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white or ivory candles?

hchamberhchamber
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What are you using? Our reception venue is a traditional gold ballroom and I think that we would want ivory candles...?
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  • kels625kels625
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    If your dress is a whiter color, you could do either, but if it leans on the ivory side, I would definitely go with the ivory candles because you don't want anything to make your dress look dirty, not white, etc. I also think ivory is more romantic and helps to set that mood better! I hope this helps! :)
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  • I <3 SeabassI <3 Seabass
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    Honestly I think it's one of those things that really don't matter. And I disagree with pp, I don't think having white candles at the venue will make an ivory dress look dirty.
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  • pag41989pag41989 member
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    I have an ivory dress and I have compared a LOT of white items to my ivory dress. I went kind of color crazy for awhile with the shades of white. But in reality white and ivory together don't look bad at all. I also don't think whether the candles are white or ivory are going to matter.
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    If you were to line up candles in white, ivory, ecru, eggshell, and beige, and then asked one hundred people to name the colors, ninety-nine would say all five were white.  The one hundredth person is a graphic designer or a bride.
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  • trix1223trix1223 member
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    aerin, that was great! You are so right. OP: you're overthinking this. If you want white candles, get white candles. If you want ivory candles get ivory candles. But DON'T begin to think that your dress will make a difference. No one, NO ONE at your wedding is going to hold up one of the candles to your dress and think "Boy chamber'd dress sure looks dingy compared to this candle!"
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  • hchamberhchamber
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    Thats what I thought, what ever it the cheapest is what I will use. So, who has a great place to buy bulk candles? We cant have open flames so my dad is hollowing out candles and then we are placing the battery ones inside. Thanks Ladies!
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  • subdolasubdola member
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    That seems (the hollowing out candles thing) like a lot more effort than it's worth. I bought bulk votives at candles4less.com, the candles were great, lasted more than 10 hours.  I can't remember where my mom got the battery candles that we used for our lanterns, but google it and you'll be sure to find good places.  I know that you can also buy pillar candles that are already hollowed out for the fake tea lights, I saw them at a restaurant here in NYC and didn't realize that they was fake (and they was right in front of me on our table!) for most of the meal. 
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