Weddingbee Blog

I remember some of the first wedding discussions Mr. Lox and I had. First we talked about what kind of wedding we wanted. After we decided on a small-ish, less formal affair for our small family and mostly friends, he thought we were done. My next question was, “What colors do you think we should have?” And Mr. Lox just kind of blinked at me. “Does our wedding really need to have colors?” he asked me. I looked at his kind of annoyed face and said I supposed they didn’t. And we didn’t discuss the wedding for a couple of weeks.

The thing is, planning a wedding without any idea of colors is…well…hard. How do you know what kinds of invitations to buy? What do your flowers look like? How do you coordinate things? I mean, I’m sure there’s a way to do it all beautifully, but I’m simply not that cool. We needed colors. This time, I approached Mr. Lox with the reasons our wedding needed colors. He seemed to agree. So I went off in search of inspiration. I came up with things like this:

Look how happy this room is. (source)

Here’s a more sedate version, but look how lovely the napkin and menu card are. (source)

If these weren’t more money than I wanted to spend, I would have already ordered these invitations. (source)

I swear I’m giving this picture to my baker during our tasting. (source)

I even found full inspiration boards:

If you didn’t get the hint before, I’m sure you have now. PS: Look closely at this to see the way the napkins are folded. D’oh! (source)

Clearly I had a well-formed idea of what I wanted. Lucky for me, orange is Mr. Lox’s favorite color. So not only am I madly in love with a pink and orange (fuschia and tangerine?) wedding, but he loves it too! Presenting this to him went very smoothly, and without any pain or loss of blood, we had our wedding colors.

How did you pick your colors? Or did you successfully decide not to have colors at all?