Not All Colors are Created Equal
November 10th, 2008 @ 2:39 pm by Miss Blush
As mentioned in an earlier post, we wanted our colors to reflect the special qualities of our wedding. After realizing that ash grey could mean about 100 different shades of grey, and no one could really pinpoint the color peach, I knew we wanted to create an inspiration board. So where else to turn but the Weddingbee Wiki!
I wanted to create something fabulous, like Mrs. Flamingo’s Polyvore boards, but I also wanted to use a few of my own pictures since peach was a hard color to find on the web. I’m sure you can use images of your own on Polyvore, but I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me. So I turned to my BFF- Picasa. In Picasa, you choose which pictures you would like in your board, click the collage tool, choose from different collage options, and you get a clean and simple Inspiration Board in no time.
Here is our color palette:
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How I Was Inspired
September 16th, 2008 @ 4:56 pm by Miss Fondue
When we first started talking about the wedding, we were torn between two color schemes. We knew we liked black and white, but the accent color was a toss up. Red has always been both my and Mr. Fondue’s favorite color, but we both also liked how pink looked against black. We debated back and forth for several weeks, with me looking up inspiration pictures of both color schemes.
We ultimately decided on red. Being our favorite color, it comes up a lot in our lives, such as my engagement ring and my car (which will be our getaway vehicle):
I like things that match, so it seemed like common sense.
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Color Palette Validation
July 8th, 2008 @ 9:26 am by Mrs. Cupcake
Some days while heavily under the influence of my wedding-planning trance, I find myself in a moment of panic when I’m second-guessing my color palette yet again. Actually, we might as well call it ninety-second-guessing because I worry about it so much. Then, on a day like today, I’m reminded of how much I love my color palette of teal and chartreuse (or lime green or bright green or whatever I decide to call it on that particular day…it seems like everyone has a different vision of what chartreuse is!) when I come across an inspiration board like this one found on Sparkliatti:
Inspiration board found on Sparkliatti (thanks Miss Tiramisu and SIL Cupcake!)
How the Color Plum Became a Huge Part of My Life
June 24th, 2008 @ 10:28 am by Mrs. Margarita
After a few weeks of engagement bliss passed, I started the wedding planning process. It started harmlessly with a few wedding magazines and wedding TV shows, but pretty soon I was spending hours every day perusing wedding websites and blogs. With so much information and inspiration I couldn’t help but get excited and maybe a little carried away. I had no idea you could have bird cake toppers, trees for centerpieces and gobos with your own design. Actually, I didn’t even know what a gobo was until I started planning our wedding.
A few weeks into wedding planning, my friend linked me to Nirali Magazine’s wedding section. I think it is one of the best sites for anyone planning a South Asian wedding in North America. I used their shopping guide when I was in India looking for bridal outfits, and was comforted reading their article highlighting interracial marriages. It was also Nirali that led me to my color scheme and invitation designer. I opened an article on invitation trends featuring Saima Khan’s work and was enthralled. (If Saima’s name sounds familiar it’s because she also happened to be Miss Jasmine’s invitation designer.)
One of Saima’s wedding suites:
The Big Picture
June 18th, 2008 @ 10:29 am by Mrs. Pineapple
I have shared with you a lot of the little details of our wedding, but have yet to give any sort of “big picture” visual. What better way to do so than to create one of the ever so popular inspiration boards. (I guess a few of the images below are no longer inspiration since they have been created and/or paid for.)
you can click to enlarge
{cake and bridesmaids images, suit}
The Evolution of Our Wedding Colors
June 11th, 2008 @ 11:46 am by Mrs. Gingerbread
It all started with the cake. The Swedish Princess cake is traditionally light green. This cake was one of our first decisions. Then came the dress, which was the first one that I tried on and it just happened to have light green sash. A colour theme started developing. Then we chose the ceremony site that was really, really green. Somehow brown entered the picture. Maybe it was the brown branches? Man, am I really that literal?
(1, 2, 3)
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Another Damask Bride
June 6th, 2008 @ 4:01 pm by Mrs. Pomegranate
Boy do WE have a lot of catching up to do!
I’ve been planning our wedding for almost 9 months now and only have 4 months to spare. Fortunately, I’ve been a bit of a procrastinator with my Do-It-Yourself projects and will have a lot to share with you in the proceeding months. Let’s talk color scheme, okay?
When I first discussed colors with Mr. Pomegranate - I’ll admit it was the day after the proposal - I had thought that a bright modern wedding would be a blast! My first color palette included a nice black and white damask* paired with a persimmon orange and a subdued lime. I wasn’t able to find my original inspiration photos from 9 months ago, but the wedding below captures the complementary color scheme idea quite nicely (they added raspberry as well).
Images via the Knot
