Consider Your Venue and Location

Where you’ll be holding your ceremony, reception, and more can be a fantastic starting point for choosing your wedding colors. If you’ll be having your wedding in a historic hotel ballroom with primarily gold design, choosing a color that  complements that interior will make your décor feel consistent and complete. Furthermore, the location of your wedding as a whole – the city, a secluded countryside, or the beach – has naturally occurring colors that can be helpful to add to your color scheme to highlight the beauty around you!

Use the Wedding Date and Season As Inspiration

If you’ve read our “Seasonal Design Inspiration” post already, you know that we love to pull ideas for colors, foods, and more from the seasons here at TTWD. We know that might not be for everyone, though, and even if you’re simply using the season of your wedding to rule out certain tones, being aware of how your wedding date may affect guest attire, in-season flowers, and the look of your events overall is important in selecting your colors. If you want to build a unique but season-conscious look, we recommend choosing one seasonal hue and accenting with some of your personal favorites that compliment it!

Think About Your Personal Style

How can you assure that your wedding colors will stand the test of time and continue to be ones you love looking back at photos in 10 years? Drawing from your own personality, style, and even home décor can be a wonderful way! By incorporating the colors you wear and use often in your daily life, you can get the peace of mind that you’re not simply choosing colors based off of the year’s trends. If you love decorating with neutrals in your home or know jewel tones complement your skin tone beautifully, it’s likely that you’ll love them in your wedding design and décor, as well!

Base Colors Off of Your Must-Haves

You may have a specific type of flower in mind or a decoration piece that you know you want incorporated into your wedding design. If so, consider how you could use the tones found in whatever that must-have may be into the color palate for your event. By knowing ahead of time that you’ll be wearing your great grandmother’s emerald earrings or using flowers that may only be available in certain colors, you can be sure that these essentials will work well with the rest of your wedding colors and complete the aesthetic beautifully.

Choose a Base Color and Add Accents

Sometimes you may get caught up in wanting to create a complete color scheme all at once. While it’s great to have multiple colors in mind from the very beginning of your palate selection process, starting with a base color and adding other colors to the scheme from there can be an incredibly effective way to choose all tones you love. Begin with one color you definitely want in your design and look to the color wheel to find complementary and analogous shades. Don’t be afraid to turn to neutrals, either! If you know you’ll be using plenty of ivory or gray in your design, those simple colors can be wonderful to base your selections off of as well!

Decide What Mood You’d Like Your Colors to Create

The mood of your wedding can be affected by a variety of factors, and color choices can be play a large role in helping determine it. If you want to create a more romantic or vintage feel, blacks, whites, low lighting, and one main accent color can set the tone exquisitely. On the other hand, for a lively daytime or destination wedding, a variety of monochromatic or complementary hues play well to a vibrant and exciting feel. While there are no “rules” in creating the mood of your wedding with colors, considering the different feelings certain hues evoke can be helpful in your decision-making process!

Get Advice From Your Planner

Your wedding planner can be an incredible resource in helping you select the right colors for your wedding. With experience planning many weddings in the past, thorough knowledge of your venue, and an eye for design as a whole, your planner will often be able to assist you in pinpointing colors that you and your significant other will cherish forever. If you’re stuck between colors and don’t currently have a planner, click here to contact the TTWD staff and we’ll be happy to assist you!

Choosing your wedding colors is an essential step to your wedding planning process. There are many techniques and tricks to help you select the perfect palate for you such as considering location, incorporating your own style, working from a single starting color, and even asking your planner for help. Most importantly, though, if you choose the colors you love for your big day there’s no way you can go wrong!

Take A Moment To Celebrate

If you just got engaged, it’s okay to take a moment and soak it all in! Spend the day or afternoon celebrating with your new fiancé and have fun together. Don’t overwhelm yourself with wedding details just yet – you deserve the time to appreciate your engagement and your soon-to-be spouse!

Spread The News

First off, it’s time to tell your family and friends the good news. We recommend making a loose order for this process (i.e. telling your closest family members and friends before posting on social media) to make sure no one feels left out and so you get the opportunity to bask in the moment with as many wonderful people as possible!

Purchase Ring Insurance

Among the less exciting steps on the post-engagement checklist, getting your engagement ring insured is still important and should be done first thing if possible. Not only would it be a loss of money if something were to happen to your ring, having the option to replace something so meaningful is definitely a “better safe than sorry” situation.

Talk To Your Significant Other

This essential step is often overlooked, especially if either you or your fiancé are more apt to planning than the other. It’s nonetheless incredibly important, though, to start your communication as a couple before your wedding. Discussing budget plans, design options, and other wedding details together before moving forward makes wedding planning as a whole feel much more inclusive.

Start Planning an Engagement Party

While optional, hosting an engagement party can be a perfect start to your wedding festivities. Acting as a place for possible wedding guests to start to get to know each other and for you and your fiancé to spend time celebrating with loved ones, engagement parties are simple and fun ways to get you and all involved excited about your big day!

Consider Wedding Design Options

After you’ve discussed the main factors of your wedding with your new fiancé, it’s time to start building concrete design ideas for your events. Whether you begin to do this by choosing a venue, a color palate, or a specific date to hold your ceremony, nailing down a few important design elements early on will assist in the planning process immensely!

Interview Planners

Deciding whether or not you’ll be hiring a planner for your wedding events is another key step in our post-engagement checklist. Since your planner can help you choose a venue, design plan, food options, and so much more, interviewing planners early and deciding who’s right for you should be one of your first few wedding planning considerations.

Think About Your Guest List

Whether short, long, or somewhere in between, having a general idea of what your guest list will look like is a deciding factor for many other wedding planning steps to follow. Since your guest list determines the size of your venue, amount of food you’ll need, and overall allocation of budget to different design elements, getting an estimated guest count rounds out our post-engagement checklist!

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After the excitement of your engagement, it’s common to want to jump into the wedding planning process right away – and rightfully so! Making sure you check these eight steps off of your to-do list at the beginning, though, well help assure that many of the large, determining factors of your wedding planning process are set in stone first. For more wedding planning help and inspiration, visit our main site at tracytaylorward.com!