You Need to Know About This!

You Need to Know About This!

May 20th, 2009 @ 9:30 am by Mrs. Bear Cub
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You might say I had some pretty severe internal conflict when it came to defining our wedding “colors” or “palette”. I didn’t want anything too defined! You can’t hold me back from pairing green and red and purple! and brown! …. and cream! You could say I’d have benefited from some good idea refining.

Everyone and their momzilla needs to go here right now:

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Hey! Not so bad, eh?

Maybe I’m not the most “with-it” fiancée when it comes to the wedding color palette (because the ring on the fingy must mean I have an honorary arts degree—what? You don’t?). Even if you’re much more color-confident than myself, I recommend a gander at this crazy Flickr widget thing!

I picked colors for my automatic palette generator from inspirational photos like these -

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Did your wedding colors come together naturally? …easily? What’s been your secret weapon for channeling color inspiration into a concrete palette? (Have you slipped by without a color palette? Lucky!)

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20 Responses to “You Need to Know About This!”

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Gilneas (message) 1,393 posts, Bumble bee

Lovely color choices! I’ll have to play with that later

5/20/09 @ 9:33 am (reply)

Bee

Miss Bruschetta (message) 5,565 posts, Bee Keeper

Your inspiration photos are all so beautiful and natural! Can’t wait to see more about how your wedding’s coming together!

5/20/09 @ 9:34 am (reply)

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Mojito (message) 341 posts, Helper bee

Those photos are gorgeous!

Picking my colors has been the hardest part of the planning process (so far!). I’ll have to give your secret weapon a try!

5/20/09 @ 9:36 am (reply)

Bee

Miss Mascara (message) 859 posts, Busy bee

Those pictures are beautiful, especially the first one!

5/20/09 @ 9:48 am (reply)

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Sarah

Martha Stewart paint chips. Done!

5/20/09 @ 10:13 am (reply)

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DannysBride (message) 1 posts, Wannabee

OMG Miss Bear Cub!! This is such a great find! I am having the toughest time figuring out our wedding color palette as well, so needless to say it has not come together naturally. But I did find this great site last night for some color palette inspiration.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

5/20/09 @ 10:53 am (reply)

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The Perfect Palette

Finding the Perfect Palette was not hard for me. Working with colors comes natural for me. Our only issue was that I fell in love with more than one color palette! When you do what I do-its hard not to fall in love over and over!

5/20/09 @ 11:02 am (reply)

Bee

Miss Bear Cub (message) 1,566 posts, Bumble bee

@DannysBride: ooooo!! jackpot! That site is awesome!

5/20/09 @ 11:05 am (reply)

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yogigal (message) 419 posts, Helper bee

I just lost a half hour of my life thanks to you posting that link :). AWESOME!!

5/20/09 @ 11:25 am (reply)

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LittleBear (message) 800 posts, Busy bee

I also used paint samples! It was hard to find a true turquoise so I used a shirt I had instead.

5/20/09 @ 11:25 am (reply)

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LatteLove (message) 5,587 posts, Bee Keeper

my color palette was formed similarly–just a few hours of selecting pictures randomized on theknot’s galleries….all the ones I picked had the same color scheme and theme!

5/20/09 @ 11:48 am (reply)

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midwestelle (message) 175 posts, Blushing bee

Thank you for posting this blog…and the flickr link!!

5/20/09 @ 11:54 am (reply)

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Bee

Miss French Bulldog (message) 7,730 posts, Bee Keeper

I LOVE your inspiration photos!
I went with colors that make me happy

5/20/09 @ 11:58 am (reply)

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Lillindy (message) 7,974 posts, Bee Keeper

I love how happy your colors are!

5/20/09 @ 12:52 pm (reply)

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MaPo (message) 315 posts, Helper bee

What vibrant yummy colors! Just the perfect richness for the early part of fall!

5/20/09 @ 3:02 pm (reply)

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rokianokia (message) 16 posts, Newbee

So. Awesome. Thank you!

5/20/09 @ 5:31 pm (reply)

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mrspaetz (message) 3,805 posts, Honey bee

our color palette was ruled by colors we like. so ours is black/white + red accents. i like it when friends say it’s very “us”.

5/21/09 @ 2:32 am (reply)

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Christine

For the longest time I was having issues with coming up with a beachy color scheme. But then I found this application called ColorSchemer Studio. It allows you to upload pics and extract colors from them. It is so cool. Like say you want to capture the color of the beautiful water colors in Hawaii. You can do that! Or the bright pink color of flamingos! Its an awesome app. I downloaded the 14 day free trial and honestly.. that is all I needed. It was absolutely a lifesaver.

http://www.colorschemer.com/

5/21/09 @ 9:04 am (reply)

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giselle

We didn’t have a color palette… in fact my BMs all wore different color dresses, and every table had a different assortment of locally grown flowers. I think it ended up looking amazing, like the colors had been planned out. But if you must narrow it down, check out this cool site which stores other people’s color palette ideas or create your own:
http://www.colourlovers.com/

5/21/09 @ 8:53 pm (reply)

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doublemint921 (message) 499 posts, Helper bee

I love your inspiration photos!! I think your wedding colors are so fun and different! I can’t wait to see how you bring it all together!

5/26/09 @ 9:25 am (reply)