Wedding Color Schemes
From LoveToKnow Weddings
The wedding color schemes you consider not only dictate the color of your wedding reception decorations, flower bouquets, and your bridesmaid dresses, but also set the mood for your entire event.
Wedding Color Options
When it comes to picking wedding colors, couples have a large selection of shades and combinations to choose from. Often, brides and grooms will choose one or two dominant colors, with one or two accent colors. Couples choose their color combinations for several reasons:
- The colors are their favorite
- Colors are associated with the particular season, such as spring colors and fall colors
- The colors match the ceremony or reception décor
- Colors complement their skin, eye, and hair color
- Parents or bridal party members like the color
- Colors evoke a particular mood or feeling
Color choices are often accented with shades of white (or ivory) or black. If you do not want to pick out a color combination like red, white, and gold; blue and silver; or brown and orange, you can always choose a main color and use different shades of it in your wedding. Having rainbow wedding colors is perfect for couples who want a colorful, memorable wedding color scheme.
Implement Wedding Color Schemes
Give your guests a hint at your colors by choosing stationary that include your color scheme, from chocolate and pink wedding invitations to brown and pink wedding programs.
Carry out your color scheme in the rest of your wedding, from the attire to the accessories. Using color is the perfect way to tie an entire wedding together, especially when events move locations or you do not have an overall theme.
Attire
Bridesmaid dresses are usually the most obvious place to use your main wedding color. Men's tuxedos usually include a tie or bowtie and vest or cummerbund, allowing you to use a main or accent color in their attire. Contemporary colored wedding dresses feature satin sashes, embroidery, and crystals in wedding hues.
Decorations
Flowers are everywhere in most weddings. Your wedding florist can use virtually any color you desire in pew decorations and altar arrangements, wedding reception centerpieces, and bouquets. If you cannot decide amongst several colors, most florists can create stunning red, orange, purple and yellow bridal bouquets for everyone to carry.
Other places to incorporate your particular colors in wedding decorations include:
Depending on your preferences, you can use your main color(s) evenly throughout your decorations or focus on one particular color, using the others as accents. By having the same colors in the ceremony décor and the reception decorations, you can create a cohesive look to your wedding even if the two events are in different locations.
Accessories
Remember to include your wedding color scheme in your accessories. The accessories are a great place to use your neutral and accent colors. For example, a black and white wedding with hints of red can use claret red wedding napkins with black and white table linens.
You can look for wedding tiaras or combs with black or colored wedding shoes and other bridesmaid and bridal jewelry in your wedding colors. Jewelry is not the only place to add your wedding colors, however. Fun places to implement your wedding colors include:
In fact, many wedding cake designs include colored elements. From pink gumpaste roses to green sugar leaves and airbrushed tie-dye designs, a cake decorator can include the colors in your wedding cake frosting.
Regardless of what wedding color ideas you end up picking, you will need to carry them out throughout your wedding. From the ceremony decorations to the smallest details, wedding color schemes are something to be chosen carefully, as they will be featured throughout the wedding.
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