Typically placed at the prime spot of your reception venue, the head table is a major focal point of your celebration. With a curated list of unique individuals near and dear to you, the head table includes some of the most important members of your big day, including you and your new spouse! From immediate family members to your wedding party and closest friends, it’s entirely up to you how you fill the seats of this VIP area.
For couples hosting their wedding during the fall months, there’s no better opportunity to design a principal table that fully embraces autumnal charm. A backdrop of crisp fall florals, seasonal elements like pomegranates as escort cards, and striking gold accents turn a simple table display into a striking, standout setup.
Warm reds, earthy greens, and amber yellows are all tones that can easily be integrated into elements of your fall wedding table décor. Bold blooms and branches create a tablescape that exudes the feeling of fall without looking tacky or overdone.
For ideas that go beyond the traditional design route, check this 25 Fall Head Table Décor Ideas list for your fall wedding decoration inspiration.
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Use Lush Greenery
Ample use of greenery is a great way to highlight some of the season’s most natural features. Whether that’s by booking a venue that is outdoors, carpeting a place with grass, or incorporating foliage in your design elements, nothing says fall quite like leafy evergreen statements.
The fall season is all about texture. Hanging installations with greenery are a great way to bring about a more powerful visual impact in your event space.
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Lean On Neutral Tones
Complement the rich tones of a traditional fall palette—burgundy, evergreen, orange—with hints of various neutral shades. We love the pairing of the neutral table linen with the gold décor pieces. It adds warmth and elegance to the space without being too over the top.
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Don’t Shy Away From Black
An ideal accent color for a modern fall table, black can easily transform your display from classic to contemporary. We always consider black when making a bold statement with a dramatic table setting.
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Incorporate Blush Tones
Using blush is a great way to soften the season’s other darker colors. Pair blush with darker elements like green, or gold to make your dinner reception look more like a wedding without making it look out of place.
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Play With Texture
When working with a fall tablescape, reliy on different materials to create texture within levels of a table display. Incorporating crystal glassware, a gold-trimmed charger, and gold flatware helps in portraying softness. While a patterned dinner plate brings texture and an elevated look.
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Mix-and-Match Seating
Another way to vary texture is through furniture. The use of chairs in various colors and shapes makes for a standout head table. The above concept is created uniquely by mixing different materials like wood and metal. Play on the colors as well!
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Opt for Moody Floral Arrangements
Fall weddings make for the perfect time of year to utilize those beautiful moody and saturated color hues in your wedding centerpieces. Pair an arrangement of burnt orange, cobalt blue, and magenta florals with a gold vase for a striking addition to your display. Tis the season to go bold, dramatic, and rustic with your florals.
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Incorporate a Table Runner
To add softness and texture to your head table add a table runner to your décor. Integrating a runner adorned with lace is another way to showcase softness throughout your display.
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Use Hanging Florals
Hanging floral centerpieces are another fall favorite and a great option if you want to avoid crowding your table with large floral arrangements. Bronzes and golds mimic the harvest of autumn, but don’t overwhelm the eye with too much.
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Try a Lighting Installation
Adding light is such a fun way to take a traditional green installation and turn it into a playful yet elegant focal point.
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Go for Garland
One way to create subtle drama is to use lines of garlands as the focal point of décor. For this reception, held in a stunning sailcloth tent, lush floral and foliage garlands were incorporated into the design. Crisscrossing the garlands down the center of the tent created a lower ceiling and added life and color above the head table.
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Use Similar Florals Throughout
Consistent blooms thread décor together seamlessly. The use of similar white blooms in both the hanging installation and the floral table runner make a clean and crisp display that pairs beautifully with the rest of the reception’s white décor. The use of white is also such a fresh and unexpected color to use for a fall celebration.
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Decorate With Seasonal Items
Integrate traditional fall elements like pinecones and apples into the display of your tablescape for your guests to feel an immediate sense of pull toward the season. Pairing these objects with tall candlesticks makes for a magical setting that’s sure to evoke the essence of fall.
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Stock Up on Stone Fruits
Another seasonal harvest option to capitalize on is stone fruit. Opt for seasonal stone fruit when embellishing a lush fall table. Persimmon, pomegranates, and pears look beautiful and bold when you let them organically spill out over a rustic wood table, accented by rich florals and antique accouterments like heirloom copper dinnerware. They not only speak to the season but inject color as well.
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Incorporate Wood
Consider wood as a fundamental decorative element for a fall wedding table display. Table numbers, florals, and candles are standard for a head table, but using wood along with bright yet subdued fall colors—and décor pieces like antlers—make your head table stand out from the rest.
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Subtle Is Supreme
There are beautiful ways for an event to center around the autumn season without operating around orange flowers. Use subtle décor elements to evoke the sense of fall without being obvious.
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Incorporate Farm-Grown Flowers
Make your reception venue inviting by dressing your head table to match the season’s changing foliage. Bouquets of locally farm-grown dahlias, zinnias, cosmos, and golden fern serve as the perfect centerpiece for wooden farm tables. Just add woven gold runners, brass candelabras, and gold vessels for the picture-perfect fall backdrop.
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Add Some Rustic Charm
When working with an industrial space, such as a warehouse, rustic details can be effective in setting the tone for your reception. For a seated brunch, incorporate whitewashed tables as an open invitation to guests to feel right at home. The addition of sleek black chargers and a floral centerpiece consisting of ferns, seeded eucalyptus, roses, and ranunculus help to convey a minimalist aesthetic and relaxed ambiance.
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Let the Greenery Take Center Stage
Here, the reception space plays a key role in enhancing the tablescape décor. Textural flowers such as garden roses, delphinium, dahlias, lisianthus, clematis vine, and amaryllis complemented the lively greenhouse setting by bringing in elements of the outdoors inside. For a touch of whimsy, botanical drawings served as table numbers.
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Don’t Forget to Add Candles
Transport guests to a magical faraway place by styling a dreamy tablescape that’s both romantic and intimate. Not only do candles lend a drama-inducing glow, but they can really bring a reception space to life. Add in overhead greenery, gorgeous draping blooms, and a few well-placed candelabras to set the tone for your affair.
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Consider the Venue’s Unique Features
Utilizing the architectural features of your venue when developing your final design concept can translate into a display that’s both effortless and opulent.
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Add a Touch of Tumbleweeds
When you hear of foraged tumbleweeds you may think of the desert, but the yellowish hue can lend a nice autumnal feel to your wedding venue. Pair your tumbleweeds with a mixture of other floral arrangements around your head table for some seasonal flair.
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Embrace a Bit of Whimsy
Looking for a centerpiece that commands attention? It may be fall, but that doesn’t mean you have to stick to a palette of burnt orange and mustard hues. A whimsical floral arrangement consisting of a mixture of colors and textures just may be the boost that your head table needs.
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Decorate With Miniature White Pumpkins
Pumpkins are synonymous with fall, but instead of the very-bright orange gourds, try some seasonally chic white pumpkins. Not only will pumpkins bring a fall feel to your venue, but the white will elevate the rest of your décor.
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Boost Your Place Cards
One of the table’s most customizable features, place cards present an optimal way to showcase creativity and have fun with your event’s theme or a particular season.
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