While it might seem obvious to just choose your favourite colour and build a theme around that, it’s often a smarter choice to settle on a colour scheme once the key features of your wedding are in place.
Time And Place
The time of year your wedding takes place can have a huge impact on the success of a colour scheme. Choosing summery, pastel hues in mid-winter will cause a headache for florists in sourcing flowers and your photographer in getting the lighting right—and it will create a cold feeling at a chilly time of year. To avoid seasonal colours making your wedding feel too themed, choose one seasonal colour to work into your scheme. For example, use red or green with white for a December wedding rather than both.
Venues all have different colour schemes and while it is possible to adjust your wedding linen and wedding accessories to tie in with your venue, if your chosen colour scheme clashes it will require a great deal of effort and expense to make it work.
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Be Inspired
Your colour choice can set the tone and feel for your whole wedding. For a relaxed, natural feel, choose colours inspired by nature such as greens, blues and pinks in spring and summer, reds and oranges in autumn and white, purple or dark blue in winter. Don’t be afraid of contrast and colour clashes. Bold and bright colours can bring a contemporary vibe to a wedding and make a statement to thread through your décor, for example, using chair covers and sashes.
If you have your heart set on your favourite colour but it doesn’t work with your venue, opt for a slightly different hue. Use paint colour charts as a guide and experiment with different shades and combinations. Look through a few wedding magazines to search for inspiration, or try using your favourite flower as inspiration for both your floral and colour scheme.
Remember to ask the rest of the wedding party about colour, too. Your bridesmaid who looks dreadful in yellow won’t be too thrilled with your sunflower-themed scheme, so remember to have alternative colour choices or to be flexible on shades.
Difficult Decisions
Some special venues, particularly very old buildings or outdoor locations, can pose unique challenges. Historic buildings often have strong patterns and colours in carpets and furnishings, so for these, a predominantly white or cream colour scheme—to match your dress, perhaps—is often the best option. That doesn’t mean you can’t use colour at all, but it’s best restrained to one or two highlights rather than a dominant colour theme.
Outdoors, you need to work with the natural surroundings and strong light. Keeping your colour scheme similarly bright and breezy will help to keep that relaxed and fresh feel and avoid artificiality—unless that’s the look you’re aiming for, of course.
Finally, whatever you decide, bear your colours in mind throughout your planning process and make sure all the wholesale wedding decorations you buy reference your colour theme. Wholesale Wedding Superstore stocks wedding accessories in just about any colour you can imagine, so have fun browsing and choosing your colours.
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