A Pink & Green Wedding
But wait: didn't pink once belong to hopelessly girly-girl brides who had to go by the book?
Even if that was ever the case, today's revved-up pink and green are modern dynamos, urging each other on to ever-higher heights.
Don't get us wrong, pink and green doesn't have to be all about setting new trends. Play it softly, and you have a classic English garden theme you might find in your mother's wedding album (one that you're sure to still swoon over!).
But this combo can also drive you to color outside the box. Which is why you see brides turning up the heat with greens like lime or honeydew, and pinks that border on fuchsia. In short, you can take these two anywhere: from Newport Beach to Negril and everywhere in between.
This theme calls for some true guilty pleasures when it comes to blooms and other flora: pink peonies or zingy tulips, blushing roses or stargazer lilies; and for green, kermit mums, cymbidium orchids and hypericum berries, small green apples or zesty limes.
Ribbon and ties tend to play a big role in this wedding, too, from bridesmaids' gowns to chair sashes. On the modern side, you might also find citrus fruit piled up in clear eiffel vases, or polka dots that jazz up the bridesmaid or flower girl attire. Tea-length gowns are popular for the 'maids in this warm-season wedding. So are fun, casual touches like cafe-style menus done in pink and green chalk, or candy buffets filled with treats for both the eye and the palette, in pink and chartreuse.
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Tell Us About Your Pink & Green Wedding
What posed your biggest challenge: picking the right shade of green? Did you settle on citrus, peridot, celadon or something altogether different? Pink for the bridesmaids, or did you dream up some kind of clever combo, involving flirty pastel sashes?
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what is more cool for a march 2009 garden wedding: ppink and green or orange and green?
Hmm, Kaye … pink & green has been done many times, it might even be the first color combo people think of for a spring wedding, but I still LOVE it.
Orange is definitely more of a “right now” hue, I am thinking a softer orange for a spring wedding tho — like Creamsicle orange or a soft coral. Actually I think you could make those (orange & green) your two main colors and sneak in a little pink as an accent and it would look gorgeous. But, since orange and green are such strong colors together I would use a lot of a neutral such as white or ivory to soften them.
I’m doing pink and orange with green as accents. I’ve found these amazing small potted flowers in those exact colors! Money is tight but I’m getting them for $5 for 4! I don’t know if you can find them online, but I got them at Decor Direct in Tennessee. Search for it online and you might be able to find something similar. The designer name is Jim Marvin.
My fiance and I decided on havig a pink and green wedding! I really dont want him in a black tux. is there another color I can put him in?
Cheryl,
Taupe or clay colored suits would look great with your color combo, especially if it is a spring or summer wedding. It would keep the look simple and crisp if you paired them with white shirts and green European style ties. Have fun planning. There are alot of great pink-green ideas!
Has anyone heard of any floral companies that rent potted orchids in NYC or the surrounding area? There is a place that does this near where I work in VA, but I am from NY and wondering if anyone had any tips.
I’m totally in love with oriental lillies stargazers, (the white and pink w/ green steams) Can this be an easlily managable theme? if so should I just go with a pink or green wedding theme or is there something else? I want a wedding that speaks innocent, love passion romance. I so confused I need some help please.
I’m interesting in finding out how to make the centerpiece with the limes slices in the bottom. I’m helping my daughter plan a Bridal Shower and this centerpiece would be so cute.
Thanks!
Hi Janice, you mean a CP like this one (attached), right? It’s so easy … you just need a block of floral foam cut into a square a little smaller than your clear vase. Make it small enough so that you can have maybe two overlapping layers of cut fruit, so the foam isn’t visible — but not so small that the fruit slices won’t be snug and secure on the sides of the glass.
Do a trial run with some citrus fruit and your main flowers and you’ll be an expert in no time. Use “Oasis” foam for your vases — it holds water for the flowers — unless you’re using unusually sturdy flowers on top. The usual suspects (roses, hydrangeas, daisies, peonies) need plenty of water.
I love this idea with the peonies and lime cp’s, just curious though, florist usually won’t combine fruit and flowers together, because the fruit is toxic to the flowers. This arrangement looks great, I’m wondering if there was any problems and how long the flowers lasted with the limes?
Janice, I think the problem is usually the outgassing when you try to store floral arrangements in a refrigerator that also contains food (fruit). Interestingly enough cut-up citrus is an antibacterial so it can actually prolong the life of your flowers.
My guess is that if you can have someone assemble these the morning of, or if you can simply store them someplace cool but not tiny and enclosed like a fridge, you should be okay. But the best route if you’re DIY-ing is to stage a trial with the actual flowers and fruit you want to use, and see how long they stay pretty given what you have to store them.
Here’s a gorgeous real-life pink and green wedding with sage linens, spunky green apple centerpieces, bridesmaids in the most beautiful pearly pink satin gowns … and lush hydrangea arrangements for the cake and bouquets. I love this pink; it’s understated with a blue undertone, and something different from the more popular pastel pink, hot pink or fuchsia. Just lovely!
Hi…my fiancee and I are planning a July 2008 summer wedding. We want our colors to be pink and green, but the only green that he likes and really wants is the color of green that is in the picture on this site that is the green bow (right by the picture of the bridesmaid dresses). We were just wondering what the name of the green was so we could plan accordingly. Any help is so much appreciated! Thanks so much!!
Hi Laurie!
You picked a tough one.
I think that green’s a little tricky because it has a touch of olive to it (very manly though!)
It can be helpful to track down your color in some of the most popular bridesmaids lines (David’s Bridal, Watters & Watters, because a lot of people are familiar with them and know what you mean when you say Burnt Orange or Periwinkle.
That said, I don’t think David’s has a close match to that green. Definitely not Kelly, Clover, Peridot, Celery, etc.
Watters & Watters comes a lot closer. I’d take a look at Pear (a little brighter) and Lime (which brings out more of the olive tone). Of course, what you see on the screen isn’t always a perfect match for the fabrics in real life, so this is just a starting point. Good luck!