I often hear brides say they don’t know where to start when trying to find a theme or style for their wedding. For my own wedding I had no idea if I even wanted a “style” or “theme”, I just wanted the wedding to be beautiful and everyone to enjoy themselves. When you are trying to decide on the perfect colour or style of your wedding here are some top tips to help you get started.
Wedding Moodboard
As you flick through the millions of wedding magazines you are likely to buy when you become engaged, cut out all the pictures that appeal to you. Pictures of dresses, flowers, types of weddings that are photographed, shoes anything that you really like. You can also use swatches of material you see in shops and paint colour brochures to see what types of colours look good to you. Stick the images on to a large piece of card. You will probably start to see a style and colour theme emerge.
Be inspired by what is typically you!
Do you love bright colours? are you inspired by a certain flower? or do you have a hobby that you want to reflect into your special day. Weddings should be about injecting your personality into the day. Don’t get hung up about thinking you have to have the perfect style or be “on trend” or that everything has to match, it certainly does not. Be yourself and your ideas will naturally flow into your theme.
Be inspired by your Venue and its Decor
Your wedding venue will most likely add to the decision about what style and theme you want for your wedding day. Look around the venue and see what is already there. If the decor is beautiful then you wont have to spend a fortune on lighting or buy extravagant centre pieces. Often less is more. Look what you have to work with. Hiring coloured table linen will pick up the blandest room and is a cost effective way of injecting colour and warmth into your wedding reception style. If that is too costly then why not just hire different coloured napkins that fit into your colour scheme.
Style of Wedding Dress
Your dress will also determine the style of your reception decor. If you have fallen in love with a vintage style wedding dress then you can match the reception accessories to compliment your choice. Vintage is very fashionable at the moment and brings a lovely sophisticated relaxed approach, but its really up to you. Your dress will generally mirror the mood in your venue and should compliment each other.
Colours and the time of year
Colours are very emotive and make people feel differently when surrounded by them. Pick the colours you really like, the ones that make you feel happy, or calm, it really does not matter as long you choose colours that you like and compliment each other and don’t clash. Use a single colour for the main theme and add a complimentary colour . You can of course stick to one colour but its always good to use varying shades to give a little depth and texture. The time of year may dictate the colour scheme, christmas and winter time often calls for warm colours such as reds, greens and purples. Summer weddings look great using pastel shades or vibrant oranges or pinks. Creams and greens are very sophisticated and always look stunning. Generally the rule is not to use more than three colours and one of them as your main accent.
Accessories such as flowers, invites and stationery and cake
Your invites may very well dictate your colour and style of your wedding. I fell in love with a lovely heart themed invitation. The hearts could be dyed whatever colour I liked and hey presto hearts became my theme.. Your invites are one of the first things that your guests see and generally introduce them to the colours and style of your day. You don’t have to go overboard to style them, a coloured ribbon or a coloured motive maybe all that is required. Your cake and flowers can then follow a similar theme. If you want a plain white cake you can decorate it with matching ribbons or beautiful flowers.
The most important thing about styling your wedding day is that it reflects what you want and not what you think you should have or are pushed into. Don’t worry too much about it, easy for me to say i know, as you plan your wedding your style will definitely emerge. If you have any top tips you would like to share with our readers please send them to me. Alternatively I can help you style your day with our Genie for An Evening session. Its designed to help you understand exactly what you want. Call or email to have a chat.
Until next time, happy planning.
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