Weddingbee Blog

Okay, so I have to be the first to say it: my color scheme is weird. In fact, it’s mostly based on our couch:

When the whole process began, I envisioned it slightly differently. I wanted a warm atmosphere created by sage, espresso, and cream:

I judged every venue on its ability to incorporate this color scheme. At one point, I thought I had found the one:

However, the only way to enter this beautiful room was via three stairscases (no elevator). Because we obviously did not want to exclude any guests that would have issues with that, we passed on this venue. After many spreadsheet analyses and several venue visits, we found the one for us:

However, the stark white walls are not condusive to creating the warm atmosphere I was originally going for. So back to square one. I knew that I wanted a light sage to be my main color. And with the stark white walls of our reception hall, I felt that cream would need to change to white. So now the color scheme was:

But suddenly the brown was just not working for me. I stared at the picture of our reception hall looking for inspiration. I finally came to the conclusion that my favorite part of the picture was the touches of red from the strawberries on the champagne glasses. And so, red it was.. but as an accent color. And so finally, my color scheme is best shown as this:

It’s weird, I know. But honestly, I wouldn’t want it any other way.