Seems there has been a lot of talk about color on the Landlocked Bride. Well, I love color, what can I say? We’ve established that though.
For any of you brides struggling with color palettes for your wedding, or even you wedding planners out there that are hard-pressed for some fun color ideas, you should visit The Perfect Palette. You can find just about any color combination, and some great inspiration boards.
Even if you are not a bride and are just looking for some great color schemes for your wardrobe, or house/apartment/condo, this is a great resource!
Enjoy!
I think I may have just found my materials for convincing the FI that slate gray, red and orange are the way to go. I’ve been doing some major research, and thanks to a few of my bridesmaids, I got some great mood boards to share with him. I’ll keep you posted on how this venture pans out.
Wish me luck.
UPDATE:
We’ve decided to stick with our original color combination. After much thought and talk, the FI just doesn’t like the slate with the red and orange. Plus, we cannot find gray suits and coordinating bridesmaids dresses that we are happy with. I think the chocolate brown and tan suits will look good. And, yes we are both happy with this decision.
Seems another great color combination is sweeping the wedding blog world. That of tangerine and slate (le swoon).
The lovely Kathryn at Snippet and Ink featured this great inspiration board on her blog yesterday. I absolutely love the slate/graphite color with the pop of orange. These would be great Fall wedding colors. Orange, for obvious reasons. The slate/graphite? It’s just such a modern color (and you all know how much I love slate) and great for accents! Only one color missing…..red (I am biased, haha).
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Aletha at Pearls Events featured some great tangerine and slate inspiration boards yesterday, as well, including this gorgeous one below!
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I am so lusting over those note cards and those earrings. The orange really pops on this board.
Okay, I am seriously contemplating switching the chocolate brown (in my colors) for the slate. I so want to, but the FI wasn’t really feeling it when I brought my negotiating skills to the table last night. Good thing we are still 13 months out (as of yesterday, folks!)….I still got time to woo him. Fingers crossed.
P.S. I still love our colors, I just really like a lot of other colors, too. What can I say? I love color.
How can you not love this color combination?
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There is just something so modern and elegant about that majolica blue. Dramatic, yet fresh. Bold, but fun. Swoon. And I’m a sucker for slate. Slate is such a great accent color and I wish more brides would use it. That warm olive color? It looks so delicious against the slate and majolica blue.
I’m begging you, please, PLEASE use these colors for your wedding and send me photos so I can lust over them.
And, for the record, I love our color choices and have no intention of changing them.
When the FI and I got engaged back in February, colors were one of the first things we decided on (as seen here). It was not long after that I knew I wanted my ‘maids to where chocolate brown. Although it’s a neutral and somewhat muted color, I wanted to make sure that where ever we had a splash of tangerine or garnet, that you could see it. I felt, that if we had the girls wear red or orange, that there would be SO much of it around the ceremony and reception. Plus, chocolate brown is a very chic color (and re-wearable).
Trust me, both me and the FI really love the color red, and the orange is fun and vibrant, but I am completely lusting over my girls wearing chocolate brown. I haven’t picked out the actual dress they will wear and have a few in mind, all of which come in a shade of brown that I really love. I am actually in love with the idea of having the girls find their own dresses in shades of brown (even though the dresses below are not in shades of brown, you get the point).
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Each of the girls would be able to highlight their own personal style, while still fitting in with the look and feel of our wedding. Obviously, I would need to okay the dresses, that way all of the girls’ dresses complement each other. I just feel as though the tradition of having the girls all wear the same dress in the same color is not nearly as popular anymore (or am I dreaming?).
What do you all think? Would you prefer your girls to all wear the same color/same dress or mix it up a bit with complementary colors and/or different dresses?
If you remember, early on we chose our wedding colors:
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It was back when I re-did our wedding invites for the final time (I have not touched them sense, only to change location information; you should be proud), that the FI and I decided what the theme for the wedding was going to be: Circles. We would use the circles in conjunction with the modern, Fall colors we chose.
It is not a very exciting theme, I get that, but almost all of the elements that we plan on using/incorporating into the ceremony and reception will have some sort of tie-in with the whole “circle” theme. And, because of the design on our invitations and the monogram I created, it just seemed very obvious to us what we could do to make the wedding feel fun and modern by playing with the circle theme. As I continue to share the details of our wedding, I will reveal some elements hear and there (we wouldn’t want to give it all away now, would we?).
