Color palettes

Lighten up

color palette

Wedding color palettes will be fresh, light and airy for 2021 weddings.

Blue, of course, is everyone’s favorite color. Navy and darker shades of blue have ruled during recent wedding seasons, but look for lighter colors like powder blue, French blue, Tiffany blue, even periwinkle. Darker blues will have their place as accent colors.

Planning a spring or summer ceremony? Light blue is delightful paired with other pastels like lilac, yellow and blush, or with periwinkle, mint green, coral, rose quartz, cream, off-white and darker shades of blue. If you tempted to pair pastel blue with pink, choose a dark pink or fuchsia. Pastel pink and blue can come off a bit babyish.

For fall or winter, pair it with burgundy, bittersweet orange, deep yellow, silver, navy, even black.

Lilac is a romantic stunner for spring weddings. It can be feminine or natural, organic or sophisticated, depending on the other colors you play off it. Combining it with other shades of purple, like plum, is fresh, or think rose quartz, olive, yellow, slate, navy, eggplant, gray, dusty blue, mint green and pink.

Weave lilac through bouquets and flower arrangements, cakes, linens, etc.

Can’t decide? Go bright and colorful. One of the hottest trends is to use a combination of bright colors to make a bold statement. Incorporate the brights – orange, fuchsia, cobalt, red, teal, purple, yellow – in a rainbow of ways from ribbons and floral arrangements to popart cakes.

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