help!! with colors!!!

khewesmccoy · February 2010

I have an amazing fiancee, who is pretty much letting me have total control over ALL of the ideas, which has it's ups and downs... the ONLY thing he asked is that him and his guys get to wear camo.. yes... i said it...CAMO vests and ties.

I'm not mad about it, AT ALL, think it's very cute, considering he is big into hunting and fishing, and it's very HIM.

So that does not leave me with too many options as far as bridesmaids dresses go... Any ideas on what colors would go good with camo?
We are planning our wedding for 2012, so i know its way early to even start looking, but a lot of the wedding is going to be DIY, so i want to get things like this out of the way.

We are planning the wedding for september-ish....any color ideas would be GREAT!!!

bablingbrooke · February 2010

They don't have to be matchy-matchy, just complementary.

I would not advise you to get this particular project "out of the way." BM colors should be chosen when you shop for BM dresses. The color you pick might look horrible on the BMs. Your FI might change his mind about camo. You will change your mind on 100 other things. Whatever you pick now might be out of stock by the time you buy in 2 years.

No DIY project requires 2 years, unless you're growing all your flowers yourself from seeds. And BM dresses are hardly DIY unless you're making them yourself, and again, that doesn't take 2 years. I would also advise you not to ask your WP until you're at a year or less until the wedding. You never know how friendships might change.

I would take a breath and hold off on planning until at least 2011. Seriously, there is just no reason to do this now.

jumpingbeanx2 · February 2010

I have some friends who had camo as one of their colors....It looked pretty cool. You could do brown. Really I think any fall colors would probably look good with it. You could do a brown dress and maybe an orange sash or something like that. But really whatever you like would probably work.

trix1223 · February 2010

ditto brooke. With a wedding over 2 years away, I would advise not asking anyone yet to even be inthe WP. Want to know why? Scroll down a couple pages worth of this board and read the countless posts from brides who asked as far out as you are and now want to know how to boot a BM.

Friendships ebb and flow, and that's perfectly fine. Someone you're bff's with now may not even be in your life in 18 months. Conversely, you might just have someone who will become very special to you in the next 18 months who you haven't even met yet.

There's no good reason TO ask anyone yet, and a dozen good reasons to ask. And then, when the time comes, see what styles are out there, and then, and only then, start thinking about dresses.

You'll thank us. Really.

khewesmccoy · February 2010

yeah, brown would go well with it, but it's not me.. I really like tangerine, but that would seem to "theme" to me.. camo and blaze orange, no? lol

I'm seriously considering having all of the dresses custom made, and i kind of like the look of all of the girls wearing the same dress in different colors.. but i dont knowww...

and when I say do it myself, i mean invitations, centerpieces, etc... and all of my girls are family, no friends. I'm not really setting anything in stone, I just want some thoughts, so when I go and look at stuff, I have a better idea...

emilyinchile · February 2010

I don't think tangerine would look particularly good with the camo colors, and honestly I think it's going to be a hard color for your BMs to pull off. You could do a forest green, or even a darker blue would look complementary but not matchy-matchy.

And I do agree with PPs that it's early to make these decisions. It's fine to get ideas, but don't make or purchase the dresses until about 6 months out.

megk8oz · February 2010

I speak from very personal experience: avoid orange dresses. I know most BM dresses never get worn again no matter what color they are, but when it's orange, you can't even cut the thing up to make pretty pillow covers or something from it.

Also, ditto the other ladies: wedding's in 2012, don't even think BP attire/members for at least another year. Your FI really might change his mind about the camo, you really might change your mind about a billion other details between now and then. If he's still stuck on the camo, and you choose to work with that, then I'm voting for a brown or a really nice shade of green. But again: wait.

When I first got engaged, it was March 2008. I just knew exactly what my color scheme, venue and all the other little details where going to be.

I got married January 2010, and my wedding (Which I loved and could not imagine doing things any differently) looked nothing like the vision I had in March 2008. Heck, there were a lot of ideas I had in March 2009 that didn't look anything like my final results.

jennelise97 · March 2010

Why not the beige/lighter brown color in camo? They could have bouquets in fall colored flowers to compliment the mens attire?

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