Wedding colors
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BJ: this is terrific. But where do you archive the rest of the FAQ? I know I’m early, but I’d love to see the spring colors FAQ. Leila (& David but he’s too much of a guy to think about colors) 4/12/98
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> Those of you getting married this summer might enjoy this. > I compiled this faq between 1994 to 1996. Has anything > changed?
I’m glad to see other people chose "dark" colors for summer weddings. My FMIL is rather horrified at my choice of midnight blue and wants to know why I’m not having "nice pastels"! Debbie(& Ron) June 19, 1998
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> this is terrific. But where do you archive the rest of the FAQ? I know > I’m early, but I’d love to see the spring colors FAQ.
The seasonal colors wedding faq is not archived at this point. If others would like to see the other sections (fall, winter, spring), I’d be happy to post them. BJ
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I’d like the fall wedding colors FAQ posted. Fran
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> I’m glad to see other people chose "dark" colors for summer weddings. My > FMIL is rather horrified at my choice of midnight blue and wants to know > why I’m not having "nice pastels"! > Debbie(& Ron) > June 19, 1998
Hi, we’re having dark blue because my sisters (all three of them) won’t look sallow in pastels and instead will look really nice in dark blue. Now, we’ve got to find the dresses… Yenju
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I too am having dark colors. My wedding is September 13, and my maids dresses are navy. The thing that makes it all look a little "brighter", is the dresses have a white lacy overlay on the bodice, and I am using a darkish mauve as my accent color. I am even having all black tuxes. Oooo. No one has said anything about my choice of colors, and so far have gotten rave reviews on them. NOTE: Don’t forget, this is your day, and don’t let ANYONE tell you what they think you want. Stand your ground. Terry (and Jerry renewing after 7 years). – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I’m glad to see other people chose "dark" colors for summer weddings. My > FMIL is rather horrified at my choice of midnight blue and wants to know > why I’m not having "nice pastels"! > Debbie(& Ron) > June 19, 1998 >Hi, we’re having dark blue because my sisters (all three of them) won’t >look sallow in pastels and instead will look really nice in dark blue. >Now, we’ve got to find the dresses… >Yenju
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Those of you getting married this summer might enjoy this. I compiled this faq between 1994 to 1996. Has anything changed? BJ The Wedding Colors FAQ was compiled and is maintained by Barbara Kuehl. There are four sections: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Q: It seems that many of the weddings are taking place in June. It also seems that just about everyone has chosen a color for their reception and ceremony _ except us, since we had never thought about it. What are your colors? Well, i’m a June *groom*, not a June bride, but i figure i can answer anyway. Jeanne’s favorite color is my second favorite color, and my favorite color is Jeanne’s second favorite color, so the choice was easy. Hunter green (Jeanne’s favorite) and purple (my favorite). (And it *does* look better than it sounds!) Our wedding will be next June 22nd, and my colors were determined by the bridesmaids’ dresses – they’re floral prints with peaches, lilac, some mint greens, etc, and our wedding is in the morning, so we have lots of springy pastel colors. There wasn’t much to coordinate ’cause we’re ordering white invites and thank-you’s, the guys are wearing grey morning suits, the chapel’s full of all colors of stained glass, and we’re borrowing a friend’s pew bows from her wedding, and they’re pink, so we’ll add some purples and light greens and whites with ribbons to them to hang off of the pews. Our reception site is at a hotel ballroom, and they’ve got very rich colors in the carpeting, table linens, and silk floral arrangements – lots of burgandy, forest green, and creams, but I’m not too concerned about the two color schemes clashing. I’m most concerned about the ceremony colors when all attention will pretty much be in one area, whereas at the reception, there will be many areas of focus. I’m so excited, I’m getting goose bumps as I write this! I wanted light and springy because my wedding is in the morning. The bridesmaids dresses are probably going to be peach and I’ll probably go with seafoam green as the other colors (for accents and random things like that) just because I like green and my favorite sweater is white, peach and seafoam green so I figure they go together well. I chose my colors by the bridemaid dress that I liked. I didn’t want to fall in love with some color and then be stuck searching for just the right dress, only to find it doesn’t come in the right color. The decision: Midnight Blue. Ivory (my dress) and burgundy (a color that somehow prominmently wormed its way into our interior decorating *ha ha* scheme). My sister got married last June and a great way to use spring colors is in a wonderful floral print (works if you’re a floral person) and picking one or two of the dominant colors in the floral as your accent colors. I fell in love with those stargazer lillys, and I will also be using Ivy from my mother’s wedding (25 years ago). Consequently, I took a lilly to the fabric store to choose the material for the bridesmaids dresses. They are a shimmery dusty rose with a light pink lining so they look bright for June. I got married last June and used dark purple dresses. All but one of my bridesmaid were dark complicated with dark hair and I thought they looked better in dark colors (that’s why I choose my color). But I found the dress I wanted, then I chose my colors by what looked best on my bridesmaids. For the flowers I basically asked the florist what she thought looked best with the dress. I believe in their bouquests