Apple Theme Weddings
Apple of My Eye. This theme goes hand-in-hand with autumn weddings, but there's no reason why you can't take your apple theme wedding in other directions, too.
Outside of the fall feel, we see more and more apples as florists and designers "modernize" their creations with fruits and vegetables, succulents and herbs, and just about everything else under the sun.
But let's start with some autumn-style apple ideas ...
Creating Ambiance with Apples
The fall sort of apple feel brings to mind places like Vermont, the glory of New England trees, and venues like big, airy barns with dark-paned glass and mysterious farming equipment slumbering on the grounds. To focus on apples is to zero in on the sweet-yet-tart heart of a harvest festival, with a more focused palette than the usual oranges, reds and yellows.Ways to bring the theme alive:
Hold your ceremony in an apple orchard, and your reception in a big, grand barn. Wind twinkle lights around the rafters and hang rustic lanterns.
Bring in the props and objects that say fall to hold food, drink and decorations: wine barrels, galvanized buckets, fruit crates, hay bales. Galvanized tubs are wonderful for holding specialty sodas in glass bottles with an old-timey feel. Hay bales under a plank make great serving tables, and even seats.
String red or green apples together into long, shiny garlands using super-strength microfilament (fishing line). Hang the results from the rafters and bare-branch trees.
Toast your love with a special pouring of sparkling cider.
Instead of the usual wedding cake, serve up a few rich spice cakes with just a dusting of powdered sugar.
Treat your guests to the mouth-watering pairing of fresh apple cider and cake donuts.
Pour small green or golden apples into tall, clear eiffel vases. Top with a pillow of roses or chrysanthemums.
Large, sturdy apples make ideal bases for table numbers. Smaller ones make adorable place card holders: pin on leaf-shaped tags that display your guests' names.
Apple Theme Centerpiece Ideas
- Use raffia to bind up bundles of birch branches (find at any craft store), wheat or bittersweet. Surround each bundle with cinnamon-scented votive candles or miniature apples.
- Fill canning jars or milk buckets with old-fashioned flowers like daisies, mini-mums or heather.
- Place sparkling cider bottles on wooden cutting boards. Heap with gold-painted apples and unshelled walnuts.
- Place florist foam in a galvanized bucket and fill with daisies and apples.
- Create apple candles by carving a tealight-shaped hollow in each apple, and float in a glass bowl.
- Fill a tall, fluted vase with small green apples. Top with a tight arrangement of red or pink roses.
Apple Wedding Favors & Decorations
Favorite favors that have proved their worth at apple and autumn-themed weddings:- Candied or caramel apples, tied off with a pretty ribbon in your colors
- Caramel apple kits in a bag
- Individual jars of apple butter (personal, homemade, sure to be remembered)
- Mini bottles of sparkling cider
- Personalized teas or coffee
- Mini-apple candles
- Your grandmother's famous fall recipes in a special booklet
Apple Theme Food
Anything savory sets off this evocative fall theme. Some favorites: roasted chestnut soup or pumpkin bisque, french bread with white cheddar cheese and toasted almonds, roast turkey or rotisserie chicken, fruit crisps, mini molasses cookies, kale and roasted root vegetables.
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The Pink & Green Summertime Apple Theme
You don't have to stick to autumn for your apple wedding theme. Another popular look (especially in summer) comes from the fresh school of thought that likes to pair pink with apple green.Pink roses and baby green apples look chic and sleek together. So do green apples and pink gerber daisies. The key is repetition: line up a small army of miniature apples for place card holders, and go simple with your flower treatments, so they look like a color block and aren't overcomplicated.
Bright, sassy ribbons and contemporary square-shaped vases help pull this look off. Consider polka dots, sashed cocktail-length dresses, and possibly a third color, like purple or coral. As for bridesmaids in bright apple green? Deee-licious!
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April 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I’m planning a gold champagne,brown and powder blue wedding for October 11,2008 i have no idea where to start as a theme and D.I.Y centerpiece and flower ideas. HELP PLEASE
March 14th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Wanda: I’m using green apples in my wedding too. I saw the tea light apple tool at Beth Bath & Beyond.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
ha, just placed my order. tx blake
March 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
ty so much blake. going to try to order now.
hm, a thought. wouldnt the apple ROT if i do this?
March 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
tble setting and bridesmaid flowers
March 6th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Wanda, try this:
Apple carver tool (link)
March 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
this is my table setting, bridesmaid flowers. mine will be off white roses w/SOME green and purple. and im also using the green apples on the tables. i wanted to insert the tea lights, BUT i cant find that apple carver tool ANYWHERE. so if anyone knows where I can order from, pls advise. tx. btw, on my tables, there wil be martini glasses filled with water and in them will be this LED cube IN GREEN..
March 6th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I would love more suggestions for a purple and green theme. Our wedding is in early October and I love the idea of a plum/aubergine color with green apples and green flowers in the decor. Are there any ideas on how to incorporate those 2 colors?
