This week we are talking all about colors – tips, trends, how to build your color palette and more!
One trend that I’ve noticed lately is brides choosing to variate their color palette throughout the day of their wedding. This works really, really well for brides who want the wow-factor as guests enter the reception because it continuously gives guests something new to look at and be surprised by. This also allows the creation of different feelings for each of the different spaces you create – the ceremony, the cocktail hour and the reception.
Generally, the ceremony will take place during the afternoon or early evening when it’s still light out – I think it’s nice to start the day (at the ceremony) with the lightest version of your palette, so lets say you know you want to end up working with a palette of Raspberry, Eggplant and Ivory, your overall palette might look like this…
When you’re creating the color board for the ceremony, you might start at the center of this palette, and work your way out as the evening progresses. I love starting at the ceremony with an overall palette that reads as white, but that also has subtle hints of what’s to come later at the cocktail hour and reception. So for this palette, the ceremony color board could look like this…
*Photo credits: 1st Row: bouquet via InStyle Weddings, wreath via The Knot, programs & lace photo by Christopher Dumas, 2nd Row: Rolls photo by Christopher Dumas, flowers by Jeff Leatham, dress photo by Elizabeth Messina
Check back in just a bit to see my color picks for the cocktail hour and reception!
XO
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