How to Choose Your Wedding Colors

WELCOME TO OUR WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLORS!!! A lot of brides I have worked with have always had a lot of problems choosing their wedding color theme. So I have come up with a few essential tips every bride should know about themes. The first and most important tip to know is that the color scheme for your wedding has the power to set the vibe. Focusing on the color theme early on is important to ensure that everything else obtained for the wedding is well coordinated and suited to the wedding taking into account where you're getting married, and the formality or informality of your ceremony and reception. The complexity or simplicity of color schemes is another part of your decision and these will depend on your personal preferences, budget, and patience! Here are the top determining factors to selecting your hues.

Step 1 Use your favourite shade. You’ve been in love with all the shades of pink since the first grade; this is a good place to begin with - ‘’what you love’’. You can tastefully incorporate any color into your wedding decorations by selecting the right hue, and combining it with the right accents. • Which colors are you drawn to most? Is there one particular color or several? If there are several colors, are they compatible? • Check your wardrobe. Leaving aside the standard office black, what are the other colors that emerge the most? They are a good indicator of your general preferences. • Make a color inspiration or mood board. Get a piece of thick card and place images you like from magazines on the board, images that highlight the colors you're keen on. You can also use color paint charts to help you match the hues.

Step 2 Consider the setting. Look at the colors used in your venue’s carpeting, drapery and decorations. If the site has strong colors, you’ll need to select a color scheme that complements. If you already have your heart set on a certain theme, you may need to select a more neutrally decorated site but this needs to be sorted out very early on or you may miss out on a good location! However, keep an open mind about colors until you've chosen the venue, because the setting may well suggest the scheme for you. • If the colors of the venue are very strong and you have your heart set on that venue, consider predominantly white and/or cream for the color scheme as this will be both effective and matching. This will allow you to add a touch here and there of a favorite color without overdoing it, but these splashes of color will tone down any Spartan feel of the white theme. • For outdoor weddings, look for fresh and light colors that suggest the brilliance of outdoors.

Step 3 Be prepared to have two different/distinct color themes if your church or wedding building and reception venue are very different in tone. In general, it is probable that you will have more leeway to use colors with the reception than where the wedding ceremony itself is held. However, you can still carry the color theme in clothing and flowers from the place of marriage to the reception, even if you can't decorate the church, hall, or register office as much as you'd like.

See to soon for a continuation. In the meantime, i hope you enjoyed these tips as much i did.