What Earrings to Wear as an Autumn Wedding Guest
Autumn weddings are some of the loveliest to dress for. Richer colours come back into our wardrobes, fabrics become a little more luxurious and suddenly deep greens, berry tones, chocolate browns and warm neutrals feel completely at home.
But once you've found the dress, there is always the next question: what jewellery do you wear with it?
The right wedding guest earrings can completely change an outfit. They can introduce colour to something simple, bring together the different tones in your look or become the statement piece that means you need very little other jewellery.
For an autumn wedding, this is the perfect excuse to move away from safe neutrals and embrace a little more colour.
Choose your earrings after your outfit
It sounds obvious, but don't try to match everything exactly.
If you're wearing a green dress, you don't necessarily need green earrings. And if your outfit is burgundy, your jewellery doesn't have to be burgundy too.
Instead, look at the overall colour palette.
An autumn outfit in chocolate brown can look beautiful with teal. Burgundy works surprisingly well with deep green. Cream and camel give you the freedom to introduce almost any richer colour through your accessories.
Think complementary rather than matching.
Teal earrings for rich autumn colours
Teal is one of those colours that feels particularly good once autumn arrives. It has enough depth to work with the season without becoming dark or predictable.
Our Tamy Teal earrings combine deep teal with berry tones and small touches of gold, making them particularly easy to style with autumn wedding guest outfits.
They would work beautifully with:
- Burgundy and wine
- Chocolate brown
- Navy
- Forest green
- Camel
- Cream and champagne
They're also a good option if your dress is relatively simple. Rather than adding a necklace, statement flower earrings can become the main detail of the outfit.
Brown doesn't have to mean boring
Brown has made a proper return to our wardrobes, and for an autumn wedding it can look incredibly sophisticated.
The Tamy Brown earrings use earthy green, brown and neutral tones with gold detailing. The floral shape keeps them playful, while the deeper palette makes them easy to wear with autumn fabrics and colours.
Try them with an olive or sage dress, a cream trouser suit, chocolate satin, rust, burnt orange or even a simple black outfit.
If you're wearing several neutrals, this is also where statement earrings really earn their place. They add interest without requiring another bright colour in the outfit.
Berry tones are an easy way to introduce colour
Not every wedding guest wants large floral earrings.
If your outfit already has a pattern, an interesting neckline or plenty going on, a simpler shape can work better.
The Sheila Raspberry earrings are a good alternative. The raspberry and plum tones introduce colour, while the circular design and gold detail make them easier to combine with a busier outfit.
They're particularly lovely with:
- Navy
- Burgundy
- Plum
- Grey
- Cream
- Chocolate
- Soft pink
They're also an easy way to take a fairly simple dress and make it feel much more considered.
What earrings should you wear with a patterned wedding guest dress?
This is where I'd simplify.
If your dress has a strong floral print or several colours, pick one secondary colour from the print and use your earrings to bring that colour out.
You don't need the earrings to contain every colour in your dress.
Alternatively, choose earrings with a simpler silhouette and let the dress do most of the talking.
The aim isn't for every part of the outfit to compete for attention.
Can you wear statement earrings and a necklace together?
This is where I'd simplify.
If your dress has a strong floral print or several colours, pick one secondary colour from the print and use your earrings to bring that colour out.
You don't need the earrings to contain every colour in your dress.
Alternatively, choose earrings with a simpler silhouette and let the dress do most of the talking.
The aim isn't for every part of the outfit to compete for attention.
Think about your hairstyle too
Your hairstyle makes more difference than you might expect.
An updo, low bun or hair tucked behind the ears gives statement earrings plenty of space and can make even a simple outfit feel more polished.
If you're wearing your hair down, choose earrings with enough colour, shape or size that they don't disappear completely behind your hair.
This is particularly useful with autumn weddings, when dresses often have higher necklines, sleeves and heavier fabrics.
The best wedding guest earrings are the ones you'll wear again
Wedding jewellery doesn't need to be wedding jewellery.
Unless you're specifically looking for something very formal, I'd choose earrings you can imagine wearing again with a linen shirt, a simple dress, a dinner outfit or even jeans.
That's one of the reasons we love colour at Ziolla Designs. A statement earring can make an occasion outfit feel special without becoming something that lives in a jewellery box for the rest of the year.
Our AW26 collection was designed around richer seasonal colours that still work beyond one outfit or occasion.
