Wedding colors
B J Kuehl
Those of you getting married this summer might enjoy this.
I compiled this faq between 1994 to 1996. Has anything
changed?
BJ
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 - 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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Subject: Re: Colors - July
Q: I was wondering what the appropriate colors were for a July
wedding? We are open to all suggestions!
From: be...@wannabe.East.Sun.COM (Beth Hall -SSE- Huntsville AL)
I recently got married on July 8. I went with in-season
flowers....deep purple, yellow, pink, and white. I don't even
know the names of the flowers, but they were gorgeous. The
invitations were floral purple and green. I knew the men would
wear black tails with white shirts, and I would be in white.
And since the wedding was at 8pm....the bridesmaids should wear
full-length. I picked out the most beautiful gowns for them.
Simple scooped neckline, fitted, shortsleeve, tailored skirt
with a high slit. The bodice was white lace and the skirt
black. It was simply beautiful. Everyone was in black and
white....with bright flowers. And the sunset was perfect.
There was a gentle breeze. We lit white bamboo torches around
the gazebo to add a little romance.
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From: ang...@bvu.edu
We are getting married July 6, 1996 and our colors are red,
white, and black. I like the sophisication of those colors
together, and the red really brightens everything. We did have
a tough time finding the style of bridesmaid dress (a suit) in
red, and we ended up having them made. The bridesmaids will be
wearing red and carrying a white/red-tipped rose with greens. I
will be wearing white and carrying a bouquet of mainly red and
white roses. Red will be our accent color for decorations at
the reception.
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From: Jennifer Stoller <stol...@ucs.orst.edu>
I'm getting married in late July of 1996. I decided not to have
any specific colors because I didn't want to limit myself like
that, I guess. I plan to have lots of wildflowers and only one
attendant (my sister who will wear a dress from this really cool
chiffon fabric with purple daisies).
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From: gat...@aol.com (GatesGM)
Our wedding will be in July at night, but my bridesmaids are
wearing black dresses and we are having flowers in the
burgundy/dark red family. Our flowers are: dark red roses,
Stargazer lilies (white with burgundy spots/stripes), burgundy
snapdragons, freesia, stephanotis, "white wax", plumosa, and
lots of greenery.
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Subject: Re: Colors - August
Q: Well, since people have asked about colors, was wondering if
anyone had suggestions for my August wedding?
From: cd...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jennifer Gebhardt)
I decided long ago that I would make the bouquet, corsages, and
boutineires for my wedding on August 26. Our wedding has a
Celtic theme (My mother is a Lindsay, his is a McDonald). The
MOH and BM are wearing long evening gowns in dark wine with a
sash of Lindsay tartan (wine, dark green, and navy) and the
piper is wearing McDonald Tartan. My bouquet will have white
roses, wine roses, thistle, and heather.
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From: rc8...@mcvax2.d48.lilly.com (COLEMAN EDRICE M)
The last wedding I attended in August, the colors were fushcia,
white and teal (sounds loud, but was really okay!). The bride
wore white of course, the bridesmaids wore fushcia and one mom
wore fuscia and one teal. I like navy, pink and cream. So (if I
get married again) I'd have my bridesmaids wear navy, and I'd
like for both moms to wear a soft pink.
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From: aga...@ix.netcom.com (Ms. Alana Gaymon )
My girlfriend used a burnt orange - not Halloween colored, and it
was beautiful!
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From: jo...@aol.com (JoyKu)
We are having an outdoor ceremony. Our colors are silver &
black (Raiders colors), and teal (I had to get *some* say in).
The only hard part is that every bridesmaid dress manufacturer
has a different shade of teal for every type of fabric!
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Nicole Anderson <n...@acpub.duke.edu> writes:
My colors will be pink and gold.
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Subject: Re: Colors - September
Q: Just wondering if there are any September brides out there
who'd mind letting me know what their colour schemes are...I
have been wracking my brain for what colours to go with, and
September just isn't a month where any particular colour jumps
to mind...
From: ambr...@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Noelle Christine Ambrose)
Our wedding is September 1996. I live where the Autumn is known
across the country for its beauty! That's why we chose the peak
color weekend for the wedding. I just picked out the most
beautiful bronze ribbon to be incorporated into all the flowers.
We will be looking for mocha-colored dresses for the
bridesmaids. The church will be decorated with turned oak and
maple leaves, and sprays of wheat will be accented by japanese
lanterns (orange). The colors for flowers will be yellow,
orange, and rust to go along with the season's colors. I am at
this moment in search of invitations with turned leaves on them.
Perhaps miniature pumpkins and mums for table centerpieces? We
are using cornucopias for the altar.
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From: David D. Boscia <Dave....@daytonoh.attgis.com>
My wedding is September 23rd. I have always loved the fall and
the colors associated with it. My BM's dresses are cranberry
(actually closer to burgundy) and the flowers are going to be
fall colors (muted oranges, yellows, dark green, burgundy and
cream accents). I know it is hard to picture, but I took one of
the dresses with me to the florist and it looks incredible.
