Fall Bridesmaid Dresses

Fall is a hugely popular time for weddings. The crisp air, fall colors, and cooler weather make it the perfect time of year to hold your wedding. It's also a totally different look and feel from a spring or summer wedding, and it invites wedding attire that reflects the fall season and an autumnal color palette for your wedding day. If you're looking for some ideas for the top colors and best styles for fall bridesmaid dresses for autumn weddings, we've created this shoppable guide to help you find the perfect bridesmaid dresses for your fall wedding.

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The Best Bridesmaid Dresses to Consider for Your Fall Wedding

Bridesmaid dresses are one of the most prominent ways your wedding colors and themes are expressed. So, it only makes sense that they reflect the season and style of your wedding.  These picks for top colors are our personal favorite fall palettes, informed by top fall fashion colors as well as top fall wedding colors.

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It only makes sense that as the seasons change, so do the style of bridesmaid dresses. For spring and summer weddings we see floral bridesmaid dresses, pastel colors, and lightweight fabrics. For fall the colors turn to harvest hues and jewel tones, the fabrics become heavier, the lengths become longer, and with the cooler temperatures you may even wish to dress your bridesmaids in long-sleeve styles for the big day.

Top Colors for Fall Bridesmaid Dresses

Each fall season there are some classic rich colors that never go out of style, as well as some trending colors that might come and go.

Whether you're looking for a classic burgundy style for your wedding party, or you want the trending colors for the season, this guide is full of classic and modern choices for your bridal party look using fall-inspired colors.

Usually, all the same colors like red, yellow, green, and blue that are in play for all wedding color schemes, are still great choices for fall weddings, they just take on the more muted harvest hues of the season to be reinterpreted in a new way.

Here are our picks for beautiful colors to consider for fall bridesmaid dresses for your fall wedding.

Burgundy

A burgundy dress is always a classic choice for fall wedding party. This rich garnet red color calls to mind tones of mulled wine, apples and the changing leaves that go from green to gold to red.  This style is usually easy to find season after season making it a popular choice for weddings.  We're also seeing a more muted shade of mulberry trending this season, it's a burgundy red with a bit of purple thrown in that makes for the perfect fall hue.

See all of our picks for red and burgundy bridesmaid dresses.

Rust and Orange

Again, drawing from the rich hues in nature in the fall season rust and orange bridesmaid dresses definitely have a place in fall wedding parties.  Colors like burnt orange, rust, and copper can come and go with the season, but they are very on-trend for weddings right now.

If you can't find true orange dresses you love,  Rose gold bridesmaid dresses, dusty rose, and coral bridesmaid dresses are often easier to find and they are essentially slightly different color terms that use this almost same color palette. 

See all of our suggestions for where to find coral and orange bridesmaid dresses.

Yellow and Gold

Rather than using a soft butter yellow shade as you would use in spring if you want your bridesmaids to wear a shade of yellow for your fall wedding, take a look at warm tones like marigold, mustard, and rich gold metallic colors.

See our picks for yellow bridesmaid dresses as well as gold and neutral bridesmaid dresses.

Olive Green

Green is a great color to consider for a fall wedding. Rather than using pastel shades, emerald green and the richer earthy shade of olive green are really well-suited to a fall wedding palette.

​Brown and Bronze

Little black dresses and black gowns will always have a place in a fall formal wedding look, but if you're looking for a dark color without going fully to a classic black dress, we love the idea of introducing deep hues and shades of chocolate brown, or its metallic cousin - bronze - into your wedding lineup. This deeper color can add dimension to a mix-and-match lineup, or it looks classic and chic when done in a single shade.

Teal Blue

Blue will never go out of style as a wedding party color. In the fall season, there's a natural inclination to turn to dark midnight blue or navy blue, but there's definitely another shade of blue to consider. In addition to a darker dusty blue color, bringing in shades of blue green teal blue and peacock blue gives a new look. Best of all, these deep turquoise shades provide delicious contrast to fall colors that you might be using in florals like orange and red.   Using a gray with a hint of deep blue tone is also a great look. 

Purple

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Here are our favorite fall bridesmaid dress styles and colors along with the shopping details for where to find them! Use a few of these related shades in a mix and match bridesmaid dress look!

Best Fabrics to Consider for Fall Weddings

Color isn't the only shift we see during this season.  The fabric choices change as well. While light chiffon fabrics work in most seasons, in fall fabrics like velvet, brocade, as well as heavier satins are well suited to the cooler temperatures and great for an outdoor fall wedding. Check out our picks for velvet bridesmaid dresses as well as satin bridesmaid dresses. 

Silhouettes for Autumn Bridesmaid Dresses

This fall season we're seeing a few new trends.  The romantic look is still in, but it's re-interpreted in a western-inspired romantic way. It's a little bit of a modern take on both boho and Bridgerton at once. Corset bodice dresses, along with pleats and textures are some new dress styles. There's also a great look of short-sleeved or flutter-sleeve wrap dresses either in velvet or brocade that looks great for this season. Pleats, tiered skirts, and square necklines are another great look for the upcoming season.

Fall Wedding Decor + Color Schemes

Now don't worry for a minute if you're planning a fall wedding and your color isn't on this list. These picks aren't to classify your colors in terms of 'in' or 'out' wedding trends. This guide is just to inspire anyone trying to pick dress colors who needs some color visualization.