How will you decide your wedding colors?

Always show your true colors.

I have a quiz for you.

1. The wedding’s color palette needs to be unique. Something never been done before. True or false?
2. It needs to match the venue. For example, at a beach or coastal location, ocean blues and sandy hues would be perfect. Yay or nay?
3. There should be a “his” color and a “her” color. Y or N?

If you answered with a nod to all three, then you’re right! If you answered no to all three, you’re still right. Mix-matched answers? That works too. It is your wedding, after all.

Your wedding palette can go anywhere, regardless of your venue, if it’s been done before, or if the color “fits” your S/O. In Natalie and Cassidy’s case, they would have answered true, nay, and N, which is why their wedding colors made such a beautiful impression on me. I recently photographed this colorful couple. They painted their own perfect summer wedding colors this past September at their local library.

These two brought their spirited summer wedding colors to one of San Diego’s most remarkable and sunlight-welcoming buildings, the Central Library. To fill you in on the importance of this “venue” here are some noteworthy facts on San Diego’s premier library:

• The library holds more than 5.3 million books.
• This library values the idea of all-encompassing knowledge so much that it has its own official Bill of Rights.
• Their Innovation Lab on the third floor offers 3-D printing, laser cutting, a milling machine, and many more services.
• The Outreach Program provides various services to the diverse groups of San Diego’s people: they help U.S. veterans identify benefits they are entitled to, brings awareness to the state’s sex trafficking epidemic, and much more.

With the help of Barbara Canizales of Bekker’s Catering, the wedding not only had some of San Diego’s most amazing food, but it took place at a venue with high importance to the local community. Surrounded by endless knowledge, Natalie and Cassidy intertwined their ceremony with the unique landscape and ambiance of their venue. The burnt orange, navy, and gold used as their summer wedding colors stood out as unique, timeless, and as vibrant as their personalities.

Those burnt orange, navy, and gold summer wedding colors mixed in with Natalie’s white wedding dress and the sunlight hitting the library’s glass walls created an unforgettable color scheme. The vibrancy of the colors was both elegant and artsy, creating a warm, loving event for those attending. Natalie’s pristine white wedding dress looked especially stunning next to these colors, and the originality of the couple’s combination complimented their personalities.

 

Natalie and Cassidy didn’t focus on whether or not their colors matched what summer wedding colors should be, and neither should you. Their colors weren’t picked as a his-and-hers color combo. Burnt orange and navy aren’t the first wedding colors that come to most minds, nor do those colors generally represent a library. And yet, their colors looked classic throughout their ceremony, and looked even better in their photos.