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I just found the greatest invention known to man color-obsessed brides. OK, that statement might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but that’s pretty much how I felt when I found Whatsitscolor.
Let me start from the semi-beginning. I was super excited when I chose navy as our primary wedding color because I thought, “That’s so easy! Navy is so simple!” Turns out, there are millions of shades of navy and there is no such thing as just “navy.” I realized this when I started designing things for the wedding and found so many great templates and pictures I could use online that looked like they were the same color, but when put next to each another were very different. I most recently found this baby, and I’m pretty much obsessed:
Image via stock.xchng / Isn’t she a beaut?
And I loved her! I immediately began fidgeting around to see what kind of monogram/date I could fit in, when I realized my standard navy blue shade looked nothing like this one. I’d been trying to match everything I downloaded to one, but seriously it is impossible. There are just too many colors.
Sometimes I have a big wedding fear: will all my crazy ideas go awry and not look coordinated on our wedding day? So I threw together this inspiration board to help myself see the “bigger picture,” and I have to say, I’m excited!!
Sometimes I get worried that this beach wedding style won’t be “formal” enough for a wedding, but I think I really just too need to concentrate on how to incorporate some elegance as well.
1. Image created via The Wedding Chicks 2. Image via Love & Lavender / Photo by Lavender & Twine 3. Image via Love & Lavender / Photo by Lavender & Twine / Design by Paper and Thread Studio 4. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Corey Hendrickson 5. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Gabriel Ryan Photography 6. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Jonathan Wherrett 7. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Andrea Polito 8. Image via Martha Stewart media boards 9. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Lauren Methia Photography 10. Created by me 11. Image via All Women’s Talk 12. Image via Style Me Pretty / Photo by Corey Hendrickson
Have you made an inspiration board? Have you stuck to your original ideas or has it evolved over time?
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I’ve become smitten with a color that I can’t describe. Magenta? No! Claret? Nope. Purple-ish red-ish pink? Hmm…close.
Amaranthus?
Image via Grey Likes Weddings / Photo by Jen Huang / Styling by Summer Watkins
Raspberry?
On the little island where I grew up, vintage weddings and their elements are a complete unknown. There isn’t even a Spanish translation for the word vintage! It’s another example of something fashionable in wedding world but unheard of in real life. As much as I love the look of mason jars, milk glass vases and mismatched china, I can’t even think of any place I could actually buy them.
On the other hand, we aren’t vintage type people; even though I might swoon over pictures like these:
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Recently, we hit the eight-month mark for our wedding. On the day I realized this, I had a quick panic attack about all that we had to get done and quickly hopped on my laptop to get something done.
I was skimming over all of the amazing inspiration on files I had on my computer, as well as my Pinterest images, when I started to get overwhelmed thinking about all of the projects I could and couldn’t do. When Mr. Woodpecker saw me hyperventilating over yet another guestbook pin, he reminded me again that I needed to stop picking out ideas and start DOING things. He’s so smart!
I decided to get things together. I needed to start with our colors, and ended up with these:
Image created via Colourlovers
Navy and golden yellow/gold will be the main colors. Initially, I felt like I needed to have green as one of our colors because of the decor of our venue. But in the end I think these colors match our venue, so I’m happy.
Here’s some of my inspiration for this color scheme:
Or blue…or yellow…or pink…
I have a love/hate relationship with our wedding colors. After setting my eyes on the perfect bridesmaids’ dress…
Image via Alfred Angelo
…I pretty much let the color of that dress dictate the rest of the wedding colors. I don’t have much of a theme going on except for the “get married with a minimal number of things going wrong” theme (trademark pending), so there isn’t much rhyme or reason to choosing the colors we did. I like that color, I think it’s pretty, aaaaand let’s move on to something else.
My inspiration board has been the single most important thing for getting my wedding-day vision across to all my vendors, but before joining Weddingbee I had no idea what an inspiration board was or how to make one. I spent hours scrounging around the WWW in search of the perfect pictures to convey my wedding dream. And here she is: My lavender, purple, and gray inspiration board.
1. Invitations by Mrs. Macarons via Weddingbee 2. Bouquet via The French Bouquet / Photo by Candi Coffman Photography 3. Dress via J.Crew 4. Straws via At Home with Kim Vallee / Photo by cindaychae on Flickr 5. Card box by Mrs. Cola via Weddingbee / Photo by Shoot Me Now Photography 6. Cupcakes by Crumbs and Doilies Cupcakes 7. Colors via Pantone 8. Cupcake tower by Pink Cake Box 9. Twine via The Twinery on Etsy
Did you make an inspiration board for your wedding?
As soon as I got engaged I started thinking colors. I am purple obsessed (as in my phone, laptop, earphones, Converse, umbrella, wallet, room walls, etc. are all in the color purple), so I knew it would be one of our wedding colors.
I jumped head first onto the peacock-wedding train. All the purples, blues, and greens…the feathers…the classiness of the whole affair…I was in love.
Then our wedding began taking shape, and I realized regal jewel tones might not be the best choice for an informal, 9:00 AM May breakfast wedding on the tropical island of Puerto Rico.
My next color obsession was a lot lighter, mixing my favorite color with his, blue.
No, not this.
Image via LA Times
I wish I was talking about the Disneyland attraction, because colors are hard y’all (so hard that I’m apparently speaking Southern now). When researching colors, it felt like every bride had it wrapped up moments after their engagement. They used fancy words and had colors like “sage” and “aubergine.” To me, sage goes in stuffing…and aubergine sounds like an old fashioned name. I hope that, by admitting this, they don’t revoke my bride card.
