Planning Your Ceremony: Choosing the Best Colors For Your Dream Winter Wedding

Planning a wedding around the holiday season can add celebration to the already-festive months. It can also help you and loved ones remember the anniversary more easily in the future. Choosing appropriate winter wedding colors and decorations can take more consideration due to the holiday time. The tricky part about this is you have to create a mood that is both appropriate for a wedding and will also bring out the festive moods of the holidays. You need to consider how to incorporate these two occasions into a one, grand theme that will wow guests and onlookers. Here are some tips on how to choose colors for your winter wedding.

• Take into consideration the place or the venue of the wedding. Most winter weddings are held indoors because of the cold weather outside. Think of colors that will make the atmosphere warmer and will make the cold season cozy and inviting…or, plan a destination wedding to a warm climate location, like the Caribbean. At Katilady, as wedding planners based in the US Virgin Islands, we can help you.

• The most popular color motif for winter weddings is a combination of warm colors such as red, orange, yellow, and dark purple or grey with a touch of red. This will be a sharp contrast to the colors outdoors.

• You can also use cool colors such as ice or navy blue and forest green. This will greatly complement your warm colors. If you are planning on a winter wonderland theme, you might want to use ice blue with white and silver accents as your color motif.

• Metallic colors such as gold, silver, and bronze can be great color accents for your primary colors. This will make the entire room and decorations glitter magically. You can pair these colors with any other basic winter wedding colors.

• Formal weddings in winter require rich winter colors such as deep red with gold while casual weddings can use lighter colors such as light blue or purple.

• Consider flowers that complement your color scheme-poinsettia, hydrangea, white roses, lilies, red amaryllis, tulips, delphiniums, and muscari, to name a few.

• Metal colors give formality and elegance to a wedding reception. You can use them as color accents for the flowers and the bridal bouquet and the table settings. If you have proper lighting using electric lights or candles, the lights will reflect the metallic colors and will provide a romantic and magical glow in your wedding party.

Take advantage of the richer, darker colors of the season to be bold with contrast, if that suits your style. Considering non-traditional wedding dress colors can also be exciting. Check out http://www.winterweddingideas.org/ for more on this topic, or visit http://katilady.com for information about destination weddings in the US Virgin Islands.