Bring on the Color! Or Not.

Bring on the Color! Or Not.

September 17th, 2009 @ 11:33 am by Mrs. Lamb
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When I first started reading Weddingbee, I saw a post about palettes. I had been trying to convince myself that a certain palette was the way to go and was about to take an outing to Home Depot to bring some paint chips together. But COLOURlovers saved me the trip. COLOURlovers’ website allows you to customize palettes and patterns. Even if you’re done planning a wedding, it’s great for decorating and for fashion.

I found it a bit difficult to navigate at first. You have to have the most recent version of Internet Explorer (available here) and you have to register in order to save your palette. After the initial set up, the fun began. The palettes and patterns that other users have created are all visible - which is great for inspiration. Check out these lovelies!

Color by COLOURlovers

See what I mean? Nice for your wedding, nice for a pillow on your couch. It’s a good tool for life.

This is the palette I created for our wedding. I know! It’s super boring, but very vintage chic and neutral.

Color by COLOURlovers

I think that this palette will work in almost any space, but will work especially well with my vintage idea. Narrowing the color palette is so important, otherwise I would just run myself silly with different color combos. As if I’m not silly enough!

I still wasn’t 100% convinced that neutrals were my calling. However, in the same Weddingbee post that introduced me to COLOURlovers, I found Polyvore. I found the same little annoyances about setting up the account, but once I was registered, I was hooked! The site basically functions like PowerPoint or Photoshop where you can layer images, change the sizes, add text, add backgrounds, etc.

I found a few cons with the program:

You are kind of limited to the products they had in the system (maybe if I played around with it more, I could figure out how to load other photos?).
Some of the images are not very good, so they looked fuzzy or messy
The search options are limited
The color search doesn’t really produce items of that color, but more items with that color somewhere on them…

Overall, it was a lot of fun and mixed up my usual routine of throwing pictures into PowerPoint. Also, it really made my palette come alive to me! I’m definitely convinced neutral chic is the way to go!

How did you come up with your color scheme?

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28 Responses to “Bring on the Color! Or Not.”

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Mrs. Bruschetta (message) 5,565 posts, Bee Keeper

Love how your palette looks on the Polyvore board! COLOURlovers and Polyvore were two of the tools I was using right when I was a newbee, too!

9/17/09 @ 11:36 am (reply)

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WDWBride (message) 743 posts, Busy bee

Lol after changing our minds about a dozen times!!!

We ultimately knew we had to have green since we had already purchased Moh’s dress…and we really adored a pink tie we bought the Mr. I know EVERYONE has done pink and green but no one at our wedding will know that!

Plus we have an awesome reception site where we are actually picking totally different colors I’m not a stickler for having to keep the same theme or colors through the whole event.

9/17/09 @ 11:37 am (reply)

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Miss Frozen Yogurt (message) 2,685 posts, Sugar bee

yay for grey and cream, 2 of the colors in my wedding too!

9/17/09 @ 11:40 am (reply)

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Mrs. French Bulldog (message) 7,730 posts, Bee Keeper

Ooo I love your board! I can’t to see more of your wedding I know I’m going to LOVE it!

9/17/09 @ 11:53 am (reply)

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bethanyleigh (message) 57 posts, Worker bee

I love the vintage details you’re including. They’re really going to make your neutral palette come to life!

9/17/09 @ 11:53 am (reply)

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thefuturemrsjewell (message) 1,829 posts, Buzzing bee

very cool board, love the vintage & classic look!

9/17/09 @ 11:58 am (reply)

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His Barista (message) 5,774 posts, Bee Keeper

Originally I wanted pastel pink, with an antique gold, but my FI refused to have anything to do with pink, so I changed it to red. Then I was online and found a gorgeous burgundy and gold dress that had BM dress potential. So that’s the final color choice-burgundy and gold. = )

9/17/09 @ 12:02 pm (reply)

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pmerr (message) 2,518 posts, Sugar bee

I actually picked ours our by the colors of towels we have to wipe the dog’s feet when it’s raining-one’s fuschia-ish, one’s light yellow haha

9/17/09 @ 12:07 pm (reply)

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lcneiny (message) 183 posts, Blushing bee

I love your board AND your color scheme! FI and I are very neutral people - our house is so boring color-wise. We’re doing black & white with a pop of green-apple green to liven things up. I’m definitely going to check out these two sites later!

9/17/09 @ 12:21 pm (reply)

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tea (message) 7,263 posts, Bee Keeper

the boy guided the color decision with green [he assumed i would use my favorite color. uh, why didn't i think of that?!] and then i had some ideas but got confirmation when i saw a table setting with green and blue at ikea of all places.

9/17/09 @ 12:29 pm (reply)

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Miss Poodle (message) 3,387 posts, Sugar bee

You board is so cute! and the colors too! - We just went the easy way, each of us favorite color hehe

9/17/09 @ 12:33 pm (reply)

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Miss Scissors (message) 7,343 posts, Bee Keeper

Colourlovers is amazing. Your color palette is great!

9/17/09 @ 12:40 pm (reply)

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Miss Giraffe (message) 4,216 posts, Honey bee

I love colourlovers

9/17/09 @ 12:41 pm (reply)

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alishaneva (message) 2,152 posts, Buzzing bee

Those look great! Colourlovers is a great site - and I love the board! Good choices!

9/17/09 @ 12:46 pm (reply)

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Miss Trail Mix (message) 6,308 posts, Bee Keeper

That’s a cool site, I will definitely have to check it out! Our colors were inspired by the sky and sun, so therefore blue and yellow, which I’m hoping we’ll have an abundance of at our outdoor, June wedding!

9/17/09 @ 1:00 pm (reply)

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kmattso2 (message) 1,046 posts, Bumble bee

I love your inspiration board!! It looks awesome with your color pallette.

9/17/09 @ 1:07 pm (reply)

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melodyjune (message) 244 posts, Helper bee

Great board! I’ve been on polyvore, but I’ll have to check out colourlovers. Thanks for the tip!

9/17/09 @ 1:09 pm (reply)

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Miss Lamb (message) 970 posts, Busy bee

Aww thanks guys! Some people tried to convince that I should do an accent color, or definitely choose between white and ivory, but I stuck my ground

9/17/09 @ 1:16 pm (reply)

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Ms. Red Head (message) 70 posts, Worker bee

I did a lot of the same things you did! I found Polyvore when I started blogging and wow, I was so excited for my vision to come to life. There is an option to put a clipping option on your internet browser - mine says “Clip to Polyvore”
So if you see something online that you’d like to add, use that tool on your browser and clip your photo. Sometimes the clipping doesn’t work, but it’s great for sites with small photos and white backgrounds.
My polyvore creation is here: http://nolanandcamille.blogspot.com/2009/05/semi-complete-wedding-look.html

I created it in May and my wedding is in a week. I really think this helped confirm my questions about if I made the right decisions about color and if all of the items I love will blend nicely.

9/17/09 @ 1:22 pm (reply)

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Ms. Red Head (message) 70 posts, Worker bee

Miss Lamb - I think gray can be considered your accent color! I have been loving all gray in recent weddings! It will be so fun to see the end result!

9/17/09 @ 1:24 pm (reply)

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