By realizing my color inabilities and naivete, I made Mr. Turkey sit down with me and give me his thoughts on colors. It may have taken some homemade hummus to bribe him.
I’m not sure I realized that weddings had color schemes before I discovered Weddingbee back in the day. My memories from BWB (before Weddingbee) are a little hazy, but I’m pretty sure I just thought all weddings had a lot of white. Silly Unicycle.
When I first discovered all the beautiful inspiration boards on Weddingbee and other wedding blogs, I realized I needed to come up with a color scheme for my wedding, stat! Never mind that I was 20 years old and nowhere near engaged. First I decided on yellow and pink, because pink was my old favorite color and yellow was my new favorite color. I even had an accordion binder I used for school that was pink and yellow already. Perf.
Made using Mosaic Maker. Image sources, clockwise from top left: (1) Kara’s Party Ideas / Photo by Lyndsey Fagerlund, (2) Martha Stewart Weddings, (3) The Knotty Bride / Photo by Jade + Matthew, (4) Paiges of Style / Photo by Sprout Photography, (5) Zappos, (6) Hostess with the Mostess, (7) Martha Stewart Weddings, (8) isakayboutique on Etsy, (9) Giverslog, (10) Green Wedding Shoes / Photos by Katherine Elizabeth Photography, (11) A Blissful Nest, (12) Martha Stewart Weddings, and (13) The Bride’s Cafe / Photo by Amanda Wilcher
So why’d I change my mind? Well, I was going to say that I realized this color scheme was too tacky, but after putting together this inspiration board, I realize it’s actually quite lovely. And I want it. However, I don’t want to force pink on Mr. Unicycle, so I moved on.
After we got engaged, I was surprised that one of the first questions that friends and relatives would ask was, “So, what are your colors?” Huh? Really? Not about the cake? Or the venue? Or the music? Or the booze? For me, this question about colors seemed to come completely out of left field. I started to think that it was somehow social etiquette: Always be sure to ask a newly engaged woman about her wedding colors! It’s only polite! I stuttered my way through a response, offering up insight such as, “uh…green?” as I motioned frantically for Mr. Mole to offer up his own color choices into the conversation.
Mr. Mole and I aren’t having a bridal party — which means that I am not asking any of my lovely ladies to dress up in the color/s of my choosing or hold complementary hued flowers. Thus I delayed (read: procrastinated on) any decisions about the color palette. Yet it started to dawn on me as to how many other things in our wedding would reflect whatever colors we chose: the invitations, the venue decor, the favor cards, the programs, the bridal accessories, etc. I knew that I needed to start making some decisions.
I ended up finding our colors in an incredibly roundabout way. First, when Googling reviews of Mexican resorts for honeymoon ideas, I came across a photo shoot on Style Me Pretty. The photo shoot took place at Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita, the resort at which Mr. Mole and I got engaged. This bird is even the same one that bit Mr. Mole on the ear. Maybe this is kismet?
Remember my initial color inspiration and how I eventually chucked it to start anew? Well, y’all, I’m ready to share a very important update! I’ve finally found the inspiration I was looking for! I knew that I was all about yellow, but for some reason I was fighting my girly-girl nature. I must admit that it took a lot of long hours in front of the computer screen, but with my (non-DIY’ed) blue Mason jars in hand, I knew I was onto something. The combination was fresh and spring-y, perfect for our May wedding. Aqua blue and yellow it was! (Phew, that was easy! Who would have known those little jars would have been so instrumental in my decision?) But just to prevent any future waffling and wavering on my part, I decided to throw in some green and rose pink accents. (See, I couldn’t fight the pink!)
Top row, from left to right: Bouquet via Kelly’s Wedding Flowers Gallery; Love Birds Topper via Vintage Green Modern on Etsy; Cupcakes via Wedding Magazine / Cupcakes by Cakes by Robin; Monogram via Charming Little Nest / Monogram by Southern Proper Monogram; Shoes via Hayden Olivia / Photo by Critsey Rowe; Sign via Family Attic on Etsy; Arrangement via White on Rice Couple
Bottom Row: Table setting via Green Wedding Shoes / Photo by Edyta Szyszlo Photography; Bouquet and bow ties via Southern Weddings / Photo via 1313 Photography; Lemonade stand via Brenda’s Wedding Blog / Photo by Bello Photography / Styling by Desiree Spinner Events
I don’t want anything that looks too baby/nursery, so I’m going to make sure to keep the yellow and aqua vibrant. (But I do love how the other colors add visual interest.) Best of all, the color combination fits my vision of “Southern vintage/shabby chic,” which I must admit was partially inspired by our menu.
How did you come to your final color decision? Were there other parts of the planning that helped you decide?
Even before I received the good news about Wren Chapel, I was thinking about wedding colors. Since I was a child, I’ve had a love affair with pink. Ever the perpetual girly girl, pink and I made sense together; however, when it came to wedding planning, I never even considered pink. From the very beginning, it has been all about yellow. Yellow roses have been my favorite flower for as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s because they remind me of the great state of Texas, where I lived for several years. <3 I can’t pinpoint when or why I started loving them, but there’s something about yellow roses that just makes me happy.
Since yellow flowers were pretty much a non-negotiable, I began researching complementary colors. That’s when I first came across the modern and sophisticated combination that is yellow and gray. (Swoon.) There’s something about these colors together that is incredibly chic. Being the little type-A planner I am, I immediately started printing pictures of flower arrangements, table settings, and bridesmaids’ dresses that fit the style. I shared my photos with a few friends and they were all completely on board.
Image via It’s a Bride’s Life / Photo by Stephanie Williams Photography / Event by Dazzling Details
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