Completing Your Theme
Choosing the perfect spring, summer, fall, and winter wedding colors can be tricky if you’re not sure where to begin. One place to start is by exploring the most trendy and popular wedding colors. Another option is to allow the season to choose your colors for you. Once you’ve chosen your wedding colors, it’s important to know how to use them. Finding fun and creative ways to use your prefect wedding colors is one of the thrills of planning a wedding.
Trending: The popular color picks for 2011 weddings thus far are as follows: black & white, deep red, chartreuse, slate grey, turquoise, coral, latte, and purple. If you want to choose colors that pop you won’t have any trouble getting that result with the aforementioned color options.
Allow these questions to guide you to the perfect wedding color combo:
- Where is your wedding taking place? Your colors will differ if you’re getting married on a cliff overlooking the beach instead of a hotel ballroom.
- What type of mood do you want to create for your guests? Color psychology proves that colors do in fact affect our mood. For example, the color green has a calming affect, and the color yellow more anxious.
- What season are you getting married during? Obviously fall colors vary from winter, spring, and summer. Feel free to use the season as your launching off point when choosing your colors.
Use the color wheel: The color wheel, comprised of three primary colors: blue, yellow, and red and also a combination of in-between colors, can help you choose colors that complement each other. How does one choose a perfectly coordinated color scheme? You’re able to choose colors that are complementary to each other by picking opposites. For example a warm and a cold color would be considered complementary to each other. The wheel also helps you choose “monochromatic” colors, which means colors of the same tone, like blue and dark blue.
The easy part of choosing the right colors is that you only need to choose two or three. Any more than that will cause your wedding décor to appear a bit too busy.
Where you make use of your colors is a key factor when creating the overall feel and style of your wedding:
- Stationary: Even beginning with your save-the-date cards you’ll be using your wedding colors. Make sure to not forget about thank you cards as well!
- Bridesmaids dresses: If the color isn’t too bold then go ahead and choose bridesmaid dresses that are one, two, or all three of your wedding colors.
- Groom and groomsmen attire: Spice up that side of the altar by giving your groom and groomsmen bow-ties that match your wedding color scheme.
- Flowers: With an abundance of varietals to choose from for your wedding flowers, create a bouquet and centerpiece that encapsulates your wedding colors.
- Ribbon: You’ll be surprised by how many opportunities you’ll have to use ribbon that matches your wedding colors, fore example on your stationary, to hold your bouquet together, wedding programs etc.
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