MemberI’m posting this from my phone, so I’m going to be brief. I can add details later, but my main question is how on earth do you go about choosing wedding colors?
MemberDon’t make it more complicated than it needs to be. Are you having a theme? If so, look at your theme and see what colors are most common. If you don’t have a theme, talk with your Fiance and write down your top five favorite colors. Go over those colors, see what you both like best and what you think looks good together. Finally, take a look at your venue. Perhaps it lends itself well to specific colors.
It doesn’t have to be absolutely set in stone either or something super particular. We’ve been planning since last October and just a couple months ago decided to add pink to our colors!
MemberThink about:
OR – ignore all of that and pick your favourite colour haha.
I chose a pinky/purple orchid (because it’s my favourite colour and Darling Husband liked it too) with hints of red and silver. I love colour and for me, the colours defined our whole wedding. Orchids and red roses were in season, the colours suited our venue and bridal party and I was shooting for a fun and modern summer wedding.
My colours might not have worked for a formal wedding or if I had a blush dress. It was also very hard to find the specific shade of orchid for the bridesmaids dresses (we got very lucky) so the availability of dresses/fabrics/centerpieces might be a consideration when choosing your colours too.
Just my two cents 🙂
MemberI suggest thinking of colors you like and searching on Pinterest and doing Google image searches to narrow it down. (Eg “green wedding” as search term). Just browse, see what other people have done, and you’ll start getting an idea of what you like. Other things to look into are what flowers you like (and what colors they come in, as well as what seasons they’re available) and what colors go with your venue(s) and theme (if any). But Pinterest is a great place to start especially if you’re completely at a loss.
MemberConsider the other factors mentioned above, then choose at least one color. There are websites that can help you with choosing your other colors to complete your palette.
http://www.theperfectpalette.com
http://paintcolorways.blogspot.ca/
MemberI second everything everyone said.
We picked a theme – travel – and started looking at travel themed weddings (Pinterest is your best friend). We noticed the same colours coming up: blue and yellow for the similar colours to an atlas. We added in the green for another colour and it all kind of came together. 🙂
Memberthank you all so much for the advice!
We don’t really have a theme, but my fiance wants himself and his groomsmen to wear jeans and cowboy hats. As of now, we’re thinking about getting married on his parent’s/his farm. We’re planing on having those huuuge tents so that we’ll be good to go regardless of the weather.
I origionally wanted to get married in October and have a fall/mascarade theme with burnt orange, plum and cranberry as colors; however, now we have to push the wedding up, or push it back an entire year due to my sister who will be studying abroad in Russia.
My fiance seems to be dead set on an outside wedding and we live in Wisconsin so having an October wedding outside is probably never going to work out, so we’ve decided on July of 2017. Unfortunately, that leaves me back at square one in regards to chosing colors.
That should answer 98.5% of the questions being asked lol
also, as a side note, my very manly/cowboy/farmer boyfriend made a pinterest account for himself so he could help with wedding stuff, and he seems to very much enjoy looking through wedding magazines with me 😀
Membermrspezewski: Aww! That’s so sweet! My other half hasn’t gone as far as that, but he helps out a lot. I started yelling at him that I needed help and somehow he got the picture. 😛
If it’s a summer wedding, with cowboy boots at a farm, I’d go with light colours. My pick would be green and yellow. They look great together and most of the time. a farm can be quite “harsh” looking so green will soften it up a little.
I would have loved a barn wedding – too bad barns don’t really exist where I live. 🙂
MemberStart with your favorite colors, his and yours. Also a basic theme with common interests. See if they blend, if not find comprable colors that suit you both. You will be looking at them a lot while planning and then see them in pictures so they should be colors you like most. A wedding represents you as a couple, your likes. Not a pintrest board
MemberThrburko89: we’re in wisconsin and green and yellow are the green bay packers colors, so I don’t wanna do that lol and my fiance wants a barn wedding but most of the barns around here have cows in them lol
MemberLooks like you have some venue research to do then. You don’t have to do packers colors. Are they his favorite colors? Maybe hunter green for him and and the deeper hues you like. You don’t have to be restricted by season.
MemberWe are having an October barn wedding in Texas and colors were so hard for me!!! I originally was going to do the fall colors you were but changed my mind. Eventually I picked two I wanted (champagne and brown) and let me mom and sister pick thee other one. I picked out the Bm dresses and flowers (sunflowers and baby breath) so the third color (an aqua blue) will just be pops of color.
I looked at Pinterest that had similarweddings that I loved and figured out why. That is how I came up with colors.
MemberI personally wouldn’t worry about the season, I’m doing peach and mint green (total springtime colors) in late October. I couldn’t do a spring/summer wedding and wanted to use my favorite colors so I say go with what you like, its your day! I think that a plum color would be great in the summer and you could do orange and yellow flowers, think short bridesmaids dresses to make them more “summertime” and cooler.
For example:
Membermrspezewski: I’m in AU so I don’t pick up on that stuff – sorry! 😛
Purple/yellow look amazing?!
Or a dusty pink and blue?
MemberThrburko89: i love those colors! might have to look into them more
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