How do you decide on a color scheme for your wedding? There are three criteria that I have in choosing mine:
- Season-appropriate for fall
- Not something you’ve seen in a lot of magazines recently (this means no Navy/Pink or Pale Green/Pale Pink or Brown/Pink). Actually, no pink. At all.
- A normal-enough color that I will be able to easily purchase other decor elements to match
Easy enough, right?
I have been playing around on Adobe’s Kuler as well as ColourLover to develop some potential themes. Knowing that I want a fall wedding, I developed a handful of warm, fall, color schemes that are colorful enough to suit a wedding venue that used to be an amusement park
Then, a reconsideration. It all stemmed from … chair covers (dum duh duh *dramatic music sound*). Nice, padded chairs come in two colors – white and black. White seemed like an obvious choice, but I think I’d want cream incorporated into the scheme more than pure white. So that would mean having to rent chair covers in cream or some other color so that pure white chairs since they wouldn’t make the cream decor look dirty. So, maybe I could incorporate some black into my color scheme and opt for black chairs?
Is black an appropriate for a wedding color? And why I am struggling with this so much. And why, for the love of God, do I not have a favorite color?
And then, like a lightbulb, it dawned on me. Sapphire blue! The color of my engagement ring! I need to incorporate sapphire blue into the color scheme for sure.
So, with that in mind, I went back to Kuler and ColourLover and continued to play. Sapphire, cream, and black? Pretty, but not very fall-ish. What other colors could I incorporate to make it more fall-like (and don’t say orange, because orange and blue looks like a sports team color to me).
This is what I’m leaning towards now. Neutral Colors with pops of sapphire blue. What do you think, does it need some sort of accent color? What do you think would go well?
So, there you have it. Color scheme ideas for the wedding. How did you all decide on wedding color schemes?
