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Wedding Color Palette Ideas

Your wedding celebration will feel ambient with a perfectly chosen wedding color palette. Seasonal, elegant, natural, or dramatic are all wedding moods that many brides use to design their wedding color palettes. These are some tips on how to mix and match colors to create the perfect palette for your wedding.

            Elegant: For brides who envision a very elegant wedding, neutrals and metallics are ideal colors to use. For a graceful and upscale effect, combine bronze with blush, gold with ivory, and white with silver. The wedding cake, table linens, bridesmaid jewelry and dresses, and even the wedding flowers are all different aspects of your wedding that you can incporporate these beautiful color palettes with. Beautiful calligraphy can be used for the wedding menus, invitations, and programs; and use the neutral and metallic palette with ornate elements such as patterns (perfect for invitations and the wedding cake). The effect will be quite impressive.

            Natural: If you love the great outdoors, a natural wedding color palette is ideal for you. Choose your color combination based on the part of nature you especially enjoy. Your color combinations could include green and brown for forest colors; blue, white, and sandy for beach colors; and mushroom,green, and wheat for neutral colors. One way to enhance the natural feel of your wedding colors is to play with layers of matte textures. Think woven raffia chargers under stoneware dishes for the reception tables, bark vessels for centerpieces, and handmade paper leaves for the escort cards. As for the wedding attire, fabrics such as shantung or linen will work better than shiny satin for both the bride and the bridesmaids. Choose outdoor or beachy bridesmaid jewelry in one of the natural colors, or in organically shaped keshi pearls.    

            Seasonal: Celebrate the time of year with a seasonal wedding color palette. Pretty pastels are ideal for spring, especially in the wedding flowers. Spring palettes are well represented with lilac hyacinths, pink tulips, and yellow mini-daffodils and would create a beautiful effect. Seasonal colors are brighter for the summer months and include lime and hot pink, fuchsia and orange, and sky blue and yellow. For a fall wedding, highlight the season with classical autumnal hues: harvest gold, russet, deep orange, cranberry, and mocha. Play up the theme with details such as a falling leaf design on the wedding cake and Swarovski crystal leaf pendants for the bridesmaid jewelry. Winter colors tend to be very crisp: pure white, true red, and forest green. An icy wintery set of white, silver, and pale ice blue would create a snowflake theme celebration and make for another great winter wedding color palette.

Dramatic: Be brave and bold! Burgundy, gold, and eggplant purple could be combined to make a very dramatic wedding color palette. Another pretty wedding color palette combination is a bronze with a royal blue. Imagine how stunning your bridesmaids would look in royal blue silk dresses with bronze crystal bridesmaid jewelry and ivory bouquets with bronze ribbons. Black and white weddings are becoming more and more popular these days, aiding in the ever so increasing usage of high contrast colors for a wedding color palette. Add an unexpected pop of a bright color to a high contrast palette, such as lime, magenta, or taxi-cab yellow, for a unique design.

These are just a few ideas for your wedding color palette. You can go with anything that captures your fancy including a retro vibe, a preppy style, or a whimsical feelingBrowsing he internet and looking through wedding magazines is a perfect place to start looking for your perfect wedding color palette inspiration.

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