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• Fall Party Decorating Ideas

If you’re going for a traditional fall color palette for your party, stick with rich browns with bright  oranges, or yellows, and deep reds. Warm tones work very well in fall. You can also work in golds, and shades of green into your fall tablescape.

Here are a couple fall tablescapes to help guide you in your fall planning.

This first one features yellows and silvers.

The next tablescape features rich golds and sunflowers, a wonderful combination for fall.

Or combine golds and greens like the tablescape below, add in accents of reds and yellows and you’ve got a great setting. I think this is my favorite color combination of all of these.

I hope some of these tablescapes and centerpiece ideas inspire your fall table.

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What do you need to set up your own candy bar? You’ll need some candy of course, bulk candy works best. You’ll also need some glass containers. You can dress up the containers with a bow or wrap them with fabric to add some color.

Don’t forget a small scoop in each candy container so guests can scoop the candy into their favor bag or box, and small printed labels can let your guests know what type of candy they’re scooping.

What candies work well for a candy bar? Chocolates are wonderful, but so are jelly beans, M &  M’s, gumballs, gummy candies, licorice sticks, lemon drops, or your favorite candy.

You can also include small cookies, or wrapped candy bars custom printed with your party information.

A candy bar makes a colorful display, and can be included as part of your decorations if done correctly, while providing your guests a little something to remember your party.

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They did turn out very well over all I tried it with just the votives with the gourds, some pine cones, and a couple hedge apples. I added a round candle that I had to the centerpiece. I couldn’t decide whether I liked the round candle, or just the votives.

I think it would make a great centerpiece idea for a fall party, or for your Thanksgiving feast.

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Today I have a couple spectacular table centerpiece ideas to share with you from Minoo Hersini, Creative Director at Au Ciel Design Studio.

The first centerpiece is made with grass, setaria and panicum.

The second centerpiece is constructed with peppers, beans, green tomatoes and steel grass.

The third centerpiece is an oasis ring with purple cabbages, tomatoes, pomegranates, cynara/artichokes, winter red sedum, asparagus and quinces.

The last one is my favorite, it’s made with ornamental kale, green chrysanthemum, Brazilian berries and the container is wrapped in moss.

I hope these pieces give you some ideas for non floral centerpiece ideas. Don’t be afraid to switch it up, be creative and have fun!

Images courtesy of: Minoo Hersini and Au Ciel Design Studio

Ms. Hersini is an interior designer, floral specialist, event planner and fashion designer. She has done such high profile events as The Princess Grace Foundation and The NY Arts Fund. Minoo’s services have been requested by celebrities such as Vanessa Williams, Glenn Close, Bill & Hillary Clinton, David Letterman and Meredith Vieira.

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You can also add to a large vase with some fresh fruit, like oranges and lemons, or arranged with Christmas bulbs, or pine cones and white lights to make an evergreen garland down the center of your table.

If you have your own evergreen trees or bushes, just steal a couple of the bottom branches, or a few branches right out of the middle. If you don’t trim too heavily, you won’t even know the branches are gone. You can also use the trimmings off of your Christmas tree, instead of throwing them out, or purchase greens at local garden centers, or Christmas tree farms.

You can also use your fresh evergreens as part of a Christmas centerpiece.

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• Use dried apple slices to make a dried apple garland, add in some cinnamon sticks for a garland that smells and looks festive for the fall season.
• Add apples to a vase of water for a beautiful centerpiece for your food table.
• Hollow out the apple center and use them as small serving bowls for dips and spreads.
• Add apples to floral centerpiece you can wire them into the arrangement with floral wire, or sticks.
• Hollow out apples and use them as the base for a small floral arrangement.
• Apples or dried apple slices can also be added to wreaths.
• Use hollowed out apples as votive or candle holders.
• Make a festive basket or cornucopia overflowing with apples, and other fruits, gourds, fall leaves or hedge apples.

Apples make a great theme for a fall party or to decorate the Thanksgiving table. Use your imagination and you can work them into every aspect of the party from the food to the decorations.

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The show goes behind-the-scenes as to follow Jeff and his hectic lifestyle as tries to build his own floral empire and conquer the New York event design scene.

Leatham’s love for flowers and aesthetics, and his passion for design show through in his contemporary style. His creations are a bold statement using shapes, color and simplicity to produce a dramatic effect.

In the past he’s created the fabulous decorations for the wedding of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker. His clients include Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue, the Dalia Lama, Suzy Menkes and President Bill Clinton.

Before coming to New York Leatham was the Artistic Director for the Four Seasons Hotels – based in the George V in Paris. While he was in Europe he was voted Best Hotel Florist in Europe for the last three years.

The flowers shown here were all beautiful floral decor for a wedding Waldorf Astoria in New York, New York. I can’t wait to check out the show for some of Jeff’s floral inspiration.

For more information check out the TLC website.

Images: TLC

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One of my favorite fall vegetables to decorate with is the pumpkin. Pumpkins make wonderful serving bowls if you hollow them out. You can have them do double duty, for function and decoration.

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Or use a pumpkin as the base for a floral arrangement.

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Load some fall vegetables into a cornucopia horn with some flowers for a beautiful fall party centerpiece.

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Or use them in a floral arrangement as a backdrop for your food table, or the focal point of your harvest party.

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Fall is a bounty for vegetables, you can put them on a tray to load it with color, or use them in combination with flowers to create a dazzling fall harvest display.

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Today I have some decorative bouquets ideas you can use for a party centerpiece, or wedding bouquet, all in white. If you don’t like the solid white, you can add accents in any color.

First up, dressing up simple white daisies with a little green, or with some pearl beads.

Lilies are fabulous in white.

Did you know white can come in shades? You can use off white, or winter white in your bouquet. Mix up shades of white for a beautiful look, like this bouquet with white roses, and mums.

You can also go with one type of flower, and a white, white like this very white rose arrangement on a red background.

White is spectacular for winter and snow, or summer and sun. It’s a timeless elegant color for parties and weddings.

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Citrus is my favorite to work with in floral arrangements. I love their bright vivid colors, and they will hold up for several days without spoiling.

You don’t have to incorporate the fruit in the arrangement, you can hollow out an orange, or an apple and use them for as a vase for your floral centerpiece.

Arrange flowers and fruit in a basket to give your backyard party a casual feel.

You don’t have to pair a floral arrangement with your fruit, you can float some flowers in a clear vase as a focal center for a fresh fruit display. It makes a beautiful contrast, and dresses up your fruit. It can help make your fruit part of the decorations.

You can also arrange flowers in small glass vases right in your fruit display, or float flowers in shallow glass bowls to add color and texture to your food table.

My favorite thing about using fruit and floral arrangement centerpiece is the versatility. You can dress it up, or make it casual and fun.

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