Choosing Autumn Wedding Colours

Some of the most common colours used for autumn weddings include: Rich red ,Burgundy ,Rust ,Sage green , Bronze, Gold, Copper, Wheat, Off-white, Pumpkin, Mocha, Marigold, Taupe.

Autumn is a season of change, so it's difficult to pick a single colour palette. Instead, you can choose from several groups of colours depending upon whether it's early autumn, mid-autumn, or late autumn. There's a wide range of vibrant colours, muted tones, and even metallic shades that symbolize the season beautifully.

Early Autumn

In the early Autumn, the sun is still vibrant and the colours of the harvest are rich and beautiful. If you're bride to be who's getting married in early autumn  between September or early October, the best colours to use are cream, marigold, orange pumpkin, rich red , burgundy.

Apple Red

It seems that no matter what the season, apple red is always right for the occasion. Autumn weddings are no exception, as juicy red apples are a symbol of the fall harvest. You can use red as a main colour or just as an accent, but it's a surfire way to liven up your colour scheme.

Bright and Warm

Colours like marigold and green make perfect autumn wedding colours because they embody the bright warmth of the season without overwhelming the senses. In this way, they're just like fall—it's bright, warm, and not overdone. It's simply, classically beautiful.

Mid-Autumn

Getting married in mid-to-late October or early November? Your colour scheme should shift a bit away from all of the vibrant colours that accompany the early autumn. Instead, try metallics like bronze or gold, burgundy, rust, and perhaps even shades of brown. Peach, burgundy (or wine), and red, combined with a few pops of sage green, make a stunning set of fall wedding colours that really captures the essence of the season. It's romantic and classy, plus it's easy to find flowers that really fit in with the theme.

Think Orange

All shades of orange—including peach—are great for mid-autumn weddings. If you're planning a Halloween wedding, you may even want to consider featuring true orange in your decorations. Even if you're not getting married on or right around Halloween, orange is one of the top picks for mid-autumn weddings.

Dusty rose tones look beautiful against peach, orange, and even rust. Other complementary autumn shades include browns, wine, and burgundy. Red looks best as an accent colour when used during the middle and late fall.

Metallics Add Spark

Shades of bronze, copper, and gold make for a beautiful colour scheme. They can also be used as accent colours in the ribbons on the flowers, the decorations at the weddings site, or to enrich the reception hall's beauty. If you're getting married somewhere with lots of earth tones, using metalics can make it seem as though you spent much more money on the decorations than you did

Not everyone looks their best in deep bronzes, coppers, and so forth, so keep your wedding party's skin tones in mind when choosing bridal party dresses

Late Autumn

Late autumn is very versatile. You can use the deep, rich colours like chocolate or red-tinged plum, and go for a metallic theme with pops of colour to welcome the coming winter season (such as apple red or pine green) mixed with cream and mocha, or go for a nearly monochromatic theme using pale gold, cream, and shades of brown

Sample colour pallet

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• seating cards - Show your ingrained sense of style with seating cards crafted from paper-thin wood veneer. These inexpensive sheets are pliable enough to fold and cut easily into delicate shapes; the elegant graining makes a distinctive canvas for calligraphy. We used craft punches to create maple and birch leaves.

• great pumpkin centerpieces - A white-pumpkin shell becomes the vase for an arrangement of roses, daffodils, ranunculuses, calla lilies, tulips, and hypericum berries in fall colors -- yellows, peaches, and shades of orange. Smaller pumpkins and votive candles in orange-glass holders fill out the centerpiece.

• bridesmaid dress.

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• Door  monograms - Personalize the entrance to the ceremony or reception in an instant with store-bought wooden initials. These autumnal colors feel warm and welcoming.

• Candy-olive favours - Echo the rustic olive theme of your wedding-day appetizers with chocolate "olives" bundled as favors for guests to take home.

• Incorporate the shades and symbols of autumn into festive boutonnieres.

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• bridal bouquets

Choosing Accent Colours

When choosing wedding colours for a autumn ceremony, you'll of course need one or two main colours and then a couple of accent colours. The earlier it is in the season, the more colour—everywhere—you can get away with. Of course, it is your wedding, so if you want to use watermelon pink and lime green in late November, don't let seasonal restraints hold you back. If you're looking for guidance when it comes to playing to the tones of autumn, here are some tips on choosing your accent colours:

• Early Autumn: Even if your main colour or colours are pretty vibrant (pumpkin, for example), you can get away with brighter accent colours. Small amounts of apple red wouldn't look out of place, for example.

