Wedding Inspiration: Neopolitan Ice-Cream
September 26th, 2008 @ 4:02 pm by Miss Dumpling
When I showed Mr. Dumpling the color palette I was thinking about, he said it looked like Neapolitan ice cream. Ha! We both like ice cream, so this was a good thing. This picture accurately shows the exact colors we are using. It’s making me hungry just looking at it!
Image source.
I was browsing through The Knot the other day, and I found more great inspiration from some very stylish brides. Check these out!
Image from Knottie Alison.
Awesome wedding favors from Knottie Diemmai
Candy Buffet from Knottie Nancy.
Even the flower girl can get in on the Neapolitan ice-cream goodness!
Dress is from Gymboree.
Flower girl/niece Dumpling… notice the shirt? Auntie Dumpling got it for her! I’m doing what I can to make sure she’s brought up with the right music.
Here’s a sneaky peek at our invitation suite. The pictures aren’t the best, but I hope you can see the colors—cream, brown and light pink.
Chocolate brown is a very popular color for weddings nowadays, and we definitely wanted to jump on the bandwagon. There are so many things you can do with chocolate brown as your main color. And who doesn’t like to score free chocolate at a wedding?
For example, this might be the most awesome thing I think I’ve ever seen (besides Mr. Dumpling):
Image from WeddingChannel.com
Yes, what you see there is a Ferrero Rocher used as a place card. I’m getting woozy thinking about how fantastic this is going to be. Thank you, WeddingChannel.com, for thinking of 1000 different ways to incorporate a little bit of heaven (aka chocolate) into weddings.
Have you ever been inspired by your favorite treat (or am I completely off my rocker)? If you’ve used these colors please send me a link to your photos!
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31 Responses to “Wedding Inspiration: Neopolitan Ice-Cream”
We were chocolate brown and cream, but we did do pink flowers! I think it’s the perfect combination…I never got tired of it.
I am in love w/ your color palette 
and also craving Neopolitan Ice cream now.
These are my colors too! I just fell in love with them all over again…..
Your color palette looks great! And I’m with AliCherri on this one…you got me craving ice cream! I think I’m going to Sonic to get some ice cream in a few.. 
These are aslo my colors and I was also inspired by ice cream! I can’t get enough of either:)
Beautiful color palette- so classy. The place cards are fantastic!
here is a link to a gorgeous wedding that uses some of your colors - pink and cream ( though not as much brown)
http://www.elizabethannedesigns.com/blog/2008/09/10/real-weddings-kristen-sean/
Oooor completely off your “rocher” hahahah. sorry , cheesy but the palette is beautiful. rock on .
@labride: OMG Thats so beautiful. Im printing that out RIGHT NOW and showing it to the flower and decoration people! Thats a HOT couple.
Those are my colors too! I LOVE the flower girl dress!
I love the ferrero rocher place cards! ‘m saving it in my inspiration folder now. Thanks, Dumpling!
These colors are beautiful together and I want some neapolitan ice cream right now. I cannot wait to see your invites!
I have the exact same colors with a cherry blossom theme. I alway loved chocolate and was actually going to do that and light blue but decided to change it because it was hard to match with flowers.
I love the invites!!
love this color combo!
Those are my colors too.
Our inspiration:
I knew right away I didn’t want table numbers ala, 1, 2, 3…I mentioned the idea of school grades so we could show pictures of us thru the years. Well FI was sure he wouldn’t have all grades from pre-school up so…a bulb come turns on and he says, “Chocolate!”
I laughed my head off and he was just like, “you know you like it. Its cute and we’re cute and silly so we could pull it off.” <–true story.
So we’re having tables named after candy bars. Our candy buffet will be a chocolate buffet and there’s even gonna be chocolates at the bar-bar but those are different than at the buffet. I’m having the more expensive chocolate at the bar. We got Lindt Truffles, Godiva and the teeny alcohol bottle chocolates for there. Finally, towards the end of the night a chocolate fountain is coming out.
I am TOTALLY stealing the Ferrero Roche concept. I was gonna tape a mini bar to the inside of the place card but the Ferrero Roche thing is far cuter. Thanks for sharing that amazing find!
OMG! Almost frogot to tell you. In front of the buffet a banner that says, “All you need is love…and chocolate.” Then when its time to take the garter off, I’m gonna have the DJ play, HELP! That’s my homage to The Fab Four 
So does the Beatles poster on my bedroom wall have to come down once I’m married?? Hehe
I’m doing this color scheme too! I’m trying to make it more antique-y/muted. It’s strange, I never thought about the ice cream as inspiration, but I love ice cream, so it definitely fits!
this is the exact color palette I had at my wedding too! I had the same flowergirl dresses. Its from Gymboree and its no longer available becuase it was from their Spring collection. What sizes are you looking for??? I had 5 flower girls in various sizes. I can see if I can get them back and sell it to you. I had bought all of them at $50 each but I can definitely discount it since it was worn. The toddlers only worn it for the ceremony and immediately changed out of it. I also paired them with pink ballerina flats from Payless. Let me know if you would be interested. I also, have a lot of extra wedding stuff left in pink and brown. I have pink pomanders I made too that they flowergirls carried. I can email you pix if you’re interested. Thanks! and Congrats! ac_espos@yahoo.com
Oh my goodness, that flower girl dress is out of control cuteness!!! Ice cream inspired- what a sweet idea for a color palette!
I love the amount of inspiration you got from this post. That wedding on EAD was gorgeous. Love love love the flower girl dress. Everyone will just want to eat her up (of course Green Tea will, she wants to eat everything)
Mmmmm…those are some yummy colors Miss D! Cant wait to see all your fun projects~!
Yummy…Neopolitan ice cream makes me think of my childhood! Such great, fun colors - and your niece is a little cutie!!
Love this color pallette! We actually did a series of inspiration boards using the same inspiration!
Wanna see? Just email me, I’ll send them over to you I know you’ll love them!!!!
I just found out that Hershey’s makes a neopolitan kiss now!
Those were Mrs. Strawberry’s colours, too- if you’re looking for inspiration, you might want to check her wedding out- it was shabby chic heaven!
Hello, I am using this same color scheme for my wedding. I am looking for ideas. What I’ve seen this far has been great. I see alot of bridesmaids with the brown on, what were the guys wearing? As the bride, I am wearing a soft pink gown, (Im losing some of the tradition)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
T
For our pink and brown wedding, we decided to go with the classic black tux, (rat pack style) and then purchased our own ties which were paisley brown, black, white. They tied it all together with the maids in espresso and created less of a right out of the tux shop appearance. Find ties you love for the guys with the brown and black, ( and maybe even a wee bit of pink and you’ll be good to go!
does anyone know where you can find those label toothpick things for the rocher. i like the idea but can’t imagine how to make them!
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Miss Dumpling, Las Vegas
Age and Occupation: 27, Finance
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 34, Real Estate
Engagement Date: March, 2008
Wedding Date: March, 2009
Blogging Since: August 26, 2008
Venue: Catholic church ceremony & golf course reception
About Me: I grew up in the Deep South, and while most people say I have a thick southern accent, I tend to think it only comes out when I need to use it. Living in Las Vegas has definitely been an adventure and Mr. Dumpling and I are loving every minute of it! We are planning a traditional Catholic wedding ceremony and a reception with lots of DIY! We might even get Elvis to show up! I'm a HUGE Beatles fan, love The Office and can't wait to become a Mrs.!
Two thumbs up on that flower girl dress.