Autumn Wedding Trends to Look Out For in 2025
For most Australian couples, a spring wedding is on the books. But, for a close second – autumn is popular. If you’re planning autumn vows, here are some autumn wedding trends to look out for.
Why an autumn wedding, you ask? It’s not hard to see why it’s a popular season. The sting of Aussie summer a little more subdued, the brown colour pallet and golden hues, weddings at this time are just perfect.
Autumn Wedding Trends | Brown pallet for your mood board
Here are some reasons why you should consider an autumn wedding:
- With all the vibrant reds, oranges and golds of the trees in gardens and vineyards, your photos will be almost as stunning as you on your wedding day
- The weather is not so harsh, offering better light for your photographer and videographer, without baking heat or freezing cold
- The more temperate climate makes an outdoor wedding more comfortable
- Seasonal produce is both gorgeous and phenomenal
- Both you and your partner will be cool, calm and collected in your wedding attire, which for some reason ends up being one of the bulkiest outfits we will ever wear. Far less sweating.
- The cool evening allows for drinks by an open fire, or snuggles with partners, with a tuxedo jacket romantically draped across the bride’s shoulders.
Autumn wedding trends to kick start your mood board
Themes and venues
Autumn brings to mind more natural, rich and earthy tones, with weddings themes like rustic, country, vineyard, vintage and bohemian lending themselves very nicely to an autumn wedding.
You need not go earthy however, the rich golds and burgundies of autumn can create a gorgeous palette for a modern, contemporary or five-star luxury wedding style. Imagine you are royalty and build your autumn wedding around that theme as well.
Cities like Melbourne and Adelaide are at their most beautiful in autumn, and any venues in the mountains, vineyards or in gardens will be an array of fantastic colour and light.
European and English style homesteads also come beautifully alive in autumn, so any historic mansions evoking Tuscany, the French countryside or Victorian England will also be inspired venue choices for a wedding at this time of year.
Keep it beautiful and classic with dried florals and bouquets with the rich autumn flowers.
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Decorations
Take all of the natural oranges, russets and reds of the season and then mix these with some more wedding style metallics such as rose gold, bronze or old gold. Channel a rustic country vibe for your day, or perhaps a woodland feel.
Decorate with leaves, vines, apples, cinnamon sticks, pinecones, juicy purple grapes, miniature fat pumpkins and mix in with tealight candles or ornate candelabras.
Candles – of course! If the sun is setting a little earlier than usual, nothing sets the romantic and autumnal mood like beautiful, simple candles.
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Cherry red accents
Autumn isn’t just about gold and brown, but the whole swath of reds. Cherry red accents just emphasise the romance in the room, particularly with the old English traditional vibes that complement autumn wedding trends so perfectly.
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Draping
It’s often overlooked as decoration and theme, but lengths of material draping over can become something avant-garde and beautiful. Often, autumn weddings will involve layers and coats. Hand in hand with guests wearing extra layers are the decorations too! Draping materials deliver autumn vibes.
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Rugs
Nothing says cosy and vintage quite like mismatched, patterned, Moroccan style rugs. Use them as the aisle for that quirky, autumn vibe.
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Blankets
Speaking of cosy vibes, does anything achieve this quite like blankets? That’s right, when the sun sets and the wedding guests are taking a break from the dancefloor, you’ll want them to be warm. Blankets draped over the back of chairs can do exactly this!
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Autumn Wedding Trends: fashion
Autumn weddings also mean lots of layering. It can mean the difference between one and two wedding looks (without having to change your dress completely!)
Drop waist dress
Chic, simple, elegant. A drop waist dress with a bodice is an ideal autumn dress. It can be paired with a stoll or coat.
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Wedding scarves
Hear me out – it might sound like a wild idea, but a wedding scarf can be anything but grandma’s vintage one. It can be chic, modern and also keep you warm for when the sun sets.
This is an idea I’m definitely putting on my mood board.
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Entertainment and activities
Perhaps channel a vintage country fete, and have sideshow style games such as a coconut shy or bobbing for apples, or make the use of the cooler afternoons to play lawn games such as croquet, bowls or giant Jenga. You could even have pony rides, or a horse and cart. For vintage indoor and outdoor décor check out the range at Vintage Rose Weddings, available Australia wide.
Have a bonfire at night surrounded by hay bales, throws and plush cushions, all in your autumn colour palette. Throw a fireworks display, or give guests sparklers so they can create their own.
