‘Fall’ In Love With These Awesome Autumn Wedding Styles

Wow, is it September again? My Big Fat Engagement is celebrating it’s 4th year of articles about engagements and weddings! Today we’re going to look at some colorful and beautiful ways to celebrate a wedding with the warm colours that decorate nature when the weather begins to cool down.

Autumn Wedding Favors

This ‘fall in love’ wedding favor is a collection of leaves made out of soap from yourultimateweddingfavors.com. This ‘leaves’ open the door to so many decorative options: from leaf print table linens to orange and red hued candle centerpieces with leaves around the base. The bride might even walk down an aisle scattered with beautiful autumn leaves instead of flowers – it is non-traditional, but visually striking- particularly if the wedding is taking place in one of the states so well known for their fall foliage.

Bridesmaid Dresses for Fall

Picture your bridesmaids and your flower girl in brown dresses. It might be hard to imagine until you see a picture like the one below (dresses from jaksflowergirldresses.com).

Fall Wedding Jewelry

Yellow gold is the perfect choice for wedding rings for a Fall wedding or for an Autumn engagement ring, like the one pictured below. The leaf inspired design on the ring makes it perfect for a Fall wedding or Autumn wedding proposal. For many of us September is more about new beginnings than New Year’s Eve – it is the time of the year most associated with significant changes to our lives (first day of school, moving out of state to go to University, beginning a new job after graduating and then taking the summer off to travel…). It just feels natural to start a new life as a married couple in the same month. As an added bonus, venue rentals and other vendors are less busy (and potentially less expensive).

Fall Wedding Flowers

Another popular color for weddings in September, October, or  November is orange.

For more awesome Autumn wedding ideas, check out our post Fall In Love With These Autumn Wedding Ideas.

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Spring means flowers and weddings – a perfect symbol of this is, of course, the flower girl.

What could be cuter than a little girl toddling down the aisle in a pretty dress, scattering rose petals along the way? (Well, sometimes she has some competition from the ring bearer!)

Flower girls set the tone for weddings – their innocence and sweetness blast all of the wedding guests’ personal worries and stress away and open their minds for the ceremony they are about to observe. Weddings are full of hope for the future, love, and devotion and a chance for wedding guests to focus some positive energy towards the marrying couple and forget about their own problems for a few minutes. What a precious gift.

Gift Ideas for Flower Girls

Here are some gift ideas as a tribute to the little ones who open our hearts:

Paper Flower Crafts

This craft kit comes in a cute little purse and will keep your flower girl entertained at a rehearsal dinner or other wedding function.

Flower Earrings

These flower earrings are a wonderful gift and something that your flower girl will be able to wear even after she is a ‘grown up’- she may even start a new tradition by passing them down to her flower girl on her own wedding day.

Hello Kitty Playhouse

This Hello Kitty house from Mega Blocks can be ordered online at westfieldcomics.com so that your flower girl can help Hello Kitty set up her garden (flowers and flower pots included).

Wedding Cake Charm

This wedding cake charm is sweet – if you want your flower girl to arrive at each wedding event in a sunny disposition, consider giving her a charm bracelet at the engagement party and then a cute charm at every major event she is expected to attend. Sure it’s bribery, but if it keeps your sweet flower girl from turning sour during the wedding photo session or the exchanging of wedding rings… it was worth it!

Flower Purse Pet Carrier

Another way to keep your flower girl entertained during wedding functions is to give her a pet to play with- these Webkins continue to be popular and the flower purse pet carrier means that the pet is ready to party.

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According to Wikipedia, the term ‘ring bearer’ is defined as the ‘attendant at a wedding who carries the ring(s)’. By this definition, the ring bearer could be any person (for example, sometimes the best man performs double duty and carries the rings as well) or even something else (a pet, a remote control airplane, who knows…?).

However, I think most of us think of a cute little boy accompanying the flower girl when we picture a ring bearer. 

Here are some cute ideas:

The Little Man

Match your Ring Bearer to the Grooms for a classy look that isn’t too cute-sy (but still pretty darn cute!). This would probably be the first choice if your Ring Bearer has any say in what he’s wearing – remember he doesn’t want to feel silly! 

Flowergirldressforless.com has quite a few suits that are like mini versions of the full size… 

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 Personalized Pillow

The ring pillow is often just symbolic (the real wedding rings are usually held by the best man for safekeeping ). However, it can become an heirloom that is passed down to weddings in later generations. Bumblebeelinens.com provides step by step instructions on how to make your very own ring pillow from handkerchiefs (which can be purchased at their site). 

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Unique Ideas

Paperposie.com is a great resource for children-related wedding items. They describe this teddy bear as a ring bearer gift but I think it would be a sweet replacement for the traditional wedding pillow: the rings could be attached by a ribbon around the bear’s neck. 

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Thank You Gifts 

Here is a cute shirt he can wear at the rehearsal dinner or any other wedding events… 

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Here’s another idea that will appeal to boys. This would be even better if a baseball game is part of your wedding activities or if your bride and groom (or the families) are big baseball fans!

www.bridalsalon.com

 Here’s a funny shirt for the ring bearer from a seller at cafepress.com: 

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Diamonds in the Rough

And after all of the preparation, this is what you might get… 

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Dresses

Flowergirl Princess.com has a huge selection of dresses. They also sell all of the accessories you will need, including: petticoats, gloves, and coats. Here is one of my favorites – a chocolate brown and pink dress that is very sweet:

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Here’s another pretty dress, perfect for a Spring wedding -

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Accessories

You can save time and money – buy all of your accessories online. Flowergirldressforless.com has a great variety of accessories for low prices.

Dainty Gloves

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Jewelry

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Hair

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Baskets

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The sun pokes out for a few minutes and we begin to feel like Spring is just around the corner. Spring is a wonderful time for weddings because it is the symbol of new beginnings.

Favors

These bright bottle stoppers from InCasaGifts.com would make nice favors.

Here’s a great way to stick to a tight wedding budget, these butterflies act as both place card holders and wedding favors. Don’t forget to remind your guests to take them home, they can use them to display a photo. Even better, they are currently on sale for only 97 cents each and they are actually useful! (I’m a bit biased against favors that end up cluttering guests homes…) I love the tablecloth they are using in the photo as well – very springy!

Butterflies are a great Spring theme for a wedding that carry over into all areas of the event. For example, you could give your Maid of Honor a necklace for all of her help (and she could wear it at the wedding!)

Decorations

Branches or live trees that are budding are great symbols of Spring, and beautiful decorations too. Here’s an example of a wedding invitation made by artist Kathryn Rotondo, check out her other stuff at her Etsy shop. When you get your invitations made, ask if they are able to make you place cards, signs, or even tablecloths with the same design. If not, perhaps they can send you the image so that you can do it yourself.

Kids Area

Your younger guests would appreciate some activities to keep them busy during the reception. Here are some ideas:

MarthaStewart.com – let them create their own centrepieces, like these sweet tissue cherry blossoms.

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