What are you colors?

[LollyBear]

My colors are sapphire blue and burgundy or garnet red. While looking for bouquet ideas that would fit, I found this one on modernbride.com and fell in love instantly.

I think the peonies and blue anemones are a gorgeous combination. I may want to use something other than the calla lillies for accent. I need to find a florist QUICK to see if the anemones will be available in this particular color as they are the only flowers I found so far that will match the color I want for bridesmaid dresses. Something like this, but maybe with a red sash to match the peonies.

If you have your colors and ideas for flowers, dresses, decorations, etc., please post. It is so much fun seeing what everyone is doing.

Thanks!!

 

[MelissaSue]

This is my little color scheme swatch that I made

these two dresses go with my color scheme really well.. or something like this one would be really cute too

As for flowers.. I don''t know WHAT i want to do yet.
I LOVE stargazer lilies though

 

[abradabra]

I''m getting married in NH and live in DC, so I''m keeping my colors simple (I don''t have time to coordinate with multiple vendors to make sure everything matches). Mostly we''re just doing black and white with a bit of gold thrown in (I have a champagne colored detail on my dress) and green (we''re getting married at our alma mater and that was one of the school colors).

For my bouquets, I am doing mostly ferns (green) with a small cluster of white roses/stephonitis/seasonal white foliage in the middle. Table linens will be white with green napkins. And I''m letting my MOH select the bridesmaid dresses because she''s infinitely more fashionable than I am. I would think they''d end up being champagne, sage or black.

 

[JCJD]

Berry red and deep bright blueberry - kind of the opposite of you lollybear!!

Main color (BM dresses, GM vests, flowers)

Accent (flowergirl(??) flowers)

We''re doing a berry theme for the wedding, so we''ll have silk berries in the flowers, our mom''s have been instructed to wear deep rich colors to coordinate.

Cool boutonnieres!!

Imagine this cake with fresh strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc instead of flowers, and columns separating the top layer from the lower two!

 

[flopkins]

OOooOoo where are you gals getting those color swatch thingys from?! pretty colors!! i like.

I love pink, but two out of three of my bridesmaids dont like pink at all, and plus FI doesn''t want pink on the guys, so I *think* we are going w/light blue and cream. I might throw in some pink on the flowers though, just cuz. Although looking at some of your guys colors I might do dark blue/light blue/cream to get a nice contrast, but we''ll see, the weddings in spring and I had wanted it pastel-y...

 

[flopkins]

this is a cake i love: (not so much the icing and shape of the cake itself, but i like the flowers!)

 

[flopkins]

and a bouqet i fell in love with:

 

[jenwill]

That is a lovely bouquet flopkins...I really like that color combo!

 

[qtiekiki]

My colors are deep red/burgundy, sage green and gold. My BMs are wearing pale gold dresses. My bouquet will be deep red/burgundy, sage green and white flowers with gold jewels wrapped with white ribbon. My BMs' bouquets will be deep red/burgundy and sage green wrapped with gold ribbon. My FI will be wearing black tux with red vest and tie. GMs will be wearing black tux with gold vest and tie.

 

[teebee]

Well, for right now my colors are sort of deep pink, chartreuse (or "limeish" green) and something like a light turquoise blue... But these are all colors that revolve around my DREAM dress, which I haven''t tried on or seen in person, and given the silhouette and my short stature, it may look horrible on me... But, until then, this is my "wedding in my head" stuff:

The dream dress (I love color!!! I don''t want to be completely over the top and irreverant, but I want to find something that fits my personality ~ and so a certain amount of color is a must for me). This dress is my daily treadmill inspiration

:

Detail:

So I''m thinking about something like this for bridesmaid dresses:

But not with that color of ribbon. There are also a few Dessy & After Six dresses I like but I haven''t figured out how to post their pics... Or this in the above color ~ less fluffy:

For flowers... I dunno ~ I think that the dress inspires thoughts of lilies maybe? Or callas... I love peonies... And then some minimal accents in green. I think that something simple would be good in order to not compete with the dress for attention?

Anyhow, that''s what I''ve got in my brain for right now...

 

[teebee]

Oh, and I just found this BM dress from Nordstroms. I like the Jim Helm a little better, but I''m assuming they''re quite a bit more $$

 

[teebee]

And I love this cake... love it love it love it... from a local bakery.

 

[qtiekiki]

Bouquets that I like.

 

[qtiekiki]

BMs'' dresses color.

 

[njc]

LollyBear - I LOVE that bouquet! And your colors are so nice and rich!

JCJD - Love the idea of using the berries to decorate the cake... they will all be so delicious in June! And that cake is very nice too.

teebee - I really like the cake!

Here is the BM dress I want for my girls (still need MOH approval

), my colors and the bouquets i want. I am TOTALLY loving the hydrangeas!

 

[MelissaSue]

oooh NJC - I really like that BM dress you posted. Who makes it?! Think it might come in pink with a black sash?

 

[njc]

Its made by one of your favorite companies... Forever Yours. The website has been down, but i believe you can get it in something like 40 color combinations.

 

[MelissaSue]

hmmm - I wonder if I can get that one around here. My bridal shop is supposed to carry their line.. but ive never seen any of their dresses, for BMs at least.

 

[LollyBear]

JCJD - Love your color scheme

. Your idea of using berries on the cake is wonderful and sounds tasty too (might just use them myself). Also, those berry boutonnieres are really unique.

tebee - The bodice on your dress is amazing and the cake looks absolutely scrumptious!

njc - ditto on your bouquet! Are those berries among the flowers? If so, what kind, and if not, what are they? Love ''em!

 

[NyssaLynne]

My main colors were shades of blue and green, since it was a beach/ocean wedding, but we added a bit of pale lavender, pale peach, and pale yellow accents which really brought out the blue/greens.

 

[njc]

Date: 2/10/2005 7:21:46 PM
Author: LollyBear

njc - ditto on your bouquet! Are those berries among the flowers? If so, what kind, and if not, what are they? Love ''em!

I have no clue what they are, but ive been calling them berries! Maybe currents? Thats the only thing i can think of that would be that small and dark. Im going to talk to my florist soon, so hopefully ill find out and share... i think they *totally* make the bouquets though!