• Mid-Autumn: In mid-autumn subdued, muted, and earthy tones are popular. Try accenting in colours that are also muted, cream or other pale neutrals, and hints of metallic tones. Using a single bright pop of colour, such as yellow in a cast of orange and rust, will also bid farewell to the passing of summer and still flow nicely with the colour scheme.

• Late Autumn: Late autumn calls for rich, warm colours and metallics. Light gold makes a beautiful accent colour whether your colour scheme consists of light neutrals or the deepest, velvety colours available. If you choose a darker palette, bring light to the decorations by adding in hints of cream or champagne. For other accent colours, don’t be afraid of red and pine green.

Autumn Wedding Favours

Make favours for your autumn wedding that reflect the spirit of the season. From pumpkin candles to cookies that will warm the heart, favours inspired by fall will be appreciated by all of your guests.

• Tea Bags - Buy your favourite teas in bulk, or devise a blend to your liking, then decant it into packets large enough to brew an entire pot. Attach a homemade tag inscribed with a fitting message to a length of embroidery thread, which can be sealed into the seam of the tea bag.

• Candles - For a unique autumn favour, wrap tapers in vellum; dress up with blossoms or a matchbox covered with paper, florets, and real leaves. Tie box to candles with a cord threaded through the box's underside.

• Tea and cookies - Tea is twice as nice coupled with cookies flavoured the same way. These Earl Grey tea cookies were made by mixing tea leaves into the shortbread batter. Customize a box with corrugated paper to form sections for cookies and tea bags. Ours is wrapped with damask paper and ribbon. Monogrammed tags, shaped like ones for tea bags, reveal the gift inside.

• Cookie Jars - It's only fitting to give cookies in a jar -- this one is tiny in size but big in old-fashioned charm. The mini store-bought cookies inside include chocolate chip, oatmeal cranberry, and shortbread currant. Embellish the jar with a ribbon-tied tag and a homemade label (affix with double-sided tape).

• Coffee-Flavoured Favours - Blue-and-white packaging complements dark-brown coffee favours. Chocolate-covered espresso and coffee beans are stacked in hexagonal boxes tied with silk ribbon. Use rubber stamps (made at an office-supply store) to identify the treats. Homemade coffee truffles, composed of bittersweet chocolate ganache spiked with Irish whiskey and coffee extract, nestle inside candy cups; paper bands, made on a computer using clip art, dress up their boxes. Rich espresso fudge brownies (wrapped in cellophane) are covered with dotted paper

• Pears - Filled with miniature pears, fiber bags make inviting favours. The bride's and groom's names, the wedding date, and "A Perfect Pair" is printed on labels tied to the bags with strands of paper ribbon

• Chocolate hearts  - nestle inside a small pink box wrapped with polka-dotted cellophane and a thin satin ribbon. Set each heart in a candy cup and arrange on shredded tissue.

• Jams and jellies made from fruits grown at Pearbrook: plums, currants, grapes, peaches, raspberries, and, of course, pears.

• Tea, coffee or hot chocolate in a personalized mug
• Autumn leaves cookie cutters with personalized labels.
• Maple syrup in in maple leaf bottle.
• Oak leaf cookie
• Photo coaster imprints of autumnal leaves
• Leaf shaped favours such as soaps, candles, coasters, wine stoppers and vases

Autumn Wedding Cake

An autumn wedding cake, rich flavours and spices of the season. , Consider a carrot cake or pumpkin spice cake with a white chocolate icing or may even be decorated with edible leaves, will showcase the richness of the season. Popular autumn cake flavours include:

• Carrot
• Cinnamon
• Pumpkin spice cake
• Cakes with nut fillings
• Chocolate and apple
• Chocolate and orange

Autumn Wedding Invitations

If your wedding follows an autumn theme, you probably  go with your autumn theme in your wedding invitations, Stick to autumn leaves with warm reds and oranges and yellows as the colours for your autumn wedding invitations.