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Lately, I’ve really been struggling with our wedding colors. I know that blue and brown are good together, but most of the time we’re talking about light blue and brown. I’m trying to pull together navy and chocolate brown with accent colors of light blue and champagne. When I tell people this, they usually cock their heads to the side and look at me funny.
Is it too much? Are my colors too dark, even for an evening, winter wedding?
The bridesmaids will be in navy. Our flowers will be all white, with a little bit of light blue. We’re looking at all white linens with chocolate runners. The chairs at the reception are a dark wood with a taupe fabric. Honestly, I love it all in bits and pieces, but I’ve had a hard time picturing it coming together.
Until Abby at Style Me Pretty linked over to Big Huge Lab’s Palette Generator. I looked through my saved pictures, trying to figure out which one best epitomized my color scheme for the wedding. Here’s what I came up with:
The Atlanta skyline at night. I like to think that’s what the city will look like on the evening of our January 2008 wedding. So what did the palette generator come up with, based on this picture?
It’s perfect. That’s my color inspiration, in palette form. Yay!
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Oh goodness no they’re not too much! I think that’s the prettiest color scheme I’ve seen in a while _especially_ for a classy, winter, evening wedding. Gor-geous! 
A friend of mine did your exact color scheme (minus the champagne) and it looked nothing but classy! I designed her invites with navy and brown and a touch of light blue…. her bridesmaids wore navy and carried white flowers…. everything really looked classy and pulled together!
I like the navy - and I love the picture (and the Atlanta skyline) - but I have to say that I am so over brown. Everyone has been doing brown in their weddings (brown and blue, brown and pink, etc.). I like the navy with the light blue and champagne, and I think wood will go with those because it’s so natural, but it sounds like the only brown will be in the runner, no? I think that only a touch of brown will be nice, but I have to say that I like the scheme better w/o the brown. Just MHO of course.
i really like your color scheme and i think it completely works. it looks very swanky and classy. nice job!
My colors are navy with light blue and champagne… no brown. I just didn’t like brown, plus we’re doing an outdoor wedding and it didn’t work for us. I think it could work though.
Our bridesmaids are in navy and the flower girls are in light blue. My dress is champagne and the girls will carry cream and light blue flowers.
Those colors look gorgeous! We’re having blue & brown too, but more of a turquoise. I had difficulty finding flowers that matched but it turned out okay!
love the palette! How did you copy it from the website? I’ve tried to do it a couple of time
Kami, I totally agree that chocolate brown has become the “super trendy” wedding color as of late. I actually wore two different tea-length chocolate brown bridesmaids dresses last year! As I’m figuring out more of the details of the day, I keep leaning more toward navy and white as our main colors - everything else seems to be an accent! So we’ll see how it turns out!
ladyjeni, I believe I did a screenshot (print screen) and copied the page into power point. Then I cropped the picture to just the palette and saved it as a jpg. It lost a ton of resolution, but you still get the color idea, right?
oh i love it!!! i like the navy and brown, totally unique from all the pastel and brown combos of late. and i love your accent colors. it will definitely make each element “pop”! go for it!
I think it looks really pretty.
I’m actually doing white and ice blue with accents of navy. I always wanted those colors, and now that I’m in the heart of planning, I kind of like the fact that it’s a relatively unique color scheme - so I’m not seeing variations of our wedding in every other picture I look at.
You can only imagine the sheer joy I felt, when we went to go look at an old historic site, and saw that the two story ballroom had ice blue walls with white shutters and trim…
I love it! I think it’s beautiful, perfect for a winder, evening wedding, and it’s very dramatic! It’s different than things you usually see, too - wonderful choice!
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miss magnolia…you are so smart…thanks!
I got married on 7/14/07 and our colors were light blue and chocolate brown and it was BEAUTIFUL!
You can see our pro pics at http://www.pictage.com
Type in “HEFFERON” - we got married in a botanical garden.
I think that your color combination sounds perfect. Especially if the darker colors were sort of jewel-tone.
Those are raelly good results. The ones I get from doing that generator are funky. So I’m still struggling with colors…
Lovely! How did you copy it from the site? It doesn’t seem to work when I try it.
im the moh for my friends wedding coming up in feb. her color scheme is midnight blue, chocolate brown, and gold.. what about something like that? 2 dark colors and 1 bright color. looks very nice all together. goodluck!
Hello all. Ms. Magnolia you are awesome….please please help me figure out how to copy the color palette from big huge lab…I cannot figure out what to do; even were to go to do a screen shot.
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Miss Magnolia, Atlanta
Age and Occupation: 28, Public Affairs and Government Relations
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Lobbyist
Engagement Date: December 1, 2006
Wedding Date: January, 2008
Blogging Since: September 6, 2007
Venue: catherdral ceremony/private club reception
About Me: Mr. Magnolia and I are thrilled to be planning an evening, winter wedding for 200 people in Atlanta. We both work in politics and share a love of University of Georgia football, pop culture, and good food! I'm a runner who adores wedding magazines, bad reality television, and a
good glass of wine. Most of the time I like to think I'm pretty organized, but between wedding planning, house hunting, and a full-time job, I'm being put to the test!
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