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Going Yellow With Your Wedding

Chances are, if you are planning a spring or summer wedding, yellow may have crossed your mind for your main colors. However, it’s sometimes tough to find a second color when it comes to yellow, because it’s such a bold color as it is. You may even be worried about the black tuxes making your yellow dresses look like a giant bumble-bee wedding. Well just like any colors, if you play your cards right, the color scheme will make your wedding party sparkle almost as much as you.

When it comes to yellow, you have two main options for yellow wedding cakes, dresses, flowers, decor and even wedding favors. There is the bright ‘mango’ or ‘daisy’ yellow or there is the subtle ’sunflower’ or ‘buttercup’ yellow. We’ve put together a couple different color scheme ideas for both yellows.

BRIGHT YELLOW
(Daisy)

Yellow color board
LIGHT YELLOW
(Sunflower)

Light yellow color scheme

As you can see, the options are endless. There are plenty of colors out there, so don’t think that these are all you can come up with!

Use your ideal flowers as your inspiration. Do you think that daisies would be a beautiful choice for your bouquets? Then maybe opt for the colors you see in a daisy to really make it all work together. This is where the different shades of green may be a great contribution to your color pallet. Sometimes a bright color mixed with another bright color can be a bit much, so make sure you are seeing the whole picture when putting together all of your wedding details.

Here’s an example of how you can make the colors play together  nicely:

Yellow Wedding Color - Inspiration Board

Overall, yellow is a gorgeous color for any seasoned wedding. When it comes to unique touches, all you need is a little creativity and a passion for making your wedding look great! There’s no doubt you can make it work, and love your photos for years to come.

Have you or a friend used yellow as a color in your/their wedding? How did you like it? Post your comments, we’d love to hear about it!

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Teal & Champagne Wedding Colors

For an elegant spring or summer wedding, you might consider using teal and champagne as your main colors. The teal makes for a beautiful accent for the season, while the champagne really brings out the chic-factor. The colors blend together very well and really play off each other wonderfully.

For a spring wedding, you might choose the bridesmaid dresses with ruffly flowers on the side to play with the spring theme. Your bouquet is also another opportunity to pull out your colors. Opt for ivory-toned roses or lilies and use some teal ribbon to make them pop.

Teal and Champagne Inspiration Board
The placecards seen here are actually plantable wedding favors. When the fun is had and the party is over, your guests can bring them home as a souvenir and plant gorgeous wildflowers in your honor.

Do you love glitter, jewelry and other shiny things? You can also choose some beautiful jewelry (or hair jewelry) as seen above to add a little bling. There are so many options to pull these two beautiful colors together to make your wedding theme one to remember.
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Thoughts From A Summer Bride

In three weeks, I’m changing my name. I’m going to work hard to walk without tripping over my yards of muslin, recite my favourite love poem from memory, and agree to be taken care of and take care of my boyfriend. In three weeks, my life is going to change. It’s an exciting prospect, but right now, my head is crammed with lists, seating charts, menus and a missing band. In short, I am a textbook case of a bride-to-be.

My fiancé and I wanted a romantic summer wedding and are trying to pull it off with just six months of planning. It shouldn’t be exceptionally challenging, but we’re both media professionals with erratic work hours. We do have an arsenal of family members to help us along, but last night, as our band cancelled, our menu changed (for the sixteenth time) and our guest list threatened to expand even more, we realised that sometimes even help in numbers isn’t necessarily a good thing. In an unexpected gesture of good faith, and hoping the resulting karma will bring us a swing band in time for the big day, I’ve decided to list the ten great ways this wedding has come together. Perhaps it will help a bride tomorrow, and hopefully by the time I finish, the menu will have finally been fixed.

  1. Beach weddings in the summer are a bit passé, so we’ve decided to add something special – ours is themed around driftwood. It’s quirky, environmentally friendly and surprisingly easy to set up. Our marquee stands on driftwood poles, we’ve hired driftwood furniture, and the ocean provides a great backdrop for the simple combination of weathered wood and crisp white linen.
    Beach Wedding
  2. Our food follows the oceanic theme – we’ve kept the tone informal with lots of locally and responsibly sourced seafood. Always remember to keep an alternative for guests who might be allergic or not like seafood.
  3. We’ve got torches, tea lights and string lanterns for lighting – save energy and create a romantic evening!
  4. Silk would be disastrous with salt water in the vicinity, and I’ve kept my dress muslin – yards and yards of soft linen that I don’t mind getting sandy and crushed.
    Wedding Dress
  5. I found a miracle worker online, The Smart Bride – it’s the best software for brides-to-be. The guest worksheet is my favourite, estimating and calculating people on my ‘must-have’ list and updating my ‘back-up’ list. There’s even a budget planner and of course a fantastic ‘to-do’ list compiler.
  6. I’m giving little baskets of homemade bath salts as wedding favours. I made it my nieces’ summer project, and they found incredible recipes online using some essential oils, sea salt, epsom salt, adult supervision and a few afternoons.
    Bath Salts
  7. Choosing a beach wedding has meant that my fiancé and I have decided against a beach honeymoon, as tempting as it might be. We’re looking at different steam train journeys, keeping our carbon footprint in mind and keeping it old-school romantic.
  8. My bachelorette night is actually inspired by one of my 30th birthday ideas from last year – a day-long visit to the spa with my girlfriends.
  9. I’ve been wearing my wedding shoes for an hour every day, although I feel I might abandon them on D-day, just to feel the sand between my toes during my vows.
    Cupcakes
  10. I’m not ordering a wedding cake, instead our friends are baking their favourites and we’re going to include them in the buffet.
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