6 Creative Ways To Use Pumpkins On Your Wedding Day
Written by on October 16, 2015.
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6 Creative Ways To Use Pumpkins On Your Wedding Day
October is here, and as well as signaling the start of cooler weather in the UAE, it brings with it the beginning of the wedding season. For many, October also signifies Halloween, with costumes and parties being planned well in advance. If you are planning an October wedding, you’ll be pleased to know that Halloween isn’t all witches and zombies, and that there’s a multitude of ways in which you can incorporate the festival into your wedding or engagement party. One creative way is by using the pumpkin.
Last year, BCME featured this stunning ‘Under the Moonlight’ wedding, which demonstrates just how pretty a Halloween wedding in Dubai can be. This year, we have looked further afield for inspiration, and have come up with six creative ways to use pumpkins on your wedding day. Read on for some fabulous ideas from weddings all around the world, and for some simple yet effective DIY that will really help to bring an autumnal wedding theme to life…even in Dubai!
Photo Opportunities
Go beyond the usual wedding photographs and think about including pumpkins as part of your set up. We adore these images with pumpkins in both the foreground and the background. You could even do some close up shots of you and your new husband holding a cutely carved pumpkin!
Guestbook fun
Be inventive and get crafty with this DIY/Faux pumpkin guestbook idea, perfect for a Halloween/Autumn wedding.
Tablescapes
Pumpkins can make stunningly pretty tablescapes that embody a Halloween theme without looking ghoulish. As you can see from the images below, using pumpkins as a focal point does not mean that you have to use an orange colour palette; we love these dusty blue DIY pumpkins, which would certainly work well in a range of other colours. Alternatively, gold pumpkins are a way of using autumnal colours without limiting yourself to orange. Using pumpkins as a vase for flowers will certainly impress your guests!
Wedding Favours
This adorable pumpkin patch would work really well at a rustic wedding. Not only is the set up simple yet visually impressive, using the pumpkins as favours is a unique idea that will also help your guests to remember your anniversary!
Autumnal Aisle Arrangements
These white and gold pumpkins look incredible on the aisle, showing that you really can adapt this fruit to suit any colour scheme.
Not-so-spooky seating charts
These miniature pumpkins are a cute way of letting your guests know where to sit.
One of the things that a lot of us seem to miss in the UAE is the passing of the seasons. Here, the weather goes from ‘hot and humid’ to ‘pleasantly warm’ without the leaves turning golden and falling off the trees, meaning that we don’t experience the autumnal spectrum of colours that remind us of the passing of time and the beauty of nature. If you are planning an October wedding and are hankering after a theme that reflects this month, we hope that these beautiful images that we have curated have given you some fabulous ideas to create a Halloween or autumn theme at your own wedding, using the humble yet pretty pumpkin as a focal point.
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