Wedding Blog

As a teenager/twenty something, I took a job with Benjamin Moore to pay for my post-secondary education. At first, I was really happy about it, thinking that I could be creative and lend a visual eye to people’s home improvement projects. Unfortunately, what I came to find a few weeks into the job was that people don’t want creative. They want beige. Lots and lots of beige.

For every cool project I helped someone with (frescoing a ceiling red and gold, putting together a garden bedroom for a little girl), there were fifty more that just wanted “ecru” or “tan” or “off white,” which after a while, became kind of soul killing. I mean I’m not saying you have to paint everything lime green, but every so often, a splash of colour is therapeutic, you know?

Anyway, when it came to the wedding, an event where an overwhelming number of things are made to be white, offwhite or “champagne”*, I made Mr. Hummingbird promise me that we would have some colour somewhere, so this morning, when I went on a hunt for STD cards, I tried to pick out cool colourful ones to counteract my years of sensory deprivation at the hands of beige. Here are my results so far! Enjoy!

A little cherry blossom inspired one from ScissorPaperStone.

Some sparkly cranes on a gold and chocolate background from Papyrus.

Flower and hummingbird motif from ScissorsPaperStone (okay it’s grey, which is just about as boring as beige but the hummingbird is cool so I liked it).

Funky coloured text from Saturate Design.

A burst of blue from Wedding Paper Divas (can you tell I like a nature-based motif?)

A minimalist aqua and pink floral from Papyrus.

A burnt orangey-red persimmon tree from Papyrus.

Bold pink petals from ScissorsPaperStone. (This one comes in a few different colours, so if you have an aversion to Barbie’s favourite colour, no need to fear!)

Aqua and brown flowers and reed motif from Wedding Paper Divas (Not only very fresh looking but with a space for a shot of you and your sweetie).

Awesome silkscreened branches from Spruce Avenue.

Another branch silkscreen from Spruce if you’re looking for more of a Tiffany Blue.

A burst of bold warm colours from Saturate!

A fresh and clean looking lime green from Wedding Paper Divas
(okay, so maybe some things do need to be lime green . . .)

So what about you ladies? Any colour aversions/phobias? How are you adding a splash of colour to your big day?

* Most often than not, champagne is just a fancy word for beige.