree-lined mountains in the background. There need not be a church or reception area. There need only be chairs divided into two groups creating a natural aisle and facing in the direction of the most brilliant vista view, the foreground of which will be lit up by the bride and groom.Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #2: Make Centerpieces Serve Double Duty
You can maintain your fall wedding budget by hundreds when you make your wedding centerpieces serve double duty as wedding favors as well. Pyramids that break apart into gifts for each place setting, baskets full of wedding favor gifts, and other arrangements that easily transition into individual wedding favors at the end of your fall wedding reception are the best way to bring beauty to your day and savvy to your budget. Create fall centerpieces that allow your wedding guests to take home a little piece of your special day.Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #3: Harvest Themed Weddings
Fall is harvest season, and with that means that nature has given us tons of big beautiful crops... and free or cheap wedding flowers as well. Why not use them to decorate your fall wedding on a budget and create a harvest themed wedding? Big pumpkins and gourds can serve in place of wedding flowers, decorating the cake and gift table, or even serve as wedding centerpieces. You may even choose to serve tiny stuffed pumpkins as appetizers or use them as soup bowls for the opening course. Pick a fall color and pull the whole thing together with matching tulle, satin ribbon and table cloths, all of which can be had for a bargain at your local fabric store.Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #4: Do It Yourself
Just like anything you need to do on a budget, it makes sense to decorate your fall wedding yourself. Let the wedding planner go. Ignore protests that you need a coordinator or a florist. Search in the internet for wedding flowers, farm direct flowers and do it yourself flowers and pick out the freshest blooms of the season. Get your bridesmaids and flower girl working to make the boutonnieres and bouquets. Put your skills and talents to work: if you can sew, make some decorations if not your wedding dress. If you can cook, consider making some of the food for an outdoor fall wedding or even baking your own wedding cake. Make it fall wedding cupcakes! It's your fall wedding. When you do it yourself, you make sure it's done right and for a price you can afford.Fall Wedding Budget Decorating Tip #5: Be Unexpected
Don't let the trappings of tradition force you into buying things for your fall wedding that you neither want nor need. You'll find that if you question many of the expected characteristics of a fall wedding, many things will simply fall off your wedding budget because they are unnecessary. You don't need to buy out the local wedding supply store or perfectly recreate a celebrity wedding. Make it unique by making unexpected choices in your fall wedding decorating ie. Fall color roses, gerberas, sunflowers, alstroemerias, callas, hydrangeas, bells of Ireland, hypericum berries, Asiatic lilies and make sure that your money is spent only on things that serve to highlight you and your new spouse. 
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