Real, Genuine, Actually Useful Advice on Picking Your Wedding Colors

We want our wedding to be pink and blue it is our favorite colors….. but not sure iof it would look too much like a baby shower.

Iphy,

I wouldnt mix greens and oranges, it would look like an irish flag. i think it would be really pretty to do totally summer—orangeish, yellow, and white– like the sun.
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go there for some pictures of orange color combos

No Kerri, that would be gorgeous to use royal blue instead of light blue. That also makes alot of sense about the blending, although I have never seen it happen.

Colors for January?

without a doubt, ice blue silver and white are perfect for january!

Good resource! Also comfort, there are many red/gold/green holiday wedding pics on this page:
winter favor and decor ideas … check it out, there are quite a few.

could someone please help me.i am getting married at the end of this year or early next year.my colours are green(any shade of green)red and gold.pls help me with the combination of my groom(black suit)my bridesmaids,flower girls , cake,bouque…i need it urgently.pictures will be great!

Hi Yesi, lots of options here, but you don’t say what time of year you’re having it or what kind of feel you’re going for (evening/formal, daytime/casual).

Here’s a great red and yellow combination … very high-energy and exciting.

Try here for some great red & pink color ideas. Super-sweet, feminine look!

Red with patterned black and white (like damasks, paisleys) is a very hot, modern look, check our Black & White page for lots of takes on this.

A very crisp look I love for summer that is seeing a lot of play right now is white, green and red. Go here to see how fresh and crisp this can look, especially for an outdoor wedding.

One last idea that is great for a more ornate, winter-type wedding is red and gold, with textured gold brocade ribbon, fringe, etc., red velvets, and so on.

I hope that gets you started!

Hi Ada! Brown & burnt orange is very attractive and also quite a hit right now. If you check the polls on the chocolate brown wedding page you’ll see that orange is one of this season’s favorite colors to pair with brown.

hi, my wedding is in september 12 2008, I need help in choing my coulors and theme. I am thinking of pink and brown but i am afraid that it won’t look nice.
Thanx cindy

My best friends daughter is getting married in July. Her colors are coral and cream. The coral is more on the pink side than the orange however that all depends on what the swatch is put next too. I am having trouble finding “anything’ in this coral color. If anyone out there has please, please email me and let me know.
We would greatly appreciate any help!

Lyndsey- I have seen some great weddings done with a light blue (almost Tiffany blue in some cases) with bright red accents. The color combination is incredibly fresh, not too overdone and would still allow you to use the rose red you would like. Nicely done accent pieces in the red would be beautiful.

I attend wedding and event planning conventions yearly, and the colors that were everywhere in January at the show were the colors mentioned above. There are tons of neutral browns, wheats, and golds with bright colored accents.

I feel the most important thing to consider when choosing your colors are the colors you feel you will still like when you look at your wedding album years from now. If lime green happens to be a fad, but you don’t like the color, don’t do it just because it is popular… choose colors that you tend to lean toward in your daily life.

i am getting married in NOv 08 . i change my color everyday!!!!!!! help

need help picking out colors for a july 19th 2008 wedding ? im very lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my wedding is in May of 2009, i am thinking of using black sage and ivory but i need a little input on how these colors will go togeather, i am also thinking of using calla lillies, any ideas ladies????

Hi, i’m getting married aug 09 at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Does anyone who’s been there have any color ideas for me? There are so many colors in there (blue’s, beige, pink, pale green, dark green) that i’m completely lost.

pink green brown… can’t find pics of these colors together? anyone else do this ? have pics? or websites where i can ‘try-out’ the colors together?

I am getting married may of 09 and i am trying to figure out colors already. I really dont like the pastels but love fall colors! Can I do anything with those colors in May! I also love greens and my fiance love orange. can those two go together? Oh also the guys will most likely in brown suits or tuxes! Please help!

I am getting married during the summer of 08. I don’t quite know what colors are going to be in season. I thought of silver and lavender, but not sure what the guys are going to wear because black tux will be to hot. Then I thought of baby blue and chocolate ,but as before not sure what the guys will wear I need help with the colors Like Now because i don’t have much time left as quick as these months are going

Honestly Mindy if you like it then go for it, after all it is your wedding day. if it is done tastefully any colour scheme can look fantastic,But dont let any one else tell you what looks good you know what will work just dont let it look dated or multicoloured.
The secret to having a beautiful wedding is timelessness ( not knowing what decade you were married in by fashion trends) Take it from me I have planned so many weddings in the last five years that will be dated disasters in even 10 years Keep it sjmple you wont regret it

I have decided on Silver White and black I am getting married in April 2009. My Bridesmaid dresses are dark silver and I am completely happy. I must say that you should never follow fashion trends like chocolate with other bright colours or even have too many colours, keep it simple, because in 20 years when you look at you photos, and they will be so dated like the puffy sleaves of the 80’s. Just go with what you like not what is in fashion, or you will become fashion victims and you will hate looking at the photo’s

Could soembody please help me? I am getting married in April 2008 and cant decide on my colors. At first I thought lime green and white. Then I thought lime and light pink, and now I have added chocolate brown. Do you think that is too many colors? do you think it will all flow?

Ladies, Davids Bridal has a neat section on their website where you can put together your wedding/bridal party and see how the colors look. Works wonderfully well - especially if they have your shade.

I am currently deployed to Iraq and I am trying to plan my wedding while I am here. I will be getting married in miami fl on march the 5th 2009. I came up the colors burnt orange cranberry red gold and white. I just wanted to know if those colors would cordinate well.

