Wedition Hot Tips: finding the right colour scheme & theme

Choosing your wedding colour scheme and theme is one of the most important parts of your wedding day, it sets the tone for the whole event – flowers, wedding party outfits, and wedding stationery all really need to complement your wedding venue. If you are struggling to decide what wedding theme colour scheme you should have, here are seven key points to consider:

• Take inspiration from your love story
• Be innovative and combine both of your favourite colours
• Choose a romantic theme
• Take inspiration from the season
• Consider your venue and keep it simple
• Repurpose your decorations and don’t go overboard
• Choose Wedition to perfectly complement your colour scheme and theme

Colour scheme and wedding theme inspired by your love story

As your special day is all about celebrating your relationship, take time to sit down together and reminisce on the memories you have created together. Perhaps you can take inspiration from a favourite holiday spot or the location of your proposal, as these places will immediately inspire you with wedding theme colour scheme ideas. Wedition customer Michael proposed to Amy in Ashdown Forest, they choose to incorporate a woodland theme throughout their wedding. If you both have a love for travel you could emphasis this throughout your day, use a globe as a unique guest book and dot vintage suitcases around your venue.

Be innovative with your wedding theme colour scheme

Use an unusual colour combination for your wedding theme colour scheme, you could try your favourite colour alongside your partner's favourite colour, it’s incredible how colours that you wouldn’t normally associate side by side work well and effectively in flower displays. Over the summer I attended my brother’s wedding and they choose to do exactly this - merging orange and yellow together, two colours that you would normally avoid placing together but it looked stunning. If you are looking for something different, don’t just stop at colours there are so many themes you could choose to make your wedding stand out. Wedding theme colour schemes inspired by Harry Potter are becoming increasingly popular - you could even make bouquets from pages of the novels.

Stay romantic with your wedding theme colour scheme

A romantic wedding theme colour scheme is effortlessly beautiful and easy to achieve with lots of delicate flowers and pastel colours. Opt for a rustic wedding theme inspired by the countryside, you can incorporate natural materials and create a relaxed, laid back atmosphere. Typically associated with love and romance, choose between red, pink and burgundy tones which you might even like to accentuate further with a complementary neutral second colour.

Keep your wedding theme colour scheme seasonal

Take inspiration from the season in which your wedding is being held, this means your wedding theme colour scheme can perfectly fit with the flowers of that time of year. A summer wedding could highlight beach tones or include colourful decorations of sunflowers, whereas a nice touch for a Spring wedding could be including little pots of daffodils throughout your venue. If you fancy getting married at a less traditional time of year, why not use Autumn and Halloween as your creative inspiration, with beautiful colours of russet gold and burnt orange you could line the aisle with pumpkins or carve them with your initials for a special featured display. Of course, you could take a spookier turn and hold the most memorable fancy dress event of your life. Wedition customers Kay and Jonny got married in December and took inspiration from Christmas, their personalised Wedition was styled perfectly to fit in with the wedding theme colour scheme – even including a Christmas carol!

Consider your venue when planning your wedding theme colour scheme

When deciding your ideal wedding theme colour scheme, you should take time to consider your venue. Often the best schemes are simple ones. A venue which is already decorative will not require bold colours which may compete too much. If you choose to get married at a barn wedding venue, a simple rustic wedding or festival themed day will work incredibly well. A church wedding looks beautiful with elegant flower displays placed along the aisle as opposed to large overwhelming displays that shadow the whole venue. When you visit your wedding venue you will get a real feel for what wedding theme colour scheme will work best.

Don’t go overboard with your wedding theme colour scheme

A wedding with a strong theme needs a great deal of planning, don’t go overboard, just theme a few key areas, such as a fireplace, the cake table, a prominent staircase or the place where guests enter. Where possible, repurpose your decorations, if you’ve decorated the ceremony room and will not be going back in there, then have your venue reposition the decorations into the place where you’ll be having your meal whilst you and your guests are enjoying your reception drinks.

Wedition and your wedding theme colour scheme

Of course, whatever colour scheme and theme you have, your Wedition will be styled to match. A unique memento of your special day, it’s something your guests will cherish forever. Rhona and Mark chose a beautiful floral and lilac wedding theme colour scheme with pops of fuchsia pink accentuated within their Wedition. What will you choose to share in your Wedition?