Color Obsessed Wedding Planning (Part Three)

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So the time and place of my wedding was set only a few weeks into the engagement and I was itching to get started planning my dream wedding already.  I wanted to start by finding a color scheme and maybe a theme first so I started hitting up the wedding blogs daily for inspiration.

I knew I wanted our wedding to be representative of Mr. Juicefairy and myself as a couple.  We are pretty reserved, so I knew I wanted the event to be formal, classy and elegant, but not too stuffy.  We have more of a contemporary taste in style so the decor and paper goods had to reflect that.  Nothing too frou frou or pink would make Mr. Juicefairy very comfortable and it was important that he felt just as comfortable as the bride since it was his day too.

Mr. Juicefairy can be a little particular when it comes to his tastes and we have a running joke amongst friends on how he is obsessed with the color blue.  Ninety percent of his closet is blue, the other ten percent is gray and black.  I didn’t see how we couldn’t make one of the wedding colors blue (happens to be one of my favorite colors anyhow) but it needed a compliment color.

Image from my wedding by Jessica Leigh Bozard

From looking at color boards on wedding blogs I realized I absolutely love green flowers.  Like green spider mums, button mums, orchids and hydrangea.  They all kind of fall into the apple green color.  Paired with blue it can be really pretty so I stated thinking a periwinkle blue and apple green could be a nice color scheme … inspired by the color of hydrangeas which I really like.

But once I finally picked out my dress that had to change. I picked out a dress that is ivory… not antique white… ivory.  If you put up a periwinkle blue to an ivory dress it looks like puke.  It actually makes the dress look more yellow.  It was totally not going to work.

Photo: JMFlora found via The Bride’s Cafe

Ok.  I was slightly color obsessed at this point stressing over what I would choose.  I started thinking raspberry and apple green were good choices.  I mean they are beautiful together and raspberry would be very flattering on the bridesmaids.  But it didn’t feel right.  It didn’t feel like a representation of us as a couple.  As a designer you get a feel for colors and vibes colors give off to a viewer and raspberry was not what I wanted … wrong vibe.

Then I came across this wedding.  Navy blue and apple green!  That was it.  Navy is a deep color like black so it could be elegant and refined … like the blue blazers of a prep school.  And the apple green was the cheerful, slightly offbeat color that would keep it from being too stuffy.  I had my color scheme!  Now we were ready to roll!

Photo by Ellie Grover found via Elizabeth Anne Designs

I ended up deciding to incorporate a little bit of a theme into the decor as well, other than the color.  Mr. Juicefairy and I both really really enjoy movies.  We watch a lot of them.  Our first date we discussed movies for about an hour, our second date we went to a movie, our first kiss we were watching a movie, and we now get four (yes, four!) movies at a time from netflix.  So why not a movie theme?  Not cheesy silver stars and red carpets but maybe just some subtle themed items.  I will share more on that later.

So now that was decided I started work on my invitations.