This week I came across an article with the genius headline, ‘Choosing Your Wedding Colors is the Gateway Drug to Insanity,’ to which I clicked immediately because a) I love a gateway drug reference and b) truer words have never been spoken.
I’m no Elizabeth Taylor as I’ve only walked down the aisle once, but in my now vast experience I can say this to be true.
Because the most stressful wedding decision is not the dress, the flowers, the stationery, or the venue because ALL of those decisions rest on just one thing:
The Wedding Colours.
Choosing a colour scheme for your wedding is like giving birth; everyone is dying to know what you’re having and you just hope to get out of the experience alive.
For the uninitiated, choosing the Wedding Colours is “one of the most important decisions” and “should enhance your celebration, reflect your personality and tie all the elements of your day together.”
It should consist of at least two colours, but no more than three. That’s one main colour and two accent shades.
(Sorry if you were planning a rainbow-themed wedding.)
I failed so miserably at the task that I picked the only three shades on this entire planet that aren’t actually colours: white, silver and black.