Weddingbee Blog

It didn’t take long for Mr. Pencils and me to decide on our color scheme. We knew we wanted an outdoor wedding—at least for the ceremony to be outside—and a color palette to reflect nature and the world around us. The mister put his foot down on fuchsia pink, which I love as an accent color, as in this inspiration board:

sigh… so pretty… source

Thus, it was not meant to be pink. Luckily, I had another idea. Our favorite colors.

Pencil-man and I want our wedding to be utterly and completely us, from our own ceremony created from scratch and officiated by his uncle to our obscure wedding dance song. So why not choose each of our favorite colors and run with it? And that we did. Mr. Pencils’ color is green, like grass, moss and leaves and mine is yellow, like the sun, daisies, and bumblebees. To emphasize the natural feel we wanted, we chose chocolate brown, like trees, seeds and rich soil.

I headed to Flickr’s color lab to find some inspiration from real photos. I chose a chocolate brown, some greens and yellows, and these popped up:

source: Flickr

I love it! I tried putting in a brighter yellow, but it would only generate photos of sunflowers. While I love those gorgeous spots of bright sunshine, our wedding is in May and sunflowers aren’t even available yet.

I love the variations of a variety of greens and yellows and want to do the same thing at our wedding, with lots of different gradients of yellows and greens with the one constant remaining—the chocolate brown. My ladies’ dresses are a nice warm chocolate… but more to come on that soon!

Next, I headed to Snippet and Ink to check out some green inspiration boards. I was toying with which bright color to make the more mainstream and which to marginalize as the accent color. When I saw this board, I knew:

Credits: Style Me Pretty, Martha Stewart, Flickr, lunaphotoblog, Snippet and Ink, Style Me Pretty

It had to be green! The yellow will remain in my girls’ flowers, our reception decor (more to come with that! let’s just say, I heart ribbon!) and hopefully my mother’s dress.

What color scheme did you decide on? Any suggestions for great ways to incorporate these three colors into the day?