Picking your wedding colors might just be one of the most fun parts of the planning. It certainly shapes your wedding but it is not always easy. You must take into account the location, time and season of your wedding combined with your fiance’s and your taste…many factors colliding to lead you to the perfect palette! Today, Marybeth tells us about her colors and I must say that her choice is one of my all-time favorite wedding combinations!
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After choosing our venue, James and I started talking about our color scheme. I guess for both of us it seemed like the natural next step, and in my mind I thought it would be something easy to check off the list. But as with most wedding things, I was wrong.
One night James and I sat and started what I thought would be a brief discussion about colors. “I am thinking something elegant and simple, like gold peach and gray,” I told him. James looked at me and said, “I am thinking something young but classy, black and white, or pink and black.” I quickly informed James that his suggested color scheme sounded like a nightclub downtown. He told me my color scheme made him think of fairies frolicking through fields of flowers, “not a classy, elegant DC wedding” he said seriously.
I spent the next few weeks paging through magazines and looking online for a new color scheme. Turns out there are tons of web sites for just that. Of all the color palette sites, nearlyweds.com had my favorite. You start by choosing a color “range” and can pick from red, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink. Then comes your color base, which you chose from about 20 shades of your chosen color range. And finally, you pick your color tint. Confused yet? I was, and that was only picking one color!
Credit: Martha Stewart Weddings
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