Ms. Dahlia, Detroit/Cleveland
Age and Occupation: 24, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, IT System Administrator
Engagement Date: December 31, 2006
Wedding Date: May 2008
Blogging Since: September 19, 2007
Venue: United Methodist Cathedral & historic downtown hotel in Cleveland
About Me: I enjoy cooking, dancing and swimming. I am a geek and apply game theory to my everyday life. Winter is my favorite time of year, especially when spent curled up with good coffee and a book by Madeleine L'Engle.
Colors?
September 28th, 2007 @ 10:31 am by Ms. Dahlia
One of the things about wedding planning is this discussion of “colors.”
Shortly after we were engaged, curious friends and family began asking us about our colors.
What do you mean we are supposed to have colors? Why do we need to have a theme to the wedding? Shouldn’t getting married be enough?
In reality, though, it seems that deciding on colors would be useful to do. It would make the decision making process easier because there would be fewer choices that would coordinate. Only thing is, this means that we would have to actually make a decision about colors. And there are an infinite number of colors and combinations.
Our first thought was navy blue. The chairs in the ballroom are navy, and it would coordinate. But what colors would go with navy? Whites and creams. Not a fan of pink, nor the all blue look. Mixing in red would be a bit too patriotic. Yellow and its variants, would make the wedding the colors of my grad school, which is problematic, as I (and my family) supports my grad school’s arch enemy.
So we tossed around the idea of green.
Image from the knot.
But it didn’t seem like it would fit too well with the ballroom. And how does it represent us/jazz/vintage/historical/hip/modern/classic all at the same time? (Unfortunately, we have demands for these colors).
I made an “inspiration” board.
Mr. Dahlia and I looked at it, and looked at it, and just didn’t like the vibe the virtual collage was giving off.
(click images for larger view)
On a whim (and with the help of the paint can tool), I made a couple of quick changes.
And it all seems to just flow so much better.
So it looks like we have colors - burgundy and champagne. Which is fabulous, given how much wine we seem to drink.
12 Responses to “Colors?”
Looks like you have a good eye. Your inspiration board looks great!
hey those were our colors!! 
you can see in our website http://www.christinahlim.com/wedding
Looks good!
Maybe you can call is “wine and champagne” or “merlot and champagne”
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Love it! I think it does a great job of capturing the “jazz/vintage/historical/hip/modern/classic” vibe you are going for.
i like your colors, they’re a nice deep, warm tones. makes me feel all cozy just thinking about it.
can i assume you’re a buckeye fan?
This looks great! You may have answered this before — but how do you make an inspiration board? Did you use a program?
I use MS paint to make an inspiration board- mostly because my skills in other programs are not that great. It’s pretty easy to scale pictures down, and copy and paste them into paint.
those are our colors too! =D
Love the theme. Are you a Lindy Hopper?
I really like your colors.
Go Blue! :p
