The hot colour trends for spring 2011 are a lovely bouquet of magnolias, lavenders, and Berry’s. Summer can bring beautiful  contrasts between chocolate and Tiffany. Papaya is a great infusion of colour and personality to your big day. For fall and winter weddings of 2011 Other colors making their come back for 2011… dark chocolate, dark charcoal gray, sangria/brick red, myrtle (dark) green, dark tangerine, dark chestnut, asparagus, tyrian purple, dark midnight green, deep blue, Persian green, mocha taupe, agate blue, amazon green.

These new hot colours for 2011 make planning your wedding a dream. There are many variations  that you incorporate into your planning in order to provide a unique take on a traditional wedding. The colors you choose for your wedding day set the style and tone for your entire event. You can use color in your bridesmaids’ dresses, decorations, cake, favors, flowers, accessories, table linens and even the invitations.

A color wheel helps you choose coordinating colors. It is made out of three primary colors: red, blue and yellow, plus a blend of in-between colors. Below are three color-choosing strategies that will ensure you pick a well coordinated color scheme. Using different hues and contrasts can make your an elgegant  event with so many options for decoration. Try to limit your main colors to two or three so as not to look too jumbled and stay consistent with your colors throughout the wedding site. Use a few subdued colors for an elegant look.

There’s no question: choosing wedding colors is one of the earliest, trickiest tasks a bride has to cross off the list. You can’t even talk your florist until you’ve worked this out.

When all is said and done, you’re sure to have a great feeling about your colors, and how they fit your personal style. Even if the scheme you hit on isn’t “I’ve loved that all my life!”, it might be “I never would have thought of that, but I love these together!”

Picking your colors is a journey, just like finding the dress, or knocking all those planning items off your checklist. But hitting on the right colors, theme and setting for the ultimate expression of your own Romantic style? That can be the pleasure of a lifetime.