I'm horrible at matching!

Dferrari17

My FI and I were looking at roses the other day to try and figure out what kind of color scheme we wanted to go with for the wedding. He absolutely fell in love with these light purple one's that I'm having trouble matching with... anything. I figured I could add a cream color type of rose that would look pretty good but I was also kind of trying to figure out if there was a brighter color that would look good with them.

Basically, I'm stuck. I've never been good at this matching thing. Any color palatte help would be appreciated. lol

These are the roses he picked. Just for reference.

vettechgirl

Personally, I think purple goes with anything! I'm doing lavendar (light purple) and mint green! I've also seen puple and dusty rose, lavendar and Tiffany blue (that one was really cool), and all kinds of other combos!

Puple is like black and white (IMO); you just can't go wrong with it!

Catwoman708

You don't need to "match" anything else to the color flowers.  Actually, it looks better if you use combinations, and not "matchy matchy".  Look on line for a color wheel, with various hues of each color, and an explanation of how to use it. 

For example, complimentary colors are direct opposites on the color wheel, like yellow and purple, green and red, or blue and orange.  A "triad" would be a triangle of 3 colors, like purple, orange and green, or blue, yellow, and red.

Monochromatic colors would be using several hues of the same color, like cream, pale yellow, and gold.  Analgous colors are several colors next to each other on the color wheel, like green, yellow and yellow-orange, or blue, turquoise, and green.



I do a lot of flower arrangements and have come to really appreciate purples.  They tend to go surprisingly well with almost any other color, and seem to tie everything together.  I've even seen an antique lavender color in fall flowers with rich, vibrant jewel tones and it looked great.

I really like orange with purple, in almost any hue, from deep purple and rusty-orange, to pale lavender and palest peach.  I could easily see those pale purple roses with a very pale peachy-pink, and off white.

Dferrari17

Thanks!! I was liking the orange too and FI was disgusted.... I may have to do some convincing. Maybe get a trial bouquet so he can see it for real.
Appreciate the advice. Very thorough.

crazyDCbride

I just did a wedding for a girl a couple weeks ago with those roses...  Her girls were wearing cobalt blue dresses, and I mixed the roses with irises, dark purple centered calla lilies, and some other purple filler flowers (dark purple mini carnations, and some purple pom-like flowers...). The bridal bouquet was white/cream colored roses, with some purple centered callas, and just a few lighter colored purple irises.  Guys wore the dark centered calla lily bouts.

The centerpieces were a mixture of taller vases full of iris, and shorter vases of iris with a few callalillies.

The whole thing turned out great...  I don't have pictures yet, though.

greinburg

I think yellow looks very pretty with purple, maybe FI would be more open to that than orange?