How to Pick a Wedding Day Color

Wedding colors are one of the biggest decisions a bride has to make when planning her wedding. Since the colors will be used in your bridal veil, decorations, flowers, clothes, invitations and table linens, among other things, it is important that the color both be one that looks good and is compatible with the season. Here are some ideas on how to pick a wedding day color.

1. Decide whether or not you want to have a wedding theme. If your theme is one that limits your color choices, you automatically have a range of colors you need to work within.

2. Consider the season you are having your wedding in. Autumn and winter weddings look best in warm colors like reds and oranges while spring and summer colors can be pastels or greens and purples.

3. Find out the color of your birth stone or your mother’s, if that color works for you, it might add another layer of meaning to your wedding day.

4. Go to your local nursery to get inspiration from the flowers that are in season. Since flowers play a large part in decorations you can choose a color based on the flowers you can easily get.

5. Keep your venue in mind when looking at colors. The drapes, seating and walls all need to go well with the color you end up picking.

6. Make a list of all the colors you and your groom like, and the ones you absolutely don’t want in your wedding. This will help you come up with a shortlist of colors to consider.

7. Look at color ribbon samples  to find colors that both look good on you (as an accent color on your dress or veil) as well as suit the theme for your wedding.

8. Talk to your cake designer, florist, wedding designer and wedding invitation printer about the colors that can be incorporated into all three things.

9. Go looking for bridesmaid dresses. Since you need to choose a color that looks good on all your bridesmaids, it will be helpful in narrowing down your list of potential colors

10. Look at having two main colors and an accent color that is complementary to these. Complementary colors are the ones that are opposite to each other on the color wheel.

11. Once you have your colors, get them incorporated wherever possible. Make a color wedding veil with your main color, while the other accessories, favors, invitations, linens and flowers can match to the accent color.

Tips

Limit the number of colors you use to two or three.

Talk to your wedding planner, if you have one, about colors they recommend. Sometimes they can mention colors you might not have considered before.

Talk to your veil and accessory designer to incorporate colors into the edging of your veil, your tiara and your jewelry sets with color ribbon, crystals or pearl accents.

Look at as many color samples as possible before making your first shortlist. Sometimes colors you may not see in your everyday life can look great in wedding decorations.

Warning
Try to stay away from colors that don’t look good on you, or in pictures.

Guest post from Iris D. Bridal.

Bookmark this on Delicious

Let Guests Doodle on the Wedding Guestbook

I was recently asked by a bride if I had any ideas about a wedding guestbook that was fun and different. I instantly thought of what we did at our wedding - a photo guestbook.

We decorated a table with a poster explaining the process and also had the DJ announce it.

1-Have another Guest take your photo. (We used Polaroids to make it easy to print.)

2-Use double sided tape to apply photo to page. (Acid free of course. These are your memories!)

3-Have fun answering "predictions" and drawing photos on the guestbook page.

It was a big hit. Our guests took lots of goofy photos and had some funny words of wisdom to share with us. The best part was we now have a keepsake we actually look through once in a while (that's not just boring signatures), and we now have a photo of everyone who attended our wedding.

When making your table, be sure to include extra film, acid free markers and double sided tape, as well instruction on how to reload the camera. Customize your own wedding guest book today at the Guestbook Store.

Bookmark this on Delicious

Perfect Pictures

If you are in the market for a photographer, be sure to check out Matt Wheeler with Still Life Studios. Yes, we are a little bias toward Matt: he not only did our fabulous engagement and wedding photos, but he is also a photographer of some of our products. (Check out the home page flash for some examples.)

This really says it all:

"Our team can get a little extreme in delivering the best quality once the photo shoot is done. We incorporate original designs, superior production processes and we work like crazy to get each picture processed, perfected and posted on a secure web site so you can share with friends and family as soon as possible. We guarantee the craftsmanship of our work so we can be your photographer for Life." - Still Life Studios

Be sure to check out Still Life Studios at http://www.stilllifestudios.com/ and let them know that Be In Love Designs sent you. Also, check back on the blog as we will be featuring more of their work from time to time.

Bookmark this on Delicious