Your Wedding Colors

Color, pattern, texture, and line. All elements of great design, but how do they apply to your wedding? There are so many things to choose from, and so many ways to incorporate your personal elements. There's no wrong choice when it comes to color or how to combine it. Your choice of color sets the mood for the event. It's important to make sure that you chose something that makes you happy, and ensures an enjoyable day for you and your guests.

PRIMARY COLORS: these are the colors that are the base for EVERY other color on the wheel! They are: RED, YELLOW, and BLUE

SECONDARY COLORS: these are the colors that are created by mixing two primary colors together! They are: ORANGE, GREEN, and PURPLE

TERTIARY: these are the colors you get when you take a primary color, and mix it with a secondary color! They are: RED-ORANGE, YELLOW-ORANGE, YELLOW-GREEN, TEAL (blue-green), ROYAL PURPLE (blue-purple), and PLUM (red-purple)

That’s pretty much how color is defined. Now let’s talk about how to combine it!

COMPLIMENTARY COLORS: any colors that are direct opposites on the color wheel.

(ie: YELLOW and PURPLE)

When there is a lot of one color going on, you can tone it down, or brighten it up by adding in it’s direct compliment. The colors cancel each other out and makes them easier on the eye.

SPLIT COMPLIMENTARY COLORS: are what happens when you take a color like RED, and accent it with YELLOW-GREEN, and TEAL (blue-green)

Those are the colors on either side of red’s direct compliment which is green.

ANALOGOUS COLORS: colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel. It doesn’t matter which direction on the wheel you go, if the colors are right next to one another, they’re analogous.

Example: RED, RED-ORANGE, ORANGE, and YELLOW-ORANGE

SPLIT ANALOGOUS COLORS: are every OTHER color on the wheel put together. Or, the traditional rainbow…

RED, skip red-orange, ORANGE, skip yellow-orange, YELLOW, etc…

MONOCHROMATIC COLORS: are different shades of the same color. Whether you order them from light to dark, or dark to light.

Example: going lighter and lighter from PURPLE to LAVENDER

TRIADIC COLORS: are any colors that are equally spaced to form a perfect triangle.

Primary and secondary colors are a good example of how this color scheme works!

RED, YELLOW, and BLUE

TETRADIC COLORS: are any four colors with a logical relationship on the color wheel, like double complements.

Example: the direct compliment of RED is GREEN. Let’s keep those, and move over one set to RED-ORANGE. Its direct compliment is TEAL (blue-green). These four colors together are a tetradic color scheme!

So many colors, so many possibilities! Have fun!!

HAPPY WEDDING!