Spring Wedding Colors FAQ
B J Kuehl
The Wedding Colors FAQ was compiled and is maintained by Barbara
Kuehl. There are four sections: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
All additions or corrections may be directed to b...@csd.uwm.edu.
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Subject: Re: Colors - March
Q: We finally set our date last week, and the first thing out of
his mom's mouth was *so what are your colors?* GEEEEEZZZ!!!
Danette Wilson (dmwi...@u.washington.edu)
The wedding will be end of March (3/22/97), and late at night
(probably after 7 pm). I was thinking about black (fiance and
my mom say NO!), cranberry, hunter green, or navy...
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From: lis...@imap2.asu.edu (Lisa)
My wedding is going to be March 9. I have chosen burgundy which
will go nicely with the flowers I have chosen. Central to all
the arrangement will be the stargazer lilly which has a deep
fuschia/burgundy color.
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From: anti...@aol.com (Antikreis)
I was married 12 March 1994 in the afternoon. Being in the
south we took advantage of early spring colors, meaning lilies,
meaning not pastel. My one bridesmaid wore a dark purple very
close to navy blue but not. I hate saying my colors were purple
and white since I think of purple and usually cringe:) We
decorated with different purple lilies and white accent flowers
and brought in a little yellow, jonquils were just coming out
then.
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From: fr...@news.gate.net (Frank Dickinson)
We decided that the bridesmaids will wear a floral print dress
and all the bouquets and centerpieces will be multi colored. The
tablecloths will be white and the napkins hunter green. We're
still working on what the guys will wear.
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From: ampr...@aol.com (AMProcess) (Sue)
My wedding is March 10, 1996 in Michigan and my color is plum.
I planned on having black, but when we were at the store and my
bridesmaids were trying on dresses to see which ones looked the
best, I found a really cool looking one in plum (velvet and
satin long straight dresses with jackets). So that is my color.
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From: Debbie Adair <adair>
We are getting married March 2, 1996. I am wearing a midnight
blue velvet gown and would like a predominantly white bouquet.
I may add another color for accent.
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From: boz...@aol.com (Bozwin)
I am getting married next March, and my bridesmaids are wearing
midnight navy velvet.
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SusanE (a52...@dot.state.sc.us) wrote:
I have my heart set on Navy dresses for my bridesmaids. My
wedding is in March '96 and I think navy is a great spring
color. I'm planning on bright flowers for their bouqets.
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Subject: Re: Colors - April
From: din...@pitt.edu (Dina Anderson)
My sister was married in April (an evening formal wedding).
The wedding colors my sister chose (in terms of flowers and such)
were navy and fuschia, primarily. The bridesmaids wore full-length
navy dresses. We carried deep pink and purple colored flowers,
even orange. There were orchids, roses, and tulips, and with her
in white, us in navy, and the flowers the colors they were,
the pictures were terrific. Those colors gave a light, crisp feel.
I think navy can work well any time of day or year. It's one
of those classic colors.
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Subject: Re: Colors - May
Q: I need some suggestions on the colors of my bridesmaids
dresses for a semi-formal May wedding.
From: g912...@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (Doris Sabljic)
I would ideally like a floral print in pastel colours but I have
discovered that florals can be hard to find. If not floral I am
toying with the idea of a pastel solid--perhaps a mint green.
However, my sister (and bridesmaid) was quick to comment that no
flowers would "go" with this colour dress. I was also thinking
of an aqua or blue (something in the blue/green colours in
pastel).
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From: onys...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (Lada T Onyshkevych)
My wedding is May 11, 1996, and I've chosen Hunter Green for my
BMs. It's a popular color now, so you can use department stores
etc instead of just bridal shops. And there's not much problem
matching flowers to this color- you can use just about anything.
I think this color is flattering to many people; I polled my
three BMs first about what colors they wear in normal life, and
this is one of the colors that they all had in common (plus it's
one of my favorites).
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From: mura...@earth.usc.edu (Gretchen Murawski)
Our day is May 19, late afternoon, and I have chosen the color
WINE/BURGUNDY/or some other deep red color for the BM's. Since
my wedding dress is ivory and has bunches of pearls in the shape
of grape clusters, and grape leaves embroidered on the skirt and
train, and the weding is outside under a grape arbour, I just
thought that WINE would be a good color for me!
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From: melfo...@aol.com (MelFordyce)
I chose to have my bridesmaids wear periwinkle blue -- that sort
of light blue with a little purple. It was beautiful in
pictures and perfect with the flowers. I couldn't have asked
for a better color. I know I am definitely biased, but other
people commented on it too.
