Where to Start

Consider the season

If you are having trouble finding a place to start when picking your wedding colors, consider what season it will be when you get married. Spring, summer, fall and winter all come with inherent color schemes. Spring calls for pinks, purples, and pastel hues. Summer’s colors are brighter with reds, blues, and greens. Fall colors are more muted, with copper, gold, brown and orange. Wintery color palettes can include silver, white, and blue, or red, green, and gold.

Get inspired by florals

If you already know that you want to have certain florals in your wedding, consider this a place to start for your colors. If red roses have a special meaning to you and your future spouse, start with red as a primary color. Or if you’re crazy about succulents, you’ll want to make sure your color palette works well with muted greens and/or purples.

Think about your favorite colors

If you’re not a fan of your season’s colors, and you don’t have any plans for florals yet, start with your own or your fiance’s favorite color. It is important that you like the look of your own wedding! And it’ll be easier to find a palette you love if you already love the colors.

Creating a Palette

Once you have selected one or two colors that you really love, it’s time to add in some accents. To find colors that work well together, there are several tools and tactics you can use. First, you can turn to Pinterest. Type in your primary color or colors and add “color palette” in the search bar. If none of those pique your interest, you can also try some online color palette generators, like Coolors.co or Paletton.com. If none of these are working for you, you can also try the good old-fashioned method of heading to your local hardware or craft store and searching the paint swatches for a hue that you really love.

Unique Spins

Themes

If you’re thinking about having a themed wedding, let the theme inspire your color palette and not the other way around. For example, a Harry Potter wedding can utilize a red-green-yellow-purple palette that may not work for a traditional wedding. Or a unicorn theme should be decked out in light purples, pinks, and sparkles.

Single Color and Ombre

Maybe you just like one color and none of the palette ideas are looking right to you. That can work, too! Consider using varying hues and ombre techniques in your décor, centerpieces, and even formalwear to give a single wedding color more dimension.

Metallic Accents

Gold, copper, rose gold, silver and even wrought iron are popular wedding color accents and definitely shouldn’t be overlooked. While you may not be able to find every item in a metallic hue, you can certainly use them to accent the rest of your color palette throughout the wedding. Consider adding one or more metallic colors to your existing palette to give it that trendy edge.

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