I am sorry for not posting this past week!! In addition to Labor Day (and I mean who ISN’T busy enjoying the last of beautiful summer weather!?) school started this week and I was not expecting to be a substitute this early in the year. I was always told that the availability of sub jobs was going to be slow until around October, but apparently that is not the case when dealing with Special Education! I’m not complaining…more moola for me! (Oh and I suppose more job experience and school, staff, and curriculum exposure… NBD :^]).
I have a lot to catch you all up on in regards to this wedding. I hope you don’t mind if I skip around a bit. I hope to post about earlier topics and current topics in no apparent order. Bear with me! But there is one topic I feel like I need to discuss with you before I post about anything else…color scheme.
I am going to be honest with you... I knew my colors before I was even engaged. Yup, I was one of those girls who knew she was going to be engaged soon so I started my planning before Mr. Dizzy even popped the question. And where did I go to find my colors? Why good ol’ Google of course. Gotta love those “best wedding colors” searches. Here is what I found:
The Red and Black Wedding
Image via The Bridal Boutique
Ok I was very naughty when it came to picking colors. This was one thing I did not do as “a team” with Mr. Dizzy. And it was all due to this color scheme. Mr. Dizzy loves these colors. He loves the classic look, the incorporation of black and white, and the color red (it’s his favorite). Unfortunately, I could not be the caring and compassionate bride I should be and I just laughed and flat out said no. Horrible right? But I had my reasons! First of all, it was too boring/traditional for me. I feel like everyone plus their cousin and their cousin’s cousin has had a black, white, red wedding. Then there is our theme. Even though I didn’t know our theme was at the time, I did know that I didn’t want a fancy wedding. And these colors scream elegant Hollywood to me. So not us. And my third and final reason: it reminds me of a black widow. No joke. I am sorry but I cannot think about a nasty venomous spider that kills their mates after breeding at my wedding. I hope you understand how this simply cannot be. Luckily, I have a flexible and understanding fiancé. So the search continues….
The Red, Orange, Yellow, Brown Wedding aka Fall Wedding
Image via Project Wedding
LOVE these colors. I always wanted the red, orange, and yellow colors combined but unfortunately these are very much fall colors. And even though fall is my favorite season, I did not want a fall wedding. Again, there are reasons: 1) Mr. Dizzy’s brother decided to propose to his girlfriend not even a month before we were engaged so they got dibs on their date. They chose October of this year (they live in Texas. A fall wedding is essential if you don’t want to melt away from heat). So if Mr. Dizzy and I wanted a fall wedding, it would be in 2012, a whole year and a half away. Ugh. No thank you. 2) We decided on a summer wedding due to the fact that many of our family and friends are either students or teachers. So red, orange, and yellow are out.
The Pink Wedding
Image via Prima Donna Bride
I’m not gonna lie, I do love me some pink. And I have seen some adorable pink weddings. But it was just not us. I could not imagine poor Mr. Dizzy and his guys being forced to wear pink. And light pink would wash me out completely and dark pink would be too loud for our simple vintage wedding. Moving on…
The Green Wedding
Image via Santa Barbara Chic
I loved green weddings as well! There is something very clean and relaxing about this color. But I wanted more pop and pizazz. I need a color besides white that it could be paired with and I simply could not find one I liked. Next…
The Blue Wedding
Image via Muslim Bridal Wear
I feel like blue is very overdone as well (As I reflect, hasn’t every color been overdone?? I mean really, how many colors can brides choose from lol). And it reminds me of the ocean. Eh not what I’m looking for.
The Ivory Wedding
Very, very pretty in my personal opinion. But I am not a girl who can pull this off. I am white, white, white, and I need all the help I can get to not look like a ghost on my wedding day. So goodbye all white.
The Purple Wedding
I’ve got to tell you; purple is my favorite color at the moment. So of course I love these purple weddings. But I know myself too well. If you will refer back to that first statement, you will notice the phrase “at the moment.” Yes I change my favorite color quite frequently. So even though I love purple now, I do not want to look back at my pictures in 20 years and say, “Really? Purple? What the heck were you thinking? I don’t even like purple.” Onward…
The Rainbow Wedding
I would LOVE to do this. Seriously how rad would it be to have the girls dress up in rainbow colors? And I love rainbow cakes! Too much fun!!! But I didn’t have the guts to go through with it.
The Gray and Yellow Wedding
And then I found it. You are looking at the EXACT picture that made me swoon. This picture was complete perfection to me (maybe it’s because I could relate to the blond hair bride…surprisingly there are not too many blondies out there on the inspiration boards). Anyway, I searched for more gray and yellow weddings. And I found these beauts:
Drool worthy for sure. And that was that. It was decided. The perfect combination of subtle and pizazz, ideal for a vintage wedding, and it hasn’t been seen at every wedding! Woot woot gray and yellow!! And now Mr. Dizzy sings ‘gray and yellow, gray and yellow’ all the time to the chorus of this song (instead of black and yellow). I bet your wedding colors don’t have a theme song :^)
What wedding colors did you decide on? Did you associate certain colors to bad images (please tell me I’m not the only one!)? Did anyone else completely disregard their fiancé’s opinion on colors?
I am thinking green for my wedding!
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