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From: rmer...@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Renee Mercier)
I'm getting married in New Hampshire this Sept 30th (peak
foliage time). By default (I got an excellent deal at a Laura
Ashley outlet in Maine) the 3 bmaids dresses are a berry red.
I'm not really a "red" type of person, but it is starting to all
come together quite nicely. My sister is the MOH and she chose
a dress with the same red floral pattern. I am making red and
pink silk roses to put on my dress. So, I guess the main colors
are red, pink, and soft white (along with green of ivy, etc...)
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From: gpue...@SHHS1.CCSD.k12.CO.edu (Gloria Puester)
For my wedding, 29 yrs. ago this Sept. my bridesmaids chose
dresses in pale seafoam, very close to today's turquoise. I
wanted them to carry dark, blue-purple asters with small yellow
or white "filler" flowers in their bouquets. I had seen the
colors together and they were stunning. The girls, all in their
early 20's, thought this would look "gaudy" and I ended up
bowing to their choice of yellow roses with ivy, which looked OK
but lacked the drama that the purple would have added. My own
bouquet was a round mass of gardenias, my favorite, which lasted
well through the 85 degree day and for days afterward altho most
florists tried to talk me out of them as being too fragile.
They ended up implanting a "scent memory" for both of us, and to
this day whenever we see or smell gardenias my husband gets an
"I remember" look on his face.
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From: Betsy Miller <elizabet...@fmr.com>
Paul & I are getting married on September 21, 1996. The
bridesmaids dresses are hunter green, and I am thinking about
having hunter green, burgandy & ivory for our colors (which will
coordinate well with the fall flowers in our area!)
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From: MORRIS <MOR...@rcn.wpic.pitt.edu>
Bill and I will be married on 9-14-96. I am leaning toward a
combination of purple, green. amd gold accents, or cranberry &
green with gold accents. This may change once I get around to
looking for attendants' garb.
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From: it...@aol.com (ITSLT)
My bridesmaids wore navy blue gowns (velvet and satin). The
flowers were all very pale peach, ivory, cream essence (whatever
that is) roses some Betsy Brown roses (a burnt orange inside the
petal and white on the outside of the petal), and hydrangias -
which are turning to an ivory/beige color that time of year, but
because it had been so warm, they had a little tint of reddish
brown in them - how convenient! The florist also made some
arrangements with twigs, leaves and reddish berries and
incorporated the roses and candles in them - these were isle
stansions.
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From: mszo...@mintrop.Mines.EDU (Michelle Szobody)
My colors were Wedgewood blue and midnight blue. The bridesmaids
were in the lighter color, in satin, and my MOH was in the dark,
in taffeta. I think it looked great (I'm a sucker for
contrasting colors).
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From: Kristy Gayhart <grs...@gormanrupp.com>
We are having navy as our main color also, for our September
wedding. I am really thinking of complimenting it with gold?
- ribbons around flowers, on pews, on tables, etc. Maybe even
glass globes rimmed with gold for centerpieces? I am sort of
limited because our church is draped in a dark orange!
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From: Kelly Elliott <elliott-ck...@email.mot.com>
I am getting married Sept. 28. I am going with Navy. I am
wearing ivory and have not yet decided if the guys are wearing
white or ivory shirts, but the groomsmen will be wearing navy
vests. The bridesmaids will cary 2 white roses with baby's
breath. So, the only colors I am using are Navy and white
and ivory.
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From: bar...@tribeca.ios.com (Dawn Brosonski)
I'm getting married in late September. I'm tentatively thinking
of a dark green or a maroon color for the BM's dresses ( I have
no "set" color scheme for my wedding). I believe my fiance is
going to choose black tuxes with a vest and the tentative color
on the vest and/or tie is grey.
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Leila Abu-Saba
BJ:
this is terrific. But where do you archive the rest of the FAQ? I know
I'm early, but I'd love to see the spring colors FAQ.
Leila (& David but he's too much of a guy to think about colors) 4/12/98
Ron & Debbie
B J Kuehl wrote:
>
> Those of you getting married this summer might enjoy this.
> I compiled this faq between 1994 to 1996. Has anything
> changed?
I'm glad to see other people chose "dark" colors for summer weddings. My
FMIL is rather horrified at my choice of midnight blue and wants to know
why I'm not having "nice pastels"!
Debbie(& Ron)
June 19, 1998
B J Kuehl
Leila Abu-Saba <"leilasab no spam "@sfsu.edu>:
> this is terrific. But where do you archive the rest of the FAQ? I know
> I'm early, but I'd love to see the spring colors FAQ.
The seasonal colors wedding faq is not archived at this point.
If others would like to see the other sections (fall, winter, spring),
I'd be happy to post them.
BJ
pbeekman
I'd like the fall wedding colors FAQ posted.
Fran
me in oregon
> I'm glad to see other people chose "dark" colors for summer weddings. My
> FMIL is rather horrified at my choice of midnight blue and wants to know
> why I'm not having "nice pastels"!
>
> Debbie(& Ron)
> June 19, 1998
Hi, we're having dark blue because my sisters (all three of them) won't
look sallow in pastels and instead will look really nice in dark blue.
Now, we've got to find the dresses...
Yenju