Bride and groom Cara and Spencer's wedding celebration features cakes by Rich McLaughlin, pastry chef at Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis. This cake sits atop a wooden pedestal surrounded by stalks of wheat, which match the colors and atmosphere of the setting. The groom's cake is in the shape of the Jackson Hole Aerial tram with raspberry filling and almond buttercream inside.
The meal at Taryn and Brian's fall wedding begins with a pumpkin and roasted chestnut soup topped with toasted pumpkin seed.
Fall is a beautiful time of year to have a wedding, whether you're planning the event around the colors of the season or not. We've gathered our favorite fall ideas from featured weddings to inspire you while putting together your own autumnal wedding.
Bride Fraser's bouquet takes a cue from the season and is a fragrant mix of white majolica roses, Scabiosa, sage, basil, rosemary, and lily of the valley. The bridesmaid bouquets are miniature versions.
A leaf monogram and custom-made paper wrap the favors, an assortment of bath and body products, in bride and groom Abbie and Marc's Pacific Palisades wedding.
A long king's table is set up in the barrel room of this California winery, the setting of bride and groom Susan and Trevor's wedding reception. The couple liked the idea of having all their guests seated together at one table. Fall leaves are featured prominently in the tall centerpiece.
Guests are asked to write well-wishes for the couple on paper leaves mailed with the invitations.
Bride and groom Maria and Robert's programs are festooned with cedar twigs and bound by brown taffeta ribbon.
The rehearsal dinner at this Thanksgiving weekend wedding is a veritable feast, including turkey with stuffing and cranberries, glazed ham with cornbread pudding, mashed potatoes, and biscuits.
An autumnal theme is conveyed with red and orange garden roses, pepperberries, and crab apples in the centerpieces.
In keeping with the autumnal theme of Maria and Robert's wedding, chocolate- and caramel-dipped apples are set out in large copper kettles for departing guests to take with them at the end of the evening.
Guests at Shannon and Nathan's fall wedding sit on hay bails decorated with wildflowers from a friend's farm in French flower pails.
The bridesmaids in Anna and Mason's wedding hold fall-themed bouquets of different types of flowers. They all include viburnum berries in the same palette.
Green napkins and a cream-and-brown custom-made silk dupioni tablecloth complement the centerpiece hues at Fraser and Matthew's reception. Centerpieces combine fall-colored flowers with tree branches. For the table number, a tented playing card is used. On the other side is the menu.
For Minhee and Truman's fall wedding, a desk on loan from a nearby school has apples for the teacher (actually seating cards). The placard on the table pays homage to Mrs. Cogan, the bride and groom's fourth-grade teacher.
Flower girls Riley and Kaitlyn, nieces of the bride, Jeanette, wear yellow silk-shantung dresses with brown silk-chiffon sashes and clutch wreaths of bittersweet and Chinese lanterns tied with knit ribbons.
Bride Maria wraps herself up in a plaid blanket to keep warm while taking portraits at her fall wedding.
Table numbers at Anna and Mason's wedding feature chocolate-brown calligraphy; centerpieces consist of fall-colored flowers, including orange marigolds and pink and red roses.
Tables, couches, pillows, and throws are brought into the tasting room of bride and groom Susan and Trevor's wedding location (a winery in Livermore Valley, California) to create a cozy space on both sides of the fireplace.
Bride and groom Shannon and Nathan's wedding cake, with chocolate and vanilla layers and raspberry filling, features dahlias in fall colors galore.
A fantastic set-up awaits inside this reception tent at this Maple City, Michigan wedding. Clear shelves suspended above the long tables hold votive candles, assorted lanterns, and a variety of crab apples, green millet, and birch branches. Small floral arrangements of assorted grasses, dahlias, caladium, lemon mint, sweet olive branches, garden roses, leucadendrom, assorted berries, bordeaux mini gerberas, and herbs line the tables and bring together the rustic and autumnal theme of the wedding.
The gorgeous fall foliage of Seven Arrows, a California state park campsite, provided a perfect backdrop for Abbie and Marc's wedding.
Pinecones separate rows of place cards at Maria and Robert's fall wedding; each dinner table -- instead of having a number -- is named after a different Oregon coniferous tree.
Colorful fruit and vegetables grace the center of a long table at Jocelyn and Christopher's fall wedding.
For this September wedding, the bride makes her entrance on farm owner Jim Graves's hay wagon.
Roses, pears, and crab apples decorate the wedding cake at Abbie and Marc's fall wedding.
Table settings at bride Anna's wedding include orange table cloths, carrying on the autumnal color scheme.
Two tiers of the cake, by Elizabeth Loudon, are the mother of the bride's chocolate cake recipe. Set on a stand trimmed with felt, the confection is covered with bittersweet chocolate frosting and dressed with roses, fiddleheads, and sandersonia.
Nests made of twigs and filled with speckled quail eggshells and Lisianthus decorate outdoor tables and lend a touch of fall to Jocelyn and Christopher's wedding.
The men in Maria and Robert's wedding received a pair of comfortable leather slippers. Bridesmaids were given plaid blankets.
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