5 Tips for Decorating Your Fall Wedding on a Budget

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.

Autumn is Here and the Perfect Wedding Flowers need to be picked!!

Autumn is the perfect time of year to get married with the beautiful scenery and rich fall colors. Autumn is a time of year that symbolizes and celebrates prosperity and abundance, what a perfect way to start a new life together. For an earthy couple or couple that enjoys gardening, a harvest wedding is a unique Autumn wedding idea where you can celebrate the things you love.

Nature can take center stage when choosing your fall wedding colors and decorations. Natural fall colors such as reds, browns, deep greens, golden yellows, burnt oranges, burgundy, maroon, dark purples, and gold are all wonderful choices when choosing your bridesmaids’ dresses and other decorations.

Your decorations can focus on the abundance in nature; roses, calla lilies mango, calla lilies purple, Asiatic lilies, orchids, berries, green hydrangea, bells of Ireland, gerberas, kangaroo paws, squash, pumpkins, gourds, twigs, apples, and corn. You could have elegant centerpieces filled with fruits and vegetables that your guests could take with them after the reception. Bowls could be filled with floating candles shaped like apples. Pumpkins could be hallowed out jack-o'-lantern style but instead of scary Halloween faces you could have designs, leaf shapes, or wedding symbols like rings, doves, a cake, or a bride and groom silhouette carved into them. Small gourds and squash could be arranged on a mirror tile around a large candle.

Other decorating options include: swags and garlands of fall leaves and berries, corn stalks arranged elegantly and tied with raffia or ribbon, wicker baskets full of homemade looking jams, jellies, fruits, rose petals and applesauce, arbors or trellises entwined with grape vines and white lights. Your invitations can be decorated with the same harvest themes, rubber stamped leaves, apples or other fruits and vegetables or you could have invitations on elegant stationary embossed with gold leaves. Rose petals could be scattered on the buffet table and guest tables. Your wedding bouquets could consist of roses, hypericum berries, calla lilies, wild flowers, greenery and fall leaves.

The perfect location could be an apple orchard, farm, vineyard, or even a local Bed and Breakfast or Inn. Any place will do as long as you decorate with nature's abundance in mind. You could offer hay rides to your guests around the orchard or farm.

The Autumn harvest menu could include squash, pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple crisp, apple sauce, roast vegetables, roast turkey, breads like pumpkin, apple or zucchini, platters of grapes, berries, cheese and crackers, and don’t forget an autumn must have – apple cider and donuts.

Special wedding favors for an Autumn Harvest theme wedding could include small jars of homemade jams, jellies, applesauce, pickles, mustards, or sauces. Other options could be caramel apple kits; bread mixes in a jar or bag, muffin mixes, seed packets, or chocolates in wrapped in foil leaves. Make sure to attach special tags thanking your guests for joining you on your special day.

An Autumn Harvest Theme Wedding is an elegant and earthy way to celebrate your new life together with the abundance and prosperity of the season. Your guests are sure to appreciate such a unique celebration.

Stunning Wedding Bouquets for the Big Day of your Life

Wedding in the absence of flowers is like a garden without blooms, and the flowers are as important as other wedding essentials.

The wedding bouquet, in particular, which you carry on your big day, needs special attention and planning. The right wedding bouquet must complement your dress and at the same time should not detract.

A simple and elegant wedding bouquet is a great accessory to complement your gorgeous gown and smiling face. If a wedding bouquet is too flashy or showy, your dress may not receive the attention it deserves. However, that doesn’t mean that your bridal bouquet should be plain, white and boring.

Pretty Pink




















This collection of 18 sweet and unique pink roses will be a hit with every bride. Give it to your bridesmaid or carry it with you throughout your big day.
The stems of the roses are completely covered and tied with pink satin ribbon, which will make your bouquet look more elegant and decent.


Vibrant Fall






















This vibrant flower bouquet is hand–tied with a wonderful combination of black magic red roses, mango mini callas, hypericum berries and circus roses. This amazing collection of flowers is especially suitable for a fall wedding.

Choosing the Best Wedding Flowers

A wedding cannot be considered fitting without flowers, the difficulty lies in the wide choice you may be faced with and the costs involved.

There are so many flowers solutions to choose from and numerous purposes for flowers during a wedding to consider, that it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start.

Before you proceed, consider the costs; these will vary according to the intricacy of the flower arrangements, the magnitude of the wedding party and the type of flowers you will be choosing.

For tighter budgets choose amongst roses, carnations, flower fillers and daisies, while the more expensive flowers will be, orchids, callas, hydrangeas and peonies. In general, if you choose flowers that are in season, they will be fresher and less expensive.

The flower bouquets for the bridesmaids can be re-dimensioned as can the decoration of the reception tables, using seasonal flowers or rose petals as an alternative to the central flower arrangements.

Color schemes are now evolving from the traditional pale colors; the flower colors can range from white to bright reds and oranges.

Other alternative decorations are also becoming fashionable, such as fruit, grasses, herbs and garlands, giving a more natural setting to churches and receptions.

How to Pick fall wedding flowers and colors

Fall is such a beautiful time of year. And if you are lucky enough to live in a place that has plenty of fall foliage then chances are fall is your favorite season. If you are engaged to be married and then a fall wedding with vibrant colors of the season and beautiful fall wedding flowers will be a beautiful day to remember.

If you are going with a specific Autumn theme then you can really take advantage of the beautiful and vibrant colors for breathtaking fall wedding flowers.

1. Step 1

Pick your colors. What you decide for your fall wedding flowers will depend on which colors you go with. There are several different color combinations for fall that you can choose from by looking around at what nature has to offer. You can easily choose from rich shades or burgundies, burnt orange, copper and gold just to name a few.

2. Step 2

Talk to your florist or flower provider like RoseSource.com. Both will be able to recommend fall wedding flowers that will compliment your wedding colors and each other. Common fall flowers perfect in yellow/orange hues include sunflowers, gerber, daisies, mango callas, burgundy, black magic roses, orange rose and hypericum berries .

3. Step 3

Add other outdoor elements. Adding small pumpkins and gourds to your fall wedding flowers will make beautiful fall centerpieces.

Wedding Entrance Dance

Check out this wedding's party entrance into the church. Very cool and so much fun.



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