4 Favorite Wedding Inspiration Color Stories

Pink Color Story {Photos by: Perfect Bound / Studio Straulino / Kate Spade / Oh Joy}

Do you know what we mean by a wedding color story? It's basically taking swatches of colors that provide complimentary hues, soothing monochromatic tones, and/or bold contrasting choices to begin selecting how a wedding will ultimately be styled - from the colors of bridesmaids dresses to the bridal bouquet and reception table decor. 

Green Color Story {Photos by: Alexandra Grablewski / Max Wanger / Design*Sponge / Johnny Miller / via The City Sage}

The color swatches is where you begin. But then you start to add online photos to your Pinterest page, print out photos from online, or cut them out of newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other print sources to add real-life images to help bring the colors to life. One color swatch might be brought to life in a pair of shoes, the trim on a dress, or the wallpaper in a chic living room. Usually the color story begins with fashion and then the story grows and grows from there. But the swatches interrelate to help tell the complete story.

Neutral Color Story {Photos by: miles aldridge / deb mclean / jose villa / deb mclean}

Our friends at 100 Layer Cake, the most popular wedding blog on the planet, have created beautiful color stories. Click here to see collections of their color stories. Start by clicking on your favorite color, and then you'll find multiple "storyboards" to go with that color and expand upon it. Color stories and these color boards are great inspirational ways to help plan a wedding. Remember: a picture is worth a thousand words. Color stories are told with color swatches and photographs, and they're an essential component of planning a visully stunning event. Click on any of our four favorite color stories to see more.

Metallic Color Story {Photos by: cabin 7 / Nicolette Camille / Conroy & Wilcox via Randi Brookman Harris’s blog / Alexandra Grablewski}

Thanks to 100 Layer Cake for their beautiful photographs, posts, and wedding and event inspiration. 100 Layer Cake is a unique, comprehensive wedding and event planning resource for and by thoughtful, crafty modern women. Their vendors, projects, weddings, resources, sponsors, and marketplace are hand-picked and thoroughly researched with the hope that every single one is a truly unique addition to both your wedding and your planning process. Visit the 100 Layer Cake website today.

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Comments

[Wexford Cakes]

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[Tim]

I like less brighter colors myself.

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[Rose Balasabas]

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[Michelle Williams]

I definitely like the pastel colors. We decorated our craft room in a green mermaid color.

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[Raine Angeles]

My cousin got married a month ago and they had a beautiful pre-nuptial pictorial and video shoot that had a story behind it. The photographer and videographer used an India Jones style adventure to create this story from a chance meeting to going through the jungle to get the engagement ring and pop a proposal. http://www.junojewelry.com/ even got them a custom wedding ring set to match the story. It came out so nice, I wish I have hired the same photo and video people.

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[Bronwynn]

Great Blog for wedding colors, i will bookmark this and show some of my clients.

[juragan]

nice article !
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[Andy]

We use swatches all the time when designing new cakes. It really is the perfect place to start. Great Blog.Nice article.

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[Bespoke Tailors]

Great find! The stories along with the colors are perfectly matched. :) Learning this will truly give more color to each event and inspiration to those who want to try them out.

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[Utah Weddings]

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