How to add colour to your wedding day
How to add colour to your wedding day
As a colourful wedding photographer I felt like this is an incredibly important topic to discuss- how to add colour to your wedding! When planning to write this blog my notepad was bursting at the seams, I have so many ideas for how to add colour to your special day. Let’s start of by discussing your colour palette- are you going for bright and vibrant, subtle and pastel, burnt and rustic or pretty and cute? Once decided on this you can easily choose your style and decide how much you want these colours to pop. Something that may help you select your palette and style is the season. What season will your wedding be in, Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter? For example, if your wedding is in Summer then you may want to go for bold, vibrant and bright colours such as purple, pink, yellow, green and blue to mix it up a bit.
There are three different categories I am going to break this blog into and that is outfits, décor and photographs.
Outfits
Let’s start off by talking about how to incorporate colour into your outfits as the bride or groom. Does a white wedding sound a little bit plain and done to you? Can’t figure out how to make a statement to be unique? Well, how about a different coloured dress? Black or orange, maybe even a coloured suit or bold statement shoes such as Doc Martens with pink laces or pink flamingo wedding shoes. Maybe you could even say in your invites, DO NOT WEAR BORING COLOURS! Please wear as much glitter as possible or your jazziest suit. I saw guests turn up in bright yellow matching sunflowers suits once, and they looked amazing!
Décor
Okay, onto how to incorporate colour in your wedding décor. This is the one where I can talk the most about so I may be best off just reeling off some ideas. How about lining your aisle with disco balls, where the sun is shining in so the sun bounces off the onto the walls and your dress as you walk up. Have you thought about streamers? You could have these hanging from the ceiling or they could be the statement behind you during the ceremony.
What about decorating the tables and chairs during the wedding breakfast. Think about stationary design, candles, table name holders, chair covers, maybe ribbons hanging from naked chairs in different colours. Get creative, go on a date to a ceramics class on a Tuesday evening and make the table name holders or the candle holders. Then you have something to keep forever!
CAKE, who doesn’t love a wedding cake!? That is why we all attend to weddings right? Make this a statement piece, cover it in thick bright pink and red icing and write “Til Death” on it. What about the car you arrive in? Could it be a bright orange VW wedding campervan?
Photographs
Finally, let’s talk about wedding portraits. As a colourful wedding photographer this is absolutely my favourite topic to talk about- how to incorporate colour into your wedding photos! If you do everything or even just a few of the things mentioned above, then your wedding gallery will scream colour. However, when it comes to having your couple photos taken, my aim is to find the most exciting and out there background possible. That may be a graffiti wall or a statement black and white wall to get some cute photos that you will want to frame all over your house.
Also, a few ideas, smoke bombs, confetti and bubbles! Walk in a line with your parents or bridesmaids and groomsmen holding smoke bombs. Use paper confetti that falls slowly to capture that wow moment. Maybe even get someone blowing bubbles as you walk through a confetti line.
Lots of ideas here folks! I hope you enjoyed reading this and have lots of designs now and that you are already deep into ordering streamers and disco balls off Amazon!
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Love, Freya x
