Sunday, August 7, 2011

Picking the Colors For Your Backyard Wedding

I suppose picking colors for a backyard wedding really isn't that different than picking colors for any other type of wedding. Well, you do have to worry about whether they'll clash with the various types of flora you have growing around outside, and perhaps with the siding on your house. And your home decor, if you want to extend the decorations inside. As you can probably guess from the picture to the right, we chose to go with blue for the wedding colors. Specifically, a light blue and a dark blue (so that the bride and groom each kind of "get" a color).

It was funny, it wasn't really something I had thought about until we were actually standing in the fabric store looking at decorations and we realized that we should probably have some sort of a color scheme, instead of having all the decorations just be straight white. I kind of co-opted the decision, because it was too much of a hassle to get in touch with my sister, but her favorite color has always been blue, so I'm sure that it will work out! That is, as long as choosing a color doesn't mean that we have to go and start worrying about color choices for the rest of the decorations, and the outfits, until we become one big monochromatic bonanza...

I've already drawn the line at buying a new dress based on the wedding colors. I have plenty of dresses that are perfectly suited to my role as the maid of honor.

Here's a picture of what the different colors of tulle look like (the colors came out a bit better in this picture than in the last one):



Image source here.

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