One of the first, and most important decisions that you need to make when planning your wedding is choosing your colors. Everything revolves around your wedding colors. Choosing flowers, clothing and decorations that fit your color scheme are a large part of planning your wedding.
Choose Your Wedding Colors.
Most brides still wear white but other than that the palette is up to you.
- Do you have a favorite color or flower? That is a great place to start.
- Consider your venue, what colors are the walls and flooring? You don’t want to clash!
- Consider the time of year (different flowers are more readily available in different seasons).
- If you want the bridesmaids to wear your main color, make sure it is a color most people can wear.
- Once you have your main color you will probably want to choose an accent color. Now you need to remember elementary school art class and color theory. You want to choose colors that are either complementary (colors across from each other on the color wheel-red/green, violet/yellow), analogous (colors next to each other on the color whee-red/red-orange/orangel), or tertiary/triadic ( a mix of a primary and a secondary color-violet/orange/green).
- Often the third color is your neutral, and the basis of what the guys will be wearing ie. black, gray, khaki or brown. Make sure your main color and your neutral are sympatico. Most colors work with black and gray, brown and khaki are a little more tricky.
If you need more inspiration a great website for wedding color palettes is The Perfect Palette, this site is well-organized and is great, especially for visual people who need to see how colors truly work together in real life.
In case you are wondering, Summer knew exactly what colors she wanted for her wedding. Of course, everyone calls it something different so it is turquoise/malibu/cyan with silver/gray as her accent color.
What were/are your wedding colors? I reveal mine in next week’s Wedding Wednesday post!
Great information for the planning of a wedding