Halloween is a dramatic time to throw a wedding party! The season brings dramatic details and wonderful colors to our lives, and even more so to your wedding. If you’ve been dreaming of the perfect fall wedding but sans the dramatic details, how about using some sublime, soft, and minimal ideas to bring your wedding to life? We have some ideas that help you throw a wedding with the qualities of the perfect Halloween wedding, without using large elements! From cute skeleton cookies for dessert to glamorous fall-themed centerpieces, there’s so much you can add to your wedding details! Without much further ado, let’s dive in:
Let’s start with the more minor details for your Halloween-themed wedding. We can all agree that cookies are one of the most loved snacks! And when it comes to a wedding, we feel that cookies should become one of the essential parts of your wedding day’s dessert table! Whether you’re looking to add a dessert table or a few options, cookies are always a great idea, especially for themed weddings. For your Halloween cookies, you can experiment with colors and spooky ideas! One of the simplest ideas that work, without fail, for any Halloween wedding is the spooky white ghost cookie! You can use designed cookies in the shape of tiny, cute ghosts! The flavors can be spicy or something sweet, like vanilla. You can also choose to have some cute spiders, zombies, pumpkins, and skulls designed for your wedding!
To present the uber-cool and subtly spooky wedding cookies to your wedding dessert menu, then is there anything better than using a carved pumpkin for your presentation of these cookies? Or you could add a picnic basket, dressed in orange and black lace as an homage to the season and place cookies of each kind in the basket. What’s more, you can place the basket in different areas of your wedding, so that your guests can have access to the delicious cookies whenever they want to!
Spooky carved pumpkins are a staple for Halloween, regardless of the time and age. Although these pumpkins are perfect for your wedding decor as per the season, we feel that they’re overdone and are not exactly “subtle.” So, instead of the carved pumpkin ideas, we’re going to discuss subtle pumpkin wedding decor ideas! One of the best ideas that we love is to create a pumpkin-themed front stoop for your wedding ceremony venue or reception venue! You can add some pampas grass with acorns and a pumpkin. You can also add a seasonal floral arrangement alongside the pumpkins. Another way to make use of this idea is to find differently-sized pumpkins, and stack them on top of each other, simple and easy! Another way to add some amazing pumpkin spice to your wedding is to make use of tiny pumpkin decorations when you place the tables, on the side, or on the plate! Lastly, there’s another pumpkin decor idea that we love is making use of pumpkins as table decor! Instead of using a lot of pumpkins, you can make use of a lesser number of pumpkins or use them sparsely. Place the pumpkins on the dinner table and add some accents, like dried leaves, string lights to light the table with a fuzzy light, and some acorns!
Another way to improve your wedding’s decor and ambiance is to bring in creative decor ideas! In the spirit of the season, how about using some minimal arrangements of seasonal flowers dropped into pretty baskets? Since we love Halloween wedding decor ideas, you can add some spooky skulls, spiders or ghost decor items! These items are easy to find at any party prop store! For this idea to work wonderfully well for your wedding, try using some dark shades for flower arrangements! Another way to add charm to your wedding decor ideas is to use glow-in-the-dark spooky decor items! The glow-in-the-dark decor items can be used in areas where you know the venue does not have a lot of lighting. This will elevate the idea! As for hanging baskets, you can choose woven baskets. But then again, wooden crates work great as well! What’s more, if you don’t want the rustic charm of wooden crates, you can have them painted over in your wedding theme colors! And if you want to avoid using spooky decor ideas, then you can make use of floral baskets and floral hoops with fall decor ideas, such as hanging crocheted pumpkins, orange flower clusters, or acorn-themed hoops!
If you’re in the mood to enjoy the beautiful season, then how about switching up the sweetheart table? You can create a cozy cubby for your wedding! Instead of using an extravagant sweetheart table, you can create a couch-style sweetheart table for yourself! You can also create a fake ceiling and hang it up, with string lights as the walls for your cubby! To add seasonal flair, you can create a fall-themed setting! You can use pumpkins at the foot of the cubby, and add more of your wedding decor items to the make-shift ceiling for your wedding! And if you want to have a beautiful sweetheart table but still love the idea of a cozy cubby? How about using the idea to create a photo booth for your wedding. You can use the ideas that we just mentioned, and create an outdoor wedding photo booth. To add charming details to your wedding photo booth, you can leave some of your engagement photo shoot props for your wedding reception guests to pose with!
