With Thanksgiving and Halloween on the way, if you are looking for creative wedding ideas for your special day, you can take advantage of the season with pumpkin decorations. Hallowed out pumpkin shells can make a fantastic base for a number of creative decoration ideas, giving your wedding a creative, seasonal atmosphere. You can also use jack-o-lanterns or small pumpkins to make unique wedding decorations.
You can use pumpkins shells for vases in your centerpiece arrangements, adding flowers and greenery for a fall floral arrangement. Deep fall colors in your floral arrangements will bring out and compliment you fall wedding colors. You can surround the base of the pumpkin with greenery for additional accent.
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You can use pumpkin shells as serving dishes on a buffet table or on your guest tables. On a buffet table, pumpkin shells make great serving dishes for sides or salads. On a guest table, a pumpkin shell filled with fresh fruit makes a colorful, tasty centerpiece, giving your tables a uniquely festive feel.
Jack-o-lanterns are always a fun Halloween treat and can be used as centerpieces, especially for night weddings. They can give you candlelight in seasonal style. You can choose to accent the darker side of the holiday with scary jack-o-lanterns for a non-traditional Halloween themed wedding or make happy, celebratory jack-lanterns for a more traditional wedding.
You can use pumpkin shells to hold you wine or champagne selections on your guest tables. If your selections need to be chilled, you can fill the pumpkin shells with ice to keep your wine or champagne cold. If your selections do not need to be chilled, you can fill the bottom of your pumpkin shell with fall-colored potpourri to add fragrance to you decorations.
You can create colorful fake fall leaves or use a silk alternative to decorate the table around your pumpkin centerpiece. If you're very creative, painting leaves on your pumpkins or using fabric paint to paint leaves on your tablecloths can add more color to your table and accent your fall theme.
You can use small pumpkins as seating cards, adding your guests' names to the pumpkins, placing the pumpkins on the tables for guests to find. You can also add table numbers to the pumpkins, placing them on a table outside your reception to notify your guests where they will be seated.
Small pumpkins, which come in a variety of shapes and sizes, can also be a colorful accent for fall floral arrangements. They can also be used to decorate railing or isle, placing them on top of posts or alongside an isle. Depending on the size and shape, you can hang small pumpkins from archways and rails.
Whatever creative pumpkin idea you choose, pumpkins are bright and interesting additions to any fall wedding, providing a variety of do-it-yourself decorating options. Whether you are a more traditional bride or an unconventional bride, one of the many pumpkin possibilities may be just the things to spice up your wedding day.
Creative Wedding Ideas - Pumpkin Decorations
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