In interior design school, we learned that to figure out your client’s favorite colors, you just looked at their closet.  People wear and combine the colors they love.  So normally when a bride asks me about possible wedding color combinations, I tell them to do the same thing.  However, I’m now changing my tune.

Tonight I met with a potential bride.  She told me that she was lucky her friends had the guts to tell her that this hard core Packers fan needed to second guess her color palette of eggplant and gold 😉  So now she and her fiance are on a quest to decide on the perfect palette to go with her vintage wedding with a downtown Minneapolis twist (I love this contrast!).

What she did was go to a big box home improvement store and take home a ton of paint samples.  She put a mark on the back of the ones she liked and then had her fiance pick his favorites.  This helped them narrow down a main color, and the paint samples have guides with coordinating colors on the back, so they could look at the different combinations in an organized fashion.  Not only could they talk about colors in a relaxed way that didn’t involve a million wedding blogs and overstimulation, but they had the physical cards in front of them and could move them around to create different looks.

I love the ingenuity of this couple and how they are 1) working together and 2) open and flexible to options.  This will help them find a color palette they will both love and keep the bride out of the doghouse for almost looking like a Vikings fan 😉
Do you have any out of the box methods you have used to come up with wedding ideas?  I’m now on the lookout for more helpful tips!