by Matt Campbell

Created on: July 27, 2010

Picking your wedding colors with a wide number of color palettes can be cumbersome. We shall help you in your quest for the perfect colors for your wedding.

The first thing to consider when selecting wedding colors is the season.  You may not want dark colors in the hot sun during a summer wedding.  You may not also want bright and cheery colors in the dead of winter.

Second, consider the location of your wedding ceremony and reception.  If your wedding chapel has the decor of  gold with red mahogany pews, you may reconsider the forest green with olive green wedding colors.  It will remind your guests of Christmas.

Third, consider your favorite colors!  Build you wedding around the colors that mean most to you.  So you want a classy wedding with black and white or a dominant royalty color such as dark purple?  What about a fun summer wedding with dominant color hot pink with an accent color rose red?

Fourth, consider the flower of choice for your wedding.  If you want sunflowers, go with hues of yellow and brown.  If you like stargazer lilies, what about a dominant hot pink with a florescent green?

We recommend going to your local home improvement store’s paint section, such as Home Depot and Lowe’s, and pull paint swatches to select the exact color hue you desire for your wedding.  You cannot tell your guests purple when you really want lavender.  There is a big difference in the two hues of purple.

When picking colors for your wedding, think of the atmosphere and mood you wish to create at the ceremony and reception.  Do you wish for modern and trendy; do you want open and airy; do you want cozy and comfortable; do you want to bring the outdoors in?

The dominant color chosen should be the main colors of decor, flowers and bridesmaids’ dresses.  The other color should be used sparingly such as accent colors in centerpieces, jewelry and napkins.

Three of our favorite wedding colors to consider for your wedding:

Deep purple and cream – very elegant and royal wedding colors.Ice blue and black – these colors combine for a very modern look.Orange and olive green – a very fun and vibrant retro look.

Finally, before picking wedding colors, consider what people think of when seeing the colors together.  You do not want a negative connotation to your wedding colors.  Examples of bad wedding colors are black with orange (Halloween), red with green (Christmas) and red with blue in a white room (4th of July).

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