WHEN you are creating a wedding theme, the most important thing to consider is what best represents you as the bride and groom.
There are various ways of doing this, like choosing a shared interest, favorite season, a wedding venue you last attended, favorite animal and maybe the colour of dresses your mother made you wear as a child.
To the untrained eye, colours used at every wedding reception appear gorgeous, but to those who understand colour to a reasonable degree, some are raw and irritating.
You can consult a wedding planner to help you with the blending of colours together. Read on to learn some of the ways you can use to choose wedding colours.
Your choice of wedding colour tends to be a subconscious reflection of your personality and many believe that it is an indication of how you imagine your future marriage to be. As the bride and groom you may have decided on your colour(s) years and years before your wedding but it will still reflect on your personality traits.
The choice of colours may be in your wedding invitation, table decorations, bouquet, bridesmaid’s dresses, groomsmen shirts and your wedding gown. Over the last few years there has been a trend towards coloured wedding dresses. Pink, yellow, blue, red and some countries except Zambia included black. Many have grown up with the white wedding dress tradition, but you know what that has not always been the case.
Queen Victoria influenced the white wedding dress as a tradition in 1840 but before that many brides wore something that was their Sunday best and hanging in their closet. No matter the colour.
During the Second World War, many ladies wore a basic suit or even a uniform, if applicable. When l was growing up, we had brides who wore blue, pink and yellow wedding dresses meaning that they had been married before, divorced, widow or pregnant during the wedding celebration. The brides were free, happy and enjoyed the colour of the wedding gown but now it’s all white.
Colour is definitely making a splash in the wedding world, but did you know there is a little poem that might make you think a little more on whether you want colour or exactly which colour you should consider.
Remember, there is a lot of superstition that surrounds love and wedding, a colour that you like and choose might not be liked by some organizers’ because someone used the same colour and their marriage never worked out, so they hate that colour.
One way that best creates a theme which is simple and yet extremely effective colour, so brides and grooms often select their favorite colour(s) to base their theme around, however, one thing to also think about is what mood that colour creates and what it means to you.
Some brides and grooms choose their colours based on the theme of their wedding, a garden wedding is different from a traditional theme. Others choose colours to fit in with the time of the year, this April, it’s warm, sunny and raining, the colours that are working well are yellow, pink, blue (midnight, royal, navy, sky all these are in the family of blue), green, orange, red, white and any other pastel shade you can think of works well.
Brides and grooms may choose simple and elegant combinations colours or plan their wedding colours around the venue has blue in its décor but you want yellow, just use a small amount of blue in your yellow colour.
When picking the colours for your wedding and the subsequent bridesmaids dresses, make sure your consider colour psychology, especially if it is a multi-cultural wedding. Colours can signify different things depending upon the culture of origin, for example white is known in western culture as a symbol of virtue and innocence, while in many Asian cultures it is colour symbolising death, it is a mourning colour.
When choosing the best colours that best represent you, get a colour you really love for your primary wedding, you can’t go wrong. Then choose a second colour you love and find a way to make those colours work together.
A maximum of three colours must be chosen, then have them in unequal proportions, the main colour should be about 65 to 75 per cent, supporting colour 20 per cent then accent colour 5-10 per cent
Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life to get right.
The unique and memorable connection shared by a couple getting married is on display for all to see and the colour theme is one of the most powerful ways to set the mood. Even if there is no all-encompassing idea on theme at play within the venue but the chosen colours of a wedding still naturally evoke certain emotions and feelings.
Colour sets the tone for everything at a wedding, not only is it the basis for the majority of décor and attire decisions for bride and groom, it also sets the mood, tone and personality for the day from start to finish.
Brides and groom that choose red most often are fiercely outgoing, guests can expect a lively party and dramatic details. A certain couple explained their red and white colour theme as a symbol of their Christian faith.
Their first big day was the day when the blood of Jesus (red) washed their sins and now they are whiter than snow. Choose red and white colour on their second big day.
White is the choice for those who honor tradition at a white wedding and you will find flawless details and a chic vibe.
When you match red and yellow it symbolizes harmony, good social standing and wealth and when gold or beige is added to the red this symbolises harmony, prosperity, good luck and happiness.
If you are having your wedding in May, to the lovely red colour theme add the colours mentioned above and leave green out as it will look like a Christmas celebration
Dark red symbolises courage, willpower and vigor while the light red when used shows that the bride and grooms personality is all about love, joy, passion and sensitivity.
If a very small amount of colour is used then its impact will be minimal. Remember, the greater the quantity of a particular colour, the more the psychological impact it will create in the wedding reception and in the guests minds.
Do not chose a colour just because everyone is choosing it, create an ambience which will make guests feel at event and their conscious will be at peace. Choose a colour based on your personality and your guests in mind.
Of late school teachers have taken up the role of kitchen parties and wedding matron, during their training at college they are taught about culture.
This has been dormant for a very long time so the question one may ask is why the sudden interest now?
Is it for business purposes or they want to be part and parcel from early childhood all the way up to marriage-hood as a development strategy to increase happy marriages that stand a test of time.
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