Choosing Your Wedding Color Motif

Wedding planning starts with your wedding color motif. Without the color, you will be at a loss when it comes to your decorations and floral arrangements. Although there are thousands of colors to choose from, you can’t just go and choose a palette  that will shock your guests. Opting for a simpler color or combination will be a better choice. The hue you decide on should also reflect the personality of both yourself and your loved one. Remember that for your wedding planning to be a successful endeavor, you and your mate should agree on the wedding color, budget and other matrimonial essentials.

The most common colors are Pink, Lavender, Yellow, Blue and Green. No matter the shade, these colors can be used for any season or theme. When you start your wedding planning with a color in mind, it will be easier to choose the decorations, floral arrangements as well as the bridesmaid dresses. Since these colors are commonplace, you will not run out of ideas or themes to make your wedding color coordinated. Wedding planning around these simple and classic colors will be far easier when it comes to choosing flowers and fabrics. However, if you opt for unusual colors like Gold, Silver, Black, Red and Brown, you’re taking a risk with the overall theme of your wedding. These are not easy colors to work with, especially if you want your wedding planning to be stress free.

The key to wedding planning is to make it a point to choose a color that will exude with your style, as well as your future spouse. Green would be a good color especially if both of you are both outdoorsy; but that won’t work if you plan to hold a garden wedding. Your colors will be lost in the already green background. Wedding planning around a color gives you a lot of ideas to work with as well as solidify your bridal theme. But it shouldn’t mean that your wedding flowers should be golden, unless you are going to use silk flowers. Work around the color and have a second shade in mind in case you need to change the wedding color motif halfway through the wedding planning stage.

You are not, however, limited to just one color. Some might say that it’s more fashionable to have two or three wedding colors. In this way, your wedding planning will include a wide variety of styles; those that you cannot achieve with just one color in mind. A combination of Red and Gold, which according to Chinese custom will bless your wedding with wealth and prosperity, is a wonderful example. Royal Blue and Baby Pink, to show off the bride’s femininity as well as the groom’s masculinity. This is a recipe of wedding planning that inculcates the personalities of the bride and groom, as well as the different matrimonial customs and traditions.

Wedding planning can be a blissful experience, that you can share with your soon-to-be spouse. This is a great time to start sharing ideas and to learn more about each other. No matter what color or theme you choose, just keep in mind that your wedding day is an already perfect event that you would like to share with close friends and relatives. 


You can find more great ideas and advice on Wedding Planning at our online wedding guide, the Ultimate weddings with style magazine .