About Popular Wedding Colors

How do you choose your wedding color theme? Where will those colors appear in decor and clothing throughout the wedding?

Significance

The color theme for your wedding sets the tone and creates the mood of the entire day. Warm colors such as orange, yellow and reds with yellow undertones can create a feeling of excitement and warmth. Cool colors such as blue, purple and reds with blue undertones can create a feeling of peace, royalty and calm.

Types

Once you select your color choice, it will make flower selection easier. If you select a light blue for your wedding, for example, you might choose delphiniums as your main flowers in your bouquets and arrangements. Popular red and pink flowers include roses, while yellow and orange flowers might include daisies, gladiolus or canna lilies. White flowers are available in gardenias, roses and many other options.

Effects

To create the most eye-catching effects for your wedding decor, it is best to select one main color and one or two complementing accent colors. Consider the season of your wedding when selecting your color theme to incorporate the holidays or other themes of the year.

Considerations

Remember that the colors you choose for your wedding will likely be worn by the wedding party, so consider which color schemes might look good (or bad) on your maid of honor before making your final choice. Also consider which flowers will be readily available during the season you are planning your wedding to help you stay within budget. Holidays are a great inspiration for a wedding color theme.

Potential

Here are some potential color themes for your wedding day according to the season or holidays.
* Spring wedding color themes: You might choose cheerful pastels such as pink, buttercream yellow, lavender and light blue for your early spring wedding. You could use spring bulbs like tulips, daffodils and other spring blossoms to carry over the spring theme.
* Summer wedding color themes: Red, white and blue is a popular choice for a patriotic-themed wedding. Or select warm toned colors with tropical flowers such as orange, yellow and bright red.
* Fall wedding color themes: Autumn colors have lots of beautiful potential for wedding color themes, such as bronze, copper, brown, red, burnt orange and dark green.
* Winter wedding color themes: For a winter wedding you have the potential of choosing holiday-themed colors like red and evergreen with gold accents, or winter-themed colors such as navy blue, ice blue and silver.

Features

Your wedding colors will be featured in many places throughout the wedding ceremony, decor and clothing. Expect to use your main wedding color on tablecloths, bridesmaid dresses, groomsman vests or ties and in most of the flower arrangements. Your secondary colors can be used as accent pieces and will appear in ribbons and flowers in centerpieces, napkins or dishes at the reception, pew decorations, flower girl headpieces or corsages for the wedding party and anywhere you need to put an complementary color.
It takes a bit of planning and some creativity, but usually the wedding colors can be determined by the time of the year you are having your wedding, your personal tastes and preferences and the background colors of the church or wedding facility you are using.