On at least five separate occasions, I’ve been asked, “What are your wedding colors?” And the truth is, we don’t have any. Which is not to say that our wedding will be void of color — in fact, quite the opposite is true — but at no point did we sit down and pick a two- or three-color scheme for our wedding.

Is that so shocking?

Yes, apparently it is.

Instead, the guiding aesthetic principle for our wedding is: jewel tones. We’re getting married in a stately private club that is already outfitted with rich wood accents, gilded chandeliers and magnificent stained glass windows. It has so much personality going for it already, we thought committing to an arbitrary three-color scheme would just look and feel forced.

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When Violet Dude and I started planning our wedding, one of our first projects was figuring our our color scheme. We knew we wanted a vintage/shabby chic type feeling, and I love muted earth tones. I saw a tiny little picture in a Bridal magazine, of a bouquet that used peach peonies and lambs ear and knew exactly what kind of colors we’d be using.  While looking at Bridesmaid’s dresses, I stumbled upon the perfect color. Dusty Shale (From J. Crew).  After that our scheme came together. We now have the Dusty Shale as the main color with pinks, yellows, peaches and greys all flowing through in the details.  These colors fit our theme and make us happy!

I have noticed that so many brides are going with very similar color themes.  Ive been seeing a lot of aqua and white, lilac and cream, and pink and brown. But there are some new color combinations that are becoming more popular and really make a statement.

Red and Aqua with an Ivory accent

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Never in my life has color mattered to me so much than now. The closest I’ve ever come to caring about color before was when I decided to paint my bedroom purple at age 12.

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Lilac Dude and I are planning a blue and green spring wedding. I’m not sure those colors can be pulled off at any other time of year. Originally, I had a beautiful black and white wedding planned with blue flowers. However elegant that would have been, I got really sentimental when my friend said, “it just doesn’t seem like you unless it’s green.”

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While searching for the right look for our Big Day, I’ve received the same advice from many wedding professionals. Create the look at home or at the venue first and then make a decision if you’ll go forward with the idea. At the Seattle Wedding Show I realized that this was a good advice to use when you look at the following images I took of various settings and decorations.

The first setting you can certainly see that the main color or the color theme revolves around green. I am not a fan of this color; however, I feel that the people that used the color on this table setting did a fantastic job. Please note how the table linen ties everything together. I feel it creates a balance to the whole atmosphere.

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Ok….so after hours of deliberation (I mean seriously, it shouldn’t be that hard) I have chosen our colors! I took into account all the great advice I got from all of you.  Unfortunately, Dogwood Dude’s only advice was “Whatever makes you happy, makes me happy”… I resisted the urge to tell him that he wasn’t making me happy at that moment!  I decided to do some research into local flowers to see what we could get for a good price and what colors I had to choose from for those flowers.

So, here were the three choices I was looking at….and click through to see what we picked!

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Crisis #1…I can’t make up my mind on our colors!  With all the beautiful colors to choose from when planning a beach wedding it really makes it hard to decide. I could go with sky, water or earth on this one!

My first inclination was to go with the colors of the sunset since our wedding will take place at that beautiful time.  I was imagining amazing hues of canary, peach, coral and tangerine much like this image from Martha Stewart.

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I’ve been having the most difficult time trying to figure out what colors I want for my wedding. It seems no matter who I talk to, the question always comes up – “so, what are your colors?”

I’ve always known I want to incorporate green into my wedding, but more than that I do not know.  I’ve considered green and gray, green and brown, or even just green and ivory (though that might be a little boring)…people keep urging me to add something bolder, but I’ve been hesitant.

In my research I managed to find this great site that allows me to play around with different color combination: Kuler. Fantastic resource, but somehow I’m left even more confused…. HELP!

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OK, I considered, and selected, mostly by default, and then I made a gorgeous image!! Here’s the evolution of the colors that will be seen at the wedding…

You will notice I refuse to say my “wedding colours”,  instead hinting that different colours will be seen, incorporated, or suggested. One thing is for sure, my dress is IVORY. After that, the colour choices have been somewhat organic, inspired by our setting.. the mountains!! We will have greys and indigos (think mountains and river rock!), browns and greens (think forest and meadows), and wheat!! Yes, I have a thing for wheat!! It has no doubt popped into the whole planning process once or twice. I am a prairie girl, so the wheat is mandatory!!

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We are doing a Polaroid Guestbook.  I have loved this since my friend Ann Marie did this at her wedding in 2006!  This is still my favorite way to do a guestbook.  To add a little character to to the activity, we’re using vintage fabrics that I’ve been collecting over the past few months in our wedding colors (blues, oranges, yellows and peaches) to hang in the backdrop.

My inspiration was of course from Lena Corwin and Joshua Dreier, who were featured in Martha Stewart Weddings.

So cute!  I love merging vintage fabrics and a vintage camera.

One of the first decor-related items Lotus dude and I talked about in connection with the wedding was choosing our colors. To be honest, we did this even before we chose the venue, which I guess is a little backwards. Thankfully, the venue we ended up choosing (I’ll have photos soon) goes along with our preferred color scheme perfectly! We’re going with red and gold, as they are colors that work well with Hindu wedding colors and customs. We’re going with gray for the neutral, as I think black would have made things too dark and Lotus Dude didn’t like white. Thankfully our venue is providing floor length gray table cloths at no additional cost

I found a great tool today, courtesy of I-Do-It-Yourself, which lets you see how different colors look together. It’s at Idee Inc. You choose your colors and it will create a collage out of photographs that incorporate those colors. Here’s what mine looks like: