Color help!!!

[princessplease]

Ladies, I need you help with colors!!!!!
My main color is going to be aqua blue (see photo), but I''m having a hard time coming up with other colors. BM''s dresses will be aqua, and the GM tuxes will have aqua blue vests and ties with black tuxes.

I am so lost with flower colors and accent colors. FI and I are bold, outgoing people, so we don''t really want a lot of white/ivory (my dress color and FI''s tux vest and tie), silver, beige, light pink, etc. I''m not saying these colors are off limits, but we don''t want lighter colors predominating. We want bright colors incorporated. Our wedding is in August, so the bright colors will definitely work. I am in love with gerberas, and gerberas definitely come in bright colors, but we don''t want to look like a bag of skittles, lol!!! How can we tastefully incorporate the brighter hues (pinks, purples, greens, oranges, yellows, etc) into the wedding?
Pics would be an amazing help! Thanks so much!

 

[packrat]

I like gerbera daisies too! You could do awesome bouquets and bouts w/them. I loooove flowers and I think it''s a fun way to bring in lots of color. When I was looking for pictures for the inspiration boards I was doing, I found some great pictures of those daisies in weddings..some neat decorations on tables and such too.

 

[lala2332]

ok, ps ate my post twice

I had a ton of links, but here is my favorite bouquet. I think by sticking to a single tone and not trying too many colors you can get that pop of color without the rainbow brite effect. I was actually leaning towards different shades of the same color, but I think this bouquet is awesome. And you could have your BMs carry smaller single color bouqeuts... tangerine or pink.

 

[4ever]

Yellow!

Yellow is a stunning and complementary accent colour to Aqua. I can just Imagine BM desses in that aqua with yellow in the bouquets. Nice and bright

 

[House Cat]

I would contrast that blue with orange bouquets. Your florist might even give some help/ideas by building bouquets that have orange gerberas, some other orange flower, like maybe some dahlias, and then a tiny accent flower in a very deep blue or super deep purple or even maybe a tiny bit of white. Maybe google some orange bridal bouquets, you might get some ideas.

But, if it''s really bright you''re looking for, orange and blue is a very beautiful mix.

Blue and Orange This inspiration board is a reverse of what you''re doing in terms of dress color and flowers, but this will give you the feel for the color scheme.
Here is Another

 

[Porridge]

I totally agree with orange as the other colour. It''s gorgeous with aqua and the flower choices are huge.

The only other colour I really love with aqua is brown, but it sounds like that''s not really what you''re looking for

 

[FrekeChild]

I''d do hot pink. Tee hee.

 

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[ilovesparkles]

My BM dresses are a royal blue and I am going with pink and orange accents. They are gorgeous together! Can''t do links right now, running to work, but I will try later!

 

[Sabine]

Hot pink (like the flower in your avatar) or lime green.

 

[princessplease]

Thanks everyone for your help so far!!!!!
Packrat, thanks! I think our theme will be flowers. Our place cards have gerberas on them.
Lala, that bouquet is LOVELY!!!! Thanks!!!
Housecat, thanks for those boards! Those looks are amazing!! So crisp and not overbearing on color.
4ever, I was thinking yellow, but didn''t know if that would be too bright with the blue. Maybe we can use yellow as an accent.
Freke, amazing color choice!!! Hot pink definitely crossed my mind, but I was unsure of how to do it tastefully. I love how the pink in all of the boards is tasteful and not too loud.
Sabine, my original thought was chartreuse or lime green, but after looking around, I think we may just use green in the bouquets. FI really wasn''t digging the green, lol!
ilovesparkles, thanks for your input!
Porridge, I absolutely love the aqua and brown combo (those are our bedroom colors), but it didn''t fit with the bright and summery feel we''re going for.
Thanks to everyone else for your input so far!

 

[House Cat]

Oh wow, I love the hot pink!! Freke, those boards are amazing!

 

[Morgie44]

My photographer shot a wedding with aqua-ish dresses with multicolored gerbera daisies Link

I think this wedding party is super cute too, and a little more unified: Hot Pink Gerberas

 

[princessplease]

Thank you so much Morgie!!! They''re lovely too!

 

[sunnyd]

Aqua and raspberry! (Like hot pink, like everyone has said

). The Knot had those colors in a previous issue that I''m trying to find online. I''m easily distracted, it may be awhile!

 

[Diva0413]

Date: 6/22/2009 12:47:10 AM
Author: 4ever
Yellow!

Yellow is a stunning and complementary accent colour to Aqua. I can just Imagine BM desses in that aqua with yellow in the bouquets. Nice and bright

Ditto! I was going to say gold, but this works too!

 

[sunnyd]

Found it! Here''s the link: http://weddings.theknot.com/Real-Weddings/31738/detailview.aspx?type=3&id=31738

 

[sunnyd]

Love this pic!

 

[Erin]

I vote skittles. Everyone will remember that the dresses, ties, vests... are blue.
I say your accent colors should be any and every color that gerberas come in.

 

[princessplease]

Sunnyd, LOVE those colors!!! They look awesome!!!! I''m gonna print all the boards out, and see if the florist can show me any work they have done using those color schemes.
Thanks so much for your help ladies!!

 

[packrat]

I found a couple pictures I thought were really pretty. I think I could look at these flowers all day!

 

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[princessplease]

Oh packrat, they''re all SO lovely!!!!
I LOVE the gerberas!!!

 

[ladypirate]

Maybe throw in some yellow too? I feel like that would make it really summery.

 

[ladypirate]

I love this picture--grapefruit slices instead of lemon could add a really neat splash of color and be really summery.

 

[princessplease]

Oh LP!!!! Lovely ideas!!! The grapefruit is AWESOME!!!!

 

[packrat]

I was browsing boards just now and this made me think of you