The colour theme you chose for your wedding is a very personal choice and can be carried across many aspects of your wedding  day, including your wedding  invitations, bridesmaids dresses, floral bouquets and reception decor.
Colour trends can change from year to year, season to season. For example over the past few years trends have leaned towards the soft greens and white, lilacs and soft mauve tones with purple, lemon yellows and oranges or pastel  pinks and peachy colours for summer and spring and deepened into mustards and various shades of brown from mocha, to chocolate for the cooler months.
Now the trend has exploded into brighter fresher colours, bolder colours that stand out of the crowd! Hot Pinks, bright aqua’s, tiffany blue and  coral pinks and most certainly classic black and white.
Colour will be the dominant feature of your wedding décor. It will dictate the look of your wedding party attire, it will reign in your bridal flowers, it will sway your reception décor, and will influence your wedding invitations, so make it beautiful, make it special, make it yours. Be inventive and venture out to colours that at first thought are out of the question, but with careful consideration could make a spectacular vision for your wedding day décor. Pictured here are a few designs from DreamDay Wedding Invitations.

Browns and chocolate colours are always popular and can look beautiful when teamed with gold’s and pale pinks.
Pretty pastel feminine colours such as pale lavenders, pinks, and apricots have always been very popular, and always will be, along with a range of the cooler colours of sage-greens and various hues of blue from Bright sky blues, tiffany blue through to Navy. Most blues can look very stylish when used in conjunction with silver!
Platinum silver is a hot colour of late, and it can be teamed with many pretty accents including pink, aqua and coral colours.
Try mixing pinks with lime, oranges with hot pink, purples with emerald green, raspberry with baby blue, mango and olive green, pale pink and navy blue, or mustard yellow with black and white.
For a spectacular effect try blending rainbow colours by dressing each bridesmaid in a slightly different rainbow shade. The effect is nothing short of stunning when everyone assembles and photos are taken!
Black is also a colour which can look very elegant is now used more frequently than in years past. It can look quite stunning when teamed with most others colours as highlights to accentuate
Colour themes can be carried into the bridesmaid’s dresses, the type of flowers you chose, the men’s suits and ties, your invitations and matching stationery, the wedding cake, bonbonniere boxes and ribbons.
Many brides chose a colour that has always been a personal favourite, or you can follow trends that change from year to year or suit the season in which you are getting married.
If you like a particular flower, such as a Orchid for example, you could theme all your accessories to match the flower colour and use the same Orchid’s in the men’s lapel flowers as in your bouquet which could match the bridesmaid’s gowns, and include the orchid theme on the invitations and stationery and include Orchids in the table centrepieces at your reception.
Most importantly of all, you should chose a colour theme that you, and your fiancé are comfortable with, keeping in mind that your colour choice will appear in your photos that you will enjoy forever.
Colour can create and change moods and many people believe that colours can influence emotions, responses and ideas. Colours can also convey messages and various colours and combinations of different colours stimulate people in different ways.
We have prepared a list of a few favourite colours and their meanings here for you to peruse.
Red : Energy, strength, passion, confidence, cheerfulness, good luck, joy, courage, vitality. A traditional Bridal colour in China.
Pink : Romance, love, beauty, friendship, femininity, truth, affection, peace.
Orange : Warmth, energy, balance, enthusiasm, vibrancy, vitality, flamboyance, excitement.
Brown : Friendship, special events, earth, home, comfort, endurance, reliability, stability.
Gold : Wealth, prosperity, wisdom, god, winning, safety, happiness, prestige.
Yellow : Sun, intelligence, wisdom, sunshine, joy, hope, happiness, intellect, energy, cheerfulness, optimism, purity, enthusiasm, warmth, honour, loyalty.
Green : Life, nature, fertility, well being, earth, physical healing, monetary success, abundance, growth, food, hope, stability, endurance, freshness, environment, tranquil, refreshing, quiet, immortality, health, healing.
Turquoise : Calming, emotional healing, protection, refreshing, sophisticated.
Blue : Good fortune, communication, wisdom, truth, peace, protection, youth, spirituality, calmness, reassurance, gentleness, fluidity, water, sea, creativity, calming, sky, formality, travel.
Purple : Royalty, magic, mystery,  influence, psychic ability, dignity, spirituality, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment, sophistication.
White : Peace, purity, cleanliness, heavenly, holiness, perfection, chastity, spirituality, goddess, virginity, reverence, simplicity, humility, innocence, youth, birth, winter, snow, cold, sterility, clarity, perfection, innocence, union.
Silver : Glamous, distinguishment, high tech, industrial, graceful aging, telepathy, clairvoyance, intuition, dreams, astral energies, female power.
Grey : Security, reliability, intelligence, modesty, dignity, maturity, solid, conservative, practical, old age, sadness, practicality, professional, sophisticated, durability, quality, quiet, conservativeness.
Black : Protection, binding, power, sexuality, sophistication, formality, elegance, classy, wealth, power, mystery, fear, depth, style.

Visit our website www.dreamdayinvitations.com.au to view all our diverse range of designer colours and wedding invitation designs. DreamDay Invitations, helping to make your dreamday come true.

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