Wedding Rings

Help with plum/gold schem

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>>Well, we finally picked a hall! I really like it, though it’s not at all >what either of us pictured when we set out to choose where to get >married. Maybe I’ll post that long, detailed saga some other time, but >right now I need some help with regard to a colour scheme. ><snip long post concerning colors of hall (plum and gold) and what to >do about wedding colors)

I’m trying to picture the colors in my head and I’m not sure exactly what would work, but three things have occurred to me, but they’d all have to be carefully matched with the plum. You could go a shade of pink that would compliment the plum, a maroon/burgundy/wine color that’s sort of a red version of the plum (this might make your fiance’s family happy) or you could go blue. Or gray/silver that has the same color quality as the gold. I like dark table clothes, so I’d go with a dark color there. For centerpieces, what about mirrors with candles in glass holders (either votives in bowls or glass candlesticks and tapers) sitting on the mirrors? On a dark tablecloth it would look absolutely elegant. You could include one or two large white flowers in a floating bowl or bud vase. I forgot to check when your wedding is, but if it’s after Christmas check some party stores for Christmas things that might work. I bought some silver stars on wire that I was going to coil around things but they got forgotten by the time the wedding rolled around. You might look for similar gold or silver star themed things that aren’t Christmassy.         Johanna —         Computer User Services Reed College –>j/lnghlm: It’s not just for Elbonian pizza anymore

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>Well, we finally picked a hall! I really like it, though it’s not at all >what either of us pictured when we set out to choose where to get >married. Maybe I’ll post that long, detailed saga some other time, but >right now I need some help with regard to a colour scheme.

<snip long post concerning colors of hall (plum and gold) and what to do about wedding colors) >Just call me: >PQ (May 10, 1997) >___ >* UniQWK v4.2 * The Windows Mail Reader

Have you thought about having ivory linens with a forest green or emerald green runner?  Then use napkins, etc in the same green. For centerpieces try ivy (english being my preference) and intertwine it with muted gold candle sticks and small dusty rose colored flowers (roses again being my personal preference).  I recently did a wedding that was almost precisely those colors and it was elegant and absolutely beautiful.  Good luck! Christi Brogan "Conjugal Creations" Wedding Designer San Antonio, Texas Ask me about NACEC!

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Well, we finally picked a hall! I really like it, though it’s not at all what either of us pictured when we set out to choose where to get married. Maybe I’ll post that long, detailed saga some other time, but right now I need some help with regard to a colour scheme. We had originally planned to have a very simple, dark green/white colour scheme. That was before we’d even picked a hall, mind you. (Advice to those planning weddings: don’t get attached to a scheme before you pick a place.) However, the hall we’ve chosen (where both the ceremony and reception will take place) is The Great Hall Centre, and I don’t think what I had in mind will work. It’s a 107-year old building in downtown Toronto and is large, with an incredibly high (white plaster) ceiling, a sweeping balcony and a small stage.  The colour scheme is plum and gold: the stage curtains are a deep rich plum velvet, the chairs are covered in plum fabric, and the walls are painted a soft golden colour. It has a new, light coloured hardwood floor. There are overhead lights and soft wall sconces, both on dimmer switches. The lower edge of the balcony is completely edged in tiny white lights, creating a sweep of twinkly lights around the room. It’s a combination of grand and funky, and it’s different from every other place we looked at. What I can’t figure out is what to do about colours now. Neither of these are colours I would choose under any other circumstances, and yet they look lovely in the hall and I’m content to try to work with them.   My main concerns are the setting/decoration of the tables… I’m not trying to coordinate any clothing with these colours (and we’re not having any bridal party anyway, at least not so far–it’s not done at all in my fiance’s religion).  Nothing can be affixed to the walls or property anyway, which is fine, the room doesn’t need it.  We will have lots and lots (and LOTS) of candles, both in candelabra stands and on tables, etc. Flowers are no problem either, I know I can find flowers that will look lovely in the hall. But: while I think it would look nice to have plum-coloured tablecloths with white china and white napkins, I really doubt I can find plum linens. Even if I do, I bet it’d be hard to match the plum of the chairs… most of these deep reddish-purple colours tend to fall to grape, burgundy, magenta, eggplant… I’m painfully sensitive to colour and even if no one else noticed it would drive me crazy if the colours were too far off.  I could live with plain white tablecloths, but with white dishes? I feel like the tables will be too boring and colourless, even if I can find plum napkins (which I can probably find in paper). (As it is we’ll probably be criticized for the subdued colours involved… my fiance’s family is Indian and their weddings tend to involve lots of red, green, shiny shiny gold, etc.) My fiance will be wearing traditional Indian clothing, completely in ivory/creamy white, and I plan to be wearing a somewhat untraditional dress with a white top and a skirt in a colour called "platinum" but it’s not silvery, more of a pale dusty taupe. I know his family will probably hate the colours involved, but that’s their problem. I don’t think having just coloured napkins with the white dishes/white tablecloths will be enough, unless the centrepieces are pretty spectacular. (And I don’t have any idea what to do about centrepieces either… all I know is that they must incorporate candlelight.) I want to stay away from using too much gold, I really don’t like gold at all and neither does my fiance. (We like silver colours… my rings are white gold and his will be titanium.) The colour on the walls is fine but I don’t want to have a whole lot more of it. I keep thinking maybe I could incorporate a third colour–dark green being my first choice–but while I think dark green looks fine with plum OR with gold I can’t quite convince myself it looks good with both. (My fiance was also skeptical, though he said if I felt it would work he’d go along with it.) I’m turning over in my mind the idea of copper touches… not bright shiny cooking pot copper but more of a burnished, Arts-and-Crafts era copperwork type thing). It’s also hard to figure a "theme" to work with this…nothing suggests itself and nothing I’ve thought of works.  I’m not dead-set on having a "theme" but some sort of motif would make other choices and planning easier (choosing favours/flowers/etc.)  The only theme attached to the hall itself (in their advertising, in the pattern on the window curtains) is stars…which I could incorporate, I guess.  The ceremony will be a late afternoon-early evening one, by candlelight. Sorry to go on so long… just trying to give enough details for those inclined to help… Anyone else faced similar problems? Any ideas, suggestions, etc. would be MOST appreciated. Thanks in advance! Just call me: PQ (May 10, 1997) ___ * UniQWK v4.2 * The Windows Mail Reader

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