Pumpkins in fall theme (October Wedding)

[kuball06]

We are not wanting a Halloween Wedding, but we like the idea of using pumpkins in our fall theme at the end of October wedding. Our colors are going to be brownish-orange and creme. What are some ways that we can incorporate pumpkins into the wedding and/or reception without a Halloween look? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

[kittycarial]

Every fall, my children and I love to go to the store or to a florist and buy those little pumpkins. You've probably have seen them before, they look like a pumpkin, but about 1/10th the size. They are small enough to fit into your palm. Those would be perfect as part of a centerpiece, or decoration. You could put a few on each table along with everything else. An autumn wedding sounds like it would be beautiful. Good luck!

[patriciabish]

We are not wanting a Halloween Wedding, but we like the idea of using pumpkins in our fall theme at the end of October wedding. Our colors are going to be brownish-orange and creme. What are some ways that we can incorporate pumpkins into the wedding and/or reception without a Halloween look? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!! Thanks!


Hey!
My wedding is October 23, 2004. I am in the same position. I love fall and am very artistic, so I am doing all my flower arrangements and centerpieces. I went shopping at Michaels yesterday and they have WONDERFUL fall picks and bouquets of fall leaves and/or flowers. My colors are a deep bronzy orange and deep purple. Are you using real or artificial flowers? What time of day is your wedding? Large or small wedding? Are the ceremony and reception at the same location or different places? All these affect what "style" you want to decorate with. Let me know if you wanna chat.

[kuball06]

Hey!
My wedding is October 23, 2004. I am in the same position. I love fall and am very artistic, so I am doing all my flower arrangements and centerpieces. I went shopping at Michaels yesterday and they have WONDERFUL fall picks and bouquets of fall leaves and/or flowers. My colors are a deep bronzy orange and deep purple. Are you using real or artificial flowers? What time of day is your wedding? Large or small wedding? Are the ceremony and reception at the same location or different places? All these affect what "style" you want to decorate with. Let me know if you wanna chat.

We are wanting to use real flowers, but may end up getting some artificial. It will more than likely be a large wedding, around 250-300 guests. We are planning on having the wedding at 4:30pm, and then the reception around 6 or so. The ceremony and reception will probably be at different locations, but we haven't really decided on that or where they are going to be. We added a little and changed a little on the colors, but we finally decided with a rust red, and a gold orange, and then the color of yellow daffodils. We really appreciate everyone here thats helping us get ideas for what we like. Thank you all sooo much. :)

[patriciabish]

We are wanting to use real flowers, but may end up getting some artificial. It will more than likely be a large wedding, around 250-300 guests. We are planning on having the wedding at 4:30pm, and then the reception around 6 or so. The ceremony and reception will probably be at different locations, but we haven't really decided on that or where they are going to be. We added a little and changed a little on the colors, but we finally decided with a rust red, and a gold orange, and then the color of yellow daffodils. We really appreciate everyone here thats helping us get ideas for what we like. Thank you all sooo much. :)




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For my step sister in law's wedding I made these pails for her pews - instead of just a bow - she had seen in a magazine. You take an aluminum pail - we painted hers silver. You put that green spongy flower foam in, buy an electric candle, the ones that work off batteries, and stick it in the middle of the pail in the foam (to hold it upright) so that it sticks up a couple inches from the rim of the pail. You surrond it by sticking flowers and greenery in it. You also want either greenery or flowers to fall over the rim of the pail. I replaced the little metal handle with ribbon and tied bows at each hole. Hope this help.Let me know if you want other ideas.

[porcelina37]

i am also an october wedding, fall theme...have you checked out martha's fall weddings issue? i know it sounds cheesy but there are some really great ideas in there. we are using one of the ideas from last year's october issue of martha stewart living for our centerpieces. and yes, it does involve pumpkins! actually, the pumpkins are hollowed out and used as kind of planters for mini-mums, or with a larger pumpkin even regular sized mums. you could spice it up by actually carving the pumpkins or embellishing them somehow, but the basic idea looks very pretty and it is a great way to incorporate pumpkins. Also, have you thought about incorporating pumpkin into your menu at all? Pumpkin pie, spice cake, pumpkin ice cream?

