How to Choose Candles to Use as Wedding Decorations

By eHow Weddings Editor

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Music, dates, cake, menu, rehearsals, dresses, flowers, and ushers; with so many decisions planning a wedding can quickly become overwhelming. The little things, like trying to choose candles to use as wedding decorations can be frustrating. One of the first things you need to do is choose the color of your wedding decorations and then the candles will fall into place. Here’s how to choose candles to use as wedding decorations:

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Candle
Bridal shop
Color wheel

Step1

First thing’s first, you need to decide on your wedding’s color. Pick a color. Usually the same color or colors are used throughout the wedding, from flowers to dresses, from decorations to thank you cards.

Step2

Determine your choices. With your color in mind, go to a wedding decoration store or candle shop and see what candles come in your colors. This helps narrow down your candle choices.

Step3

Use your favorite candles. Sometimes a certain candle design will choose you. If a style or candle jumps out at you and it comes in the right color, go with it.

Step4

Create symbolism with your candles. The Unity Candle is a popular symbol at weddings. You can enhance this by using different colors of candles along side it, as each color represents a different mood. For examples; red is full of energy, blue is relaxing, green is comforting and yellow makes people happy.

Step5

Get your candles. Once you have chosen the candles for your wedding decorations, you can now go purchase the candles.

Tips & Warnings

Use a color wheel to find complimentary colors to your chosen wedding color and use candles in those colors in your wedding decorations.
Still can’t decide? Then go with a little of everything. A new trend is to use a variety of candles in you wedding decorations.
Ask a professional wedding planner for help in matching different types of candles and colors together.
Never use black or a dark candles for decorations as this can put a somber mood on your day of celebration.
Before choosing a candle, make sure you can get other wedding decorations in that color.