What color dress for my bridesmaids!??!?

hmh5003

Ok... I'm going to ask your opinions on this because I simply cannot decide and FI is not helping at all!! I am completely torn on what colors I should have my girls in and what color flowers to use. My original thought was a pink and black color scheme... pink dresses with pink and white flowers, maybe a black accent somewhere on the dress. Then I start rethinking -- is that too much pink? are the pink dresses going to look nice on all the girls?  Then I think maybe black dresses with pink flowers, but then I think will having both the guys AND girls in black make it look like a funeral, pink accents or not? So then my second option was blue, black & silver.... blue dresses on the girls, maybe even a two tone blue if i add a sash or something. But what color flowers do I add to that? I don't want just white flowers... too plain for my tastes. I was thinking pink & orange, but FI's sister just got married last June and used the same color scheme so I don't want to repeat that. THEN (lol) FI suggested purple and green..... but again, what color flowers? And am I really THAT fond of those colors for my wedding?  Someone told me to think hard about what my color scheme is because later down the road when I look at pictures, I don't want to be sitting there thinking "why the heck did I do that!?!?" So any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated because honestly, I have no idea what to do anymore. And if I keep changing my mind back and forth any longer, all parties involved (FI, mom, bridesmaids, etc.) are going to strangle me lol

ffmaid

Ok so you have no idea what color scheme you want why not go shopping with your bm and pick a dress that looks great on them and a color that looks great on them and then do the color scheme around that  

mbcdefg

You still have until about the end of the year before you really need to start worrying about BM dresses and flowers. It sounds like you need a break from this, so put it off for at least a month. Colors really aren't a big deal, so don't drive yourself nuts over them. Browse some Knot bios and blogs like Snippet & Ink to see what color schemes you really like. Get paint sample cards from Home Depot and use those. Talk to your FI and see if he has any concrete ideas. Maybe you could compromise and each pick one color as long as they go together (most do, depending on the shades you use). Pink and black would be fine. I don't get why black dresses would make it look like a funeral ... how many funerals have people standing up front, holding flowers and gazing at someone in a white dress? It's not like you're having the BMs wear black veils, right?Blue dresses would look nice with pink flowers, or yellow, or orange, or maybe even green if you do a tropical vibe. Cherry red flowers would look awesome with aqua blue, or pair classic red roses with sophisticated navy dresses. A lot of people do purple and green with great results. Maybe plum dresses with green orchid bouquets. But it doesn't sound like you're too nuts about this one. If you're not set on a particular color scheme, have the BMs try on some dresses, see what color flatters them best and then go from there. When in doubt, put them in a neutral color - black, silver/grey, charcoal, champagne, chocolate, latte, black and white floral print or polka dots, even white if you want - and then pick an accent color or two that you like. Some people have done a "rainbow" scheme, where the BMs and GMs are in black but they use a bunch of supporting colors for the details. Relax! Just pick something you like and go with it. Colors shouldn't be a headache.

trix1223

My DIL had her BMs wear soft pink dresses, and it looked lovely.  They carried hot pink gerbera daisies.  Her favorite color is pink.My DD had her BMs wear purple dresses and it looked lovely.  They carried bouquets that were mostly ivory, with some lavender roses, green hydrangea buds, and hand tied with green ribbon.  Her favorite color is purple.They chose colors they loved, and then worked with that to move forward.Do you see the path here?  Choose what you love and then work with that and move forward.This isn't rocket science.  You're overthinking it.

laurening

Pink and black is nice. Black dresses are pretty popular as BM dresses these days. It's a classic neutral - that's why you always hear about women and their little black dress. You could also get black dresses with a white pattern or embellishment to break it up. I also ike the idea of having the BMs choose their own shade of pink or whatever color family you go with. I like the way it looks nice in pictures. Don't overstress about the flowers. A good florist can provide ideas to go with every combination. If you're worried about not liking a color combo when you look back at pictures, I'd go with a neutral and color and not 2 colors like purple and green.

jeannigirl

Has far has you are having a hard time in deciding on a color palette  just play around do you have crayons  or colored pencils and paper do some testing of colors together. I know that sounds funny but it does work.Has pp say look at some sites that help with wedding color paletes, look at inspirational boards on the knotties bio's.Just take a deep breathe it will come, no rush.

bablingbrooke

Holy punctuation Batman! Put down the red bull, you've got plenty of time to decide. We went with all white flowers for everyone. You and the BMs won't be holding the flowers all night so they just need to complement, not be matchy-matchy.

C W

My colours were purple and green and I LOVED it. The BM dresses were dark plum (jim hjelm #5918) and the flowers were white, lavender, plum, and pink with lots of greenery. I'll try a pic below.You don't need to decide right now. Just take your time and look at a lot of websites and pictures for inspiration. It will all come together! I stalked www.stylemepretty.com and www.snippetandink.blogspot.com DAILY for inspiration and finally found something I had no second thoughts about. GL![IMG]http://i25.tinypic.com/2wee8mo.jpg[/IMG]hope that worked!

megk8oz

I sort of just "stumbled into" my color scheme. I had an idea of either baby pink or Tiffany blue with chocolate brown for the longest time.Then I went looking at dresses and totally fell in love with an eggplant dress and I could not imagine wanting the dress in any other color (And my original choices WERE available). Now my colors are eggplant and pewter/silver.A friend of mine who got married a few years ago had a similar experience: she was hell-bent on champagne and moss green ... then she came across a candy apple dress she adored. Her colors would up being black with the red.Sometimes, you really do just luck into something.Don't worry about "repeating" something if you really like it, because its still YOUR wedding, so it will have its own spin on it. Also, no matter what dress you wind up picking, you WILL find flowers to go with them. You can always shop around for ideas now, but I would suggest "finalizing" the dresses, and then taking pics to your florist to see what they suggest.

Leah&Christian09

Pink goes with black, brown, blue, green, purple, white, silver, etc.  You can do a dark color for the dresses and black tuxes and then bright pink flowers.  If you did blue, black and silver, you could accent it with pink, red, orange, yellow, whatever and use it for flowers.  Or you could do blue, black and silver and then do bright multi florals.  You could do black dresses with a pink sash, and anything with the flowers.  You could do pink dresses and use the other color for flowers.  Just look through bios, look through wedding websites and magazines, and look at color combos.  You have 6 months until you need to pick out BM dresses, and even more time before you need to pick out your flowers.  It will hit you.

carrieoz_76

Seriously - just look at some wedding po.rn - real weddings here on the knot, wedding blogs, martha stewart weddings, project wedding, wedding channel, etc. etc.  That's where I got the idea for my colors (aqua and tan, with fuschia flowers).  This is the fun part - enjoy it!

clseale13

I like the pink and black. I don't think it would look funeral-ish at all (although I might be biased b/c I just decided to put my BM's in black cocktail dresses....but we're not doing pink) If you're worried about it do black cocktail dresses w/hot pink shoes...and hot pink flowers. I think it's so modern and chic.