Pick Your Wedding Palette
Choose the right colors for your wedding date.
Winter
Getting started: Snow and frost can inspire a palette of white, cream, and silver (bare, snow-covered branches could also lead to high-contrast
black and white). Or take your cues from red wine by the fire―deep burgundy and orange.
Real Simple suggests: Rich brown and warm tan with deep magenta and a touch of light, frosty pink (shown).
Also consider: Navy or gray, which is wintry but still warm, paired with ice blue; deep forest green with cream and gold.
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There’s nothing wrong with setting out a traditional guest book at the reception for friends and family to sign, but you’ll probably slide it onto the bookshelf and never look at it again. Here, a few innovative options:
- Place a variety of note cards and paper on a table so guests can write short letters. Seal them, then open them on your first anniversary.
- Provide a stack of construction-paper strips―like the kind used in grade school to make paper chains―and ask each guest to write a message on one link that he or she then attaches to the chain. Beginning the day after your honeymoon, remove a link and read it together to relive your big day.
- Buy a coffee table cook. If you’re looking for something a bit more personal than a standard guest book but you just don’t have the time (or the skills) to make something yourself, buy a coffee-table book that has beautiful imagery of something of significance to you or your wedding. You could find a photography book of your wedding location (the mountains of Colorado), where you plan to honeymoon (Italian countryside), or a favorite children’s book (Good Night Moon). Set it on a table with Sharpie markers for guests to customize.
