Wedding Colors: Chosen!

An afternoon pow wow with my mom and sisters resulted in consensus regarding wedding colors. It's just nice to be able to agree on some things and get them out of the way. I'm stubborn, but even I get tired explaining and justifying my non-conventional wedding plans over and over again. The choices are a little suprising, but here goes.

Most of the room will be awash in the palest of pinks against ivory linens. I haven't decided on exact type of flowers, but I like the shade of these peonies.

Then, to liven things up, accent colors and bridesmaid dresses will be in dark fuchsia (maybe even darker than this dress, or the shade of that ribbon around her waist). I don't think my gals would enjoy the boring sheath shape of this dress, but the shade is close to what they like.

Is it too much? I know the men out there are probably cringing at the thought of a fuchsia wedding. It's a color that women love but men and young children abhor. But the more I look at it, the more I like it. It's a little different, gives a nice mix of lively (fuchsia) and elegant (the rest of the room in ivory and pale pink), and the color looks great against Asian skin.

If you think about it, there aren't many other choices out there.

• dark shades (burgundy, navy, black, hunter green, chocolate brown) are really dull and depressing. They don't really work with the ballroom at our hotel, and my young bridesmaids would look old and drab in those colors. None of them wanted dark shades
• most shades of blue look either uniformy to me or have been overdone as beachy sand and sky wedding colors.
• silver strikes me as a classic prom color.
• pastel shades are hard for Asians to pull off, and a little funny for a winter wedding. I'm talking about cotton candy pink, sky blue, butter yellow.
• blood red is the official color of Chinese weddings, but it's always paired with gold and usually incredibly tacky.
• a completely white wedding is very boring, and white and yellow are Chinese funeral colors so the older folks would be very uncomfortable at such a pale wedding. Besides, Asian bridesmaids in yellow dresses? Jaundice city, baby.
• lavendar: completely overdone.
• Super bright colors: goldenrod, teal, neon green, fuchsia. A bit much for me, but in the end I did pair one super bright color with one super muted color. I think it'll work.