Color Scream

I mean SCHEME!

Picking our wedding colors was my least favorite task of planning.  It actually took a VERY longtime for me to decide on colors and now I understand why this would occur, in this particular order:

1. Congratulations on your engagement!
2. Have you set a date?
3. What are your colors?

The COLORS are important for various reasons, the attire (of the bridal party), flower & décor, invitations, cake, etc… Most of the vendors asked about my colors and every time it would occur in this manner:

         Vendor:  What are your colors?

            Moi:        I don’t know (smiling)

            Vendor:  You don’t know your colors!  (the look of horror as if I committed the ultimate sin.)

            Moi:        Ummm, No.

            Vendor:  What’s your favorite color? 

            Moi:        Black

            Vendor:   Okay, good choice, what about an accent color? What other colors?

            Moi:        None, I don’t have another.

            Vendor:  Well, you know…………(the spill of the importance of colors)

BLAH!!!!

So I’m not a fan of bright color and this color coordinating thing just wasn’t clicking in my mind…yet!

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Then I was reminded by my mother (especially), that I was having a summer wedding so try and look into lighter colors.  So I decided upon royal purple and cobalt blue but the battle of the colors was not done yet.  I had to think about how I wanted to incorporate those colors within everything else and that’s when I froze for a moment.

This detail stuff is really getting to me at this point, it was all fun until I had tie everything together for cohesiveness…BLAH again!

Well, here’s the thing, they say a wedding should symbolize the couple but as much as I love dark colors I have to consider the over-all look; so basically I was back to the drawing board. My only hope was to look at inspiration boards and create one outside of the element of favorite colors but personality. I may love black but I’m not a gloomy individual, I may hate pink but I can be girly at times. So yet again it was another learning experience.  Next, I will delve into picking the bridesmaids attire!! Speaking of inspiration, how about this for a start…

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