Embrace the beauty of autumn with a wedding steeped in rich colours and cozy vibes. Elms Barn provides the perfect backdrop for your enchanting Autumn Wedding celebration. Here are our top 10 picks to add something special to your Autumn Wedding!
1. Burnt Oranges, Reds and Browns
2. Incorporate dried and fresh flowers
3. Pumpkins
4. Embrace the Weather and Golden Light
5. Incorporate Autumnal Holidays
6. Gothic and Moody Tones
7. Popcorn
8. Starry Night
9. Apple Bobbing
10. Bookish Favours
1. It’s obvious but classic for a reason. Autumn is the season of orange, red and brown to mimic nature and bring those colours into your flowers and décor. Teena, who leads our in house florists, loves the autumn colours and I have to agree they do pop in a way that no other colour does in the barn.
2. Sticking with flowers, mixing dried pampas grass and bunny tails with bold fresh flowers adds huge drama and helps to build unique shapes within the floral displays you just don’t get with 100% fresh or 100% dried flowers.
3. Pumpkins everywhere! Go large, go small, go orange, white or spay paint them any colour you like! You could have mini ones with your guests names as their place settings; hollowed out and used instead of vases for your table centres; calved with LED candles lining the aisle or in the rose garden for a festive intimate photo.
4. Autumn can be unpredictable when it comes to the weather but it is your day so embrace it. Bring Wedding Wellies, maybe with custom Mr & Mrs on them for some fun photos. Clear umbrellas for the bridal party and groomsmen mean that no amount of rain is going to stop those group photos outside. This could be a great excuse for a change of outfit for the evening as well!
5. Think about incorporating those autumnal holidays. Think Halloween, be that spooky vibes or cute pumpkin patch there are so many options. Bonfire night, with sparklers mulled cider and cozy blankets. Dia De Los Muertos, with face paint colourful flowers and a celebration of colour and light. So many fun options for you to play with and make your own.
6. Thinking of Halloween, Gothic Moody tones work so well in the barn with its small windows and atmospheric lighting. Candles lighting up tables with plush velvet table runners and calligraphy place settings in gold ink on aged paper stock.
7. Hot buttered popcorn with cinnamon sugar scream autumn and is great fun for big and little kids alike. You could even have a full on popcorn bar with lots of different flavours or a cinema style popcorn machine; the amazing people at Sweeties in Beccles hire these out, check out our Recommended Supplier Blog for contact details and other wonderful suppliers.
8. A celestial theme can be so timeless with navy/midnight blues and blacks with accents of gold or champagne. Leaning into the longer nights and highlighting the night time element of the wedding.
9. Another fun activity for your guests with a festive twist is apple bobbing. Fun to participate in and to watch and for those who don’t fancy taking the plunge you could have a toffee apple station, so no one misses out.
10. To tie in with a gothic moody vibe, try bookmarks as favours to encourage your guests to take a little part of your wedding with them. They can use it on those long nights that are rolling in curled up on the sofa with a good book. You could even use book folding art as your table numbers to bring your moody library vibe to life even more.
Photo by James Rouse