Wedding colors

LaurenMoser2B · October 29, 2012

Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble picking out colors for my wedding. I initially fell in love with J. Crew's "Dusty Shale" for my bridesmaids and thought of using tangerine or a brighter orange in the flowers and accents to make it pop, since it is a light pastel-ish color. After showing it to my mom, future mother in law, and bridesmaids some have expressed concern that it won't show up well against a beach backdrop in photos. Anyone have any feedback on this? I'm not great with colors.

Thanks!

Lauren

Amers · October 29, 2012

Originally Posted by LaurenMoser2B

Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble picking out colors for my wedding. I initially fell in love with J. Crew's "Dusty Shale" for my bridesmaids and thought of using tangerine or a brighter orange in the flowers and accents to make it pop, since it is a light pastel-ish color. After showing it to my mom, future mother in law, and bridesmaids some have expressed concern that it won't show up well against a beach backdrop in photos. Anyone have any feedback on this? I'm not great with colors.

Thanks!

Lauren

I think this colour will look great with the sand! Its actually one of the colours I was debating on!

mimiq · October 29, 2012

blue and orange are our colours. great for a tropical wedding!

brownskingirl · October 30, 2012

Originally Posted by alexisinjamaica

I am kind of all over the place with colors. I waffle between wanting fun, bright, summery colors like lemon yellow and lime green and turquoise, and more muted tones like purples, creams and greys because that's more me. I feel like I should go bright since it'll be springtime, on the beach and in Jamaica, but I keep finding myself drawn to purple things. Like this bouquet (it's actually paper!!) that I saw in an Etsy shop.

its jamaica so think about jamaican colours like the famous bob marley rastafarian colours red, gold and green... try to find some way of incorporating those colours into your wedding in a classy way... lemon yellow and lime green is VERY caribbean,, i would know since im a caribbean chick and proud! lol

karyc · October 30, 2012

Originally Posted by Amers

I think this colour will look great with the sand! Its actually one of the colours I was debating on!

yes, wow, i really like that a lot - i tend to think of bright colors for beach weddings, but i really love that color and it looks so pretty against the sand!

jackie44 · October 30, 2012

these are my colours in flowers and im having champange bridesmaid dresses....i was gonna go with the bright colours but decided on these think they,ll pick up the sand lovely :)x

LaurenMoser2B · October 30, 2012

Thanks Ladies- looks like I will definitely stick with the J. Crew Dusty Shale. I love it!

brgephar · October 31, 2012

These are my colors Chelsea and that jewelry looks amazing! Thanks for sharing

Originally Posted by bondgirl0072010

XOXO Chelsea

unichas · November 1, 2012

Shades of purples and tan. A real natural, relaxing tone.

LKocelko · November 2, 2012

What is everyones color scheme? I hadn't really put any thought into this, but lately I've been seeing a lot of deep purple and really been gravitating towards it. I thought it would look really nice with the light gray suit my FI is going to go with (something like the below). My question: is a deepish purple too dark for a beach wedding in May? My dress is kind of elegant/glam/old Hollywood and I thought purple was a regal color to go with it. I look really terrible in warm colors, so we were definitely going to go with a green, blue, or purple. Any input would be appreciated! Please be honest...we haven't picked anything yet so I'd rather know now than after we start buying stuff! Like the below are some examples I liked: