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Did you know that almost 30% of engaged couples choose the fall months as their wedding date? There must be something in the air, or in the lovely colors associated with fall which makes it a popular season for weddings.

Now, if you’re among the couples who choose to get married during this season, you should make sure that the colors of the season are incorporated in your fall wedding decoration.

Fall Wedding Decoration: A Quick Look at the Colors & Decors to Use

When you think of the fall season, the first thing that usually comes to mind are the lovely colors of the falling leaves. Rich yellows, oranges, gold, copper, peach and brown are the hues which mimic the natural colors of the season.

Since they’re all warm, rich and inviting - why not use all of these colors for your wedding? What you can do is select one accent color that will serve as your main color scheme, but all the other hues will blend to create a warm and cozy atmosphere during your wedding ceremony and reception.

For a unique touch, you can take your pick from metallic and jewel tones as the accent color, or turn it into your main wedding color scheme.

Now, aside from thinking about the colors that you will use, make sure to also incorporate the season’s blooms, fruits and other natural elements to make for a truly unique fall wedding decoration.

The flowers that you can use include roses, gardenias, mums, dahlias and zinnias. A cluster or grapevines and pumpkins are the ‘in’ fruits to use for fall wedding decorations. Finally, don’t forget the colorful fall leaves, maple leaves and the rich brown natural pine cones and cornstalks.

All of these elements can be combined when decorating the wedding ceremony entrance, aisles, pews, altar - and the wedding reception tables, entrance and walkways.

Fall Wedding Decoration Tips & Ideas

Here are a few key fall wedding decoration that you should keep in mind when decorating:

1. If you’re at a loss where to start with your fall wedding decoration scheme, start with the wedding dress that you have chosen. Does the gown have a vintage or classic feel to it? Or did you choose a minimalist gown which hardly has any embellishments?

Depending on the gown that you will wear, you can create your fall wedding decoration in such a way that the décor will home in on the style of your dress.

2. Fall is the time for harvest, and if you are holding an outdoor wedding ceremony and reception, everything should look bountiful! For your table centerpieces, you can create a small pine cone tree which is decorated with oranges, maple leaves and crimson berries. Place them on every dinner reception table and your guests would surely ooh and ahh over the effort that has gone into your fall wedding decoration!

3. It’s a must not to forge the season’s loveliest blooms, but fruits can blend in the occasion just as well. Pumpkins, clusters of grapevines, pomegranate, every imaginable type of berries that you can get, oranges, apples and pears - all of these lovely fruits can be used as an inspiration for your fall wedding decoration theme.

You can either use the real thing to create a ‘bountiful harvest’ theme. Or, you can use flower-shaped floating candles and use them on your table centerpieces. You can even create a magnificent wreath which combines all of the fall elements together and hang it by the table or gazebo where the bride and groom will sit down to entertain their guests.

With all these fall wedding decoration tips and ideas, you will surely have an unforgettable wedding ceremony and reception that will not just look great on your wedding album, but give you fond memories to remember for the rest of your life as well.

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Whereas seasonal allergies are generally viewed as a spring issue, fall allergies, affect more than 35 million Americans and many people control them with medications filled with stimulants. This season, sufferers can take control of your allergies with the natural approach using AirAide, a popular herbal supplement designed to help naturally enhance breathing capacity without the use of stimulants.

Fall allergies differ from other seasonal allergies and as a result, millions of people suffer from breathing problems, sometimes more in the fall than any other season. Plants typically pollinate in three seasons: in the spring, trees pollinate, in the summer months, grasses pollinate and finally, in late summer and into fall, weeds pollinate. One of the main contributors to fall allergies is the ragweed plant that has lightweight pollen grains that can travel up to 400 miles in the wind. Other common fall allergies include the goldenrod, curly dock, lamb’s quarters, pigweed, sheep sorrel, and sagebrush that are also lightweight and easily inhaled into the lungs.

