Wedding Color Scheme Help From Idée Labs

Ugh, Monday. And it’s a busy pre-Christmas Monday. I very much remember what it was like having to deal with all of the wedding planning duties while also working and finagling holiday gifts and traveling. What I remember in particular was that it was not a whole lot of fun. I found the occasional five minutes of solace in wedding themed virtual toys like bridal paper dolls or sites like Etiquette Hell. Oh, who am I kidding? I still find the occasional five minutes of solace in that sort of thing, and I recently added Multicolr Search Labs from Idée Labs to my roster of time-killing bookmarks.

Multicolr Search Labs is perfect for brides-to-be who haven’t chosen their wedding colors yet. Idée Labs extracted the colors from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr and lets you search for photographic inspiration using anywhere from one to ten colors. What you end up with is a snapshot of what colors work together and what colors definitely don’t.

Here are two I whipped up based on some color combinations I like:

Choosing your wedding colors

As unexpected as it was, the photo of the iris in the bottom row was pleasantly surprising in that I would never before thought to combine yellow, black, white, and purple.

Choosing a wedding theme

I’m loving the cartoon chicks (or whatever they are) in the bottom row on the right.

You don’t get a say when it comes to what photos come up — and I’ve gotten at least one that looked marginally NSFW — but every so often a photograph of an actual wedding with your favorite color scheme will come up or you’ll get a graphic that gives you a color template to work with when deciding on your own wedding colors. And, hey, if family and friends wonder why you’re sitting at the computer instead of wrapping last-minute presents or shopping for the best price for wedding favors, you can tell them that you’re doing important wedding-related research.

4 Responses to “Wedding Color Scheme Help From Idée Labs”

  1. Tizzy says:

    I’m gonna wait to play with colors til I’m not at work but it certainly looks promising!

    *makes gimmer hands* Wedding Paper Dolls? Can I play?

  2. Toni says:

    This is a cool application in general, and I can see it having lots of great uses. Thanks for the link!

  3. Tizzy: Ask and ye shall receive. Unfortunately, the Vera Wang dress up game is pretty blah in terms of what you can do. But allow me to point you to Tom Tierney’s paper doll books, which include both brides, grooms, and famous movie wedding gowns!

    Toni: Glad you like it!

  4. Valirae says:

    Ooh I love this.
    You guys always find the best…resources I guess would be the best word. <3

    (I’m slowly catchin up on my Manolo readin. Hehe.)