Choosing a Wedding Color Scheme
The wedding color scheme that you choose, brings your personality into your wedding day! Whether you choose a bright summer palette, crisp fall colors, dark winter tones, light spring shades, or a combination of these colors! The colors in your wedding palette will have a special meaning to you! We associate color with different things throughout our lives. Whether it is a season, characteristic, person, or our favorite food! We are partial to certain colors and many of us have a favorite. Red roses and babies breath have been universally associated with romance for centuries, but they may not hold the same meaning for you. We all have a unique love story and may associate a different color and flower with romance. What colors do you associate with romance? What colors have you imagined in your color scheme? The colors that you choose are the colors that you will associate with your wedding. As a florist, I LOVE seeing a couple's personality portrayed in their color and flower choice! Here at Wilson Park Floral, we are here for you every step of the way to put your DREAM wedding together! My number one tip in choosing a color scheme, although it may not be the popular opinion, is to let it be a reflection of you and your fiance. Don't let the wedding trends and fads get in the way of expressing yourself. The trends and fads will come and go, but your wedding day is a day that will live in your memory for the rest of your life.
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Colors and Their Meanings
While there are many colors that aesthetically go very well together, have you stopped to think about what those colors mean to you? The characteristics that are generally associated with these colors may not be the same as what you personally associate these colors with, AND THATS OK! Your wedding day is about you, so why shouldn't you express yourself with your choice? Maybe you associate orange with romance, because it was the color of the flowers that your boyfriend brought you while you were dating.
Here are some meanings that I found for these colors. Feel free to add your personal meaning to each of these, or change the meaning based on your experience. Red symbolizes health, courage, and love. Orange symbolizes youthfulness, energy, and happiness. Yellow symbolizes happiness, optimism, joy, and friendship. Green symbolizes new growth and renewal. Blue symbolizes depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, and intelligence. Purple symbolizes royalty and wisdom. Pink symbolizes love, nurture and compassion. While choosing your color scheme I would urge you to think about what it means to you. You can put together an aesthetically pleasing color scheme that is also very meaningful to your personal story at the same time. Write the meaning next to the color and then start putting together your color scheme.
Putting the Color Scheme Together
Once you have identified what each color means to you, look at which colors aesthetically pleases you most. A color wheel may help while putting together the color scheme you would like. Once you have an idea of the colors/meanings that you would like to portray, decide what kind of color scheme you would like to work with. Below are some suggestions to start out with. Here are some ideas: A monochromatic is a color scheme that is all the same color with different shades and tones of that color. A complimentary color scheme is when you use two colors across from each other on the color wheel. An analogous color scheme is a primary color and secondary color on the color wheel. In other words, they are colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel. A split complimentary color scheme is similar to a complimentary color scheme, but instead of the two colors across from each other it creates an acute triangle with the two colors next to the complimentary colors. A triadic color scheme creates an equal triangle. All of the colors are equally distant from each other. A square color scheme is similar to the triadic color scheme. All the colors of the color wheel are equally distant from each other using four instead of three now. A rectangle color scheme is similar to the square color scheme, but the colors used are not equally distant from each other. These are all examples of color schemes that you could use to create a meaningful color scheme for your wedding!
Want to try out any of these ideas?
Reach out to Wilson Park Floral! We serve clients in Southeastern Idaho and Provo, Utah! We would love to help make your vision come to life!
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