A Natural Approach: Although most people can control their allergy symptoms, prescription inhalers and allergy medications come with their own laundry list of side effects, ranging from moderate to severe. However, hope has come in the form of AirAide, an herbal supplement that enhances breathing. AirAide works by temporarily increasing lung capacity to function at normal individual optimum levels with zero side effects. It also helps counteract the effects of many bronchial distress agents such as smog, allergens, and other environmental irritants that athletes contend with in the great outdoors. In a clinical trial, asthmatics who took AirAide showed a 30 percent increase in their expiratory rates.

The AirAide formulation has been used by holistic and homeopathic professionals for years and has shown no adverse or toxic effects at any amount. The formula contains a blend of 23 herbs designed to flush out toxins and build-up in the lungs, soothe bronchial irritations, and physically increase lung capacity to promote better breathing. As AirAide contains no steroids, caffeine, or other stimulants; it has shown no adverse side effects.

Copyright © Tom Long 2009

The fall season for orchids is an important one. It is one where a great number of the orchid plants need care as well as the change in the basic requirements. Most orchids use this season as a “rest period” to get ready to produce blooms in the winter or spring.

From the summer season to the fall there is a less a requirement for water as the temperature decreases. You will need to monitor this closely. Don’t forget it you see wrinkling on the leaves this means that you need more H2O.

As a general rule this time of the year requires the use of an orchid fertilizer richer in phosphorous is needed to boost the bloom potential. This means that there is higher percentage in nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium in the fertilizer mixture. As you use fertilizer on the orchid plants use it as half strength and generally once a week.

I like to fertilizer after I have watered the plant. Once again be sure that you allow the water and fertilizer to run out of the pot. Leaving water and fertilizer in the pot allows root rot to destroy the orchid - very quickly.

The temperature is also getting cooler in most parts of the country during the fall. So if you have plants outdoors you may start to think about getting them indoors. Most orchids can do well in with temps in the 50’s and few do ok into the forties. I like to suggest that your plants come inside when the night temps are in the mid fifties.

Now let’s get to some specifics for some of the different genera. For cattleyas there growth rate will tend to slow as the fall progresses. The sheaths on the catts will show some changes indicative of blooming over the next six months. Don’t forget the fertilizer and watering. These plants do well in bright lighting.

Also, if you are bringing your orchid indoors from being outside check carefully for any pests that may be clinging to the plant.

Cymbidiums may start blooming in the fall and they need to be in shaded cool areas. Cyms have a genetically based warmth tolerance but for the best blooms they need an area that is shaded and somewhat cooler. The spikes with the flowers, called inflorescence, needs to be staked to prevent the heavy flowers from weighting down the spike.

Phalaenopsis are just starting to go through the next stage to ready for blooms in the late winter and spring. They need the cool difference in daytime and nighttime temps. It is recommended that there be about a 10 - 15 degree Fahrenheit difference.

Phalaenopsis also need to be watered and fertilized less often during this first few months of fall. They are resting. It would helpful to give them a fertilizer with a higher phosphorous percentage to help boost the blossom potential. This fertilizer is also called “blossom booster”.

Dendrobiums also need a “blossom booster” as well at this time of the year. Remember their flowers are usually plentiful and grow toward the top of the spike making them top heavy. Use a stake to help hold them erect and be sure that the pot is heavy enough to keep itself upright.

The green leaved Paphs are also getting ready to have flowers. The shafts are displaying the spikes. Be careful with these orchids as a sudden heat spell will prove disasterous to the new blooms. Keep them in a cooler area and with good air circulation.

Paphs don’t like to get dry so be careful with watering. If you were watering twice a week try cutting down to once. But while doing this test your medium with the dry tip of a pencil. Stick it down about an inch or two into the pot, if the tip comes out wet your fine.

This should help you to have great orchids both in the fall season and beyond.

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Fall is a great time for fishing in East Texas. As the nights get longer and the days get cooler the water temperature in the lakes starts to drop. When this happens, the bass start to move up into shallower waters so they can fatten up for the winter. This fall feeding frenzy makes for some excellent bass fishing and a great opportunity for you and your family to catch a lot of fish.

A lot of the younger bass will start schooling and feeding on shad just out from the brush lines in some of the creek channels on Lake Livingston in Polk County. These creeks will typically range in depths of about 10 to 20 foot of water. Schooling bass are fun to catch using a silver spoon or a chrome rattletrap. Just throw out into the middle of the school and hang on. These are not going to be big bass but because of the numbers they will be fun.

If you are fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn in Jasper County you will find these schooling bass just outside of grass beds off of underwater points also in about 10-20 foot of water. These are usually very aggressive bass, so catching them does not require a lot of finesse. Another tactic for finding bass on the move is to find some deep water grass in about 15-20 feet and swim a soft plastic worm with a light weight sinker or slow roll a spinnerbait.

If you’re fishing for some of the larger bass, move up into the brush and start fishing with soft plastics in about 3 to 10 feet of water. You also can catch these fish using a spinner bait. Here’s a little tip I learned a long time ago. If the sky is clear then use a spinner bait with a silver blade and a white skirt, but if it’s an overcast day then use a gold or copper colored blade on your spinner bait with a chartreuse skirt. I know this sounds simple, but it really works.

Fall fishing can be a great time to catch some good quality bass. So don’t waste the opportunity, take your son or your daughter with you, take the whole family, and get on the lake and see how much fun it is to catch bass in the fall, because fall fishing can be some of the best fishing of the entire year in our East Texas lakes.

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One of the biggest and warmest holidays of the United States, Thanksgiving has its history and origin way back in centuries. There are various instances of thanksgiving observances in history, all of which bear resemblance to the modern celebrations of Thanksgiving; but the generally accepted and circulated view is that the modern day American Thanksgiving has its origin in 1621, when the Pilgrims, or the English settlers and the Native Americans celebrated a three-day long feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts. But quite contrary to this popular belief, the Pilgrims were never the first to have a Thanksgiving feast. Feasts celebrating a good harvest existed well before the Pilgrims or the settlers arrived. Nevertheless, it’s true that these Pilgrims held a Thanksgiving feast (more aptly, a feast to say ‘thanks’) in the first year of their survival in America

Following this Pilgrim’s 1621 Thanksgiving observance, began the Thanksgiving tradition of holding feasts after a good harvest. People usually celebrate Thanksgiving to mark the Autumn harvest and make merry in the plentiful yield. There is, however, a long tradition of celebrating the harvest throughout history. It might interest you to know that even the ancient Greeks and Romans had their respective harvest celebrations with music, parades and feasts quite like today’s Thanksgiving celebrations. People in ancient China also had their harvest festival with families feasting together on ‘moon cakes’ (round yellowish cakes). This was to celebrate the full moon and, as a matter of fact, the Chinese still celebrate this as their Moon Festival with much hype and hoopla ! Then again, there’s the harvest festival of the Jews. The Jewish harvest fest, Sukkot, is celebrated for eight days and is an occasion to catch up with the family on feasts and to be thankful for a good year. The British Isles too has a harvest festival called the Lammas, which marks the beginning of the harvest season.

Now, whatever the history and origin, Thanksgiving today is primarily a day set aside in the most part of North America to show gratitude and be thankful to God. Feasts and family reunions are a regular trend for Thanksgiving in North America. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November every year. But in Canada, the harvest season ends a little earlier in the year. Hence in Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The Canadians have a three-day long Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday is not as significantly hyped here as in the United States. The Canadians also do not get enough time for a convenient homecoming. So they reserve the family reunions for the Christmas holiday.

The Thanksgiving holiday has serious religious shades for the Roman Catholic Quebecers, who call it l’Action de Grâce. Thanksgiving has a long-standing history in Europe; it is associated with the harvest festivals held there.

So then, as you see, celebrating harvest is quite old. And so is the thanksgiving act–to thank the Almighty for all the good things He has given us ! And all these harvest festivities, although having cultural differences, are common in spirit to the modern American Thanksgiving.

Sean Carter writes on holidays, thanksgiving and celebrations around the world. He also writes on family, relationships,womens issues birthdays, inspiration, religion, love and friendship. He is a writer with special interest in ecard industry. He writes for 123greetings.com