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From: jdi...@uoguelph.ca (Juanita L Diegel)
I have also choosen hunter green for my bridemaids. They all
look great in it. One is blonde (at times :) ), one is
brunette, and the other is somewhere inbetween. They all look
great!!
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From: Lia Zelenka <lzel...@frontier.canrem.com>
My date is May 11th - my bridesmaids chose hunter-green floor
length gowns, and they will have peach and cream flowers. My
dress is ivory coloured. I think the colour scheme will be dark
green, ivory and some burgundy or possibly gold accents.
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From: Stephan...@cc.chiron.com (Stephanie Sims)
John and I will be married on the 25th of May, 1996 and I have
no idea what colors to choose. I am leaning to the pink to
burgundy range but also pastels like lavender and cornflower
blue entice me, oh well there is always navy and midnight blue.
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From: Beth Elliott <76331...@CompuServe.COM>
I guess navy/midnight blue must be all the rage - I didn't
realize how popular it was - I am getting married next May (navy
is the colour theme) and my girlfriend is getting married
shortly after me (guess what colour? .... Navy!). I didn't see
much Navy in the bridal books over the past year, so I though I
was safe (not that I don't mind sharing such an excellent colour
choice!).
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From: Tammy.S...@SGC.X400.GC.CA
Mitch and I are slated for May 11, 1996. A colour for the
bridesmaids dresses wasn't a big problem for me, because first
and foremost, I wanted my friends to be able to wear the dresses
again. We have chosen "light navy" - a lighter shade of navy,
with a hint of gray in it.
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From: Dawn <intern...@hcc.cc.fl.us>
I am getting married May 11th and using hunter green.
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From: meq...@aol.com (MEQ519)
We're having our wedding on May 19th -- the flowers are white
orchids, hybrid dendrobium orchids, pink and purplish alstros
and some filler greens, etc. For the colors of our wedding
party -- we went with a rich purple color -- not so purple it
looks navy but not a light purple either.
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From: aj...@lafn.org (Kelly Tong)
Our May wedding is on the 4th and I just finished shopping for
styles for the bridesmaids dresses. I am partial to pastels and
"spring" colors. We chose dusty rose because pink is just too
pale on Asian skin. I plan to use silver as an accent as well
as lavendar and pale yellow in the bouquets.
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From: Michaele Kashgarian <kashg...@llnl.gov>
My wedding date is May 11, and I have to say that I don't really
have "colors" since the reception will be outdoors. As far as
flowers, we will be using lots of pink (apple blossoms, dogwood,
tulips, roses) but we are going to use blue, yellow and white
flowers as well. the bridesmaid's dresses will be something off
the rack, probably from Laura Ashley, so I expect to use
something pastel or a flowery print. I love spring flowers of
all kinds so I didn't want to restrict my color scheme to just
one or two colors!
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From: ha...@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jocelyn Hall)
May 18th is my PROPOSED wedding date! The colors I first chose
were forest green & gold. But My coordinator, who is also my
best friend, thought that the green was too dark for Spring. So
the combination I now have is Cream & Gold! Beautiful! If you're
looking for a "dreamy" effect, look for soft crepe material
accented with SOFT metallic gold.
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From: Erica David <eda...@uoknor.edu>
My wedding is on May 19, 1996 and will be semi-formal. My fiance
and his best men are wearing black tuxes. My dress is an
off-the-shoulder, ivory brocade which is floor length (no train,
but I am wearing a veil). The dresses which I want for my
candlelighters are a burgundy velvet with ecru trim.
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Subject: Re: Colors - June
Q: It seems that many of the weddings are taking place in June.
It also seems that just about everyone has chosen a color for
their reception and ceremony _ except us, since we had never
thought about it. What are your colors?
From: dbo...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (David Bowie)
Well, i'm a June *groom*, not a June bride, but i figure i can
answer anyway. Jeanne's favorite color is my second favorite
color, and my favorite color is Jeanne's second favorite color,
so the choice was easy. Hunter green (Jeanne's favorite) and
purple (my favorite). (And it *does* look better than it
sounds!)
