How To Choose Your Wedding Colors
By Elena Masters, Sat Dec 10th

Wedding dress, flowers, church, reception, cake topper,decorations, music AND wedding colors. Although it soundsoverwhelming, choosing wedding colors can really be fairly easy.

If you are having bridesmaids, then choosing the bridesmaidsdress is extremely important. One way to simplify choosingwedding colors is to visit a wedding boutique store with yourbridesmaids. Choose a dress that looks good and everyone iscomfortable in. This is very important, too often thebridesmaids end up in an uncomfortable dress that fits poorly.Now what you do is just ask the clerk what colors the dresscomes in. You just eliminated all the colors the dress doesn'tcome in. Once you decide on a color for their dresses, you canuse this as a main color for your wedding.

When choosing your wedding colors think about the differentcolors that you like most. You may want to choose a main colorand one or two accent colors for visual beauty. If you reallydon't have a favorite color - or if it really isn't suitable fora main wedding color, think about the season that you're gettingmarried in.

If you're planning a spring or summer wedding go with pastelsand lighter, brighter colors. For winter ceremonies you mightwant to consider darker tones like purples and burgundies. Oryou can also use red and silver for more of a Christmas themewedding. For a fall wedding, using yellows, oranges and evenreds can provide a warm harvest-time feel.

But whatever, defintely don't over-use black or extremely darkcolors. Although it is perfectly all right - and even popular -to incorporate black into the wedding, over using it can makefor a too somber, even funeral-like atmosphere rather than thejoyfulness of a union of two hearts.

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you have chosen a main wedding color, you can always use acolor wheel, which artists use to accent colors in paintings.Using a wheel will help you choose another color or two thatwill compliment your main scheme.

No matter what you choose for your wedding colors, remember thatthis is a detail that will stick out the most with your guests.It will be the center and focal point of flowers, dresses anddecorations. So, be sure when you choose a color, you choosecarefully and be sure it is something that compliments yourwedding party and the atmosphere that you want to set for yourwedding.

Another idea to help in choosing wedding colors is thinkingabout what the colors represent. For instance, reds read asvibrant and energizing. Blue is cooler, more relaxing and offersa calming vibe. Greens are comforting, refreshing and tranquil,and yellows offer happiness and brightness, giving off anuplifting spirit.

Other possibilities to help you choose wedding colors are teamcolors (if you are a sports fan), colors that you saw used in afavorite movie or book, or maybe dominant colors from a timeperiod that gives you that "loving feeling". You don't have tohave a 'wedding theme' to have a 'color scheme'. Be comfortablein the colors that you choose.

However you eventually choose the colors for your wedding, makesure that they relate back to who you are and to the mood youare trying to set. Don't let anyone talk you into colors thatyou don't like - you need to be happy with what you choosebecause after all, this is your wedding.

About the author:Elena manages http://www.All-Wedding-Dresses.com witharticles and resources about weddings and, particularly, allkinds of wedding dresses from traditional white wedding tomaternity and theme wedding styles.