Another way to improve your fall wedding is to use plenty of light and heat! Help your guests feel cozy with pretty lights. You can use plenty of ideas to add light and warmth to your wedding. The first idea is to choose a wedding venue that has a fire pit or a furnace if you’re looking to throw an indoor wedding or indoor wedding reception. If your wedding is happening outdoors, enjoying the blissful weather, then you can create an outdoor wedding set-up that allows you and your guests to enjoy the outdoors while keeping themselves warm! You can add fire pits in the venue, or you could have one big fire pit in the center and place your dinner tables for the reception in a circle! Another way to add cozy warmth without the fire pits is to make use of some cute hand warmers! You can leave hand warmers at the table for each of your guests! This could be a wedding favor as well, you can pair other ideas you have chosen as wedding favors with the hand warmers!
More ways to add light and warmth to your fall wedding are to add some candles, paper-cut lanterns, and warm lights! To add a spooky touch to your wedding decor, you can use a few carved pumpkins, and add candles in the hollowed pumpkin for the spooky effect! Also, you can choose paper-cut lanterns for decor. You can use the paper lanterns on the mantle of the venue, or add them to the floor! To make the paper-cut lanterns safety-proof, you use electric candles instead of the real ones! Also, you can have paper-cut lanterns strung on string and use them to decorate your wedding venue’s ceiling! And if you’re looking to add a dramatic effect to your wedding, you can use cast-iron lanterns. If you can get your hands on ornate vintage-style floor lamps as well. The reason why we love the idea of lights and lanterns as fall wedding decor is that they add a warm and fuzzy look to your space. Also, a warm glow in the room will give you amazingly dreamy wedding photos.
Fall wheelbarrow decor is just perfect for a wedding! First things first, wheelbarrows add a rustic charm to your wedding, and with fall foliage decor, it’ll be perfect. The decor would look even better if you have a beautiful white wheelbarrow. One of the ideas that we absolutely adore is to use a wheelbarrow as a floral centerpiece! It is not as complicated as you think. All you need are different sizes of seasonal flowers, some filler greenery, and some decor items like acorns and pumpkins! Mix them all together and that’s it, you’ve got your floral wedding centerpiece!
One of the best ways to bring the subtle qualities of the spooky season is by choosing a wonderful theme that incorporates seasonal colors! Halloween season’s best colors are black, yellow, white, and orange, which is just perfect for any wedding style! Whether you’re looking to throw a beautiful outdoor wedding paired with an indoor wedding ceremony, an entirely outdoor wedding, or an entirely indoor wedding, these colors will add a subtle seasonal charm! We have many ideas to bring these colors to life at your wedding! Now, let’s take this step by step!
Let’s talk about an indoor wedding ceremony! You can choose to have white as the primary theme and use yellow and orange with subliminal black elements, or you could add splashes of the secondary colors as accents! For yellow and orange you can choose ribbons, and ornaments to add charm! And for subliminal black, you can add beautiful black lanterns! Metal lanterns are perfect for you! Now, for an outdoor wedding ceremony idea in these colors, how about using orange and yellow with white details for your outdoor arbor? Add some ornaments or add dry leaves! This will give you a great outdoor wedding arbor. To add extra details to your wedding ceremony, add some aisle runners, like velvet black ribbons or use a braided runner of yellow and black satin ribbon!
Now, for wedding event ideas! Since there are so many colors to choose from, you can divide the colors for your wedding ceremony and your cocktail party! You can use all the colors for your wedding reception party. You can use the ideas mentioned above for your wedding ceremony. And then for your cocktail party, you can go with orange and black! You can either use orange table covers and orange as the primary color for your cocktail hour, with black details. If you want something dramatic, you can switch to black as your primary color for the cocktail party decor, with orange details. You can add orange cocktail menu cards, orange and yellow-themed cocktail options, and orange decor ideas with some white and yellow details! Lastly, for your reception party, you can use velvet black tablecloths, orange, and yellow table runners, with white cutlery!
Last but not least, let’s just talk about glamorous centerpieces! A minimal Halloween-themed wedding centerpiece can be pretty much anything! One of the ideas that we love the most is using a beautiful massive lantern and filling it with beautiful flowers in yellow, orange, and red! Another way to add some beautiful Halloween touches to your wedding is by using black, orange, and yellow tapered candles. You can use ornate or french-style candlesticks to display your wonderful candles. This not only adds a charming glow to your wedding but also adds a rustic touch to your minimal Halloween-themed wedding!
With that, we’re at the end of our subtle Halloween wedding ideas! We hope that these ideas help you to come up with something amazing, something cool, and something that says Halloween without even using large elements. Sure enough, you can add some extra ideas, like you could use a brilliantly lettered wedding welcome signage for your wedding, and place a spooky skeleton at the entrance! And if you want to take it up a notch, you can make the skeleton wear a hat and turn it into a stylish spooky skeleton! You can make use of any of these ideas with other ideas that you like for your fall wedding, or you could mix all of the ideas we listed today and create your wedding plan! Before you solidify your wedding ideas, remember to speak to your partner and decide what you, both, would like.
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