Fall Wedding Themes & Fall Wedding Ideas for Throwing the Perfect Autumn Wedding
Autumn weddings are more distinctive than any other wedding season. Basic fall wedding themes are harvest, hearth & home, nostalgia, warmth and comfort, candles and firelight.The venues are either outdoors where the trees are turning colors or intimate indoor locations.
Please no big, cold, sky high ceiling banquet rooms.
Fall weddings call for country inns, reception venues with exposed wood beams, or comfortable rooms with fireplaces and views of trees in full fall color.
Fall Wedding Ideas
Afternoon fall festival wedding -- A child friendly event with activities like sack races, bobbing for apples, lawn bowling, horseshoes, hayrides, and a hay bale maze.
The dress code can be casual to cocktail, just be sure to offer rubber boots (Wellies) so well-dressed guests can join in the games.
For an adults only fall wedding reception, model it after the annual Oktoberfest celebration in Munich, Germany...
...Or hold a more elegant afternoon fall lawn party complete with a selection of fall wines and beers. This is one of my favorite fall wedding themes.
An enchanted forest wedding ceremony and reception is held when trees are in full color, or the leaves are just starting to fall.
Have your wedding ceremony in a grove of trees, the wedding reception indoors, or in a heated tent, and build a huge bonfire for after dark (fire safety at all times, contact your local firehouse for info).
Masque Ball Wedding -- Rent a historic theater, a ballroom size space, or dress up an industrial space with theater props and throw a masque ball wedding.
Ask guests to dress in costumes or evening attire and provide masks at the entrance to the reception hall.
One advantage of the masque ball fall wedding theme idea is you can save the expense of a wedding dress and rent an elaborate costume instead.
Rustic barn dance reception -- find a barn like space with exposed wood ceilings and wood/ brick/ stone walls and turn it into an amazing reception space for your autumn wedding.
This is one of the most flexible fall wedding ideas: Go casual and bring in flour sack draped hay bales and picnic tables for seating, or make it elegant with drapes of gold string lights, metal lanterns, or rented velvet curtains and elaborate chandeliers.
Turn the barn-like space into a wine tasting room with wooden cask cocktail tables, long banquet tables for dinner and garlands of leaves and grapes. Autumn weddings are a great time for wine theme wedding receptions!
Outdoor fall wedding reception -- Is there a farm near where you live that creates a corn field maze once a year? A park with a lovely gazebo for the wedding ceremony? A location with a view of pasture land or woods? A lake or pond where the bright colored trees are reflected in the water?
For evening fall wedding receptions, bring on the drama with bonfires or create cozy seating arrangements around fire pits (practice fire safety).
Autumn weddings can get cool at night, so rent portable gas heaters for outdoor seating and tents, or provide an indoor space for guests who don't enjoy a brisk fall night.
At their core, all fall wedding themes are about family, warmth, and a coming together of all the people you care about to celebrate a bountiful life.
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Afternoon fall festival wedding -- A child friendly event with activities like sack races, bobbing for apples, lawn bowling, horseshoes, hayrides, and a hay bale maze. 
Masque Ball Wedding -- Rent a historic theater, a ballroom size space, or dress up an industrial space with theater props and throw a masque ball wedding. 
Outdoor fall wedding reception -- Is there a farm near where you live that creates a corn field maze once a year? A park with a lovely gazebo for the 
