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Home » Easy Rustic Outdoor Fall Wedding Reception

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Easy Rustic Outdoor Fall Wedding Reception

I adore outdoor wedding receptions especially in the fall when the colors are so spectacular! The bright orange pumpkins, cornstalks, colorful fall leaves, twinkling lights…ahhh it just speaks to my soul. Our cute niece Kaite wanted an easy rustic outdoor fall wedding reception in my mom’s backyard and it turned out magical!!

Easy Outdoor fall wedding reception. rustic outdoor fall wedding reception using pumpkins

My mom used to live on beautiful acre of land in a teeny tiny town called Veyo in Southern Utah. The views of the mountains in her backyard are stunning and her yard was gorgeous and the perfect spot to hold an easy outdoor rustic wedding!

Setting Up The Rustic Outdoor Wedding Reception

Renting round tables and chairs and outdoor heaters and a wooden dance floor was the only way to go. We used white tablecloths and white sashes tied to the back of each chair.

A little square of burlap placed in the center of each table brought in some rustic color and texture.

Rustic Outdoor Pumpkin Centerpieces

To keep with the theme of the rustic outdoor fall wedding reception we used real pumpkins hallowed out and filled with flowers. Coscto to the rescue! Katie’s mom bought bunches of fall themed bouquet’s from Costco. Then we took apart the bouquets and created new pretty floral arrangements in each pumpkin. The great thing about this was that it was so inexpensive!

Pumpkins with flowers wedding  centerpiece. Rustic wedding centerpiece. Costco flowers in pumpkins

Everyone in the family helped out. My son in-law hallowed out the pumpkins and even helped arrange some of the flowers!

The Costco flowers had lots greenery in the bouquets so that helped a lot in creating fall centerpieces.

DIY Pumpkin vases for flowers

Rustic Fall Outdoor Decoration

To decorate the areas surrounding the tables we used hay bales, baskets, apples from my mom’s apple tree and little baby pumpkins to create little vignette’s.

rustic outdoor wedding decoration idea, baskets, apples and mini pumpkins. Outdoor rustic wedding reception at home

Mini chalk boards with little love messages were also added to the vignette’s.

Mom had a darling little bridge that we covered with white lights so it would glow as the night went on. It was the perfect place to have a pumpkin topiary draped in lights. I have a simple pumpkin topiary tutorial here.

Pumpkin topiary Fall wedding decoration

The Dance Floor With Lighting

The rental company delivered the wooden dance floor and we got to work creating a fun space. We used rebar and PVC pipes over the rebar to create poles around the dance floor. Corn husks tied with orange burlap help to camouflage the PVC pipes.

Corn stalks cover PVC Pipes for wedding reception. outdoor wedding reception decoration ideas
easy rustic outdoor wedding with pumpkin topiary

To attach the lights to the tops of the PVC Pipes, we wrapped the lights around the tops of each post a few times and used tape to hold it on. String lights back and forth to create a little “umbrella”.

Setting up the lights around the dance floor

It looked magical as the sun went down.

The bride and groom dancing with lots of the children at the rustic outdoor fall wedding reception. They were having the time of their life! We held our daughters wedding reception in a barn and it turned out so cute! You can see the blue and peach wedding reception here.

bride dancing on outdoor dance floor with kids. Easy outdoor rustic wedding reception. Wedding reception dance floor at home.

We all had a blast dancing at the reception.

Everyone dancing at the easy outdoor wedding reception

Photo Table And Guest Book

Katie’s mom set up these adorable areas to show off bridal pictures.

Look at all the details for this cute guest book signing area! A cute bunting that says falling in love is perfect for fall!

Easy outdoor fall wedding guest book signing area. Easy outdoor rustic fall wedding reception. Wedding reception ideas at home

Serving Soup And Pie

My cute mom and twin of the bride were busy making soup for the reception.

It doesn’t get any easier than this! Serving different soups in crockpots also goes along with the theme of easy rustic outdoor fall wedding reception.

Soup and pie for rustic outdoor wedding reception. Easy wedding reception at home. Wedding reception idea

Since Katie doesn’t like cake she opted for yummy pies from Costco. Another easy and simple idea for this outdoor rustic wedding reception. Here is another darling country wedding reception we attended that you might like to see.

Serve pie at outdoor rustic wedding reception at home
Easy wedding reception at home. Serve soup and pie at wedding reception.

Hopefully this gives you some fun ideas of how to create an easy rustic outdoor fall wedding reception.

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Easy rustic outdoor fall wedding reception using pumpkins, corn stalks and Costco flowers! Create pretty lighting by using PVC Pipes and Christmas lights around a rented dance floor. Make an easy pumpkin topiary and string lights around it. Serve Soup and Pie easy peasy!

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  1. Cherelle | The Inspired Prairie says

    August 11, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    That was such a cute fall backyard wedding, and the backyard set up was simply perfect! Backyard Fall weddings are not a thing here in WA because of all our rain, but it looks like you guys had the perfect weather.

    This post just made me want some soup now, haha.

    Thanks for sharing this post with us on the Embracing Home and Family link-up party. We hope you join us again this Friday with more great posts!

    -Cherelle

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    • Karins Kottage says

      August 12, 2020 at 8:42 am

      Hi Cherelle,
      No outdoor weddings out there? That would be so sad…It gets really hot in Southern Utah so that can be tricky as well but in the fall it is usually perfect temps.
      I love that this post made you want some soup now 🙂 Thanks again for stopping by and saying hi!
      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply
  2. Michele Morin says

    August 9, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    The color possibilities for a fall wedding are just stunning!

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    • Karins Kottage says

      August 12, 2020 at 8:42 am

      I agree! It is such a beautiful time of year for a wedding with all the fall colors.
      Karin

      Reply
  3. Katie Mansfield says

    August 27, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    I think DIY weddings are the best and most beautiful. The centerpieces are gorgeous.

    Reply
  4. Alice says

    August 21, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    The centerpieces came out so pretty, and it’s a great theme idea!

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    • admin says

      August 21, 2019 at 5:25 pm

      Hi Alice,
      Thank you for your nice comment 🙂 I just love the fall season and this wedding reception turned out so perfect. I love the fact that we got all the flowers from Costco and we didn’t need a ton because the pumpkin openings weren’t huge. It was a win win!
      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply

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