Three Color Schemes for a Valentine Day’s Wedding
A Valentine’s Day wedding does not always mean a red-and-white color scheme. A Valentine’s Day wedding can use pinks, burgundy and ivory, all-white.
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Most brides who choose Valentine’s Day, or very close dates on the calendar, use a red-and-white color scheme. However, all brides who wish to marry their own Valentines on this romantic day may not really like red as a color or don’t feel as pretty in red as they do in other colors.
Basic Wedding Style Ideas for Valentine’s Day Brides
A Valentine’s Day bride can create a romantic wedding day by using one of the hottest fashion trends – vintage, including lace and ruffles. Dresses can include the romantic Sweetheart Neckline and be overlaid with filmy floaty chiffon or tulle, appliqued lightly with lace. Keep it light, nothing heavy or cumbersome.
The men would be attired in simple and elegant black and white.
Candlelight, lots of candlelight, is a romantic touch for a Valentine’s Day wedding.
An All-White Wedding Can Use Textures for Contrast
As part of the vintage trend, cakes frosted with white lacy designs, and eyelet fabrics are being used by more and more brides, according to photographs seen all over the Internet and in press kits from such resorts as Sandals in the Caribbean.
A Valentine’s Day bride can use lacy invitations, a lacy-look cake and lace in her bouquets and table decorations.
Roses are the most romantic flower known, and men express their love with red roses. For the bride who prefers her white wedding, soft white roses are incredibly romantic and keep with the theme. For the bride who prefers something crisper and more structured, white calla lilies are a good choice for a wedding flower, and are good stand-alone flowers for the bride who wishes to carry an arm bouquet of the elegant flower(s).
Floral arrangements can be placed on white stands of perhaps wicker or curvy wrought iron.
Little white cupids can be tucked amongst the flowers, plants and table decorations for a touch of whimsy to delight the guests. Brides using an all-white color scheme might want to emphasis the Valentine theme by using heart-shaped designs, perhaps in lace, in various areas of the decor. Another way the Valentine’s Day theme can be emphasized is to include the children attending the wedding as “cherubs.” The Knot suggests buying fairy wings for the children to wear, and list the children as “cherubs” in the program.
For a bit of glimmer, an all-white Valentine wedding can include bits of silver (to say with the white theme) or gold.
All Shades of Pink Can Make a Valentine’s Day Bride Blush With Joy
Pink is often used on Valentine cards and is considered a color appropriate to the day. So, using the color pink in a Valentine’s Day wedding is natural. It comes in so many shades, from an almost-white, barely pink, to deep, joyful magenta, that a Valentine’s Day bride can choose the flattering pink and look sweet and fresh or a little bolder with colors that are very different.
Using more than one shade of pink is a great idea for contrast, and will allow each bridesmaid to choose a shade that is most flattering for her.
Fabrics should still be floaty and romantic, soft and sweet.
Roses come in many shades of pink, so a bride can visit her florist, see which particular roses she prefers, then choose coordinating colors for the rest of her decorations.
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Ivory and Burgundy Colors Create a Rich Look, But Have Valentine’s Day Feel
For the Valentine’s Day bride who wants a deeper, richer feel than the classic red-and-white colors of Valentine’s Day, the combination of ivory and burgundy is a possible choice. A red velvet cake with cream-cheese icing is the perfect accompaniment at the reception. An ivory or eggshell bridal gown with lots and lots of lace will be beautiful beside the groom’s classic black tuxedo.
The bridesmaids’ dresses can be an deep, rich burgundy, and, in areas where velvet is still worn in mid-February, velvet will increase the lushness. The flower girls can wear either ivory dresses or burgundy dresses overlaid with ivory lace or with ivory lace collars.
Golden accents go naturally with ivory and burgundy, and add a richness. Burgundy, ivory and gold by candlelight creates a very rich, elegant Valentine Day’s look for a romantic wedding.
Red and white are the classic colors to use in a Valentine’s Day wedding, but other color combinations can create a romantic feeling. Ethereal all-white weddings, many shades of pink, and a rich ivory and burgundy color scheme are all perfect combinations for a Valentine’s Day wedding.
