Archive for June 4th, 2008
Our next questions comes from Jam (short for Jahmeilah) who could really use our help with her wedding colors… Q: I am writing because I am getting married this August and still slightly nervous about our colors. The bridesmaids will be wearing deep red dresses but so far everything else is lime green (inspired by my love for cymbidium orchids), white, and deep/dark wood (b/c of our love for all things nature and the elements of our reception site). Our invitations were lime and white, our aisle runner will be white a will the ceremony chairs.We’re not going to have a lot of flowers, just my bouquet and some bouts for the men, for centerpieces we both would really like to do wheatgrass is dark stained wooden boxes. We do have two large urns we’re going to use to frame us during the ceremony and we’re still undecided about what to fill them with so there’s potential there. And I was thinking of using tissue paper pomanders to line the aisle and add some color so maybe there’s potential there as well. But in terms of the reception all we’ve decided on are the wheatgrass centerpieces.
Our next question comes from Kate… Q: I am having a spring wedding, and interested in using “grass green” as my main color. I would like some accent colors as well, and was thinking either pale purple or pale pink or going black, white and grass green.
What do you guys think would be the perfect accent color to a grass green foundation? For me, it was a no brainer…right now, I am loving green & white, paired with a pretty Spring-time yellow. From the comments that we’ve received so far, it looks like I am not alone!
Today is all about color palettes. Color palette dilemmas are by far the most popular dear abby questions that I get, so I thought we needed a day devoted to finding and settling on the right color palette. Since SMP readers are so creative and many of them are in the same boat, I thought we could tackle these questions together.
Our first question comes from Elissa…
Q: I am having a really hard time finding anything (pictures of real weddings, pictures from magazines, invitations, etc) in the color scheme I have envisioned and I’m beginning to think it’s because I did not pick colors that work together. My ceremony is in a Tuscan Garden (under a bronze gazebo with fireplace) and the reception is being held in an all white room with large windows (taking place in November 2009). I have picked Wine as the primary color (and even found great BM dresses in the perfect shade) but I wanted to brighten everything up and keep it a fun/more casual atmosphere with apple green, burnt orange, and maybe some raspberry accents. Again I can’t find anything even similar to this palette - I am in the very beginning stages of planning and can change the colors. Can this palette be done?
