Color Inspiration Board

Because of our 19 month long engagement, we’ve been able to take a lot of time to plan the feel and look of our wedding before having to commit to anything. One of our favorite things to do is to escape our cave of an apartment (first floor, barely any natural light), and spend hours pouring over wedding websites and planning various trips at a local coffee shop. We go so often to two different shops that the waitresses practically have our order in the computer by the time we walk up to the counter! One time when we went early one Sunday morning I had my hair down (which I RARELY ever do) and one of our favorite baristas in broken English told me she didn’t recognize me and thought Matt had come with another woman! Too funny. 

Anyways, it’s been more than 10 months since the proposal and we’ve finally decided on a color scheme for our big day, but it wasn’t easy.

Our first attempt at a color scheme:

Green and white

We loved the thought of keeping it simple and having green and white to blend in with the forest surrounding our reception sight.  But the more and more we thought about it, we wanted to incorporate more color.

Our second attempt:

Green and Yellow

We loved the way sunflowers looked against greens and white flowers. After a while though, I found myself thinking more and more about blue. I loved the way it looked in almost every picture I found online, and blue has always been my favorite color. Anyone who knows me knows that I naturally cling to blue, whether its clothing, home decorating or accessories. 

We fiddled with the idea of trying to do all THREE colors (blue, green and yellow), but it just ended up being too much. How would we coordinate it all so that the colors didn’t clash? How could we ensure the right shades of three different colors in every aspect of the wedding? It seemed too difficult. Besides, I didn’t like the look of it. 

So after much conversation, we decided on shades of blue and white:

 It's been blue for a while now, possibly more than half of our engagement. Once you choose a color scheme it feels like a huge weight off your shoulders! It was one of the hardest things to decide. Since choosing blue, we have dove head first into incorporating royal blue, light blue and white into all of our decoration ideas.