Three different ways to choose your wedding colors...
So, the crowd has spoken! I asked our elite wedding community the other day how they chose their wedding colors and the response was…….* crickets * …….SO I thought I could share my top 3 tips for choosing your wedding colors. Surprisingly enough, yes, this has a lot to do with how your photos turn out.
Here’s three tips:
Start with your favorite color or a priority item. Do you have a keepsake that you really want to display at your wedding? This may be a good basis to create your color palette, so that that one important item doesn’t clash at the end. Alternatively, you could start with your favorite color and start there. Choose colors that don’t clash and instead compliment, as well as some neutrals, and you’re good to go! More on how to choose complimentary colors later.
Your venue can be your inspiration. If you’re getting married at the beach, you could include colors such as tan, blue, and green. If you’re getting married in the woods, green, maroon, and black could be good ideas. Or, you could go the complete opposite. Try black and gold at the beach, or white and gray in the woods. If you’re getting married in a building, this isn’t too much inspiration, but you could also take inspiration from where you’re holding the reception. Additionally, if you’re using a building such as a warehouse or a barn, these can allow you to do whatever color palette you want.
Take inspiration from the season you’re getting married- or, do the opposite. This is a classic way to choose your colors- darker, deeper colors in the fall and winter, and lighter, more fun colors in the spring and summer. But they don’t always have to match. Try black, dark green, and the classic color of bright coral in the summer. Try cream, pale pink, and the classic maroon in the winter. Your inspiration doesn’t have to be the whole palette, perhaps just one color.
So now you have one color you love, but how do you choose the rest? Let me tell you. Most people know that you want to choose complimentary colors- which means colors that are on the opposite sides of the color wheel. Blue and orange, for example. Or purple and yellow. But, you can always include more colors than just two. Say you want to have three main colors. Let’s start with blue, yellow, and red. From there, just rotate those spots around the color wheel (also known as triadic colors.) Rotating to the right, you have orange, purple, and green. You can do this with as many shades as you want. Rotate half a step to the right again, and you will have orange-yellow (sunset orange) , purple-red (maroon), and green-blue (aqua).
Monochromatic looks have been a large trend lately. I’ve seen couples even go so far as to have black, grey, and white be their entire inspiration. Some other ideas are orange, peach, copper, and blush as a palette. Or Green, emerald, aqua, and pale blue.
Throw some neutrals in there, such as white, grey, cream, black, slate, tan, etc.
Is this getting too complicated? If you’re not particularly art-inclined like I am, here’s an easy hack: go to coolers.co . This website provides free color palettes that people have already made, or you can create your own based on your own colors. It even has the exact color numbers to send to your vendors to ensure that everything matches perfectly.
Well, I hope this helps!
Until next week,
Alyssa