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Fall Wedding Tablescapes: More than a Centerpiece

Creating a beautiful fall table for your wedding reception is about more than just centerpieces.

Your wedding tablescapes are the best way to showcase your colors and themes, setting the vibe for the reception.

In this article you will find beautiful, fun and innovative ways to set the table for your fall wedding reception!

Seasonal Wedding Tablescape Inspiration

Fall: Warm Tones and Harvest Accents

Fall is a season of fullness, harvest, and thanksgiving. Centerpieces with seasonal flowers like dahlias, asters and chrysanthemums, and decorative accents of pumpkins, gourds, and pinecones are all great ideas.

Small garden-type scarecrows will add a fun fall element.

With fall comes the idea of baskets of shiny apples, sweaters, and the glow of lamps as the days become shorter.

Curling up with a good book, a trip to the farmer's markets, rain, pumpkin carving, leather boots, hot coffee in a favorite mug, home-baked cookies, fall hikes in the woods, Halloween, colorful leaves, and Thanksgiving, are all part of the beauty of autumn.

Your wedding reception tables could include baskets filled with polished apples. Galvanized tubs of a size suitable for the tables are perfect for holding a variety of warm wraps and shawls, also tied with attractive ribbons or twine.

Stacks of fall-colored sweaters accented with bows, and strategically placed fall leaves, bring to mind the fun of fall weather.

Battery-operated lamps and potted chrysanthemum plants are additions that remind everyone of the beauty of this season.

A hot apple cider or cinnamon-infused apple juice station makes a wonderful place for your wedding guests to sip and chat before the reception begins.

Be very careful if you are thinking of using wildflowers and items like goldenrod, wild carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace, pampas grass, cattails and wildflowers for tablescapes.

Many of your guests could have severe allergies to these plants, and they may also contain insects, which can spoil your dining experience.

Make sure you consider legal issues because you cannot pick some plants, as they are protected. In states like California, it is illegal to pick wildflowers.

If you are thinking of these types of items for your tables, use silk and artificial substitutes.