AHHHH….you’re engaged. You’ve got the ring, the latest wedding magazines and a wedding planning organizer. You’re ready. Now, it’s time to select your wedding colors. What do you choose? Different shades of ivory? Your sorority colors? Your college school colors? A pastel with a silver or gold color to compliment it?
The great thing about wedding colors is that you can choose anything! Your colors can be inspired by your home, your wardrobe or a pillow you saw at the mall. Also, the days of picking one color with an accent color are long gone. Feel free to select bold, vibrant colors. And you don’t have to limit yourself to two colors. Select three, or even four!
So, how do you narrow down your colors? I like to encourage my brides to visit their local home improvement or paint store to start collecting paint chips. Grab everything that catches your eye. Take those chips home and live with them for a few days, maybe even a few weeks. Play around with different combinations and eliminate chips when you grow tired of looking at them.
Another suggestion is to ignore color combinations that you see in the wedding magazines and online. Ignore articles that are you telling what the “hottest colors” of the season are. Go with your gut. Your wedding should be a reflection of your personal style and taste…not the taste of other brides across the country or magazine writers who know nothing about you.
Also, don’t feel that your wedding colors have to reflect the season of your wedding. Just because you’re getting married in the spring doesn’t mean that you have to select typical “spring” colors. If you love colors that are traditionally associated with autumn, go for it. Remember, it’s your wedding and it should reflect your taste and style….not the taste and style of those who write for the wedding magazines.
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