I revamped our inspiration board since the last one. The last one just lacked a general focus. It was almost as if I just “Googled” all images that were garnet, tangerine and chocolate brown. Since the FI and I have finalized a few more details and made some decisions on our end, I re-did our board. I’m sure I will re-do this several times over the next year, but putting it together really helps me to see a bigger picture, especially since our wedding day is still over a year away.
Each of the elements in the board represent something. The image on the top left is the first image I found that was an inspiration for color for me. It was then when we decided on “garnet, tangerine and chocolate brown.” The image of Chris Pine (how could I resist)? Well, we really want the guys to wear tan suits. It fits the look and feel we are trying to achieve for the wedding. The shoes? Well, you have all seen my shoes, but these are a representation of them (of which our local Cheree Berry wore at her own wedding). And, the red wall? Well, you all read my post about the orange wall, well this lovely red one is right here in town!
Enjoy your second dose of Garnet, Tangerine and Chocolate Brown!
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Top Row: Color Palette (Blogger Brides); Ranunculas (Ladybird Poppy); Dress (J.Crew)
Second Row: Lemonade (Martha Stewart); Paper Lanterns (Luminous Designs); Cupcake (Martha Stewart); Red Shoes (The Wedding Decorator)
Bottom Row: Dress (Demetrios); Red Wall (Megan Thiele Photography); Suit (GQ)
Remember those cute knock-knock jokes when you were a kid?
Kid: ”Knock, knock.”
Patron: ”Who’s there?”
Kid: ”Orange.”
Patron: ”Orange, who?”
Kid: ”Orange you glad…..”
Yeah, okay, so they became a little annoying after a while, but I had a total flashback when I saw this:
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*Courtesy of the Brooklyn Bride
I wish we had some place like that in town to take pictures. Don’t get me wrong, there are some fab places to take pictures here, like:
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And, here:
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BUT, considering the fact that orange (tangerine) is one of our faboosh wedding colors, how fun would that wall be to take pictures in front of?
Since the “Orange You Glad” wall is not an option in this lovely midwestern town, I think the FI and I are going to opt to do some fun photos a la Max Wanger (although the lovely Jessica Claire just shot some fun photos with green balloons for her birthday):
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Just imagine that balloon in red. How fun is that?! I can’t help myself in wanting to use fun props during the e-shoot (not for all of the photos, just a few). Now to get our photographer on board, which I don’t think will be a problem at all!
Okay, this weekend, I fell in love with Gray and Yellow. I have always loved those two colors together terribly, but really had my heart set on “Garnet, Tangerine and Chocolate” for the wedding colors. Don’t get me wrong, I just had a moment of “Ooo, these colors could be fun and modern!”
And, to give you a taste of the gloriousness that is Gray and Yellow, here you go:
Thanks to Miss Joey for this inspiration. I just love the yellow envelopes!
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A shout out to the lovely Dallas Brides Something Blue blog for this one! I just love the contrast.
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I think the guys would look great in gray suits, but with pops of yellow (tie/bow-tie, socks, etc.). AND, I already purchased that J.Crew gray dress on the top left (LOVES it) for something (rehearsal dinner, a wedding, etc.).
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We are still sticking with our “Garnet, Tangerine and Chocolate” theme, but I wanted to share my recent color crisis. I think they are just so modern and chic! I love our ideas for making the reds and oranges really pop. Plus, I bought those GORGEOUS Kate Spade’s that I am beyond excited about. I could not possibly change my mind now (although I would obviously wear those shoes anyway).
Did any of you waver between colors and have a hard time choosing?
So, I’m pretty sure we’ve decided on colors for the wedding. And, as cliche as it is, we really want to go with reds and oranges. I had contemplated navy blue for a short period of time, but reds and oranges beat it out.
Even though our wedding is in the Fall, and reds and oranges are everywhere, I want to use them in a different way. My initial thought was to go with the color of Fall foliage, but it just seems too overdone. And, after re-doing the invitation suite recently, I thought the best thing to do is stick with “fresh colors”. So, with that being said, here are our colors:
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Below is my inspiration board for colors. We are going for a modern twist on the traditional wedding. We will be replacing old elements with new ones and just making it more about us and our relationship/personalities. I think that is more important than “traditional” wedding elements. The colors will be displayed everywhere as “pops” of color, making it fun.
Have any of you gone back and forth on color choices?
