Wedding Color Ideas for Inspiration

Trends and Great Color Ideas to Inspire You

There are millions of wedding color ideas to choose from. So many in fact, it could drive you nuts! Especially if you're anything like me and are drawn to so many colors and combinations.

There's no need to worry! Just like our wedding dresses, when you see it, you'll know it's perfect!

The "inspiration color charts" below will help you decide and inspire your process to picking the wedding color ideas perfect for you! Choose by mood, by season, or theme... it's up to you!

Enjoy these inspiration ideas for wedding color ideas.

Romantic Wedding Color Ideas

As you can see from the below samples romantic colors don't necessarily have to soft and light. It's perfectly natural to mix a passionate red with a gentle green, or add a rich brown to perfect cream or beige. Here are some great romantic color combos:

• A rich red with a soft green
• A gentle pink and green with a richer red of pink
• White and Cream combination
• Dusty Pink and greens

UN-traditional and Unique Wedding Color Ideas

Are you a fun couple looking for a more upbeat and perhaps less traditional color scheme? If so, your options are endless! Strong hues like yellow or green are wonderfully vibrant and perfect for energetic couples. Softer hues like turquoise, red and gray are equally unique, but perhaps less intense than the latter.

• Yellow and green
• Blue and orange
• Blue and Red
• Blue, Yellow and Brown
• Pink and Orange
• Green and Red
• Orange and Purple

Latest Trends in Ideas for Wedding Colors

Are you looking for the latest trends? If so, there are some really great trends emerging. One of my favorites is a combination of silver and yellow! Imagine a silk silver wedding gown and your maids of honors clad in fun yellow dresses! Other great trends include:

• Tiffany Blue
• Pink and Brown -- with or without green
• Pink and brown
• Purple and green
• Blue and Brown

Dramatic Wedding Colors

If you're a sassy and strong couple looking for a rich and exotic or dramatic wedding color scheme, black and red is one of the more obvious, beautiful choices.

If you are looking for dramatic, but are also fun, hot pink or hot pink combined with orange is your ticket to the perfect color combo! Here are a list of great dramatic color combos:

• Red and black
• Deep Purple with earthy green
• Hot Pink and Red
• White and Black

Destination Weddings

People often think that destination weddings call for a blue color theme! In reality, there are a slew of great colors to draw from! Inspired by nature, it makes sense to include the shades of the sand, leaves, sky and waves. As you'll see below that mixtures of blue and beige are great ideas. While a purely green combo is an exotic choice!

• Blue, cream and green
• Shades of green
• Blue and sandy brown
• Shades of blue

Common Wedding Color Ideas for Seasonal Themes

If you're planning a seasonal wedding, sometimes it's most simple to stick to colors of the season. It's beautiful and you just can't go wrong. It simplifies the purchase of favors, invites, and more when doing it this way!

You can also draw color themes from above to inspire your seasonal theme.

Summer Colors

Summer is a time of relaxing in the sun, napping under the willow tree, and enjoying the wonderful blast of all of the summer colors surrounding us. This gives you the excitement of going for a completely calm combo or soft hues, or mixes gentle colors with great splashes of color.

• Green and pink
• Gentle blues, whites and hints of pink
• Terra Cotta and Violet (for a Mediterranean Theme)
• Shades of pink with Blue
• A Variety of blues and purples
• Shades and Tints of dusty pink

Fall Colors

Fall is a season of comfortable indulgences, fall leaves, and all of the other wonderful vegetables of fall. Bringing all of those colors together and livening them up with some extra splashes makes for a festive and refreshing fall wedding!

• A combination of orange, yellow and brown
• Brown and blue or brown and brown and pink
• Grape purple and green -- great for wine themes!

Spring Colors

Spring is lively, a time of dewey wonder and renewed life. Mixing earthy tones like brown with blue and green feels calm and romantic like the bud of a newly forming flower, while blues with shades of pink provides a sense of wonder and anticipation.

• Blues and pinks
• Gentle blues and greens with brown
• Tints and shades of purple
• Gentle blues and greens, along with brown
• A wildflower flora of color

Winter Colors

Winter is a time of warmth, the magic of the snowfall and cozy romance! Colors like blue, champagne, and silver give it a magical feeling, while deep reds and brown add a sense of comfort and passion.

• Deep colors like red and black
• Darker blues with white and black
• Icy Blue
• White and silver

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