Wedding By Color Blog

Your Wedding Day is a special time that you, your family and friends will look back upon and cherish for many years too come. You want this day to be perfect in every way, the colors, the decorations, and the food along with the entertainment.

Formal wedding’s call for a more subdued take on the color schemes, the bride should traditionally wear white with a hint of pastel colored hues mixed within her bouquet. The bridesmaid’s dresses should be in pale pastel colors as well, like rose, blues, greens or lavenders. The groom and groomsmen should choose between grey or black tuxedoes to wear.

For a more casual and informal wedding you can play around different textures and colors. As the bride if you do not want the traditional white dress, opt for a pale pink, pale blue, iced mocha, ivory or lavender wedding dress. Use colors you are in favor of like greens, fuchsia, browns, reds, gold, silver, dark blue, yellow or any other color combinations you love. It is your wedding and it should reflect a part of you and your fiancée included in it. You should keep in mind though that the colors you choose need to compliment your own eye color, skin tone and hair color as well for it to be a big hit.

For a spring-time affair, the use of fresh flowers is a must. The lively and vibrant colors of spring flowers such as daffodils, lilies, delphiniums, gardenias and tulips would all be beautiful additions in your wedding bouquet’s and in the colors they offer. Coordinate your bridesmaid’s dresses in with these flowers by choosing a sunny yellow, rose, mint green and any of the other garden variety colors available in dresses today. Be sure to choose the color the makes you the happiest. The same advice goes for choosing summer colors for a summer wedding as well. Just choose flowers that are vibrant and alive in the summer season and then pick your colors from there.

For a festive fall wedding, colors associated with the harvest of fall are great choices.
Like deep oranges, burgundy, dark greens, chocolates and deep golden colors. Add these different varieties throughout your bridal and bridesmaid’s bouquets and the wedding decorations as well. Artificial fallen leaves in these bright hues added to the reception tables and in flower arrangements would make for a fall festive environment everyone would enjoy and remember. You, as the bride could even choose a wedding dress in the non-traditional color of warm chocolate.

For a wedding that would fit in with any winter wonderland choose colors of silver and gold throughout your decorations and bridesmaid’s dresses. Or you could go for the more traditional of greens and reds instead. Ice blue also makes a beautiful winter wedding color.