My wedding is next August (2008) and I’m struggling with color choices. I definitely want my bridesmaids in Sage w/ivory accents but I don’t know what other accent color I want. My wedding will be in the Colorado mountains so I would like something bright to pop with the Sage and Ivory. I don’t want lavender because that’s so common. I was thinking a Chianti/Burgandy. Would that look too Christmasy? Any other suggestions? I’m mainly concerned about flowers.

I like the whole Chocolate theme everyone is talking about, I think it would accent a lot of different colors, and it is in style these days too….I just don’t like the brown suits on the guys thing…I guess you would have to do that to make it work though. You could do Chocolate brown, with a pool blue color, or light pink, and instead of the white wedding gown and white accesories…you could do ivory. I think it would flow a lot better. I am struggling myself. I want white, and I want pink, like the darker pink that is on the back ground of this page…..I need help deciding a color to go with it. Help!!!!!

I need help. My wedding is not till next year, hopefully in June, but my fiance won’t help me plan anything. I have no idea what colors to choose. I told him I wouldn’t mind black, and he agreed, but we can’t agree with a color to go with it. I said pink and he freaked out. He said red and then I freaked out. So what should I do? Should I do maybe a Chocolate brown with another color? I want to keep my wedding looking happy and inviting but still make him happy. HELP!

HELP!!!!!
I HAVE BEEEN TRYING TO PLAN MY WEDDING AND I HAVE HIT A MAJOR SPEEDBUMP. MY FIANCE IS IN THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AND I AM HAVING TROUBLE COORDINATING BRIDESMAIDS DRESSES WITH HIS CLASS A UNIFORM. CAN ANYONE HELP ME. HIS UNIFORM IS A HUNTER GREEN WITH A SEAFOAM GREEN SHIRT UNDER THE DRESS JACKET. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I CAN PUT MY MAIDS IN BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT A DARK WEDDING. I WANT A ” PRINCESS WEDDING” VERY ELEGANT AND BEAUTIFUL. CAN ANYONE HELP!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a question I am planning to get married next year and I am having a hard time with the color. I like purple or Burgundy and I don’t know what will go well with it. I don’t want to much dark colors involed. Colors for my bride grooms and maid of honor and flower girl.. Help me please thanks

I am having my wedding next June and I am very girlie-girl, just on a tight budget. I am having the hardest time picking colors!!!! I know I want pink…I thought about blue, but won’t that look like a bubble-gum wedding? Then I thought Pink and Purple…that is too girlie for the guys! So what do I do…I need help!

We are having a May 2008 wedding and are having trouble picking colors. The ceremony will be on the beach with the guys in white button up shirts, khakis and no shoes… the reception is right now going to be outside in a country setting. We thought about Wine or Burgandy but a friend just used it. I would seriously love some ideas. My dress is pale pink or champagne ( I havent decided on the color, just the dress) and no shoes for me or my girls until the reception.

Hi! I’m trying to do something different for my wedding. The colors I’m tring to use are red, gold, ivory and I don’t know whatelse. My bridesmaids are wearing the color red.(www.landadesigns.com/index.php?main_page=home style #M651) My cake is going to be gold.

Orange doesn’t always have to be “pumpkin” orange. Think tangerine or the orange of a cremesicle if you want fresh colors. You could team it with other sherbet colors like a lime or a raspberry. Or if you want something more earthy, look at photos of old brick, desert rock formations, adobe colors like in Santa Fe, or a Hawaiian sunset. Look at the beautiful colors that surround those oranges, and choose your color palette from them. Nobody will think Halloween.

Do you think its silly to have the bridesmaids wear all black with a variety of pastels for the flowers? I am having an August wedding and I think it would look sharp. Or should I just stick to one? Again, all black for the dresses, and the flowers would be a variety of pastels such as pink, baby blue, butter yellow, lilac, etc.

I am getting married next April by the bay in San Diego and need to decide on colors- I was thinking of a pale yellow with baby blue, or pale yellow and light sage green, any input?

I’m getting married in November, but didn’t want “Fall-FALL” colors.. I’m thinking a really rich, dark burgundy and a pale, bright yellow… I actually chose my colors from a cute pair of undies I have, which are the burgundy with pale yellow trim. I just can’t wear any of the yellow myself… I’m thinking an ivory dress with the burgundy trim.. does this sound pretty?

Thanks so much. I loved the colors together but i didnt want to get reactions like the woman gave me at the bridal shop but i know its my wedding and i can do whatever i want. thank you for the website..

im getting married in may of 08. i was thinking of having a dark pink like fuscia and a brighter orange. does anyone else like these colors? i went to a bridal shop and the woman working said she would not recommend orange as it reminds people of halloween? any suggestions?

I am also having a rustic country july wedding. We are having the ceremony and reception at a barn.. I’m also doing green and yellow - but the shades have been hard to find. I can see the colors in my head! Kind of a sage and deep sunflower yellow and ivory with little pops of berry red and lavender.

You forgot my one biggest peeve: season colors. Who says you should have a certain palette just because it’s spring (or fall/summer/winter, too for that matter). I think that’s just about the dumbest most irritating thing ever. I picked my colors — for a fall wedding — bc they were what I liked. They veered a bit toward traditional “fall colors” but not really. And I HATED that people thought I picked them bc it was fall. Ugh.

Heather: how about green in two different shades, dark and medium? Or blue, for that matter?

Here’s another great tip for quickie inspiration: head to ColorSchemer.com and use their search tool to check out palettes designed around themes and keywords. If you’re having a beach wedding, try other words, too: “ocean” or “sea.”

Or if you’ve got any kind of theme in mind, try keywords like “sunset”, “summer”, “new mexico”, “newport”, “victorian”, “romantic”, “elegant”, “modern”, “trendy” … you’ll love what pops up. It’s an indispensible tool for those early planning stages.