COLOUR PALETTES

Choosing your wedding colours shouldn't be stressful.
Deciding on a wedding colour palette can be an overwhelming task, especially with all the beautiful wedding colour trends on offer! Social media and bridal magazines don't help with narrowing down the choice either; so here's some quick tips to make deciding on a wedding colour theme easy and stress-free.

First, look at your own personal style and colour preferences.
If you're the type of person who always goes for teals, greens and blues, a pink palette for your wedding day might make you and your love feel a bit disconnected from your wedding planning because it's not your usual style. If you're the types who love soft, elegant and neutral tones, neons probably won't be the wedding colours you gravitate to! So, before anything else, sit down and think about what your favourite colours are. What shades or tones bring you both joy and make you feel gorgeous when you're wearing them or looking at them? What colours did you both choose - or are choosing - to decorate your home together in? By sticking to your personal style and colour preference, you'll have a wedding colour palette that will make you both happy. And, even better, you won't feel like you're a puppet at your own wedding - everything will feel easy, comfortable, and beautiful.

Gather colour inspiration and experiment!
Once you've got a clearer idea of the colours, tones and shades that make you both happy, it's time to get some inspo. Head over and stalk us on our socials like Pinterest and Instagram, and wander through our Real Wedding blogs to see how our gorgeous couples have shown off their chosen colour palettes. Build a moodboard on Pinterest with your favourite pics, or even visit your local Spotlight or similar fabric store to grab some snippets of fabric in your favourite shades for colour inspiration.

And when you're happy that you've got all the inspiration pics and swatches you need, have a play around - pick a few colours and match them together to see how they look when you combine them. Play around as much as you want to get the wedding colour palette of your dreams - we recommend choosing one main shade and then at least two secondary shades.

Check how your wedding colours suit your venues.
Once you've nailed down your wedding colours, the next step is to see how they work with your venues: if, for instance, your wedding is decked out in autumn tones, you may need to adjust the colours you've picked so they work better with the furniture, wall and floor colours. It might be a tiny shift like swapping a lighter shade for something a bit darker; or swapping the main colour for one of your secondary shades for signage. Think about how your wedding colours can be used for your wedding ceremony venue and your wedding reception venue - will you need to use the stronger colours in your table settings and signage, or will the lighter colours look better? Do you want to go for a contrast effect where the lighter shades will be used for your welcome sign and Order of the Day cards at the ceremony, then flip the script and use the darker versions of your wedding colours for your wedding menus, table numbers and placecards? How will the wedding flowers and table linens look with those colours next to them? There's a lot to think about but it's worth doing so to make sure everything looks perfect on your wedding day.

Keep it simple and have fun!
If you're a lover of colour like we are, it can be tempting to go absolutely bonkers and include every single shade you want - but that's going to give you absolute grief trying to get every single colour you want into your wedding styling and wedding stationery. So we definitely advise sticking to a core trio of colours - your main colour, the one that will be used for wedding party outfits, flowers, table linens, and a good portion of your stationery - and then two secondary colours that can be used for accents in your decor, flowers, the writing on your wedding stationery, tableware etc. We've crafted our colour palettes around this 1 main, 2 secondary colour principle - and you can see how stunning it looks across a full set of stationery by having a peek at our Colour Collection!

Don't be afraid to reach out and talk to us about having a custom colour palette created for you.
Send us a quick email, text or give us a buzz - you'll find all our contact deets here. Or get us all to yourselves in person or via video call by booking a consultation for some one-on-one wedding stationery advice! We're here to make your wedding planning life as stress-free and easy as possible and we're always happy to chat. You can also get the ball rolling by getting a custom quote from us!