Welcome back to this week's episode of the Wedding lounge podcast.
Now, this week, it's quite specific.
We are talking about how to choose your wedding color pants.
Something you need to think about from the off-look.
Well, yeah, exactly.
Budget, what your wedding is actually going to look like.
One thing that we both agreed on when we were sort of
going through our notes for this is just don't stick to trends.
Just put them to trends.
Yeah.
This is a way that you can inject your personality,
what colors, you know, think about what colors you like and everything like that.
There've been trends back in the 2010s.
It was a crappy purple and not teeny glasses of beads in and things like that.
And more recently, we've seen green and white red things.
If they are your favourite colours, right.
Do it.
But don't do them just be trended.
Be trended trend.
Or don't do it just because you feel like it's a wedding
and you need to do something neutral.
Yeah.
So that's what I've come across quite a lot.
There's lots of people just say, "Oh, well, it's a wedding, it needs to be muted toes."
Right, if that's how you feel.
But if your personality is bright and bold and colourful,
well, it was bright and bold and colourful.
Yeah, I think people are too scared to inject some colour into their wedding.
Your wedding last summer, Nigel and Jason,
they had the most amazing flowers.
They invested so much colour and personality into their day.
And it suited them, didn't it?
But that wouldn't suit everyone.
No, and the other thing with that one that really helps
and I think we're going to go into this in a little more detail,
is we looked at their garden.
Yes, we looked at the surrounding area,
we looked at the colours that they already had
and we brought bows in to make it feel cohesive.
Yeah, well, that's a really good place to start.
Think about your venue.
Yeah, think about your venue.
If you're getting married in a marquee,
it's obviously pretty plain.
Unless you're going for like an Indian theme
that's beautiful, like a radiant tint.
And marquees out there with a colour.
But if you're not in a venue with coloured walls coloured carpets,
look at the garden that the marquee is going to be in.
Like that should be your inspiration.
Yeah, or at least not.
Have it starting point and not crash?
Yes, exactly.
Exactly. I mean, I used to work in a hotel
and there was one reason I absolutely refused to get married
in a hotel was because people would come in
and it was both beautiful, Georgian venue,
with sort of pale green walls and pale green carpets
and it would be beautiful, but then people would come in.
With, right, bold.
The castle?
Yeah, pretty much.
And it just wouldn't, yeah.
You really got to think about your surroundings
when you think of your colour.
I think you should think about that as well
when you're choosing your venue.
What, a hundred percent?
Like you should be aware of your colour palette
and be aware of what it is that you're looking for in a space.
Yeah.
And use that, like if it's if you want to go
with a totally black and white theme monochrome.
Yes.
And they were coming onto monochrome.
Yeah.
Then if you want that black and white,
that's what you want.
Don't choose a venue that's got
public carpets?
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
I think so many people don't think about it to start with
and it's a really important decision.
Yeah, it's that that overall image of your day.
So I got married in a barn
could pretty much do most things in a barn
because it's pretty neutral, but they had sage green.
This is absolutely horrendous now.
There's sage green curtains around the walls.
And actually that was one of the colours I had.
Yeah.
That has been why they had curtains around.
I can't remember that.
I think if you don't have revision,
you don't have an idea where places start
with the season you're getting married.
It's definitely.
And then use colours that go with that season.
So there's colour psychology.
Yes, definitely.
So I've had my colours done.
So perhaps I don't know if you have that.
No, I haven't, but I had it done when when I first started
my business, my brand.
Yes.
I had colour psychology done on my brand
and the brand I wanted to choose.
Yes, yeah, I did that as well with design books.
But you've got the seasons.
So in a nutshell, you've got spring,
it's sort of warm and essentially like light colours.
Horals, watermelon, turquoise, lilacs, apples.
And then summer, you've got a bit more brighter.
They're sort of not primary,
but you've got your sort of lavender's moves,
bottle green, things like that.
Older.
Yes, a bit bold, richer tones.
Which are definitely.
And then they actually, we're going to get into a bit
of the techy side in a minute,
but you're right, they're richer tones in the summer.
Yes.
And then autumn, you've got like warm and lively colours.
There's a copy, olive green, teal, warm burgundy.
And then like winter, you've got very strong like primary colours.
And you've got your shoes, like,
and then extreme tints and shades.
So you've got your pure white, your pure blacks.
You've got magenta, pillow box red, ice blue.
Quite strong blue colours.
Yeah.
So your warm colours tend to have a bit more red and yellow in them.
And your cooler tones tend to have like a blue in it.
So you can.
And I think this is what I learned when I did
my colour psychology myself.
It's like, you know, it's what I should wear.
It doesn't mean like if you're something you can't wear yellow,
you've got to wear the right yellow.
Yeah.
So interestingly, with the colour,
clothing, she has like four different blues,
four different greens, four different purples.
