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Definitely pick a venue first! You might be surprised at how much easier it is to choose colors that will work with a venue's appearance than starting from scratch.

I have always wanted something different, and always wanted my bridesmaids to wear different colors.  That has evolved into my BMs all wearing black, and each one carrying a different color flower, and possibly wearing a different color shawl.

If you've has a color in mind forever, then I say go with it.  Otherwise, I think considering the venue would be a great help in determining color.

it took me FOREVER to come up with my colors. I knew what I wanted, but I kept second guessing myself. I finally came up with chocolate and pink because those are the ones that I originally thought of. Go with your gut!

Ours definitely evolved, starting with blue and brown, which fell into place when we purchased supplies for our DIY invites.  As we were thinking about centerpieces, we decided on low bowls stacked with lemons.  To add a little texture, we experimented with adding small flowers.  The fuscia flowers were a beautiful contrast to the yellow of the lemons.   From there, everything else fell into place.

It was helpful to start with a base shade and let things take shape.  That way, if you change directions, your colors can change with you. :)

We didn't really end up picking just two or three colors - definitely started out that way, but then as everything evolved, I didn't like having so many things be so matchy, and we decided, hey we'll just do stuff the way we like it.  So now I feel like it's a little more of a range, cranberry with some browns/yellows, mostly.  It's working out well for us because I don't feel as much pressure about a color scheme and my FI didn't really see the point of making things revolve around a couple specific colors. 

Well, for us a lot of it had to do with location. We're getting married outdoors surrounded by trees so I wanted something that would look nice with that. I also wanted something that was easy to match because I planned to tell my bridesmaids to pick any dress that color, so different shades of it had to match. At first my FI wanted green, but that would have been too hard to match :-P, so we ended up deciding on brown as the main color. We were considering doing red or green or yellow accents, but when we decided on sunflowers for our main flower, that kind of settled it as a brown and yellow theme (my dress is ivory). So it was kind of a process as we decided on different details.

I've known since before I was engaged (not sure exactly when) that I wanted my main color to be red and I automatically paired white with it. Then we wanted to add another tropical color to the reception so we picked orange.

Our colors were green and orange for about a week, then we booked our venue, and it was too formal-looking for such a vibrant color scheme.  My fav color is grey, so we started with that.  Then FMIL asked if FI's niece could be the FG, and FI wanted her to wear pink.  So we have grey and pink.  The grey will be dark, like pewter.  To contrast, the pink will be very light, almost cream.  Our venue really helped us with our color scheme.