Wedding Color Combinations That Will Make Your Day Beautiful.

To figure out your perfect wedding colors scheme, start by choosing one main color. This is the color you’ll see the most of throughout the ceremony and the reception. Here are some tips to help you choose your main wedding color:

Wedding Colors Tip #1 – Assess who you are as a couple.

Are you traditional? Choose jewel tones, such as “true” red, green or blue. Are you whimsical and fun-loving? Choose lively colors like fuchsia, lime green or yellow. Romantic? Go for red, burgundy, soft pink, sea green or pale blue. Chic and modern? Think silver, gray, black, red, burgundy or ice blue.

Wedding Colors Tip #2 – Think about where your wedding will be held.

The colors you choose should complement your location, rather than compete with it. For example, jewel tones may not carry over so well if your wedding is taking place in a charming old barn, but they might be ideal for a church with dazzling stained glass windows.  Lemon yellow might look out of place at a beach wedding, but perfect at a summer wedding set in a garden.

Wedding Colors Tip #3 – Factor in when your wedding will be held.

Fall weddings lend themselves to golds, browns, rusts, reds and yellows. Winter weddings are all about shimmery blues and silver. Or, try crimson for a dramatic winter choice. Spring, of course, is about frothy pinks, purples, blues, greens and yellows. And summer is about gold, reds, bright pinks, yellows and Kelly green.

Now, let’s think about your secondary wedding colors.

There are two ways you can go about adding secondary wedding colors to your wedding colors scheme. You can choose contrasting wedding colors, which make a bold, definitive statement, or you can choose to use a palette comprised of wedding colors in a single family.

Complementary Wedding Colors

Complementary wedding colors. They tend to have opposing effects on our senses and, when placed together, they complement, or balance one another (hence the name). Yellow and purple are complementary colors, as are red and green and orange and blue.

So, if your main color is blue, you can try accenting it with soft shades of orange, such as light coral or peach. If your main color is fuschia, you can try some lime green accents. Use secondary complementary colors sparingly to avoid making things too loud or busy.

Color Families

Wedding colors in the same family harmonize with one another. Warm tones, such as gold, red, yellow, dark brown and orange always look good grouped together, as do cool tones such as blue, green, purple, pink, silver and light brown. So your wedding color scheme could utilize blue and silver, blue and light brown, or yellow and dark brown.

Some general wedding color tips

• Put your bridesmaids in the most flattering wedding colors possible. If your color scheme is fuschia and lime green, make their dresses fuchsia, as lime green is very hard for most people to pull off.
• Choose a color that looks good in photos. If you’re having an outdoor wedding, choose bolder colors that won’t “wash out” in photos. More muted colors, such as silver or pale blue are best for indoors, where the dimmer lighting allows for more photographic attention to detail.
• Keep it classy. Less, is almost always more. Colors should accent and excite, not overwhelm. If you’re using a bright, bold color, such as red, keep everything else  as simple and clean as possible.