Here's a cake that we decorated with fall materials - chestnuts, mums, cranberries, roses (whole blooms and petals), boxwood and rosemary.

The Bride gave us "carte blanche" which allowed us flexibility to take advantage of some fresh and local materials. They all fit into her desired colour scheme.

Another reason why this idea works well is that the size of the cake table is not so important to the overall presentation - by having smaller-sized and a wide variety of fall materials, we simply placed the items according to the edge of the table.