February 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I am having a fall wedding,October 27, 2008, I am doing carmel apple cider as the wedding favors (apple cider mix, cinnamon sticks and caramel candies in gold colored boxes.) My colors are red and gold and as one of the desserts, I want to do caramel apple slices. Just a couple of other ways to incorporate apples into the wedding.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Blake@FavorIdeas Says: (Nina Callaway at about-com weddings posted this great little snippet about a $10 apple carver tool that (hopefully) lets you make a whole lotta clean, neat tealight-sized holes in apples, fast.)
I LOVE THIS IDEA. THANK YOU SOO MUCH. THINK IM GONNA USE IT IN MY COCKTAIL HR.
February 12th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Nina Callaway at about-com weddings posted this great little snippet about a $10 apple carver tool that (hopefully) lets you make a whole lotta clean, neat tealight-sized holes in apples, fast.
This tool garnered some kind of snotty comments on the kitchen tools site where it originally showed up, but Nina recognized that this thing would be VERY useful to a lot of brides with apple/autumn/naturalistic themes.
One bride pointed out that her florist wanted $5 an apple to do the same thing — so quite a bargain, huh? You can use it on mini pumpkins/gourds, too … actually, this might be fun to have around the house!
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
I love the color pink and green together.
so i vote for NO BLUE..
and yes, they are VERY MODERN together. Im using my green and purple but Pink was my first choice with the green. The reason I switched was bc I saw a setting in the colors purple and green and that totally changed my mind. here is a pic of a sachet in green and pink.. LOVE IT.
January 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Hello, Hope someone can help? I’m getting married in April this year, and i would like to use pink and white for the braidsmaids dresses, and I’m torn between green or light blue for other decorations. I kinda like the meaning of green though, but i’m not sure if green and pink are modern? colours sounds a bit olden???
September 24th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
that ctr pc by the way will have purple roses. my colors are purple and green. im also having apples as place cards.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Im having a Miami Theme wedding w/neon lights, and my signature drink is APPLE MARTINI. here is our ctr pc.
September 8th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
My boyfriend and I live in NY, so I thought having an apple themed wedding was a great idea. Does anyone know where I can see pictures of center pieces and favor ideas, as well as wedding decor. I chose the color Gold & Ivory. Any ideas?
August 16th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Apple favor: my wedding is a year away and I have changed my theme many time, most recent being the apple theme, one thing has remained consistant is the favors: no matter what the theme is we are giving cookie cutters, in this case it would be a apple shaped cookie cutter that would be attached to an apple cookie recipe
August 4th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Does anyone know where I can buy mini-jars of apple butter for favors for an apple themed wedding? Quick? the wedding is Sept 22 in CA. Gina, Mother of Groom!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
My fiance and I are using candy/caramel apples as favors. I am a teacher and my fiance works for Applebee’s. For place cards we are thinking about doing mini chalboards.
July 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Linda, I’ve seen hang tags that resemble a hershey kiss for carmelized apples. Wrap it around the top of the stick used to carmelize it and put glue from a glue stick the length of your message to hold it at the top.
July 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am
My husband and I are renewing our wedding vows and the reception is at a rustic bed and breakfast. Any ideas for decorating? The ceilings are kind of low and the tables are round and seat 8. The date is only 3 months away!
July 13th, 2007 at 6:44 am
We are both teachers and we are planning a spring wedding. We are going to do the granny smith apples w/a card attached w/pearl headed push pins for placements. Any ideas for favors? We were thinking of glass photo coasters or apple post its w/personalized pencils since we are teachers. Any ideas??
June 8th, 2007 at 8:00 am
My father and grandfather were apple farmers, so we are having an apple themed wedding. Because we are having more of a formal affair, we are keeping the apples to Granny Smith instead of the reds. Our centerpieces are going to be tall vases with water and Granny Smith apples in the vases (some whole, some cut) and then at the top wil be tall gladiolas (purple) and some greenery. Our favors are going to be chocolate covered bride and groom apples from Mrs. Prindables. The maids bouquets and mine will also have green grannies in them with hydrangeas surruonding the apples.
Other apple things we are doing - in the arrival baskets for the out of town guests, we will have apples and apple muffins… and our save the date magnets have two apples side by side on them, as well as our invites.
just some apple ideas!
April 17th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
My daughter is having a September weddding and her colors are champagne and taupe. She is having Carmel Candy Apples as favors. I can’t seem to find any hang tags. That say something like today I married the apple of my eye with both their names and date. Any ideas.
April 14th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Kristin,
My fiance and I are also teachers. We’re getting married in June 07. Do you have any ideas for table centerpeices with a “teacher” theme?
March 30th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I too am having an apple themed wedding, and we are placing bowls of fresh apple slices and dried apple chips around for people to snack on.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Hi
I saw an idea for place card holders. They were apples with a slit at the top for the card to go through. It was very cute.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I saw a beautiful centerpiece. It was a tall cylinder clear glass vase filled with green apples and lemons and a few pinecones were tossed in. It was gorgeous.
November 30th, 2006 at 10:16 am
My fiance’s last name is Apple and we want to have centerpieces using apples…I need some ideas in that dept. HELP!
Thanks,
Chrissy
November 29th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
I’m having an apple themed wedding and we’re using caramel apples as place cards/favors.
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:15 pm
My fiance’ and I are both teachers and would like to have some teacher-apple-themed favors for our guests at the tables. ANY IDEAS?!