Autumn...ahh.... The air begins to get moist as it cools after the summer heat. The sky is filled with clouds more often than in the past months, and the days become shorter. Our thoughts turn to sweaters and galoshes, scarves and gloves. The afternoon heat and party-business of the past months calms a little. Students crack their textbooks once again, shaved-pencil scent wafting into their noses. Mornings are brisk, evenings are cool. Moments are taken to gaze toward the sky and mountains, noting the pale blueness contrasted against the fire-colored trees. Orange pumpkins and yellow-green cornstalks cross our view. Everything tells its own part of the bedtime story, tucking you in for the coming winter.

Isn't that beautiful and peaceful? Imagine a fall wedding, a new beginning in this world of new colors and fresh coolness. Perhaps you're planning a fall wedding right now. What colors will you choose, how will you decorate? Let me give you some suggestions on how to use the beauty of the autumn world around you in your wedding dcor.

Picking your wedding colors

When picking your wedding colors, choose colors that go along with the mood of the season. Let the colors you choose bring in the grandeur and beauty of the outside world that is already in the minds of your guests. This will make your decorations seem elegant and well planned out with very little actual planning. In keeping with that idea, I suggest choosing brilliant oranges, deep, solid yellows and dark reds.

Flowers

Pick flowers in the colors you chose, and let your greenery be a vibrant, dark green, more on the yellow end of the spectrum than the blue end, to bring out the warmth and vibrancy of your flowers. The types of flowers you choose will depend on the feeling you want to portray. A looser bouquet feels fun and comfortable, while a bouquet of roses seems more formal. For a looser bouquet, choose leafy flowers such as daisies, carnations and lilies. These can also be interspersed with roses without becoming too formal. You could even spruce it up by adding fall leaves or berries. For a more formally elegant bouquet, choose roses. You can make the bouquet unique and memorable by embossing a yellow rose or a red rose with a saying or image.

Decorations

Decorations should, of course, follow your color scheme. Although white goes well at any wedding, deeply colored table cloths add a sense of depth and warmth in the cooler months of autumn. Using too much white in the decoration of a fall wedding can make it seem like a summer wedding, converting the warm, vibrant colors you've chosen to create an autumn-like atmosphere, into a washed out, bright, summer-like atmosphere.

For your main wedding centerpiece at the luncheon or on your main table at the reception, you can use the same flowers that you chose for your bouquet, just arrange them for a centerpiece. On the guest tables you can lay individual flowers and sprinkle loose petals around them, or you can arrange them in vases. You can also have a glass bowl halfway full of water and float flowers and flower petals it.

Whatever you choose to do for your fall wedding, remember the grandeur and elegance of autumn and let it enhance your wedding. Don't get stuck doing what everyone always does, let Speaking Roses help you make your wedding special. Emily Lyon is a client account specialist at 10x Marketing.