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Gold or silver?

So my accents for the wedding are gold- gold chivari chairs, gold organza napkin cover things and ivory table clothes. Gold just looks better with the venue colors than silver does. Our cake is going to have rhinestone brooches on it. Do I make them gold or silver brooches? I am not one to mix gold and silver together, just not a fan of the look. My accessories (jewelry, bouquet accents, etc), however, will be silver, since that is the color of my e-ring and I matched my jewelry to that (again, b/c I hate to mix gold and silver). I am just worried it will be very hard to find gold and rhinestone brooches, which I will need to find in like 2 or 3 days. Do you think it would matter if the cake has silver accents when everything else in the room is gold? The cake stand can be made either gold or silver- I figure that should match the brooches? This is so stupid I know to be worrying about this. :) Just wondering what you all think would look best. Can't wait for the wedding to be here in 3 weeks so i can stop fussing with details!

Re: Gold or silver?

  • Pick whatever colour works best with your cake and don't worry about all of the other accessories. If you have a plain white cake, then just pick whatever colour you like best.
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  • Yup- its a simple ivory cake with bows and brooches.
  • Personally I'd go with the gold, but it really really doesn't matter.
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  • I think gold would be best too- just crossing my fingers I stumble across some cute gold brooches in the next few days :) Thanks!
  • Either are fine.  As long as it's not on a gold tablecloth it should look OK. 
  • If you can find the gold, I'd say go with it - I think it looks a lot better with ivory than silver (which goes best with white, imho) We are doing an ivory cake with gold linens and gold accents (but like you, my accessories are all silver to match my e-ring). If you can't find gold, don't worry about it though! Honestly, no one will think twice about it! The cake can stand out and be different than the rest of the decor!
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