2024 wedding colour trends - How to choose your wedding colour Palette
Choosing your wedding colours may seem like a daunting task, especially if you do not consider your self creative. But find your wedding colour scheme is pretty straightforward once you consider the helpful tips and hints below.
Your wedding colours will help set the tone, create mood and atmsophere and paint a cohesive picture of your wedding day. Even if you are planning an itimate celebration, a casual wedidng or grand soiree, your wedding colour palette is key to creating a cohesive and finished wedding aesthetic. Once you have decided on a colour palette, just think wedding flowers, stationery suites, table linen, bridesmaids gowns … everything will fall naturally into place.
Let’s take a look at how to find your wedding colours.
I always suggest to Sue Gallo Designs clients who struggle with deciding on a palette, is to work with colours that are representative to who they are. Don’t decide on a colour a colour palette because it’s trendy or because it’s seasonal. Choose colour palettes that best reflect who you are as a couple, your personal style and colours that you gravitate to and live with on a daily basis. Look to your wardrobe and home decor for added inspiration. Your wedding should be timeless and represent your personalities and love story. You should pick colours that you genuinely love!
When helping our couples choose a colour palette, I always Choose three to five colours. It’s a simple trick to look cohesive - choosing hues and shades of a palette that group together cohesively. Hues and shades create more visual interest, and the overall look is more memorable and appealing.
Many couples forget to look to their venue for colour inspiration. Your choice of venue should also be considered when choosing a palette. You should always work with colours that are already at the venue. While you venue choice helps determine the style of wedding, the aesthetic of the wedding, it also will help anchor your vision if you work within the colour palettes already present. Think opulent ballroom with rich and detailed gold and burgundy elements - this will narrow down your colour options. While a venue with a clean and neutral colour palette will allow you to work with various palettes that don’t clash with the surrounding aesthetics.
The old schoole rule of Seaonality can play an important role when choosing your colour palette. While it isn’t a set rule now adays, certain colours work better during specific times of the year.
Soft colours like lilac, sage, blush soft pinks and pastel tones are wondeful in the spring. While brighter bolder tones like yellows, greens, corals, pinks and teal are fabulous summer hues. Warm and cozy tones like earth tones, velvet greens, mustard yellows, terracotta and taupes work magic in the fall. Cooler tones such as dusty blues, silvers, whites and grays are beautiful in the winter.
Wedding theme + style is equally important when considering your colour palette. Just as with sesonality, certain colour palettes work better with various wedding styles.
When you think of classic and elegant - whites, ivories, greens, blacks and grays fit the bill perfectly.
Urban industrial - whites, ivorys, blacks or vibrant hues of oranges, pinks and magenta’s work well.
Romantic - old world charm with soft neutral tones of whites, ivories, champagnes accented with soft blushes or light blues and accented with golds work well for this theme.
Rustic - earthy hues like mustards, marigolds, taupes, toffees with olives help anchor a rustic setting.
Vintage - dusty rose, cantalope, honeydew, rose golds and warm turquoises are great choices.
Bohemian Chic- warm early thones such as mustards, toffees, taupes, baige, sage, terracottas and emerald greens are the most commom colour choices
Bring out the colour wheel. Once you have decided on a colour or two, have a look at the colour wheel to see which colours compliment each other. Just remember, colours opposite each other on the wheel such as yellow and purple or green and pink work well together. The same is true for neighbouring colours such as shades of violet or yellow and green.
To sum up, your wedding colour scheme should reflect who you are as a couple, your personal style and what you love! it should be an expression of your individual style and help tell the visual story of your wedding day. Afterall, your wedding day should always be about you. Your colours reflect who you are and what you love!
I am sharing 5 of our 2024 trending and Sue Gallo Designs most requested colour palettes. All gorgeous and unique in each of their own ways! I am sure they will inspire you just like the do me!
Happy planning! XO