And they are actually all different and it's which one suits you.
As I would say, I would avoid wearing certain colours.
But actually, I could wear a blue, just a teal blue would give me,
because I'm an autumn.
I think I'm more of a winter then,
because I can think it's a really fun one.
I can't wear dust, I love dusty pink colours.
I'm not wearing them.
They totally and utterly wash me out.
But a bright, you know, you should pink.
All over the skirt.
Yeah, so I look washed out with pink.
I need this more muted order tones.
So do you think about when you're choosing your colours,
that makes you've got warm colours and cool colours?
Now, Natasha laughed at me,
because when we were writing the notes with this,
I did get a little bit techy.
A little bit techy is the understatement of the century.
You brought about four books.
I had all had different things in our site.
Oh, I'm not going to bore you too much.
But just looking at simple colour wheel,
yeah, I've got one on Amazon.
And it tells you all the information about what colours go.
You might not necessarily think about.
It's just really handy.
So, basically, you can go for complementary colours,
which are opposites on the colour wheel.
But they work quite well.
One is your main colour,
and you have another as an accent.
One combination I love is blue and orange.
Yes, it doesn't mean that your bridesmaids are in orange,
your groomsman and orange.
I think putting that sort of colour palette into a wedding,
I would have many navy suits.
I'd imagine more of like an autumn wedding here,
or maybe summer.
And you have like the right sort of orange in the colour.
It's a California poppy, so I love California poppies.
Yeah, like that bright orange colour.
You could just pop a pop of the orange,
so you could have a little navy blue and then have the orange.
So those are complementary colours.
Likewise, you could have like aqua and a red orange.
So you might have hints of one and like a lot of the other.
You know, so you might have like mainly red,
orangey flowers and things,
but just a hint of aqua in there as well.
The tricky one is red and green.
But they're complementary colours.
Yeah, but I mean, there's a famous saying,
isn't there, red and green should never be seen
unless there's a colour in between.
So I wouldn't recommend having two colours for your palette.
No, you'd probably want to introduce
worries or fives.
Yes, that's odd numbers.
Yeah, odd numbers work really, really nicely.
Which sort of leads us on to the triads.
So you have three colours that are evenly spaced out
around the colour wheel.
They always work well.
Bread, blue and the primary colours.
Yes, the primary colours.
And then it's sorted out between, aren't they?
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't recommend this
that I'd go from red, blue and yellow for a...
I know, I'd be great fun.
I'm a little like noddy.
Well, colour psychologies,
that they're really good for children's toys and things
because they are bright and bold.
Yeah.
Even when you choose your colours,
then you can literally vary them
by using different shades or tints.
So your hue is the pure colour.
So like the red, the green, blue, the purple, orange.
But then you can use shades where you add black.
Yeah.
Or you can use tints where you add white
or your tones you add grey.
So you can look at colour wheel, pick up,
you could even do a wedding where you have it.
I love it actually when people do this nowadays.
Pink wedding.
But they've got so many different pinks.
Yes, they've got deeper pinks,
paler pinks and how they all,
you know, have bouquet flowers
where you've got the different...
Yeah, you've got patterns and...
Yeah, and I think that is really lovely.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
So don't necessarily just think of it as a red and orange or orange and blue.
You can then use variants of the orange and blue.
Yeah, to then make it up to the larger paler panel.
To be as bold as you want or to be as subtle as you want.
It's not just thinking orange and blue.
Because when I was writing these,
I just thought, how are these going to work?
Because weddings, but...
Well, yeah, like if you're looking at three even,
the space cinch that is red, so yellow.
Yeah.
But then if you're looking at like totally different tones,
you could go with the burgundy with, you could pick up flowers
that are like really, really, really pale blue.
Yes.
And then along with...
I'm trying to think of a really pale yellow flower here.
Or a really deep...
It's called meadow.
Yeah, yeah.
So you could go for really pale off the red.
You could go for a really pale...
Inky.
Yeah.
Color with your blues and your yellows.
And that's like an English culture.
And then the little is it, thank you.
Yeah, so you've got the three.
Because you instantly go to the bold favorite bright color.
Yeah, the queues.
The queues, yeah.
That isn't necessarily where it is.
You just need to think about how you pull it all together.
And I think I've gone really techy with this
because we were doing an episode on it.
I really researched it.
I honestly think that if you have colors in mind,
just look about how they work together.
Look at how you might have different shades and tones
and hints off that hue of that main color to work.
But if you've got an idea and that's because you love it,
go for it.
This is just sort of things to think about if you really are stuck.
Yeah.
And thinking about how you could make a start
by looking at color wheels, seeing which colors you like.
And how you can add color into it rather than just going,
I don't know, let's just go green and white.
Yes, exactly.
You don't just need to stick with that.
You can do something really beautiful that isn't.
And I always think, especially in a marquee,
adding some color in the table in it.
