Colour Schemes

Whispered

How did you decide on your colours without second guessing yourself and how did you incorporate it into your wedding?

I was thinking of midnight blue and champagne http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2525/3876747587_efd6ac94ca.jpg but now I'm thinking "it's been done to death" or that its boring.

Even if I go for it, would it be best to use the champagne/ivory as the main colour with just touches of blue? Blue dress for BM's with champagne ribbon under the bust and a bunch of champagne flowers with some sort of blue detail (what type of detail?), me an Ivory dress with champagne ribbon and the same bouqet as the BM's.

How would I pull that into the ceremony room (civil in a hotel) and the reception room? The hotel will provide candleabras and tall lillys on the tables so it would only be little touches I'd be adding and flowers on the top table.

I'm not at all set on those colours so if anybody has any other combinations and ideas for an october wedding I'd love to hear them.

I'm feeling very overwhelmed with everything now and I can't think straight about things without going off in tangents. :rolleyes:

asomeday

I work in the wedding business,do you mind me asking what hotel you're having your reception at?I might know it & be able to come up with something that works well.

galah

my wedding dress was burgundy and cream, so I went with that scheme (just little touches) throughout - the groom and groomesmen had burgundy ties, dark red roses, my flowers were burgundy roses, we had burgundy and cream rose-shaped candles inbetween the candelabras, and burgundy rose petals on the tables.

Don't over do it though, just light touches of colour is enough, I think ;-)

denhaagenite

The colours are absolutely gorgeous, but that wedding dress in the pic posted is TO DIE FOR!!! Is this your wedding dress?? I love it, if you could let me know the designer I'd be very, very grateful .

Whispered

I'm sorry, thats not my dress. I don't know the designer. The page I took the image from is actually about the jewellery. I just checked and there is no mention of the dress.

denhaagenite

Aaaaw, such a pity!! Thanks for trying though and again, the colours are beeeeooootiful

Acoshla

Are you having a wedding cake? A cake in mainly the champagne colours with a small touch of the midnight blue would be beautiful.

Whispered

Yes it's little things like that I want to do. But I'm worried I will overdo it. We were at the wedding fair in citywest on saturday and there were some lovely ideas.

Acoshla

A cake in lovely shades of the champagne and maybe gold (like the jewellery in the pic) with ribbon or small sugar flowers in the blue would be very pretty.

I suppose chair covers and fabric on them is one of the most obvious ways of bringing in your colour but they're mad expensive aren't they! You could do something very simple like even little beads or those fancy confetti things scattered around the lillies on the tables in your colours, or if you saw what kind of vases the flowers will be in you could tie ribbon around them....I'm starting to enjoy this!

hunnymonster

helena.ryan wrote: »

How did you decide on your colours without second guessing yourself and how did you incorporate it into your wedding?

We didn't actively choose colours. Himself is getting married in his uniform so that got Navy blue in there. The bridesmaids choose pale blue dresses for themselves so that kinda made the colours white, navy, baby blue and silver.

helena.ryan wrote: »

I was thinking of midnight blue and champagne http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2525/3876747587_efd6ac94ca.jpg but now I'm thinking "it's been done to death" or that its boring.

I think classy rather than boring. It's much more my taste than the shocking pink that I've seen so much of in the last year. It's also lovely for an october wedding.

helena.ryan wrote: »

Even if I go for it, would it be best to use the champagne/ivory as the main colour with just touches of blue? Blue dress for BM's with champagne ribbon under the bust and a bunch of champagne flowers with some sort of blue detail (what type of detail?), me an Ivory dress with champagne ribbon and the same bouqet as the BM's.

I love bluebells but for the blue colours a lot of other people use thistles. Some blue flowers here
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/13418352CnCizzrmZu
Alternatively you could use a blue ribbon for the wrap around the stems. You can find lots of colour theme photo's on theknot.com

helena.ryan wrote: »

How would I pull that into the ceremony room (civil in a hotel) and the reception room? The hotel will provide candleabras and tall lillys on the tables so it would only be little touches I'd be adding and flowers on the top table.

We're not doing anything to our room as I think we'd have to spend a small fortune to make an impact and the room looks out over the sea which I'm hoping is enough. With high vases, could you perhaps colour the water with a dark blue dye? That would certainly have an effect. You can pick up gold organza for almost nothing and the linens are likely to be white or cream so you would have it all in there in the table decoration?

Whispered

Brilliant ideas! Thanks.

So that will be gold chair sashes, white/cream flowers on tables with the water a dark blue or alternatively dark blue glass beads in the vase. A blue and ivory bouqet (I love the idea of thistles!). And a cream & gold cake with blue ribbon.

Thanks again, I have a much clearer picture now.

Acoshla

Or for the cake if you wanted something other than the standard ribbon around each tier to add colour something like this is nice:

http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wAdGkhxrDzE/RdqyTzCi8xI/AAAAAAAAABM/h6HIMrAPlck/s400/IMG_0178.JPG&imgrefurl=http://cakeshoppe2.blogspot.com/&usg=__aYiJsskP6Ia7_IZJlb4BwoJyIjA=&h=400&w=286&sz=25&hl=en&start=18&um=1&tbnid=E4X59sNxTY1ljM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwedding%2Bcake%2Btiny%2Bflowers%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1C1GGLS_enIE326IE327%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

The cake in the frame of that page is what I mean, I can't find a better picture but a round 3 tier stacked cake in cream/champagne with midnight blue flowers and little gold centres would be beautiful. Your colour scheme would lend itself well to wedding cupcakes too, but I know not everybody likes them.