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From: Katherine Lange <kat...@umich.edu>
Our wedding will be next June 22nd, and my colors were
determined by the bridesmaids' dresses - they're floral prints
with peaches, lilac, some mint greens, etc, and our wedding is
in the morning, so we have lots of springy pastel colors. There
wasn't much to coordinate 'cause we're ordering white invites
and thank-you's, the guys are wearing grey morning suits, the
chapel's full of all colors of stained glass, and we're
borrowing a friend's pew bows from her wedding, and they're
pink, so we'll add some purples and light greens and whites with
ribbons to them to hang off of the pews. Our reception site is
at a hotel ballroom, and they've got very rich colors in the
carpeting, table linens, and silk floral arrangements - lots of
burgandy, forest green, and creams, but I'm not too concerned
about the two color schemes clashing. I'm most concerned about
the ceremony colors when all attention will pretty much be in
one area, whereas at the reception, there will be many areas of
focus. I'm so excited, I'm getting goose bumps as I write this!
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From: dan...@aol.com (DanieK)
I wanted light and springy because my wedding is in the morning.
The bridesmaids dresses are probably going to be peach and I'll
probably go with seafoam green as the other colors (for accents
and random things like that) just because I like green and my
favorite sweater is white, peach and seafoam green so I figure
they go together well.
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From: Julie_B...@hp6400.desk.hp.com (Julie Bostater)
I chose my colors by the bridemaid dress that I liked. I didn't
want to fall in love with some color and then be stuck searching
for just the right dress, only to find it doesn't come in the
right color. The decision: Midnight Blue.
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From: byr...@serv.net (Renee Ann Byrd)
Ivory (my dress) and burgundy (a color that somehow prominmently
wormed its way into our interior decorating *ha ha* scheme).
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From: pa...@uniserve.com (Patricia Goertzen)
My sister got married last June and a great way to use spring
colors is in a wonderful floral print (works if you're a floral
person) and picking one or two of the dominant colors in the
floral as your accent colors.
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From: jcr...@psu.edu (Jennifer Rose)
I fell in love with those stargazer lillys, and I will also be
using Ivy from my mother's wedding (25 years ago).
Consequently, I took a lilly to the fabric store to choose the
material for the bridesmaids dresses. They are a shimmery dusty
rose with a light pink lining so they look bright for June.
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From: Janet Sodano <soda...@mc.duke.edu>
I got married last June and used dark purple dresses. All but
one of my bridesmaid were dark complicated with dark hair and I
thought they looked better in dark colors (that's why I choose
my color). But I found the dress I wanted, then I chose my
colors by what looked best on my bridesmaids. For the flowers I
basically asked the florist what she thought looked best with
the dress. I believe in their bouquests there were salmon
lillies and other flowers which I can't remember right now. In
my bouquet I used all white flowers.
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From: lank...@tigger.jvnc.net
For my sister's wedding we all wore navy gowns, they were
beautiful! My sister used all bright spring flowers. Everyone
said that they were very nice .....As it turned out, it rained
on the day of the wedding (6/30) and so most of the guests wore
navy also.
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From: GKV...@prodigy.com (Gina Vogliardo)
My June wedding color is going to be plum (plum dresses and black
tuxs & white table coverings probably). Plum is my favorite color;
not too violet, or purple -- But it sucks in a way because I'm
having a hard time finding a floral arrangment that I like.
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From: Kathy Gantz <kga...@mail.inhs.uiuc.edu>
I'm having plum bridesmaid's dresses. My dress is ivory and we'll
have black tuxes. A good complimentary color to plum is dusty rose.
I am going to use dusty rose colored roses and filler for my bouquet.
I've also decided to incorporate gold as an accent color (the
reception site uses gold fluffy stuff on their buffet table
as decoration).
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From: kri...@dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
I'm having plum bridesmaid's dresses. They are a plain
spaghetti-strap plum brocade sundress (rewearable, at least
my friends think they'll wear them again), with a cropped
short-sleeve jacket over them, with ivory trim. The groomsmen
are wearing a black tux with a black/plum paisley waistcoat
and tie. Our accents seem to be hunter green and ivory
(my dress color), with some deep red roses here and there.
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From: shak...@cco.caltech.edu (Adele Shakal)
Navy was actually our second-choice color for *our* bridesmaids
for next June! I ended up finding burgundy-plum dresses instead.
I'm accenting the burgundy with white and pale yellow...
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From: Leala A. Skwara <ls68...@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
My wedding is June 29, 1996. I'm going "untraditional"
and using black and white, with bright green accents.
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MrsEadie1
I am having a June wedding and I have chosen Ice Blue as my color. Next
weekend I am meeting with the party, my MOH likes Ice Blue but if the rest
of the party can't decide then the color will be peach.