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Rustic Wedding Style

Published on August 15, 2010
If you want to envelop your guests in rustic chic, a country cotillion is the way to go.
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What venue suits a heartfelt wedding? A setting straight from the heartland, where waves of grain beckon, apple orchards offer up their bounty, and weathered wood speaks of comforting shelter. A barn calls out for embellishments; a rustic wreath and muslin drapes at the doorway add the appropriate flourishes. For the country equivalent of a plush red carpet, lay down a generous path of straw.

  • Wreath and wheat stalks around torchères, Table Art; Muslin curtains, Rosebrand.*
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Wheat stalks around torchères, Table Art.

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Stemware, Broadway Famous Party Rentals. Plates, flatware, linens, tablecloths, and chairs, TriServe Party Rentals. Metal charger, Jeremie, available at Evans Home House. Chandelier, centerpieces, candleholders, and chair decorations, Table Art.

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Laser-cut wood napkin/escort-card rings, Modern Press

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Juice glasses of steaming soup—butternut squash with raisin-and-pecan pumpernickel crostini, and curried zucchini with herbed French bread croutons—make soothing starters.

Juice glasses, Dickey Glass & Company.

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Marking the couple's seats with wheat cinched with satin ribbon and roses is elegant yet rustic.

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Who needs haystacks when you can serve a white-chocolate-and-cocoa fondant confection crowned with a wheat bouquet?

Wheat cake, Sweet Tiers. Metal charger, Jeremie, available at Evans Home House

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Send the crowd home with caramelized cranberries packed in mini galvanized pails bearing your monogram crafted of tin.

  • Mini galvanized buckets with monograms, Illy Grove.*
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For a dessert both sweet and tart, core crab apples from the bottom, fill them with chocolate ganache, and seal them with hot caramel.

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Greet your guests with refreshments straight from the orchard. Hot apple and pear ciders served in pewter goblets, accompanied by cinnamon sticks and pumpkin and sugar doughnuts, take the chill off an autumn day.

  • Mason jars and pewter goblets, Party Rental Ltd. Pewter pitcher and tray, Match. All drinks and food, Callahan Catering, NYC*
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Laser-cut wood "Just Married" tiles, Modern Press. Ribbons, Offray. Mini galvanized buckets, Jamali Garden Supplies.

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