Wedding Color Ideas A Rainbow of Colors for Your Dream Come True

Sometimes wedding color ideas are hard to decide on but it’s important that the colors you choose for your wedding reflect your favorite colors and the personality of both you and your groom-to-be.

Below are some wedding color ideas to help you pick the perfect colors for your special day.

The main thing in choosing your wedding colors is to keep it simple and to use no more then 3 colors.

You can use light and darker shades of the same color for a fresh, rich look.

Use a Wedding Color Wheel

Using a color wheel is very helpful when you’re choosing a color scheme so go to the Internet and search for “color wheel for weddings” and you’ll find a number of helpful sites.

If you use the color wheel it will help give your wedding a polished look.

Pick a dominant color that looks great on you and then building your other colors from that will assure that your wedding colors will make you and your entire wedding glow.

White is always appropriate at any time of the year and combined with a favorite color is quite a lovely way to express yourself.

The colors you pick will, of course, depend on the time of year and the time of day that you set for the wedding.

With spring and summer tending to the lighter, brighter colors while fall and winter going to the darker, richer jewel tones or holiday colors.

Here are some suggestions for you, organized by the season.

Spring Wedding Colors

Spring is a time of new blooms and rejuvenation which makes pastel tones and lighter colors a very popular choice; stay away from either bright or dark shades.

Various shades of pink, yellow, and green are especially popular in the springtime. If you prefer more vibrant colors you can try either hot pink or vibrant turquoise that has been blended with tones that are more muted.

Spring colors can be fun because you can mix them up in various combinations and are even at liberty to use patterns like gingham or polka dots that you would not probably think of in other seasons of the year.

A few combinations or colors to consider are:

• Combine something like baby pink with a light green representing the season and add little clusters of petite flowers as decorations.
• Reflect the spring sunset by using a deeper pink together with pastel melon colors.
• A sharp white or ivory along with a pale blue will look gorgeous together and nice for more fornal wedding.

Summer Wedding Colors

Summer wedding colors usually include the bold colors of the plants in full bloom.

The rich shades of reds, blues, and yellows are always good choices and more exotic shades like magenta, teal, and ochre are also popular in the summer.

Here are some possible colors:

• Foliage inspired colors of greens and greens combined with bright flower colors like purple, white, yellow, and pink.
• Citrus inspired colors of yellow shades, lime green, bright fresh orange, pink grapefruit, or even vivid red.
• Rainbow inspired colors including purple, blue, red, pink, aquamarine, yellow, orange, and green.
• Water inspired colors that include shades of blue with yellow and white.
• Summer-oriented pastels like peach, mocha, sage, coral, lilac, rose, and blue.
• Beach inspired colors including sand and beige, white, cream, sea green or even silver.

Fall Wedding Colors

Autumn is a brilliantly colored season with reds, oranges, browns, and yellows the most prominent fall hues.

The most common colors used for fall weddings include: bronze, burgundy, copper, gold, marigold, mocha, off-white, pumpkin, sage green, rich red, rust, taupe, and wheat.

Because of this wide range of choices it’s sometimes difficult to pick a single color palette.

Fortunately, you can choose from several groups of colors depending upon when in the fall the wedding will take place. Pick from muted tones, vibrant or even the semi-metallic or metallic colors that symbolize  the season.

Winter Wedding Colors

A chilly season doesn’t limit your wedding colors to icy or holiday shades.

Pale blues and rich jewel tones are popular winter wedding colors along with winter white, silver and gold.

Black and white or champagne themes are beautiful particularly for nighttime weddings; they provide opulence to your wedding, especially when paired with a pale gold.

Purple and its many shades are very trendy now and looks to be continuing into 2011.

Some winter color inspired choices are various gray and silver hues, baby or navy blue, purples, like periwinkle and lilac, and, of course, white.

A popular winter color is red — contrasting the ice of winter with the red of fire. To make red work choose blue-based reds as opposed to the fall season yellow and orange-based reds.

You can use red as a primary color, for example, for bridesmaid dresses or as a secondary or trim color. Red accents can really make a white or light colored dress pop.

Try these as some suggestions to get your creativity flowing:

• Choose blue shades, like sky blue, navy blue and an icy blue, and combine them with silver.
• Choose blue shades, like teal blue, violet blue or more pure blues, and combine them with a white.
• Choose deep colors like a rich forest green or a royal purple with silver or gold accents.
• Follow the holiday colors like a strong emerald toned green and a rich apple red with white, light gray or silver accents.

Don’t restrict yourself to just a few winter colors but it’s best to choose from the cool colors of the spectrum.

Watch for Conflicts

Something to consider when picking your colors are the colors of the area where you will be holding your wedding reception. You don’t want to have a room or area that clashes badly with the colors you have chosen for your wedding day theme.

If the colors do not go well together you need to consider covering the walls with drapery or something of that sort to cover the unwanted color.

As you can see, the sky’s the limit and the choice is very personally yours when it comes to wedding color ideas. So make this day in the colors you’ve always dreamed your wedding would be.

Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tiffany_Cole
http://ezinearticles.com/?Wedding-Color-Ideas—A-Rainbow-of-Colors-for-Your-Dream-Come-True&id=5615092

                               .What are your favorite wedding colors? Tell me in the comments below!