Weddingbee Blog

“Just pick a freakin color, already!” I’ve been telling this to myself for months (I feel that Mr. Lily has been ESPing it to me too). I’ve been through every color combo possible in my head and swayed backwards and forwards over which ones I like and which ones I’ve hated.

About two weeks ago, we came up with the “final” color combo. I loved it, Mr. Lily loved it, My Mom didn’t hate it… VOILA! So why did I wake up this morning worried about my colors? Seriously, what’s wrong with me? There should be a name for this disease. Colorchoiceaphobia or something.

OK, so here’s the general idea: seagreen bridesmaid dresses with a charcoal grey ribbon for the ceremony with ivory bouquets. For the reception, the linens would be an ivory undercloth with a charcoal grey topper and seagreen napkins (with some sort of grey ribbon tied around each one) and white centerpieces. Below you can see our “color trials” for this combo (FYI the bridesmaid dress color is the swatch on the bottom right and the napkin is a sample I got from a linen rental place– the rest are Mr. Lily’s clothes, hee hee).

I think the combo is very beautiful and elegant. I guess I started to worry this morning that the whole thing might be too grey and that the seagreen color is hard to match. I want to do pomanders at the ceremony, but how on earth will I found a flower to match that green? And I want to do a candy buffet, but a quick look at some candy sites shows lots of lime green or dark green candy, but no seagreen. Grrrr. I have issues!