Yes, like things like that.
They're really simple places.
You can add color and tones that will just soften
and make your wedding more unique.
Yeah, and even if you might have someone who picks pink wedding,
but someone might be wanting, like, and this is monochromatic,
because we always think of monochromes just being white,
but monochromatic is using one color,
but different hints, shades and tones.
Yeah, so someone might choose pink,
but go for the bolder or the deeper colors pink.
And other ones, someone might have a different personality
and go for the more subtle shades of pink.
So there's lots of things to think out.
And you can get really techy,
but just having like a color wheel or looking at a color palette online
is a really good way to see what colors
that you don't necessarily think about might work together.
And it doesn't have to be, you use those colors evenly
throughout your wedding daily with as much emphasis on that color.
Yeah, well yours was, you had a real specific color palette for you.
Yeah, and I was popper sage and ivory.
Yeah, I didn't really want too much color.
You know, I'm boring, I was green and white, literally.
Yeah, you're right.
And then I had the copper, but we had quite a lot of copper.
I like, because it was autumn.
We had quite a lot of the metallic around.
But then actually in our flowers,
my florist bought out some purples like enthistles
and some sort of oranges to kind of bring out that.
And in the end, I did actually bring in almost like a...
Like a mint color almost came in the hair as well
with my bridesmaids outfits and some of the flowers
being a bit more like that, which...
I would probably do it all differently all again
and have it much more, I don't know, the word.
It's sophisticated color palette again.
Well, mine was pink and sage.
Mine was back then, like that was the colors I chose.
Like we had sage ribbons on our order of services.
The bridesmaids were going to be in sage
and then we found pink ones that we like.
Flowers are pink and green.
Yeah, and shoes off.
Yes, yeah.
And that was all wedding.
I just think there's so much you can do.
My mind is up planting and I flower to match my color palette.
Love it in the garden.
I've got bridesmaid in that, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's a nice excuse to read you.
Love it.
That is lovely.
And I think walking about gardens,
if you're getting married in a marquee,
look at the garden that it's in,
then you look at the venue.
But also take inspiration from...
That's a bit crazy, but you know,
take inspiration from nature or decor.
What do you like?
I always add textures and tones.
Like I love looking at different textures
and things, I think that gives you a real inspiration.
Go on whatever you use to kind of like
other you inspiration, Instagram, Pinterest, anything like that.
Just start pinning photos.
That's what I tell my couples to do.
And from that, you will notice a trend that starts to appear.
And it can be something like
from an outfit or a woman's wearing that you really like.
Or it could be flowers.
It could be an armchair.
And it's pretty anything that you are drawn to
will help bring together your natural palette.
I think the textures is a really good point
because you can bring in different...
You might like a velvet.
Or you might like like satin effect.
You know, and it just...
That also goes with the aesthetics and like design of your wedding.
Isn't it?
And also down to smooth bud vases to textured ones.
I really have a thing at the moment for like
boxed your ceramic.
Yeah.
I don't know why it just looks like just nice.
Yeah, and just adds a bit of texture.
So there's just lots of places to get inspiration.
If you are really stuck, look at Color Wheel.
Look at Color Palette.
But some people are just more...
This is what I like because I'm doing it.
But if you like thinking about the seasons,
warmth of the colors,
you know, getting a bit creative with using colors on a color wheel,
then you know, I just picked up a color wheel on Amazon
and it literally told me, like, you spin it.
Like a toy, like a little children's research.
I know, you brought it on.
I'm just saying right in the head.
I'm doing a man.
You spin it and it tells you the trick...
Like, it literally has little holes
so it shows you which are the triads,
which are the split commentaries
and explains the tones and everything.
And it's just just a good way to explore color
if you're a bit stuck.
I think the important thing is
is to not be afraid of color.
Yes.
I think lots of people are afraid
and it comes down to like your home decor.
So lots of people are afraid of color.
Yeah.
And color can really, really...
Not definitely.
So I think what would your top tip be
when people should choose their color palette?
Natasha.
I mean, we've probably said it.
I think it should be one of the first things you think about,
yeah, really.
Like, think about your vision and your start
and the colors should be what influences everything.
Yeah.
Now that is such a huge part
because, you know, even when you look at the colors
and the tones and the tints,
if you're going with soft muted colors,
that's going to have an impact on how your day feels.
Like, are you after a soft muted, elegant day
or are you after something cold and fun?
It's vibrant.
I am.
But it all will have such an impact on your day.
It does.
The whole thing links.
So start with your color palette once you've got your day.
And if you get it right,
it's a really easy way to make your event look.
So, like, you're a really good way to seemless.
Yeah.
And to make the design look really elevated
if you're just using color correctly
and have made it, like, considered it from the start.
Brilliant.
Next week, we have a guest
who is going to be talking about live painting at weddings.
We look forward to seeing you then.
Take care.