Orange — good no matter how you slice it
By Never teh BrideBeing that I went with chocolate and gold for my summer wedding colors, I did my best to avoid all permutations of orange lest anyone think I was embracing a fall theme. But orange truly can be awesome on its own without channeling autumn at all!
Pair orange with pink as people have done here, or try mixing orange with light, yellowy greens or deep, rich purples for a little zing.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Oooh, the orange with hot pink is lucious, and actually perfect for summer. Those are sherbet colors, and so they give a sense of coolness even though both colors are on the warm end of the spectrum. I don’t know about anyone else, but that table photo made me smile.
Oh, and that is one funky cake, in the best possible interpretation of the phrase.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am
That’s exactly what I was thinking Twistie…sherbet colors. What a great combo!
July 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I did bright pink, orange, and yellow for my mid-summer wedding, and I thought it was a lot of fun.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Orange and blue can be great too. Earlier in the week, my husband sent me a first anniversary (first month anniversary) bouquet. It has the most gigantic orange roses–they’re incredible!–blue hydrangea, some yellow touches, and some other purply-blue flowers. Delphinium, maybe. It’s a gorgeous arrangement. My husband knows I love orange, I’ve been going on and on about how I love the tangerine KitchenAid mixer we received as a wedding present.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
*sigh* I wanted orange and blue for our wedding colors but I was vetoed. FI’s family is half Yankees half Mets fans and had I gone with orange and blue I would have been mocked endlessly the whole day, which is not something I wanted.
We registered for a bright green KitchenAid, Pencils. I can’t WAIT to see it in our kitchen.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
C*–but those are Islander colors. Why would that be a problem?
(I’m a hockey fan, not a baseball fan….)
Bright green sounds great. My sister has a lavender one, it’s fab.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Islander colors…I should have used that argument! hehe. ooo lavender…I bet that’s lovely!
July 9th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Orange and Blue is also Gator colors. (I’m from Florida.) I understand how strong associations like that can be.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I’m a fan of orange and brown for fall weddings. Being from TN originally, I know many a family that would go with orange and white. I’m just not cruel enough to make bridesmaids wear solid orange. I look good in it, but not everyone has my strange coloring.