there were salmon lillies and other flowers which I can’t remember right now. In my bouquet I used all white flowers. For my sister’s wedding we all wore navy gowns, they were beautiful! My sister used all bright spring flowers. Everyone said that they were very nice …..As it turned out, it rained on the day of the wedding (6/30) and so most of the guests wore navy also. My June wedding color is going to be plum (plum dresses and black tuxs & white table coverings probably). Plum is my favorite color; not too violet, or purple — But it sucks in a way because I’m having a hard time finding a floral arrangment that I like. I’m having plum bridesmaid’s dresses. My dress is ivory and we’ll have black tuxes. A good complimentary color to plum is dusty rose. I am going to use dusty rose colored roses and filler for my bouquet. I’ve also decided to incorporate gold as an accent color (the reception site uses gold fluffy stuff on their buffet table as decoration). I’m having plum bridesmaid’s dresses. They are a plain spaghetti-strap plum brocade sundress (rewearable, at least my friends think they’ll wear them again), with a cropped short-sleeve jacket over them, with ivory trim. The groomsmen are wearing a black tux with a black/plum paisley waistcoat and tie. Our accents seem to be hunter green and ivory (my dress color), with some deep red roses here and there. Navy was actually our second-choice color for *our* bridesmaids for next June! I ended up finding burgundy-plum dresses instead. I’m accenting the burgundy with white and pale yellow… My wedding is June 29, 1996. I’m going "untraditional" and using black and white, with bright green accents. Q: I was wondering what the appropriate colors were for a July wedding? We are open to all suggestions! I recently got married on July 8. I went with in-season flowers….deep purple, yellow, pink, and white. I don’t even know the names of the flowers, but they were gorgeous. The invitations were floral purple and green. I knew the men would wear black tails with white shirts, and I would be in white. And since the wedding was at 8pm….the bridesmaids should wear full-length. I picked out the most beautiful gowns for them. Simple scooped neckline, fitted, shortsleeve, tailored skirt with a high slit. The bodice was white lace and the skirt black. It was simply beautiful. Everyone was in black and white….with bright flowers. And the sunset was perfect. There was a gentle breeze. We lit white bamboo torches around the gazebo to add a little romance. We are getting married July 6, 1996 and our colors are red, white, and black. I like the sophisication of those colors together, and the red really brightens everything. We did have a tough time finding the style of bridesmaid dress (a suit) in red, and we ended up having them made. The bridesmaids will be wearing red and carrying a white/red-tipped rose with greens. I will be wearing white and carrying a bouquet of mainly red and white roses. Red will be our accent color for decorations at the reception. I’m getting married in late July of 1996. I decided not to have any specific colors because I didn’t want to limit myself like that, I guess. I plan to have lots of wildflowers and only one attendant (my sister who will wear a dress from this really cool chiffon fabric with purple daisies). Our wedding will be in July at night, but my bridesmaids are wearing black dresses and we are having flowers in the burgundy/dark red family. Our flowers are: dark red roses, Stargazer lilies (white with burgundy spots/stripes), burgundy snapdragons, freesia, stephanotis, "white wax", plumosa, and lots of greenery. Q: Well, since people have asked about colors, was wondering if anyone had suggestions for my August wedding? I decided long ago that I would make the bouquet, corsages, and boutineires for my wedding on August 26. Our wedding has a Celtic theme (My mother is a Lindsay, his is a McDonald). The MOH and BM are wearing long evening gowns in dark wine with a sash of Lindsay tartan (wine, dark green, and navy) and the piper is wearing McDonald Tartan. My bouquet will have white roses, wine roses, thistle, and heather. The last wedding I attended in August, the colors were fushcia, white and teal (sounds loud, but was really okay!). The bride wore white of course, the bridesmaids wore fushcia and one mom wore fuscia and one teal. I like navy, pink and cream. … read more »
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Hi! I’m new here and just have a quick question. How big of a deal should I make of everyone being in my exact colors? Or should I just let it go and see what happens? Thanks for your help!!
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> Hi! I’m new here and just have a quick question. How big of a deal should I > make of everyone being in my exact colors? Or should I just let it go and see > what happens? Thanks for your help!!
Take a middle ground. Pick out two or three colors you want to use for things like bridesmaids dresses, flowers, etc. but don’t stress out if every last thing isn’t available in those colors. (We often use the example that the cocktail napkins don’t HAVE to match the bridesmaids’ shoes!) If everything is the same color, it will get visually boring and you will drive yourself nuts trying to find exact matches. If you totally "just let it go" then it won’t appear very unified. Middle ground…. gloria p
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Rather than the exact color think hues. If you are using blue- use different hues of blue. That will keep it interesting and fresh but hold everything together, at the same time. Jen
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We were just looking at our pictures this weekend and noticed, again, that none of the blue match. The flowers, chair ties (don’t even ask), napkins and BM’s dresses don’t match eachother. However, not one person every said anything about it (and there were quite a few family members who would have). Don’t stress. As long as the colors don’t clash horribly, no one will notice or remember. — Melissa (03/18/01)
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