[BethD]

We are not wanting a Halloween Wedding, but we like the idea of using pumpkins in our fall theme at the end of October wedding. Our colors are going to be brownish-orange and creme. What are some ways that we can incorporate pumpkins into the wedding and/or reception without a Halloween look? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

I have a fall wedding next year and we have really been toying with many ideas to create an atmosphere of fall elegance without bringing in Halloween. We got the idea to use caramel apples to hold place cards and arrange them on a bed of fall leaves as you walk in. Wheat is also another great thing to decorate with- since it means fertility. For centerpeices, we are actually going to use carved pumpkins using heart shaped cookie cutters to make the shapes. My mother is an art teacher and has been extremely creative and helpful in getting this together. If you want to chat- let me know. :o

[bjmy1975]

In line with the little punkins, you could combine them with little squashes and gourds, and fall colored leaves. The wheat idea sounds neat too. Hey and don't forget about the cornacopias we all learned about when we were little, even if we never learned to spell it. ;) Carmeled aplles sound great too... maybe a little messy. But what about apples themself, maybe piled in bowls, or worked into flower arrangements. I know it may sound strange, but at the florist shop we where looking in her books and there were things with pears and limes. If I remember correctly, a really big stack of limes, like in a pyamid.... :confused: go figure...

[deb3903]

Also in the new Martha Stewart Living October Issue:

A how-to where you take pumpkins and cover them with a beautiful glitter - so the pumpkin shimmers. If you have an evening wedding this would be great! It definitely looks elegant and not halloween-y at all.

I really liked this project idea but couldn't see using it at my house. However, it would be gorgeous at a wedding. And since you don't carve them, you could do it a weeks in advance and the pumpkins would still look perfect the day of!

Good luck!

[shuffman]

Our wedding is next week and my mom found a great candle punkin idea in Womens Day, you buy some medium punkins and gut them as if making a jack-o-lantern, leave the top off and buy thick candles to place inside. The candles should stick out of the punkin. Then you can buy silk flower arangements that fit around the candle. They look awesome and quest can take them home with them. I would asume you could also just the foam pumkins but I am not sure how easy it would be. Good luck and many congradulations.

[RadioLyss]

I hope this isn't too late for some of you fall themed ladies.

I saw a picture in a magazine. There was a pumpkin that had been hollowed out, and was being used for a vase with sunflowers and roses and some berries. It looked very elegant and not halloween cheesyish at all!

[Marksgirl4always]

Has anyone else thought of using hay bails? i am getting married oct. 2005. and we are using the fall theme also. we are probly going overbord!!! but anyways. we are having a small 60 to 70 guest wedding. and the church is small with a barn for the reception site. we are going to put hay bails outside of the church and barn and decorate them with pumpkins, corn stalks, leaves, anything fall!! maybe some indian corn.

[MoonChyld30]

I have made floral arrangements using real pumpkins as the container. Soak the Oasis foam for live flower arrangements and fit in the center of a hollowed-out pumpkin. Then you can arrange your flowers in that (or have your florist do it). I have also seen real pumpkins painted gold or silver with a simple gold/silver ribbon tied around the stem that look very simple and is a beautiful way to dress up a pumpkin. Or use the pumpkins along with other fall gourds and maybe even pots of mums as decorations- terra cotta pots are very reasonable and have the perfect fall color. You could even go outside and collect colorful fall leaves to lay on the tables as added decorations. The cheapest way to get the pumpkins is probably to find a road-side stand or farm that grows them rather than buying them at the florist. And they may even give you a discount for buying so many.

[nursemom43]

Has anyone else thought of using hay bails? i am getting married oct. 2005. and we are using the fall theme also. we are probly going overbord!!! but anyways. we are having a small 60 to 70 guest wedding. and the church is small with a barn for the reception site. we are going to put hay bails outside of the church and barn and decorate them with pumpkins, corn stalks, leaves, anything fall!! maybe some indian corn.
This is too late for the other brides, but perhaps it can help someone. When my son got married, their colors were navy and white. We used gold spray paint on different sized pumpkins, tied either a navy or variegated orangey-bronze bow on the stem and used them for centerpieces. These can be done several days ahead of time, but not too early or they will rot. We also scattered sprigs of bittersweet on the tables and stuck a sprig into the bow on the pumpkins. The orange berries really added to the color and you can get these usually at road-side stands unless you know of someone who has some growing in their timber area. We also gathered different colored leaves from the yard, sprayed with with hair spray to keep them from looking wilted and scattered them on the tables also. Hope this helps.