Elegant Wedding Colors
Choosing an elegant color palette for your wedding day can be overwhelming. Favor Ideas reminds brides and wedding planners to consider the venue before choosing a color theme. Matching the colors with the venue will improve overall elegance. If the venue is a log cabin in the forest, the wedding style will lean toward rustic with antique furniture, evergreen trees outside the windows, and stone fireplaces. You can achieve elegance with any type of style. Decide upon your style by looking through catalogs and magazines. If you are drawn toward a contemporary modern style, you'll want a venue that supports this type of style.
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Metallics
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Silver is an eye-catching addition to this white bouquet. Metallics are a good way to spruce up a white wedding without getting into a lot of color confusion. Silver and gold are elegant accents for a white-, black- or cream-colored wedding. Copper is another metallic color that creates elegance at a wedding venue. Copper is a good central theme in a fall-colored wedding. The Perfect Palette suggests starting with copper as your main color and then adding accents such as gold and chocolate for an elegant autumn wedding theme.
Bold Colors
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According to The Knot, modern brides are choosing more bold colors for their wedding day. You can cover every inch of your wedding with bright color, but how and where you use the color will determine the mood and elegance of the color theme. Red is a bold, romantic wedding color. Red roses are a traditional wedding flower that will add elegance to a white, cream or red wedding. The Knot warns against getting too "matchy." You don't want the guests being overwhelmed by one bold color.
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Pastels
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Use bold colors to accent white or cream. A princess fairy tale wedding brings to mind pastel pinks, blues and violets. Maintain elegance with a pastel wedding by using nature to inspire your color palette. Hydrangeas in their many shades are a traditional wedding flower and good inspiration for choosing an elegant pastel color palette. For a more dramatic theme, pair these spring colors with dark, bold or metallic shades. According to Sweet Fashion Design, pairing pastel bridesmaids dresses with matching shoes and wedding flowers will create an elegantly natural theme.
Nature
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Get inspired by the seasons and the colors of nature. Using the natural setting to inspire your wedding color palette will always create elegance. If you find it difficult to choose a theme that inspires elegance, use the flowers, plants and sky to help you. Fall weddings inspire themes of deep reds, orange, chocolate and rich greens. Springtime brings light blues, violets and yellows. Winter weddings are often themed in ice palace colors such as royal blue, silver, and white. Time of day is also important. Dark purple, blue and tan is an elegant wedding theme picked by A Fairytale Wedding that stands out in an evening summer atmosphere.
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