How to Select a Wedding Color Scheme
A wedding color scheme can help bring unity to the decorations of your ceremony and reception. Picking several colors that complement or contrast each other can liven up your wedding design. As you plan your wedding, consider the colors that will be found in your flowers, linens and attendant's clothing.
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Select Your Primary Color
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Research your color choices by looking through wedding and home-décor magazines. Here you will find professionally designed weddings, as well as interiors, that may inspire you to think outside the color box.
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Make your color selection a meaningful one by selecting a primary wedding color closely identified with your religion or culture. This may be a color that is primarily identified with sentiments of luck, fidelity, happiness, or longevity.
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Choose a strong color that can stand up to the competition of the other elements of your color scheme. A color selection with a darker value makes for the ideal primary color selection.
Develop Your Scheme
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Visit your local paint shop to collect paint chips featuring your primary wedding color. These often come in strips featuring different hues or values of colors.
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Select a few paint chips in colors complementary to your wedding's primary color. Complementary colors, such as red and its complement green, are located directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
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Explore tertiary colors for your wedding color scheme. The tertiary colors are located to the left and right of the complementary color of your wedding's primary hue.
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Create an elegant environment by using a monochrome color scheme for your wedding. You can use your collection of paint chips to identify the range of values, from light to dark, appropriate for your wedding.
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Think lighter or darker when selecting accent colors. Small touches of brown, black or cream in your color scheme will draw more attention to your chosen color scheme.
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Preview your color scheme by cutting out the paint chips and placing them side by side.
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Paste your paint-chip palette to a piece of paper and stash it away in your wedding planner. You can use it to help you in selecting linens, stationery and other decorations for your event.
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Tips & Warnings
Your wedding color scheme should bring out your best features. Since your wedding décor will serve as the backdrop for many of your wedding photos, it is essential that you select a scheme that won't clash with your complexion.
