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Mama P says I was born in the wrong era. Perhaps she is right. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the music of the 1980s and the 1990s, but I have a deep love for the music of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Simon and Gar, CCR, the Beatles, and Janis Joplin played in the Pretzel car all the time growing up. My favorite song is Kodachrome by Simon and Garfunkel. I soon discovered that Mr Pretzel shares my love of this song. We love to cue it up on the iPod and sing like idiots. To us, the song embodies fun, vivid color.
When we started to select our color palette, I had a hard time eliminating colors. My favorite color is turquoise/aqua. But I am also partial to green, bright pink, and orange. With the exception of orange (it makes me look ill), I wear the other colors a lot. As I struggled to pick one or two colors, Mr Pretzel solved my problem. Use them all! Duhhh… why didn’t I think of that? We started to refer to our wedding as a Kodachrome wedding, and our vision of it started to come together. Check out our inspiration board:
Cupcake toppers; Birdcage Veil; Pew Lanterns; Dress; Lights; Amore Studios; Dahlias; Paris Hilton Spelled; Converse All-Stars
Are you limiting your color palette to one or two colors? How has music influenced your wedding decisions?
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This looks like it has the potential to be very fun! Great colors for a summer wedding, too!
Love your colors! I feel like bright is starting to make a tiny comeback. Our colors ended up being yellow, orange, green and red. I loved how bright everything looked, it made me feel so cheerful!
O0oh, very pretty! We also have quite a few colors, but it’s more of a gradient cool-palette. Purples, pinks, greys, and dusty aquas!
I love your colors! We’re having trouble choosing as well, and may end up with something similar.
That looks like a lot of fun!! We’re doing some similar colors in different tones - a rich magenta/purple, burnt orange, apple green, dark brown/black and ivory. I LOVE color and think it makes things so much fun!
Kodachrooooome, they give us those nice bright colors,
give us the greens of summer,
make us think that all the world’s a sunny day oh yeah…
I love that song too!
Great colors. 
Ours are actually a little similar. I joke to my fiance that we have a technicolor wedding. :p
@fiftyfootbride: Ohhh technicolor! Mr P get’s nervous from time to time that I am going to make EVERYTHING bright- especially in our new townhouse… lol… not everything…
@Miss Pretzel: I know. I think he’s pretty on board since we’re having LBD bridesmaids and black tuxes for the guys. I can’t go too crazy with that.
Here’re our colors:
http://iloveyoumuch.com/wordpress/?p=287
Plus now like a plum/fuchsia and a red/hot pink (from dahlias, peonies, and poppies… lol)
I heart color, it’s nice to see somebody else go bananas crazy with it. :p
I’m using “sunset” colors …red,yellow,pink,orage,purple ect..I don’t really have a main color or anything.
great inspiration board, i love the bright colors you chose!
Yum. I love your pallette. and like you, the songs and bands/singers of the 50s, 60s, and 70s always have a very special place in my heart.
I LOVE IT! I’ve had a hard time sticking to my 2 colors, I think I might branch out and add more.
Love it! We are doing ivory for the ceremony, rust and chocolate for the cocktail hour, purple, blue, rust, chocolate and ivory for the reception.
So happy to see that I’m in good company!
Such fun colors — your wedding will be so bright and cheery. I also love the song Kodachrome.
I love this theme! It is best to either go classic or all out with the colors. You did not go over the top yet you made the colors pop. Well done
That is one rocking color palette, so fresh and fun! We’re using turquoise/aqua too and yellow! I cant wait to see this come together. And now I must go look up this song! And I love the 60s and 70s music too!
I am all for tons o’ color and if Seattle summer is in full swing by your wedding then the colors will be just what everyone is wanting to see.
Love it love it love it! I can never pick just one color and it’s great that you’ve termed it “Kodachrome” wedding - and @fifty- love the technicolor wedding!
I prefer to refer to ours as “a mess” haha. It’ll come together one day - Pretzel, your inspiration board has officially inspired me!
Fabulous! I’m so glad to see bright making a comeback! We’re sticking close to two tones for the wedding - royal blue and lime green - but you can be sure that yellow, bright blue, dark green, and hints of orange will be found all over the place. Just two colors? No thank you
those are great bright fab colors! i’m going with 3 colors though one of them is more of an accent than anything else
there are so many fun colorful inspiration boards. I love that you’re using so many colors!
The first 3 colors on your palette are our wedding colors! Everyone thinks I’m crazy for putting them together and don’t think they’ll go together at all. I’ll have to show them this post! :o)
@mskalinin, @luckyyou, @fiftyfootbride, @ebs1123, @jbsgirl: Yay for bright color brides!
@jbsgirl: Oh, yeah, I get that too… folks think it will look a hot mess with all the bright colors… oh well… wait and see
I love that song, too! And your inspiration board is SPOT ON!
Gorgeous! Looks like so much fun. There’s really no way you can go wrong with that palette.
My grandma once told me that multicolor wedding were really “in” during the 1950′–her bridesmaids wore five different pastel colored dresses! And that dress in your inspiration board looks so 50’s. Love it!
My whole wedding was themed around the very same music! When I hear it a warm fuzzy feeling develops in my chest. I love me some color too but I just couldn’t decide so went with gray, black and white instead. Love your inspiration board too
I KNOW I was born in the wrong era. I was once asked at a pageant interview which era I would pick to be born in and I said the same thing as this post and the reason was just for the music! Either that or the times of the big fancy dresses in England. Either one would do.
Btw, love your theme!
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Miss Pretzel, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 32 Learning, Training, and Development Specialist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28 Manufacturing Engineer
Engagement Date: September 2, 2009
Wedding Date: July 2010
Venue: Catholic Church & The Engine Room at Georgetown Studios
About Me: I’m just a thirty-something girl who never dreamed of weddings, poofy dresses, or ritzy receptions. I was born and raised in New Hampshire, went to undergrad and grad school at Purdue University in Indiana, had my career take me to Wisconsin, Atlanta, and then finally settled in Seattle. I am a rabid knitter, except recently, wedding projects have replaced my yarn and needles. I’ve been fiercely independent since the age of 2 and 30 years later I think my family and friends had given up on me settling down and getting married.
Ironically, I had to go all the way to Seattle to find a boy from Purdue. We fell in love over Seattle Beers and cooking together. We love Chuck Taylor All Stars, holding hands, clever t-shirts, bacon, KEXP Radio, craft beer, buying local, cooking from scratch, gardening, mastering our new Gocco, and of course, each other. I love NASCAR, he loves Legos. I can talk like a Muppet and he can fit a whole McDonald’s cheeseburger in his mouth. We are a two reception couple, currently planning a brewery inspired bash.
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