Themes? Colors? Why it's Worth Doing for Your Wedding!

These days, it seems like everyone wants a wedding that has a certain "theme" or "look" to it.  After the interest in seeing the ring and the questions about the date, my brides tell me that friends and family ask about how the wedding will look.  What are your colors?  What's the theme?  Do you really need all that, they ask me?

The immediate answer is no, of course not.  It's your wedding and you can do whatever you like.  On the other hand, there are a lot of benefits to using color, theme, and feel to create your wedding.  No small industry, wedding things are available in a bridal wave (hee!) of colors, shapes, and sizes.  From the viewpoint of both previous bride and current officiant, here's the real deal on all that personalization.

Colors
Probably the easiest of the questions at hand, colors are among the first thing that most brides decide on.  These days, the wedding industry provides us with literally thousands of choices.  From Aqua to Zinnia, (that's blue and pink to our befuddled fiances) brides have more choices than ever before on what colors they want to showcase.  Different colors evoke different psychological feelings in the brain; combining colors allows you to indicate moods, seasons, holidays, and ideas.  There is no lack of color ways available to brides; check out Pinterest, The Knot, or Polyvore for more than two minutes and you'll start finding them.  Think about not only what your favorite colors are, but how they make you feel.  Which colors feel the way you want your wedding to feel?  Talk to your spouse about colors he or she loves.  Make a list, try a few out, see what clicks.  A good rule of thumb is no more than three colors; one main color, one secondary, one accent.  More than that, and you're liable to get muddled.  If you're really unsure, look in your closet and find the colors you wear the most often.  We buy clothes because we look good in them - apply those colors to your wedding, and it will look good on you!  Mine woud be purple, black, and silver; I could definitely work with that.

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