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Girl please.. I am not matchy at all. I am in real life eclectic and quirky (my wedding bands will be yellow gold while my engagement ring is a blue stone in white gold). I definitely don't think that anyone will notice this except you to be honest with you...
I am not into everything being super matchy but I do want some form of uniformity. For example my girls will all wear the same inifity dress but they can do the top however they like it (unless I HATE it... but I doubt that will happen. lol). I know I will want to minimize the different shades of teal but I think slight variences not only go unnoticed but can provide some level of depth do your decor.
I pretty much didn't care. I purposely didn't want everything to be matchy matchy. I wanted different shades of blues and aquas and teals. Below you can barely tell the turquoise napkin poms and the teal chair sashes are different, IMO of course. Below the calla you can see my more greenish looking table number. Nothingmatches. The linens are white, but that calla lily is cream.
And in this photo, our GMs are actually wearing 2 different suits. One is pinstripe and one is not. No one ever noticed.
Not at all careful! My venue was quirky and full of many colors--one room was mostly red, and the other was pink and green. I did not try to match anything to the venue.
I'm not worrying about it too much. I feel like, for example, your dress and the table clothes are going to be completely different fabrics, so even if they're the same exact shade, differences in weave/sheen/etc is going to make them different looking.
We didn't even choose colors!
We're of the opinion that the two of us are people, not a brand.
I picked my venue because it is very neutral in color. My girls are wearing pink so when I saw places with a red carpet I walked out. Maybe I'm a nut (probably is more like it) but I noticed it and I knew it would bother me the day of the wedding if I went with it.
I'd like to add that while I usually do not care if things are matchy-matchy at all, one thing does stick out and bother me at weddings: when everyone matches but one person. Such as when three bridesmaids have the same dress but the fourth has a different one, or three groomsmen have black suits and the fourth has a gray suit. In those situations, I always assume that everyone was supposed to match and wonder what went wrong!
I wouldnt worry about it too much. But i did like to have things "matchy matchy" as I feel it adds a little more flow and into the theme of things.
I kept my colours neutral for that reason. We did brown green and ivory, with bits of purple. All the green didnt match (they were different greens) and the purples were different as well...but it still added some flow (atleast i though) :)
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I don't think it matters at all. I doubt anyone would tell you you have to get ivory table linens, and if they did, i'd this they were crazy.
i'm not worried about matching at all! i'm of the belief that similar colors will blend together enough that most people won't notice a difference, especially since i'm using a lot of blue flowers and the shade of those can be kind of a crap-shoot.
I wasn't matchy-matchy - but I didn't throw a ton of different color around. I used silver as a base color and then worked around it. I gave my florist carte blanche - and he used jewel tons (lots of dark blues, pinks) and it all worked out magically. I did ivory linens and olive table runners... it all was perfect. No one really remembers linens - unless they are a ghastly contrast.
Not matchy matchy at all--I started driving myself crazy just trying to get everything to match. I got to a point where I realized that I should just go with my gut and use the colors I liked!
I am trying to stick with the same basic colors but I think that having some variety within the color family adds a little interest. That being said I have gone to weddings that are completley matched (down to the same single type of flower and dyed shoes) and they looked beautiful as well. I think it comes down to what you two like and waht you think is the most "you" are you a matchy person in your day to day life? Are you mroe elecletic? Also think about the venue that you pick and the "feeling" of that space. Thia is something where I don't think there is a right ro wrong just what is good for you. :)
Not matchy at all. i'm not even sure why people feel the need to match their clothes to their linens and decor...
I am guilty, Matchy Matchy I am..chocolate and ivory are our colors. The only extra color is the creme de la creme roses with peach tint for the reception centerpieces.
My default color is life is green, hence somethings will match. I am not asking anybody in my informal bridal party to match, nor did it occur to me to match my linens with my dress (although my default white is usually off-white.
Our colors are periwinkle (blues/purples) and lime green. I'm pretty loose on what I consider periwinkle, so our colors are definitely not matchy at all. It is more of a color family kind of thing.
*Side Note* I just asked my FI another way to say "color family" and his answer was "badass". Hmmm, not helpful. Hahahaha.
My self-done inspiration board with pics of the venue (ceremony and reception)... I highly doubt ANYTHING will match anything else.
@Baileyh: That is one of the most gorgeous weddings I've seen. Your different shades of green work so well together. I hope you don't mind--I PM'd you about some of your jars; I want to know how to make similar ones :-)
Thank you all for your encouraging advice and experience. It really is a matter of our personal taste, and as long as the contrasts aren't "ghastly" (love that word), it really will all come out lovely.
@bride123 Thank you!! I got your message as well and responded!! hope that helps! :)
We wanted our wedding dresses to look like they were meant to go together (although they were not identical), but we really didn't worry about any other matching. Our dresses and our linens were theoretically both ivory. However, the ivory was not even exactly the same among all the linens, and none of the linens were the exact color of our dresses. We still ended up legally married. ;-)
I'm not trying to be too matchy-matchy, but I am keeping with a theme: white with accents of green and black (black bc my BMs are wearing different styles of black cocktail dresses). I'm not trying to match the venue walls because they are sort of three or four colors that I normally wouldn't put together. I am however going to try and tie in the cast-iron lights fixtures with cast-iron type candle holders. The greens will probably be different shades: flowers stems, ribbon, table accents/linen (e.g. green lace over the white table linens), cake frosting, etc.
I'm not matchy-matchy at all! All of my BMs are wearing different dresses in different colours. I refused to pick a colour scheme so we have a little bit of everything!
Too much of a headache to match that much! I tried to get complimenting shades of blue and cream but I had no problem with an ivory dress and white linens.
@bride123: What time of day is your reception? If it is an evening reception, you don't really have to worry about the walls if you dim the lights or have uplighting. Also, your dress color definitely doesn't have to match your linen color. Most guests don't notice these things :)
I personally like it when there's continuity between the ceremony and reception (same colors, same/similar flowers, etc.), but I've also gone to weddings where the ceremony and reception were like polar opposites style/color-wise and those were fun too.
Honestly, it's your wedding, you should do whatever you want... if anyone makes comments about anything, then tell them to have their own wedding ;)
Ours wasn't matchy. linens were white; my dress ivory
girls: dusty rose and magenta
guys black and silver
centerpieces and cake
second on the cake topper story and also I think different shades of the same basic colors looks nice. My cake place asked for a swatch of my bridesmaids' dresses and I was like um...so, they're royal blue, whatever your royal blue is is ok by me.
@daydreamwanderer: yes, our names are Eva and Adam so our theme was Garden of Eden. my brother and SIL gifted us our custom cake topper. but i knew from the begginning that i wanted a mauve-y color for the girls and the rest just worked out that way for different reasons. i think it all came together nicely.
I wasn't super matchy matchy. My venue was a garden and it just had whatever colour flowers happened to be planted, and then my venue had beige walls and mostly windows. I wore an ivory dress with white table linens, and groomsmen shirts (gasp!), and the groom wore poppy RED, navy and yellow. Bridesmaid's dresses were grey, and flowers were white and green.
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How careful were you about "matching" your dress, flowers and other decor to your venue? i.e. I have buttery-cream walls; what colour linens should I choose? If I have white linens, can I have an ivory dress? Does it even matter in the end? And on and on and on...
If anyone has pictures to share, that would be great, too!