Selecting Colors that Match the Environment
Pick colors to match the season. A great way to choose your wedding colors is to take inspiration from the season you are getting married. For example, if you're saying “I do” in the spring, you could look to light pastel colors for inspiration. Seasonal colors combinations to consider include: Dark and deep color tones, or metallic colors like pewter, bronze, copper, silver, or gold for a winter wedding. Light pastels paired with a few deeper shades, like plum or coral for a spring wedding. Bright colors like bold yellows, purples, reds, or blues for a summer wedding. Earth tones like moss green, burgundy, gold, amber, and maroon are excellent for a fall wedding.
Choose a color that will complement the venue. Look at the colors used in your venue's carpeting, drapery, and decorations. If the venue has strong and bold colors, you may want to select a complementary color scheme. For example, a venue with deep red carpeting and gold finishes may clash with a mint green and grey color scheme. Instead, you could use red and gold in your color scheme to match the venue. If you already have your heart set on a certain color, you may need to select a neutrally decorated site, such as a hall with white or neutral walls, a converted loft space, or a backyard tent.
Incorporate colors from the surrounding environment. If you have decided on a destination wedding, you could pick colors that reflect the tropical environment. Consider bright floral colors like yellow, pink, purple, blue, and green. Alternatively, if you are getting married at a vineyard, greens, purples, and blues would look beautiful. Consider the natural color hues found within the surrounding environment and use them in your wedding color scheme.
Select colors based on your favorite seasonal blooms. Although you can get most flowers during every season, it is more eco-friendly and less costly to select seasonal flowers for your wedding. Get color inspiration from your favorite seasonal flowers. Choose a flower and color that you love and then build your color scheme around that. For example, if sunflowers are your thing, there's no reason why they shouldn't make it into your décor scheme. The color of your bouquet could be used as the dominant color in your decorating scheme or as an accent color to give a bit of pop.
Consider the mood you are trying to create. The colors you choose can also help to create a certain mood. For example, red is associated with passion and romance, whereas yellow is frequently associated with joy and happiness. Pick colors based on the tone you would like to set for the event. Use dark colors to create a dramatic atmosphere. Alternatively, light colors can be used to create a fun and carefree wedding.
Looking for Inspiration around You
Pick your favorite colors. Some couples have a favorite color that immediately comes to mind when they think of their special day. For others, choosing wedding colors can be a daunting task. It is always a good idea to stick with colors you both like. To discover your favorite color or color schemes, look to your wardrobe and decorating style for inspiration. Look through your wardrobe. What are the other colors that emerge the most? These colors are a good indicator of your general color preferences. Similarly, if you find that your home is fairly neutral with a pop or blue or purple, then that might be a good place to start when you are considering your wedding colors.
Search on social media for ideas. Pinterest has tons of example wedding color schemes that you could take inspiration from. Search through different wedding images and pin color combinations that you like. Once you begin to notice a general theme to the images that you have pinned, you have likely landed on your ideal color pallette. For example, you may find that you are consistently attracted to vintage-style weddings that use light pastels and greys. You can also look on Instagram, Etsy, or Facebook for ideas.
Get ideas from weddings you attend. You have probably already attended a number of weddings for friends or relatives. Was there any particular color scheme that stood out to you? You don't have to copy the exact color scheme from your best friend's wedding, but it might be a good starting point. Alternatively, you could look through old photographs from your parents' or other relatives' weddings. Although you likely despise the puffy sleeved dresses, you may love the sandy blush colors that were used.
Take an online wedding color quiz. There are a number of different wedding color quizzes that you can take to help with choosing your wedding colors. Typically these quizzes will ask a variety of questions about your personal taste and style and will help to narrow down a color pallet. If you are really struggling with determining your color scheme, this may be a fun way to land on the perfect colors. Search online for a "wedding style quiz."
Creating a Color Scheme
Research different color trends. Read wedding magazines or visiting an art gallery to discover different color combinations. Although you don't want to select a certain color scheme just because it is trendy, this may be a great place to find out which colors work well together.
Choose colors that complement each other. Most weddings use more than one color in the color scheme. For example, you may decide on two main colors and one accent color. It may be easy to list your three favorite colors, but what if they don't match or work well together? You can consult a color wheel to help you pair your favorite color with a few accent colors. As a general rule, colors that go well together are opposite each other on a color wheel because this pairs a warm color with a cool color. For example, turquoise and coral pair nicely together. The easiest way to think about color pairings is by selecting a bright color and a more neutral tone. For instance, blush and gold, or violet and grey.
Incorporate color with care. It is possible to go overboard with your colors. Perhaps your favorite color is bright pink, but you don't want your wedding to look like a Barbie party. To avoid this, use the pink sparingly as a splash of color. Keep the rest of your colors neutral and then add a pop of pink in your bouquet, as ribbons around your centerpieces, or as the calligraphy on the menus.
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