Fall Wedding Crafts
Autumn's colors and motifs give a creative bride much to work with. Gourds, pumpkins, apples, dried flowers, and grasses, leaves, birch bark and logs inspire one-of-a-kind wedding decorations. The items needed are easy to gather, perhaps even from your own yard or garden. Spend an afternoon with your bridal party or family creating unique crafts.
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Centerpieces
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Birch bark can be used in a variety of ways for wedding crafts. Lisa Light, a wedding planner in New York's Hudson Valley, suggests spray painting leaves, gourds, apples and pumpkins to create a centerpiece in a basket or cornucopia or arranged decoratively on the table. She has cut small logs into thin discs and then written table numbers on the rounds. Alternatively, Light has folded sheets of birch bark over and written table numbers on the bark.
Candles
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You can use orange or red candles in your decorations to accent the fall atmosphere. Photographer Lisa Eklund said that one of the more distinctive fall wedding decorations she has seen were mini-pumpkins hollowed out, holding a votive candle. A similar idea is to hollow out apples, dip them in lemon juice so they don't brown, and insert a candle. Ensure the apples are stable before lighting them. Lisa Light suggests either wrapping glass votive holders in birch bark, tied together with a piece of raffia, or drill holes in a birch bark log, large enough to hold a candle.
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Pew Decorations
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Create wreaths using fall leaves. Use the wreaths as pew decorations or to signify the family rows. Following the ceremony, enlist a trusted friend to carry the wreaths to the receptions site where they can do double duty as centerpieces. Make small posies using autumn flowers such as gerbera daisies, black-eyed Susans, marigolds or mums, tied with dried grasses to hang on each pew. If you have access to particularly colorful fall leaves, consider having your flower girls drop leaves rather than rose petals.
Other Suggestions
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Give your reception the feel of being outside under the boughs of colorful trees. Suspend real or artificial leaves from the ceiling using fishing line, and include Virginia creeper or grapevines and strings of twinkling white lights. Pillar candles of different sizes and fall colors will help create the autumn atmosphere. Make bouquets from cattails, seedpods, branch boughs and dried corn stalks.
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