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Weddingbee has given a lot of attention to the color selection process, because it’s often one of the first decisions that we make as future brides. The colors we choose can have an effect not only on the look of the wedding and reception, but the mood, formality, and energy level of the day–not to mention how they play against the wedding party’s skin tones, cultural traditions, and personal preferences.

Before you start trying out cool tools like Kuler’s color scheme designer or making your own palette from the online “swatches” at Denver Fabrics, it’s useful to understand how to build a theme based on all these factors and more. That’s where the “Real, Genuine, Actually Useful Advice on Picking Your Wedding Colors” article from Favor Ideas comes in. This article provides a clear outline for how to choose the right colors for you, and has some really inspired ideas for finding unusual yet beautiful color combos.

Miss Plumeria has also written a great post on choosing colors.

Or, if you’re lazy and just want to skip all that, over at Color Schemer they’ve done all the work for you (thanks to Favor Ideas for the link). Just search for a term that describes your wedding…”romantic,” “vintage,” “sophisticate,” “beach,” etc. Color Schemer’s members have created numerous palettes for almost every search term I’ve tried!

Even if you’re beyond the preliminary stages of wedding planning, a revisit to your scheme can help reawake you. You may discover an accent color to incorporate, decide to shift a tone or two, or just reinvigorate yourself if you’re at a lull in the planning process

I say all this, but personally we just chose our colors with a conversation pretty much like this: “I like cobalt blue. Do you like cobalt blue?” “Sure.” “What goes with cobalt blue? Silver?” “Sure.” “And let’s add black too. And light blue in case we can’t find some stuff in cobalt. And my dress is ivory. So that too?” “Sure.”