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27 April 2011

Color Freak Out

I'm not going to lie, I had a small worry-fest this morning. When we went to go get tux's for the guys, the lady made a big deal about not mixing ivory and yellow. I had never heard that before and... well... my dress is ivory and I'm planning on having yellow flowers. Argh... Nobody told me this before! Apparently, white and yellow are go-withs but not ivory and yellow. Ok, then I start re-thinking everything... this very quickly becomes a slippery slope with me because I'm the type to over-think my color palette's. This is my original palette and after using this awesome website, I'm think if I change anything, it will be my "neutral".
or even a lighter aqua... the yellow is negotiable since flowers can't be any ONE color... but I was shooting for a deeper fall yellow.
I love aqua... love it. I think muted aqua works well as a neutral color and would only be on the table cloths.

This is option 2, changing the aqua to a grey/silver. The only thing about this is that I can't really visualize it and it really isn't me and if I were to change that, I'd just drop it altogether and stick with blue, yellow and ivory.

Although if I had my druthers I'd have gone with more of a peach, because I love peach. But it was veto'd by the groom... a little too pink for his taste. I get that. Plus, it really is more of a spring/summer color.


Anyways, I think the florist talked about using some circus roses in the bridesmaids bouquets.
I love the look of them... I'm having a hard time picturing it. I'm sure it will turn out great.

What it means is that my color palette is more like this one, which is actually my original idea since orange/persimmon and yellow flowers are so readily available in the fall.

What's a wedding without the occasional second-guessing of one's choices right?

1 comment:

Erin said...

You will have 1000 people give their input about your wedding everything and it will drive you crazy! You can't listen to anyone's input because if you sided with one person, then you still aren't meeting the expectation of the 999 others! In the end, it's YOUR day!!! Do what you want, your colors look beautiful and are the ones you already love. I don't see what's wrong with yellow and ivory?! Seems softer to me than white and yellow, right?