The Bold and the Beautiful

I feel really excited about our color palette which Dan and I just solidified (at least in my mind) today.

Before I reveal any colors or ideas you all have to read our thought process and research. I don't want you all to skip to the colors and go "oh okay, goodbye blog. cya tomorrow." Hehe

So anyway awhile ago Dan and I were thinking of an accent color. We decided on one and perhaps a secondary color. Though we didn't have any ideas on how to incorporate the colors into the whole wedding. This morning I was looking for an invitation vendor. I'm very hesitant about the invitations but with try and accept that they're a necessity.

Anyway, I was looking at some invitation ideas and started thinking about colors and winter or almost winter weddings ideas. I liked some of the ideas that the invitation website had for winter themed weddings. Dan sent me some links that helped to get my head brainstorming. (Hey reader, is the suspense killing you yet?)

So I started thinking of how we could use these two colors to their fullest. I started thinking about table settings, dresses, tuxes and such. Trying to tie it all in. I was looking through some ideas of table place cards and it hit me.

While I want some element of surprise on the day I'm going to hide some of the actual details/ideas from you all. So the theme/color palette is Black and White formal affair with subtle but bold punches of red. The deepest red possible, think blackish red similar to blood red. Though don't take the blood red comparison to mean anything cryptic, it's just a very distinct color of red. Another smaller secondary color will be silver but possible a matte/tarnished silver. Not too bright to stick out too much. The eye catching color will be red.

I'll give you an example to demonstrate my idea. For me the bride I need to have these three colors in my outfit. White: Dress (how easy) Black: perhaps a purse or other accessory Red: Bouquet (I was already leaning towards a red rose bouquet)

With these colors in mind now I just have to incorporate them in all aspects of the wedding. Who knew I would be so matchy matchy but I really like this scheme and hope to pull it off in a simple and elegant way. If any of you have decoration ideas please let me know. I would love to hear your input.