Determining your wedding colors and style.

For about 5 years I have thought about two colors for my wedding and two colors only. Dark brown and dark turquoise. beautiful combination of colors. I love that color combo very VERY much. My bedroom is decorated in that entire color scheme. I wanted a wedding in the fall so i could use those two colors. To be perfectly honest, the main reason i changed the color scheme is because of a previous relationship I had been in. My ex-boyfriend and I were together for over two years and of course we talked about marriage a few times. My super girly mind went ahead and started making a 'few plans' I was in the very beginning stages of planning that wedding and was set on my favorite color scheme as the wedding colors. When that relationship ended years ago so did that color scheme.

It took about two weeks of looking at brown wedding receptions and brown wedding decor before i started to envision a reception hall decorated in mostly brown or mostly turquoise and i just couldn't see it. I couldn't imagine looking around at all the brown. Even though i do love the colors I just couldn't get comfortable with the main color being brown. My fiance's favorite color is royal blue. At first I decided on a navy blue and a royal blue. After finding more things available in royal blue and white I quickly decided that was the color scheme i wanted to use. So now the colors are royal blue with accents of white and navy blue. If I could do it again i would probably choose royal blue and yellow or royal blue and a light purple.

ok... in my personal experience.. blue is such a hard color to work with. there are ten million shades of blue. for some reason it has been difficult to find flowers in blue. They are usually to light or to dark. just really hard to find royal blue flowers in my price range.

I decided on more of a formal traditional wedding. When choosing the style of our wedding I had to take several things into consideration.
One: My bridesmaids
two: costs
three: location
four: my personal preferences

I had to take into consideration my bridesmaids and what they would overall look the best in. I have one bridesmaid that is penecostal so naturally she would have a long dress. I had to decide if I wanted all my girls to have the same length dress or if they could be different. Since I decorate weddings and consult brides for a living, I have seen both styles. Both are absolutely fine. The prettiest wedding i have ever seen had every bridesmaid in the same dress and I loved it. So I decided to let the bridesmaid pick their own style of dresses as long as they are long.

My best friend was married last year and she had half the bridesmaid in cocktail dresses and the other half in solid black dresses and the results were amazing. It was super cute and super cheap for the bridesmaids. We each spent under a $100.00 for our dresses. We purchased our dresses at JCPenney's which saved us ALOT of money.

When picking a style that is more cost effective keep in mind that the more formal the wedding usually (not always) the more expensive it is. I have seen some really traditional weddings and some very contemporary weddings that have both been cost effective. The style of the wedding is not as important as a factor when determining costs. You can save money doing the wedding in any style. It's the shopping around and finding the deals that's the stressful part :) hang in there with me. That's coming. :) :)