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    afoss    July 17, 2010  

    Im having a black and ivory wedding. My reception is going to have polka dot chair covers. Im having a hard time choosing an accent....originally I thought red....but it was too Christmasy for me, and now Im thinking champagne...any thoughts??

     
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    scissors    June 19, 2010   Atlanta, Ga

    When is the wedding? And at what time?

     
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    justthemaidofhonor    n/a   Coral Springs, Florida

    yellow, orange and red are great colors with black and white...............to be funky a lime green?

     
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    scissors    June 19, 2010   Atlanta, Ga

    blue also looks great

     
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    dachshund    May 22, 2010   Fresno, CA

    The great thing about black and white is that you can throw any accent color in and it'll be a pretty color palette! 

    I love black and white with canary yellow, teal, and grassy green.  Purple looks really pretty with black, too!

     
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    scissors    June 19, 2010   Atlanta, Ga

    Oh duh, I forgot, our wedding colors are black, white, mustard, and blues.

    Example- our wedding website. lol

    http://iloveyoumuch.com/

     

    I'm braindead right now. :p

     
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    dachshund    May 22, 2010   Fresno, CA

    Those are the colors of my living room : )  

     
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    jaylii9    September 5, 2010  

    I have a friend who is having a black and white wedding. Their accent color is light yellow. They plan to use yellow roses for flowers etc...

     
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    OttawaBride2011    May 21, 2011   Ottawa, Ontario

    how about teal? or hot pink?

     
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    Bella Luna    September 5, 2010   Ohio

    Our colors are black, white, and garnet (a darker red). :)

     
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    bellenga    July 31, 2010   Georgia

    How about a coral/pinky color?  That would be gorgeous.

     
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    beagle    October 24, 2009  

    A pink or blue?  Yellow might clash with the ivory depending on how much of it you are going to be using.  Do you have a theme yet?

     
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    beagle    October 24, 2009  

    I just read that you were thinking about champagne- that would be pretty too!

     
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    cobalt    4/10/10  

    We are doing black/white and cobalt blue..

     

     
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    hcritton    09/06/09   Seattle, WA

    I'm a fan of red personally. I don't think it would look Christmasy with polka dots and things like that. You pretty much can't go wrong with b&w though so you could pick anything and I think it would look great.

     
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    msmonicka    June 19, 2010   Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Actually red is a great accent color to black and white or black and ivory.  I'm having a apple red with black and white damask wedding here are pics of my flower girl basket and ring pillow I just made earlier this week.

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    pmerr    August 14, 2010   Rochester, NY

    depends on the season & if you want to match the season/holiday. it depends on your preference too. I like pinks, yellows, blues, purple-almost any color. I would go with a pop of color-not champagne-personally

     
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    afoss    July 17, 2010  

    My wedding is July 17 2010. There really isnt a theme...although the reception has polka dots ( seat covers, candy buffet, etc) I am looking for one color to make things pop but still look chich for the ceremony and fun at the reception. The invitations I have designed have a sating ribbon around them and Im trying to choose one main accent color for that purpose alone as well as everything else....I LOVE red, which is what we were originally using until we went to the florist and I thought things looked wintery....

     
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    gamblina    October 29, 2010  

    i'm doing fushia as an accent, but i'm also a big fan of apple green! with black and white the options are really endless...

     
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    DRibeiro13       Charleston,SC

    I have seen some black white and lime green weddings that have been GORGEOUS!!!

     
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    ErinOFabrizio    08/01/09   Chicago

    Our attendants wore black (tuxes and dresses) and the ties we picked out for the guys were each a different color.  Then we coordinated the bridesmaids' bouquet ribbons to match their opposite guy's tie.  It looked really neat when they walked up the aisle together.  We died the reception in the same colors and got a lot of compliments.  I do NOT think that three is the limit when it comes to wedding colors!

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    littlemissmoo    July 18, 2010   London, UK

    What about a coral - it's a bit more pinky so it wouldn't remind you of Christmas so much, but you can get lovely deep corals just a couple shades pinker than your normal red :)

     
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    afoss    July 17, 2010  

    My venue is at a country club and it has sort of a rustic style to it. Im trying to make things as cohesive as possible with the colors, black and ivory as well as the polka dots.

     
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    mrskesslertobe    September 18, 2010  

    We are doing black and ivory also. Our accent color is eggplant/dark purple.

     
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    stephinPA    October 29, 2010   Reading, PA

    Someone above said lime green - LOVE IT!  OR what about a bright blue?

     
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    AliOopsieDaisy    July 2010  

    I am having black and white with a really like green sage color as the accent. Looks very pretty- very natural (our wedding is at a vineyard so this worked well!).

     

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