December 24, 2007

Not So Mellow Yellow

Yellow sashayed down the runways as 2008's hottest color for spring and summer bridesmaids and while dated pastels might be the first color that comes to mind, think outside the box to the brighter yellow.

Fresh, and full of energy and sunshine, yellow is the color of daisies and can be showcased in an outdoor daytime wedding with fresh white accents, gingham styled accessories, and bright yellow accessories including decorative ribbons, napkins, table cloths, and favors.

For an indoor daytime wedding you might want to tone the brightness down a notch by paring your yellow with another color adjacent to it on the color wheel. By having the colors of your wedding include a more subtle shade of yellow, yellow-green and green standalone tones, you can achieve the summery effect without blinding your guests.

For evening weddings with a dash of elegance, try paring a warm shade of yellow, that borders on a golden hue with warm chocolate brown for a rich extravagance that borders on exotic. Travel way outside of the box and pair yellow with white and black for a chic European feel, a combination that looks particularly stunning in an outdoor evening venue.

Whatever time of day you choose, yellow as the main color scheme for your wedding offers you many options to creating a unified wedding theme.

For wedding cakes, choose a lemon flavoured cake with colored icing. For flowers, look for freesia, carnations, tulips, yarrow and forsythia, snapdragons, daffodils, daisies and sunflowers, as well as a myriad of other flowers that come in yellow. Your choice of wedding favors can run from yellow candles to yellow mints, and everything in between.

While yellow is sometimes given the bad wrap of being a color that doesn't look good on anyone, all you have to remember is that there are many shades of yellow. Somewhere is a shade of yellow that will suit both you and your bridesmaids.

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