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Raggie89
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Posted : May 08, 2009 11:03:22 AM
Subject : Colour Schemes

hi,
I'm new to the site and have been engaged just over a month. After finally choosing a date and wedding venue i do not know where else to begin!

My wedding is in August 2010 and i was wondering how you choose a colour scheme? I am very fond of purple/lavender and wondered what colours go with this or any other colours apart from Pink or Red/burgundy?

Any help would be great.
Confused

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Doris!

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Posted : May 08, 2009 11:05:39 AM

Hiya!

Purple is such a great colour and is really trendy at the moment, purple and silver look GREAT together but it's quite christmassy and seeing as it is a summer wedding may want something different. purple and yellow are complimentry colours so you could go for sunflowers? or you could go for different tones of purple, you have so many choices!! you don't have to choose traditional colours just something that you love and people will know you chose!!! xx

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Posted : May 08, 2009 12:15:50 PM

Raggie89 what date you getting married?

lol I cant decide on colours myself, stuck between purple and blue or thinking sod it and have boh and team with silver... argh..

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:06:25 PM

I want dark blue and cream with accents of silver... this week, at least! I'm planning a winter wedding though.

Think the idea of purple with big yellow flowers is lovely - would make such a beautiful bright summer wedding. What about cream and purple? Thinking aboutt he bouquet - would keep it all light and bright?

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Doris!

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:15:03 PM

personally i think purple and white look great, here is a pic i have seen of a boquet
http://www.thebridesbouquet.com/purpleRoseNosegaySMALL.jpg
but this is my favourite, lots of different purples
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/378121286_dd3a69287e.jpg

purple and yellow is very 'spring time'
http://www.arenaflowers.com/product_image/large/863-purple_iris_yellow_tulips_bouquet.jpg

I am having baby pink and ivory xx

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:34:54 PM

There are soooo many shades of purple from the palest lilacs through lavendars to the richness of 'Cadbury' purple there's bound to be a shade to suit!
Yellow goes fantastically well with purple (again look at Cadbury's chocolate wrappers!!lol) as does silver and all shades of white/ivory.
You could even team it with bright pink!
It's really the most versatile of colours.

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:37:12 PM


Purple and Pink

Purple and Green

[Modified by: mumsal on May 08, 2009 01:40 PM]

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mumsal

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:38:38 PM

Purple and Blue

HTH

[Modified by: mumsal on May 08, 2009 01:41 PM]

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:39:34 PM

We're having a black and white wedding, with touches of aubergine purple (flowers, cravats, napkin etc.). and we're getting married in Spring.

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Raggie89

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Posted : May 08, 2009 1:53:23 PM

Thank for all the ideas! I guess i'm gonna have to atch stuff up and have a good look around! Am loving the purple and yellow altho my fiance doesn't really like yellow! I'l have to keep looking!

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Doris!

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Posted : May 08, 2009 3:29:40 PM

let us know how you get on Raggie!!

mumsal - amazing pics!!! were they from a particular website????

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angelesque
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Posted : May 08, 2009 5:45:38 PM

Yes, love those mood/colour boards - where did you find them mumsal?

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Posted : May 10, 2009 2:50:01 PM

im thinking of silver for my colour? but not too sure where i could get bridesmaid dresses insilver lol

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Posted : May 10, 2009 4:56:24 PM

Hi im new to this site too. I am having baby blue as my colour scheme

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Posted : May 10, 2009 5:12:21 PM

Purple is the bvest colour in the universe, love it!
I'm having lilac as its softer with ivory and touches of darker purple and silver in the decorations.

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Posted : May 10, 2009 5:26:37 PM

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let us know how you get on Raggie!!

mumsal - amazing pics!!! were they from a particular website????


Sorry girls, not ignoring you, just haven't been here for a while!
The boards are great aren't they?
They are here
https://www.glamourousgowns.co.uk/shopdata/gg_blog.php?id=58&cat=1

They have lots of colour combinations!
Enjoy!

[Modified by: mumsal on May 10, 2009 05:27 PM]

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Posted : May 10, 2009 5:30:19 PM

Hiya
I am having a spring wedding so having light sage green and baby pink. Just got my Bms dresses and they are sage green.
Took me ages to finally decide on a colour scheme though.

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Posted : May 10, 2009 6:03:28 PM

Im having pale green with touches of ivory and silver xxx

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Doris!

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Posted : May 11, 2009 12:02:58 PM

thanks mumsal!!! all these colour schemes sound fab.

Mrsyates - I love pink and green, i am having pink and ivory with a bit of green!

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Posted : May 15, 2009 9:23:20 AM

I'm going for silver and blue. Not entirely sure how's it's going to work out. I fancy a coloured wedding dress and until I've chosen that, I can't chose my colours for the bridesmaids. If I go for a silver wedding dress, I might go for silver for the little ones with a darkish blue or gray sash type thing and for the older ones either darkish blue or grey. I know that blue hyacinths will figure in the flowers so that's some blue for sure.

All I've got so far is some silver favour boxes that I bought. A long way to go!

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Posted : May 18, 2009 3:48:22 PM

My fiancé and I used our bridesmaid's dresses as the base colour for our colour scheme of Green, peacock blue and white. I found the colour match cards that you can get from paint companies are a fantastic reference point as you can see the different shades for each colour. I then made up mood boards to see how the different combinations worked and then my fiancé and I decided on which mood board we liked and used that.

Sxx

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