Category — color palette

Happy Independence Day everyone!  To celebrate, here is a board of red, white, and just the softest of blues. 

Top row: Lovin Sullivan Cakes via Weddingbee, Whitebox Weddings via With This Ring…, Nicole Hill via She Walks In Beauty
Middle row: The Green Vase, Wedding via Nibs via {frolic!}, The Bride’s Cafe
Bottom row: Millie Holloman, Artfool via The Bride’s Cafe

Hope you’re enjoying the holiday!
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{Image Sources: Brides, Marie Labbancz, Frolic, Brides, Style me Pretty, Peonies and Polaroids, Brooks Brothers, Cheree Berry}

Inspired by the dress from yesterday’s post, I give you a full on 70’s vintage board.

Think peach, chiffon, floaty layers, sashes, fabric roses, arm bouquets with trailing vines, three piece suits, bridesmaids with fans or wrist corsages, orange blossom invitations.

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What’s pink and purple and sparkly all over? This inspiration board of course!

Clockwise from top left: Jane Jordan, Anna Kuperberg, Sweet Art Cake Design via Perfect Bound, Ariella Chezar, Sarah K Chen, Paul Smith via Perfect Bound, Esther Coombs via Poppytalk, Liz Banfield via Once Wed, Jupiter Images, Impressionen

Fluffy pink peonies and purple hydrangea meld with delicate china and lots of bling to deliver a very feminine, bold and classic event. I think this one is perfect for a tent!

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Icy shades of periwinkle blend with stark whites, champagne and a hint of brown to create an elegant and classic palette. 

Top row: Michelle Rago via A Bride In the Making, Morgan Davies dress via Snippet & Ink, Alison Gootee via Desire to Inspire, Michelle Rago via A Bride In the Making
Middle row: Katie Moos, The Green Vase, Impressionen
Bottom row: Marian Bantjes & Stefan Sagmeister via d*lish studio, Paper and Cup via Minted, Maybelle via Classic Bride, Jim Hjelm

I picture this as a daytime wedding on a bright winter’s day, complete with lots of yummy chocolates and coffee.  And yes, you spy lettering in SUGAR in the bottom right corner.  People can do the darndest things when they put their mind to it.

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Daniela from Bella Signature Design sent over a lovely purple board, inspired by a bride who has chosen a range of purples for her March 2009 wedding.

{Image Credits: Wedding Bee, Bella Signature Design, Asiel Design, White Lilac Inc., Grace Ormonde, Bella Signature Design, Wedding Bee, Wedding Bee}

Thanks you Daniela!

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You may have learned by now that I have a soft spot in my heart for unexpected color combinations.  Today’s board was inspired by the photo in the top left - a whimsical garden palette of purple and white with hints of aqua and chartreuse.

 
Clockwise from top left: le souk via the style files, Love and Splendor, the Knot, Marisa Holmes via The Bride’s Cafe, Carrie Patterson via The Bride’s Cafe, Trista Lerit Photography, Kenzie Kate, A Little Sussy, Impressionen, Amy Squires Photography, Wisteria via White Aisle, the Knot

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To kick off our purple week, we have a lush and vintage inspiration board of plum and indigo.  I have to say, some color combinations I just fall in love with.  And this is DEFINITELY one of them.  There is something so luxurious about the blend of dark purple and blue!

Clockwise from top left: Craig Fordham via Sarah Kaye, Ariella Chezar, Alberto Pinto via Desire to Inspire, easteryu via ready 2 spark, Nordstrom, The Green Vase, Holland Photo Arts via Two Brides, Love and Splendor

This palette is great for a winter wedding or a fall event - and I’m totally digging the feathers!

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Lesley wrote asking for help. Her problem? A blank canvas venue that was more modern than she wanted to go. She has chosen a pale yellow, black and white for her colors. She really wants a softer look.

First up, the venue…

Prairie Productions in Chicago

As you can see, it really is a blank canvas.

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So we have this blank canvas of a wedding sitting before us. Where do you start? Throughout college I had often said that I wanted to become a wedding coordinator someday. I adored weddings, this one day with all of your friends and family together celebrating. I had the Monica-from-Friends binder of every wedding idea I had ever come across. I’m a little wedding-obsessed. But once it was actually time to start planning I was a little lost.

I found two images in the first few wedding magazines I picked up (since being engaged, never mind that shelf of them in the back of my closet) that kicked everything off.

Photo from Melissa Sweet. The dress color is called Shadow.

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Darn it!!

I just saw this color palette board over on Style Me Pretty :

See, the problem is that these are very very close to my colors which are terracotta orange and a champagne/gold.  Of course I will have greenery, so green will be present, and I’ve thought about the idea of introducing a wine color to compliment the orange/terracotta.  So, I love this board, it’s very pretty.  But my problem is with the floral arrangement.  It is causing me to rethink *yet again* my choice of accent arrangements. 

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