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Hey everyone! Just as wedding planning was going soooo smoothly, we just got thrown a big wrench.

Apparently, according to Cantonese (HK specifically?) tradition, it is a bad omen to receive a blue wedding invitation. It's suppose to be unlucky for the guest to receive it and unlucky for the couple sending it.

Well, we already cleared it with our parents that we are having a completely western wedding (no tea ceremony, no qipao, no red double happiness signs). And our colors are sky blue, navy blue and tangerine orange for a summer wedding and we have paid the deposits on the invitations, cake, and bridesmaid dresses.

My FMIL is adamant that we change the color of the invitations to any color other than blue (her suggestion green and gold).

Has anyone heard of this tradition? My Taiwanese parents have never heard of it and it would be a big hassle to change the whole color scheme.

 Any advice in how to deal with this situation is greatly appreciated!

Could you make the bulk of the invitation orange (like your pocketfolds, if you are using them, main backing panel, etc.) with blue accents (printing, ribbon, etc.)? Maybe check with your FMIL about whether it's ok that the accents are blue, but the bulk of it is not. (If you care that much about observing the tradition). Deciding on colors was such a big deal for me, not to mention the hassle and cost of having to change bm dresses, etc., it would be really hard for me to change.

On the other hand, there's also something to be said about invitations not having to be totally matchy-matchy with your theme. If you send out a neutral kind of invitation, you can still keep your color theme for the main event. Paper and stationery are really important to me and other paper-loving/detail oriented/bride-to-be types, but I think a lot of guests don't really give it much thought.   Good luck! 

Thanks guys for the advice!

 mrsrothberg, we are definitely considering changing the colors to make peace and taking some of your advice, I am researching how orange would work with letterpress.

We're using Tara from Epherema Press and she has been great. She is even going to send us some samples of her work using orange ink in letterpress.

Hopefully, we can keep the rest of the wedding the same!

Haha our invites were blue and white but luckily no one in my husband's Cantonese family objected (or at least they didn't say anything)  I agree with the other suggestions just to try to make it a little LESS blue to try to appease people but not mess with your color scheme too much.  Good luck!!!