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Our location and FI had a lot to do with my color choice. With an ocean reception, we decided to inspire the theme/colors from the beach. We came up with navy, a medium (not royal or teal) blue and tan, white and silver as neutrals. Think mussel shells in the sand and you've got all of our colors. FI requested no pink (my go to color) from the begining so I had to think outside the pink, coral pallette I naturally gravitate to. My best friend is getting married 6 months before us and she just bought our fucia BM dresses so I will get my pink fiy through her wedding and am quite pleased with my blues.
You could do different shades of purple with a blue or green accent and I think it would be really cool. If you keep coming back to purple and it's your favorite color, then do it! There's nothing wrong with purple, go for it! I've seen a lot of really pretty schemes with gray lately, how gorgeous would that be with a rich plum next to it?
I had a ton of colors in mind at first... like nine colors... but I just kept narrowing it down to my favorites, I had it down to two shades of teal, chartruese (a light bright green but not lime), and black... which is very doable, but when I went to design the invites they came out teal, lighter teal, and green. I ended up being so happy with those three colors that I kinda dropped black. So now the only black will be the BM Dresses, some of the ribbon on the cake, and there will be some in the signs at the reception. I just like the softness of the graphics when they're in the lighter teal versus the bold of the graphics when they're in black.
Lol I have changed my colors like 4 times and am still not 100% sure!!! At one point purple was one of my colors too, with a deep emerald green.
i didn't know how to pick my colors (i'm a blue everything girl usually) so i went to the florist. i went with what was in season, and the sort of flowers they could get in my budget. turns out i can have my fav flowers (sunflowers and gerber daisies) so i went with bright cheery yellows and oranges, even though it's technically a fall wedding. when we got to invites, we realized that yellow and orange didn't stand out well on off-shite paper (i didn't want stark white), so we added brown to the palette. we picked brown over black since both are easy to read but the venue comes with chocolate brown table clothes and chairs. so i guess along the way, yellow and orange morphed into orange and brown with yellow touches.
i found that going with flowers and venue helped because i was working with what already there.
I love purple too! I was afraid of having too much purple, so all my main pieces were purple but I added other colors too. Whites, blues and pinks. I was very happy with the way things turned out. Here is a link to my album if you'd like some inspiration:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=z8hxxw1.37moxs25&x=0&y=-a5b44d&localeid=en_US
I picked mine because I have green eyes and when there is green around my eyes look more green. I thought that would make me look better in the pictures. If we had not have gone with green, we would have gone with blue which is my FI eye color. Our venue is really neutral so we could do any color.
I say go with what you love and you will find things along the way to tie everything together.
I went with black, white and apple green since I thought black dresses would be easiest for the girls (I didn't mandate bridesmaid dresses, just anything cocktail or formal which was black). The apple green is a favorite color of mine, and my fiance didn't want anything too "girly". Around the time we were deciding we stayed at the Allerton Hotel in Chicago which has a great Art Deco lobby which is black, white, grey and lots of big silver bowls with green apples - the decor looked glam & fabulous and the decision was made!
I've gone back and forth on my colors so many times and thought that if I did my wedding in my favorite color (pink) that it would be too cliche and overdone. I considered purple, green, light yellow & aqua...the list goes on and on. But in the end, I kept coming back to wanting peonies in my bouquet. Specifically, pink peonies. So, we're going to be having a mostly black and white wedding with accents of pink (and peonies, of course!)
I think you should go with what you love!
what about purple & grey? I am doing pink (a variety of shades) and grey. i was leaning towards purple & grey , but pink is my favorite color, and even though i do everything pink, i wanted my wedding to be pink too!! so i say go with what your favorite colors are, and what also fits the season. mine is in spring, so pink is perfect!
We visited a home improvement store and "played" with the paint color cards. I was envisioning bright colors, but more "late summer" hues -- like a gorgeous sunset. Green is my favorite color, but we're only using light/lime green as an accent shade.
I started with a color I knew I wanted in my flowers (orange) and then we went to Lowes and picked out a few oranges we liked and then took those and played with other color combos using paint chips.
We ended up with blue and orange and haven't waivered since. Plus now I carry those paint chips in my purse in case I ever need to compare the colors we choose to some decor item, bridesmaid dress, etc.
The Fi & I still haven't picked colours, we've definitely talked about them a lot, but we haven't settled on anything yet.
Things that are factored in our decision:
-season[summer/fall]
-people in the wedding party [multi-colored celebration here], we're trying to settle on something that everyone will be complimented by
-personal preferences [the groom doesn't want anything too girly i.e.:pink].
I am so happy to come across this post, as I am struggling with our wedding colors, too! At first I thought black, white and green, but now a friend of mine is using that color palette (and they are getting married before us!) so I don't want it to look the same (even though I picked that palette first...oh well). I am visiting my venue this week to snap some more pics and "remember" what it looks like, and I think that will help me decide. Thanks for the great tips here, ladies! :)
OOOh Slicey this is for YOU!
How about this for a bouquet?
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My colors are ones I wanted all along for years! When I married my xh, I wanted our bridesmaids to wear the little black dress, something very Audrey Hepburn looking and classic. My ex mother in law said it wa BAD LUCK and she steered me (was a domineering woman) towards a color I didn't really like.
Now I'm just doing what would look great and reflect the colors found around nature and in the sunset! We're having a shimmery aqua color (water and sky) and various hues of pink, (pale to bright) and black for the accent color.
YES the bridesmaids will wear the LBD!
I stalked friends' weddings and magazine and pulled out things I liked without filtering things that matched etc. After a few weeks and months of doing that I had a serious theme and color scheme going on, and I hadn't even realized it!
Also, I found the Snippet and Ink blog, and that solidified the scheme and colors for me!
Our colors our LAVENDER and BEIGE. Lavender is my favorite color and we chose beige because of our location (Aruba) -sand you know! So yes it was part favorite color and location!
Yes, add me to the list of brides who have changed colour schemes umpteenth times. I think I've (I say 'I' because FI couldn't careless about colours) settled on chocolate brown and gold. The main criteria I used is to pick a colour which will suite the majority of the BMs. I said to heck with sticking to colours which are in season and just went with something I liked.
Then again, I may change my mind again...
My FI said no to my first two color palates - I wanted that pinky-purple orchid color, he said it was too girly. So I added a yellow and orange found naturally together in color varieties of mokara orchids, but he still thought it was too girly.
I stewed over it and was just in such a bad mood until I remembered a favorite picture of a peacock named Pierre I had taken a few years ago at a winery in Seattle.
We've settled on the colbalt blue of the body, and the lime green of the tail feathers and the whole thing is coming together perfectly! (including my BM's idea for our signature cocktail: a peacocktini made with blue curcaco and garnished with a lime) (BTW...I cannot seem to get the picture to post in the body of this email! Sorry!)
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We (FI and I) talked about our colors a LOT. I knew I wanted sapphire blue, because my e-ring is a sapphire. We just kept talking about it and working at it from there. We ended up going with cobalt blue and green with accents of silver and yellow. I mainly chose yellow because I think yellow flowers are so pretty and there aren't a TON of blue flower choices.
Part of my color choice was dictated by the venue.. I wanted colors that wouldn't blend in with a garden, so green was out. I also loved pink, but FI wanted something a little less girly, and apparently purple was okay! Then I just looked around on different snippet and ink boards and found that I really loved the soft romantic feel that purple and grey had.. so those are our colors :-)
I pink two my favorite color combos.
It was going to be pink and brown for a winter wedding or pink and green for a summer. I did summer becasue that season best fits my personality.
I picked mine because of the time, January 9th, and the theme, a Fairytale. So it kinda worked out to be light blue and silver with white accents. I love it!! It's perfect. I did change it a few times. When you find your colors you'll know right away.
Check out my blog, http://januaryfairytale.blogspot.com/ You might get some ideas from me or from the people I follow. They are really creative!
My venue and date were the two biggest contributing factor... an outdoor gardeny wedding called for light, fun colors imo. Plus, my colors are one of my favorite color combinations!
Oh man, I'm a waffler too! I KNOW I want chocolate brown (the guys' suits will be brown) for SURE, and but keep going back and forth and a little bit all over the place with the other colors... I love a bright teal-y blue with avocado green, but I also love a dark, heavy red with a bright cheery orange, or else varying shades of purple (from dark calla lilies to pale lavendar), OH and I love the idea of doing all shades of cream and brown and draping everything in lace, with bright blue or pink accents throughout.... yeah. I'm obviously not decided yet, haha.
Of course, we don't have a date or location yet... We're leaning towards a winter wedding, which makes me sad, and I feel like a lot of my color combos are a lot more fall or spring friendly... not sure what do make of that. :) I'm hoping to stumble upon dresses that I fall in love with for my BMs and just use those for color inspiration, haha. Is that lazy of me?
Mine just sort of came to me in an inspiration about a week after we got engaged. Beforehand, I was toying with a cream, turquiose and navy color combo and then thought about grey and coral but finally hit upon cornflower blue and butter yellow, which felt perfect for an outdoor, early summer wedding and FH and I both love blue and have blue eyes...Yellow is a great compliment to blue and easy to do with flowers! So there ya go, yellow and blue are our colors...
We having a fall wedding in 2010. My colors are aubergine (eggplant purple), burnt orange and toffee. I wanted colors that would go with the colors for that season. So that's what I chose.
I went with my favorite ever!!: PURPLE hehe, and Mr. Poodle's favorite: Green :) - I never follow any directions when it comes to color dressing according to season, so I guess we'll be doing the same thing with our wedding colors hehe
I'm basing my wedding color ideas on the facts that I want a spring wedding w/ outdoor reception, and I refuse to be one of those bridezillas who insists on having everything wedding-related in the same exact shade of rose or lavender. I can't stand matchy-matchy stuff.
Sooo...my wedding colors are loosely going to be green and gold. With sherbet colors (cream, pale orange) and blue-purple accents mixed in there as well. So I'm looking at having many shades of cool colors, with warm golden accent colors for contrast! Mmmmmm. Love it.
I didn't really base mine on the season or anything - my favorite color is gray, and I've really been liking yellow alot lately too. Once I started stalking wedding blogs and seeing all the yellow and gray inspiration I knew those had to be my colors!!
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I am having a hard time picking a color/colors. I love purple but I do everything purple. I am not tired of it, but I thought I would try and jazz up my wedding. In the end, I am still thinking purple. Did you pick your colors because they're your favorite color? Or the season of your wedding? Or the location?