One of the things I love most about Pinterest is that it brings the concept of the inspiration board to everyday people — not just artists and designers. I’ve been a massive fan of the inspiration board for years and love getting inspired for many things — from character development in a piece of nonfiction to party planning for a friend’s birthday — by creating mood, color, and concept boards.
As you plan your wedding, you might know automatically which colors speak to you and nail them down right away. I thought I had it all figured out — navy and pale pink — until I looked at all the inspiration I was gathering and realized I was way off. In addition to your pinning, which is ridiculously fun, I recommend making some actual mood boards to get you feeling inspired. Grab lovely images and scraps of fabric, ribbon and magazine pages — throw in an old selfie of you two, and so on. Roll up your sleeves and start working on a massive collage of what your wedding means to you. You might just find, as I did, that your perfect palette emerges.
You can also check out how mine developed on my personal wedding board, We Were Married By the Sea.
If you love lavender, seek inspiration photos that include deeper purples and other accents like the cream in this table setting. The lime flowers also call to mind multitonal greens, which can be worked in multiple different ways.
Love isn’t always a matter of black and white, but if your wedding will be, consider warming things up with gold or cooling off with silver. The subtle glow of coral-brown in the stairwell picture above could be inspiration for the perfect, complimentary flowers to fit your wedding day.
Don’t choose between red and pink — just find ways they can work together. This bold and super-sweet palette is rockin’ … and timeless in its own, wild way.
Images used in this post have been borrowed from Pinterest. Collages were created by Jensy.
