10 Tips for Choosing a Color Palette for Your Wedding Theme
Are you thinking of the color palette to use for your wedding but don’t know where to begin? Your wedding’s color palette is one of the most important things you need to consider when planning your wedding. It’s also one of the very first things you have to finalize, as everything else will follow suit: your invitations, flowers, your entourage’s clothes, as well as your decor. But alas, choosing your color scheme can be a difficult decision to reach with your partner.
Luckily, there are a few tips and tricks you can follow to achieve the best color palette for your dream wedding. With this guide, choosing the perfect colors to match your wedding style will be easy breezy.
Here are 10 tips on how to choose the best color palette for your wedding:
1. Consider the Season
While there are no hard rules for what colors to use for each season, it can be used as a reference to your wedding color palette. Certain colors are naturally associated with each season, such as dark colors for autumn and winter, pastel colors for spring, and bright colors for summer.
If you’re planning on a beach wedding in the middle of summer, then bold, bright colors like solid yellow, turquoise blue, or bright pink would be great ideas. If you plan on having a wedding during December, when the weather is cool or if it coincides with Christmas, maybe the colors silver and metallic blue would be more fitting.
Certain colors are best suited for certain times of the year. You can use this as a reference for your color palette. However, as mentioned, there are no hard rules to which colors to use per season, so if you want to use gold for a summer wedding, you can do so as you please.
2. Consider the Venue
So you know that you want to have your wedding in a grand ballroom. Check whether or not the ballroom is already decorated, such as having patterned walls and intricate carpet details. If yes, you should base your color palette on the details of the venue so your decor and entourage garb do not blend or clash with the location.
If you plan on having your wedding in a tent, warehouse, outdoors, or any blank space, you can have the option of many different colors as they are considered to be neutral spaces.
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3. Consider the Mood
The mood of your wedding should be also be taken into account. If you want a wedding that’s packed with drama, then bold, solid colors like purple, gold, and marsala are perfect. If you want a more laid-back, low-key, and relaxed mood, then maybe cool colors that promote calmness and relaxation are much suited, such as baby blue, mint green, baby pink, or light yellow.
4. Think About Your Wedding Theme
Do you have a wedding theme or concept that you want to follow? Think rustic, traditional, or maybe even a themed wedding like a gothic-inspired wedding theme or maybe even a carnival-themed wedding. Decide on a wedding theme and you can choose your color palette depending on the general concept of your wedding.
If you have a low-key beach wedding, then maybe metallic gold and violet are not the most ideal colors; if you have a Moroccan-inspired wedding, then maybe neutral colors like beige and white are not so perfect.
If you have a certain theme in mind, choosing your color palette will then be an easy decision.
5. Think About the Holidays that Coincide with Your Wedding Day
Is your wedding day going to be held on Valentine’s Day? Or maybe on St. Patrick’s Day? Or maybe even Halloween? If your wedding coincides with a certain holiday, or even if the date is close to a holiday, you can also use it as a reference for your wedding color palette.
If your wedding falls on or near Valentine’s Day, then maybe pink and red could be perfect. If your wedding falls on Halloween, then maybe you can use orange, shades of orange, or black colors for your wedding color palette.
6. Choose Color as Your Foundation Color
If you’ve always loved a certain color, you can use this to base the color accents of your wedding. For example, you’ve always loved the color blue. You can use blue as the base color and choose the accent based on the colors that are perfectly matched with blue. You can choose blue and green, or blue and yellow, or blue and cream. If you’re unsure, you can use a color wheel to match blue with the colors it complements or the colors that are directly beside it.
7. Consider One Color in Monochromatic Hues
You can also eliminate the use of other colors and stick with one base color but in an ombre effect. You can choose different shades of blue for your color palette, creating a clean and cohesive look that will look absolutely gorgeous in pictures.
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8. The Color Palette Must Flatter You
While you may be wearing a white or off white dress in your wedding, a color palette that flatters you will also be important. Your entourage and guests may wear the color palette but it’s also important that the colors flatter your skin tone. This is because you will be photographed beside your bridesmaids and of course, around your decor, so it’s still a must that the colors around you flatter you best.
9. Consider the Color of the Year
If you love to stay on-trend, you can use the color of the year for your wedding color palette. The color of the year is usually published by design organizations one year prior so you’ll have a lot of time to prepare everything before your wedding date. Using trendy colors for your wedding will have people talking about your big day for months to come and will be used as a basis for other weddings of the year, too.
10. Base Your Color Palette on the Surroundings of Your Wedding Location
If you plan on having a wedding in a garden with cherry blossoms, then using a color palette that matches the trees would look absolutely divine. If you plan on having your wedding in a ski resort, then having an all-white wedding color palette will also be stunningly beautiful. Take your cue from the surrounding environment, and you’ll have a beautiful wedding that’s well thought of.
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While the color theme of your wedding can be a hard decision to come up with, these tips and tricks will help you narrow down your choices so you can have the perfect colors to match your perfectly beautiful special day. Featured images from pinterest.com.
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