Choosing Meaningful Colours For Your Wedding

Colour touches us all at a basic level, when we see colour we have an emotional response towards it.

They influence our thinking, inspire our decision-making, and impact our moods.

When choosing your wedding colour(s) it can be influenced by the season, your favourite colour(s), your venue and vision for your wedding day.

When deciding on your colours consider:

The colours around your home, this is a great indication of both your personalities and is a great starting point.

• The colours you like to wear

• The time of year that you are getting married 

• Look at your venue, the flooring, curtains 

Choosing colours that have a deeper meaning for your wedding can help create a mood that you desire or it can be used to symbolise a feeling of a colour. 

Your wedding day is an important day, it makes sense to choose colours that are meaningful for you, right? I’m all about creating a meaningful wedding.

Personally, I’m a bit of a colour lover that is based in the roots of my Ghanaian heritage especially when it comes to fashion and it filters through my home, stationery etc When I need a bit of a confidence boost I’ll wear some red. If I need my mood uplifted I’ll definitely put on a bold Jewel tone colour. 

I remember being told by a lecturer when I was at the London College of Fashion that colour is a form of non verbal communication. I like to chat and use varying ways to communicate and to use it effectively I learnt what I could about colour psychology. 

There is more to colour than meets the eye, it influences perceptions, touches emotions, and sways decisions.

Spiritually, colour can communicate information,  as in aura colours; this is an energy field surrounding living beings which is “visible” to the psychically sensitive as well as energy, as in healing. Anyhoo, I digress.

To help with selecting your wedding colours, I’ve created a mini guide below for colour meanings and more to help you with selecting your colours that can set the tone and style for your wedding and some guidance on how you can select complimentary colours.

Mixing it up

Monochromatic

Use several shades of one colour. Pink is a great example for this one.

Pink has a range from magenta which is a vibrant colour to baby pink which is quite a soft shade.

Using the softer shades could be used in your flowers, with a hint of the deeper hues in perhaps your cake. Think about where you may use these colours: the softer shades could be used at your ceremony with a more vibrant pink at the reception to up the vibe.

Monochromatic

Choose neighbouring colours on the wheel

No one says you have to stay with one colour and if you fancy to mix it up a bit, go for it.

Opposites Attract

Opposite Colours

Complimentary colours, They sit on the opposite side of the colour wheel. Using a paler shade of both of the colours or one of them will create a more elegant look.

Split Complimentary

Split Complimentary

You select your colour and then select a colour either side and then accompany it with its complimentary colour. Yellow with Blue + Red/Purple

Triadic Complimentary

Triadic Complimentary

You use three colours on the colour wheel. The effect can be one that is harmonious.

This approach uses three different colours on the colour wheel. They can be complimentary or split complimentary.

Please bear in mind that in some cultures and traditions these colours may have different meanings. 

Once you do decide on your wedding colours, the rest of the design details will fall into place.

Choosing colours that have a deeper meaning for your wedding can help create a mood that you desire or it can be used to symbolise a feeling of a colour. Your wedding day is an important day, it makes sense to choose colours that are meaningful for you, right? I’m all about creating a meaningful wedding.