Please help me with colour ideas!!

Poptart1313

Hi guys, I'm a British bride planning to get married to my American fiance in August/September this year (yes, I realise this should be definite by now- originally the plan was December, but I've literally just decided the sooner the better!)
   However, where we will be holding our reception, in a hotel, the carpet in the room is red with yellow swirls!!! I know this shouldnt matter to me but Im having a hard time trying to figure out colour schemes that won't completely clash... or do you think you wouldnt notice the carpet too much anyway?
    When we originally planned a December wedding, we were going to go with a black and white theme but since the dates changed to a late Summer wedding, I'm not sure those colours will be as suitable? What does everyone think? Any help will be greatly appreciated!! Laura.xxx

aerinpegadrak

Black and white works for any time of the year.  We're doing black and white in April.

kimheartsscott

Black and white should be fine.

Will you be having dim lighting in the reception hall?  If you are, I probably wouldn't even notice the carpet anyway.  Or you could do some up lighting to take away focus.

megk8oz

Black and white is classic no matter what time of year.

As far as the carpet goes, I wouldn't stress over it too much. Maybe see if there's a way you could play with the lighting to minimalize what the carpet looks like, but I really wouldn't worry.

I mean, really, if your guests actually say "That would have been such a great a wedding, too bad the carpet clashed with everything", then your nearest and dearest are tools, lol.

fallbride1109

A black and white hotel wedding is classic any time of year.

My hotel venue carpet was red and gold -- I don't think anyone noticed it.  My colors were black, champagne and ivory and I did all white flowers.  I almost did black dresses and red rose bouquets and centerpieces.

Sarah-Jean

I understand where you're coming from with the venue colors matching your wedding colors. It's not like it's super important, but you want everything to look nice together. Our venue's carpet sounds similar, it's maroon & gold. I choose purple, irovy & black.
I agree w/ PP's about using black & white all year though. If that's the color's you like, go for it!

Poptart1313

Thanks so much for the advice, girls... I do really like the idea of black and white, though theres talk of maybe using a red to tie the colour scheme in a bit and making it a bit more summery to match the date. Either way, you're right... I wouldnt expect anyone to comment on the colour of the carpet (unless maybe they were an interior designer?? and luckily I dont know any of those..lol) Whats with these hotels using random colour carpets though? What ever happened to plain?? Seriously though, thank you so much- you've put me much more at ease about the whole thing!

CharlestonDream

If you really wanted to play off of the carpet colors, you could just have a 'fall' color scheme.  Reds, oranges, rust, copper, yellows - you can use these colors in flowers, BM dresses, anything really.

I do love classic black and white.  Just thought I would trow out the fall color options as well.