Happy Color Monday!

Spring has finally sprung and with it–our color cues for today’s inspiration. No wonder spring and summer weddings are so popular–the color possibilities are endless. Are you stuck on a color palette for your spring or summer wedding? Or simply looking for a few fresh ideas?

Our inspiration today is for a: casual beach wedding, a spring wedding in pastels and a spring destination wedding.

If you’re new to Color Monday, the idea behind it is to inspire you with a myriad of color possibilities for your wedding stationery and to encourage you to look everywhere for inspiration–from nature, to a fashion magazines or like today, from pretty photographs/images. Once you find your color palette, it’s easy to translate them to your fave invitation design at MagnetStreet and watch your wedding style fall perfectly into place. Here’s what we mean:

As originally designed, our featured wedding invitation is entitled Botanical Bloom–a simple and clever design that showcases a fun and artsy zinnia flower on a chic, square wedding invitation. With each color change, comes a new feel and a new look. From soft to bold …

Romantic Beach Wedding

This soft, romantic color palette comes from a pair of jeweled flip-flops in the sand. Imagine a light, airy and casual wedding setting–with only your closest family and friends in attendance. The happiest moment of your life–envisioned just the way you want it.

Mix & Match Patterns

Our color palette for our spring wedding, springs from a mix of pastel-colored patterns–fun, quirky, eclectic. The setting could be indoors or outdoors. There might be mason jars on the tables or crystal goblets. Let your uniqueness shine through …

Italian Destination Wedding

Travel anyone? Or love the idea of a dream destination in beautiful Italy? This bold color palette is derived from a historic row-house in Italy. That’s amore! no? Gorgeous, dramatic and so much fun!

Notice how the zinnia absolutely pops off the invitation with each color change. And this is just with color! Once you add your font changes and special wording–your mood is set–whatever your wedding style!

Lots of inspiration can be found anywhere you look. Color can change any unsuspecting design into a work of art.

 Which is your favorite look?

We have such a gorgeous Florida beach wedding for you today–chocked full of inspiration! Are you planning a beach-themed wedding? Look no further. Yasmin and Blake make a stunning couple and their wedding has so many lovely ideas to get your inspiration on. From a vibrant color scheme and a starfish motif, to dressed-up pets, gorgeous tablescapes, fire-breathing entertainers and more … enjoy this beautiful beach wedding!

Wedding Style: Beach
Colors: Purple, Kiwi Green and Ivory
Ceremony & Reception: Hilton on Singer Island, Florida
Wedding Decor: Celebrations by Kathy
Photographer: Palm Beach Photography
Thank You Cards: MagnetStreet Weddings

Highlights of the day: Seeing the rainbow before the ceremony.

Advice you’re glad you took: Renting Photo Booth

Advice you’d like to give: Create timelines for your photographer, DJ and Hotel Coordinator – this will save you headaches.

Best part of the whole wedding day: Marrying my wonderful husband

Vendor Shout Outs:

Palm Beach Photography
Tonya Laker gives her 110% attention to her clients. She’s prompt, creative and a hard worker.  I had so much fun with her–especially with the props we used. I absolutely love and adore her!

Hilton Hotel {coordinator/caterer}
Nickole D’Angelo made my life easier. She is one of the best coordinators I have dealt with. She was attentive to all my needs and I highly recommend her. The food at Hilton was scrumptious and I have no complaints.

Celebrations by Kathy Wedding Decor
Kathy did an amazing job with my decor. She was on time and attentive to all my requests.

MagnetStreet Weddings
I love MagnetStreet Design! The personalization tool is user friendly and the colors were vivid and beautiful.

*Thanks Yasmin and Blake–for sharing your special day with us! We wish you the best of everything!*

xo

We are simply in love with Chad and Vicki’s elegant beach wedding in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Drawing us in are the turquoise waters, white sand and this beautiful couple–so clearly in love. Natural romance abounds in this tropical destination and Chad and Vicki’s beach wedding is full of love, family and significance … the icing on their wedding cake. Enjoy as our lovely bride guides us through their day…

Wedding Style: Beach Formal
Colors: Aqua and shades of Purple
Ceremony & Reception: Melia Caribe Tropical in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Photographer: Brian Khang Photographer
Save the Date & Thank You: MagnetStreet Weddings

Highlights of the day:

A surprise love letter from my husband, seeing how beautiful the bouquets turned out, being surrounded by 60 of our closest friends and family, marrying my best friend.

Some of my favorite details:

Our fan programs … the groomsmens’ striped socks … my “something blue” anklet … wearing the same earrings my mom and sister wore on their wedding day … my camouflage garter (my husband is a big hunter) … our “In lieu of a party favor” cards (we used one of our engagement photos and explained that we were donating to the cancer organization that helped my husband when he was sick) … our engraveable guest book … and our wedding cake that had real shells on it.

Advice you’re glad you took:

Using lots of hairspray – it was REALLY windy but my hair stayed in place all day … Not wearing extremely tall heels (mine were 2.75 inches and I kept them on all night) … Strolling hors d’oeuvres versus self serve (so much more elegant).

Advice you’d like to give:

For destination weddings, try to go to the resort at least 6 months prior to the wedding to see the venues, meet the wedding planner and get a vision. We did this and it helped tremendously.

Best part of the whole wedding day: Dancing all night with my husband, friends and family.

{Chad & Vicki personalized “Love Airways” Save the Date Card and “Black Fade” Thank You Card}

Thank you Chad and Vicki–for sharing your day and the topical prettiness of your lovely, lovely wedding! You can see more from this beach destination wedding via photographer, Brian Khang.

One last trip to the beach for this Color Monday. We’re rounding out our 3-part beach series for Color Mondays.

Today we’re inspired by white sandy beaches. Here the color palette is all about white! Think of white fluffy clouds and white-washed docks, white sand and bleached seashells. White is a color when it appears on the beach!

To create this effect you must focus on the neutrals and only use color sparingly. Little hints of blue or teal are noticed mainly because everything else is a soft muted shade of sandy brown or creamy white. Think of a beach house with it’s pastel walls and white furniture. With these tones, one gets the feeling of endless summer and cool breezes–coming through sheer curtains. Sounds like a great wedding to go to!

Of course we have Beach Wedding Invitations that correspond to this palette. You might even be interested in a nautical theme if this idea appeals to you.

Now to apply this look to non-beach invitations. The feeling of peace and tranquility comes through with the colors. Just remember to treat white as a real color- not just the left over background, it makes a big difference!

Go beyond the original color to create the look that you want. The color CAN make your favorite design into the perfect invitation for your wedding.

What do you think? Are white and neutrals really a beach inspired combination? Are there any beach colors we missed in this series?