Weddingbee Blog

When I first shared our colour scheme of navy, white and yellow with Mama Pudding, she went on a little rant about how in Poland yellow flowers symbolize unfaithfulness. Even though I am not very superstitious, I don’t really know how I feel about our wedding making all of our Polish guests think of cheating. Mama P then suggested that I change the yellow to bright pink. So, I (quickly) made two inspiration boards to get a visual as to what a navy and white wedding with yellow or pink accents would look like.

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I considered both options, but with Mr. Pudding insisting that he did not want a “pink” wedding, I had settled on the yellow, despite Mama P’s objections.

This would not be the end of my wavering on the accent colour, however. A couple of weeks later, we decided that we would buy our flowers in bulk and have a family friend put together our centerpieces. With this decision, I became really worried about the variety of yellow flowers available when you purchase wholesale. I started to think that maybe pink flowers were easier to acquire.

In the end, I decided to keep the major accent colour as yellow. If we find that yellow flowers are impossible to get, we will buy pink. I think that having both colours as accents might be really cute - just look at the pink lemonade with yellow lemons in the 2nd inspiration board!

Are you keeping your colour scheme flexible? Are you including any colors that your parents or family deem culturally unacceptable?