Wedding Wedding Colors

[JerseyGrl81]

I am wondering if you ladies can help me pick colors for my wedding. I am attaching pictures of the reception site, which is outside in Bermuda. The bridesmaids dresses will be yellow.

 

[JerseyGrl81]

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[JerseyGrl81]

The view

 

[kittybean]

I believe a friend of mine had a destination wedding in the same place! (It looks almost identical to the pictures she had.) What a beautiful venue!

My friend used navy, lime, and white. She had white lights and white paper lanterns hanging inside the tent. Her bridesmaids'' dresses were navy, and they carried small nosegays of lime cymbidium orchids. She wore an ivory dress and carried white and pink cymbidiums, with the same in her hair. (Her beautiful flowers were actually the inspiration for my own flowers, which will be pretty much the same.) She used white linens to give the whole thing a breezy, whitewashed, tropical look. It looked very elegant and tasteful as well.

 

[Blackpaw]

How bout magenta? With yellow it would be lovely. And very tropical and romancey

 

[JerseyGrl81]

Date: 11/9/2008 7:56:40 PM
Author: Blackpaw
How bout magenta? With yellow it would be lovely. And very tropical and romancey

That is exactly what I was thinking, yellow and pink! Do you think I should add another color too?

 

[JerseyGrl81]

I was thinking flowers like this for bouquets

 

[JerseyGrl81]

for centerpieces (not arranged that way, but those colors and type of flowers)

 

[blackpolkadot]

My first thought was a blue, like teal or aqua, but I like the pink/magenta idea!

 

[Italiahaircolor]

What if you went simple white with punches of yellow, and hints of green mixed in with the flowers? White flowers...white candles....white tent...white fabrics...white chairs...Your going to be surrounded by so many vibrant punches of color that are in nature to begin with that maybe a toned down color pallet would be super attractive.

When I think of tropical, I think of white. It would be so easy to do hot tones of pink, and orange...but a white wedding in Bermuda would be so timeless and calming and sexy. You could go super textured too--white on white with texture setting the tone...you could make it so classy, and rich, and romantic. With white, there is no limit to how far you can take it.

Sometimes using *less* color actually makes more of a statement.

 

[JerseyGrl81]

kittybeans- thanks for the ideas. Thats crazy that your friend had her wedding at the same place! Do you have any pictures?

blackpolkadot- I love aqua, too! And we have that with the ocean backdrop!

Italiahaircolor- White would be pretty for all the linens and fabrics. Here is a picture the wedding planner at the hotel sent me from another wedding. Maybe I could do all the fabrics in white, but use bright flowers? I would love to think of a way to use candles or twinkling lights in some way since it will be at night.

 

[Italiahaircolor]

Maybe you could use white and yellow flowers with some lush, tropical greenery?

I just think when you're hosting a tropical wedding, people expect tropical colors, and flowers...and in my opinion, thats' been done and done to death. I think you're getting married in a picture perfect place...and that speaks for itself, loudly! When brides do "themes" or try to evoke emotion by using color, or detailing, or objects, its usually because their venue or location is ambigous, it can be anything--one weekend it might be old Hollywood, and the next a rustic fall escape. Some brides need the color schemes and "props" to create the "feel" of what they want their wedding to be...but tropical, destination weddings are so beautiful because your backdrop creates your theme without you trying.

You're obviously getting married in a tropical setting because that's your dream...and it's going to be so perfect no matter what color you use...but, if it were my wedding, I'd mute my color scheme--and really make it sexy, but in an understated way...but, that's me.

ETA: there are plenty places to use candle light and twinkle lights. You could place tiny votives in white paper bags up the steps, and wrap twinkle lights around the posts, railings and metal beams.