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By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:20:42 +0000

I think that gold shoes, gold earrings, and some gold spray-painted poppy seed pods or twisty vines or even wires, or dried flowers, or anything else you would like to spray-pain in gold – combined with red and orange toned flowers – with brown and gold hanging ribbons from the bouquets – and the brown dresses – would be great together…

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:49:42 +0000

Dear Abby,
I’m a rookie diy invitation maker. My fiance and I are having a warping problem with our paper and adhesive. Do you have any product/technique suggestions that will not make the paper buckle once glued?
Thanks!!

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:31:18 +0000

At first I was totally going to say the fall palette but I love that pink maybe with sage green and that dusty blue — a little more muted than Robin’s Egg? I love those colors with brown and have seen it happening in a lot of housewares but not so much with clothes yet.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:59:17 +0000

I too am getting married in the fall. I have chosen champagne dresses and chocolate brown tux’s. We just met with our florist and we are doing burnt oranges(orchids and roses), lime greens (like spider mums and orchids), and some greenery. Instead of doing white in my bouquet we went with a marigold yellow color. I think you can incooperate fall colors in general and all will look good. Brown and gold are very nice- but if you originally wanted some other colors don’t be afraid to add them in. There are some beautiful bouquet’s out there that are fall inspired that have a whole array of colos!!!

By: Lorrie

Lorrie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:18:56 +0000

Hey ladies, my sister just had a fall wedding. I was her maid of honor and I carried “chocolate” roses, they are basically antique looking. There may have been a mix of orange/cream carnations or other flowers in the mix. There were also orange berry looking things on sticks coming out of it.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:00:56 +0000

Brown and gold are neutral colors that tend to go well with any color you pair them with. Personally I think brown dresses with gold shoes sound cute, I dont think you would need to buy the gold jewelery either. As for the flowers you could use deep reds and bring a pop of color with bright orange from gerbera daisies, roses, or even dahlias. If you wanted to tie the bouquet colors together better with the dresses, I would consider having your BM’s wear sashes that match one of the colors in the bouquet or even the gold shoes. Whatever you decide, make sure its what you want, and try not to let the peanut gallery control your decisions.

By: Faith

Faith — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:49:58 +0000

My main colors at my wedding this past October were chocolate and champagne.

My BM bouquets consisted of reds, oranges, and deep pinks (coxcomb, specifically), and looked fantastic when paired with the various shades of brown, light gold (accents on my dress as well as at the reception), and champagne(shiny ivory, really! ) incorporated into the wedding. Our centerpieces were 100% orange roses. My bouquet was supposed to be white and ivory roses, but wound up being ivory and peach toned roses…that was the only disappointment when it came to flowers for the day. But it still wasn’t distracting, really.

I told my florist that I was looking to make the BM bouquets have sunset tones to them. It worked out perfectly! Hope that helps in some way…

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:48:56 +0000

Brown fits right in with your original fall color scheme. Though, gold might look a bit out of place with the natural colors. What about going more along the champagne route? Still a gold tone, without the SHINY metallic gold. A friend of mine did the fall colors last year with the oranges and reds set off by brown – it was beautiful. I think you will love always looking back at pictures and being able to feel the warmth through the colors of your flowers.