Just like anything else, there are trends in the wedding industry. Even with colors. When choosing your wedding colors, you must choose wisely since they are incorporated into just about every element of your wedding. So, it's important you choose colors that pair well together and won't be overbearing when incorporated into the rest of your elements. Also, within your colors, you want to incorporate the color trends, which change with the season. So, Wedding and Party Network has the color trends for 2012.

Pantone just announced their color of the year. Tangerine Tango it is for 2012! It's warming color, with a pop of color can fit a variety of weddings during any season. Whether you are wanting to plan a summer wedding or a winter wedding, this color will work. Pair it with white, purple or even blue to make a bold statement. This color is just what your 2012 wedding needs.

A yellow color is just what your spring or summer wedding needs. Think bright, cheery and sunny. Pair it with navy for a great nautical theme or bright pinks or even greens for a wonderful summer look.

Lilac is just the color that adds a touch of romance to your wedding. Such a beautiful, soft and romantic color that brings a great overall setting. Pair it with silver, cream or pink. These color combinations will make wonderful reception centerpieces and wedding arrangements.

Bright & colorful pink will bring a sense of fun and excitement. Incorporate this color into all aspects of your wedding, including your wedding flowers, bridesmaid dresses and your wedding cake.

Taupe, a beautiful basic color that can fit so many themes. Pair it with other neutral colors to create that natural themed wedding or incorporate any other color with it that you may like. Honestly, whatever color you pair with this works.

All of these colors are amazing. Create the wedding you've always dreamed of with these fabulous colors. Colors create the wedding, so let yours create the one that you've always imagined.

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Here at Wedding and Party Network we want to give you inspiration for your wedding details. The details are what sets your wedding apart from anyone else. The colors, theme, detailing and style all creates your wedding day style. So, today's Inspirational Friday will focus on the color combination, black and white. This color combination is pure elegance.

It's classic and just simply gorgeous. The great thing about this is that it can be done throughout the year. Gorgeous white flowers accented with black ribbon or a black and white printed pattern wedding invitation speaks classic and elegance. There are so many things that can be done with this color combination. It truly represents a black tie affair and an amazing wedding.

Are you planning a 2012 wedding? Are you wanting to know the latest trends for this upcoming wedding season? Incorporating the latest trends and unique elements of your personality help make your wedding truly unique. You definitely want your wedding to stand out and make your wedding your own. So, Wedding and Party Network has the 2012 wedding trends that will help get you started on planning your wedding.

This year, romance is definitely in the air. Start thinking of dreamy, lush and love.

Wedding Gowns – Take a style note from the royal wedding. Think of Victorian styled gowns Lace sleeves, illusion necklines and an overall style of elegance.

Wedding Theme – Yes, there are themes to weddings. It's more than just choosing colors, you see the theme throughout the flowers, wedding invitations, wedding dress and throughout everything. Think of rustic and nautical. However, you're definitely not limited to these themes. Think about what you enjoy the most and what best suits your style.

Location, Location, Location -When you think of your location, think of your theme first. Then decide what wedding venue would best convey your theme. If it's rustic, think more of an outdoors venue. Vineyards, barns or near a lake are the ideal places and can truly be transformed into something spectacular.

Ditch The Cake -Of course, wedding cakes are important. However, they may have taken a back seat to dessert tables. More and more weddings are incorporating dessert tables into their wedding reception. Feature different pies, cookies, miniature cakes, cupcakes or candy. You satisfy all your guests by having different desserts at your wedding. Of course, you can still have a wedding cake. However think about featuring the desserts as the main attraction.

Late Night Favor - Normally, weddings can last into the wee hours of the night. The food is long gone by now and it's starting to wear off. Therefore, couples are starting to offer their guests late night snacks for a treat. You can go with cookies and milk, doughnuts or candy to satisfy their sweet tooth and late night cravings.

What's Your Style – Most importantly, this is YOUR day. There doesn't have to be any certain themes or elements at your wedding. The main thing to remember is to incorporate what you love and show off your style. After all, this is your day that you'll remember a lifetime.

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Every Friday, Wedding and Party Network will be choosing a theme or color and give you inspirational photos. We want to help give you inspiration for your next event, wedding or party. So, take a look and we hope to give you a bit of inspiration when planning your wedding or party. Our inspirational board will give everyone inspiration on a Victorian vintage themed wedding. A wedding that creates an atmosphere of elegance and simplicity.

Just picture your high neckline wedding dress, ivory gloves and button up ivory boots, all sound absolutely breathtaking. Imagine a more simple satin wedding dress with a cowl neck and draping fabrics, vintage jewelry and gorgeous flowers. Vintage colors include rose, gold, champagne, moss green, ivory, pale blue, pale yellow and pale green. Incorporate those colors into your wedding color scheme. Have Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms playing softly in the background to set the mood. Luxurious flowers create a naturally calm surrounding. A mansion or a rose garden is the perfect back drop for you luxurious and romantic vintage wedding. Create your dream wedding by including antiques, plenty of lace and vintage themed decorations.

Special thank you to Keith Bloomfield and Passionforflowers for their stunning pictures via Flickr.

Well, here we are, with 2 months to go before our wedding. I'm calm, for the most part. So, since everything is planned, I thought I'd tell everyone on all the little details of our wedding. We, and when I see we I mean me, have everything planned. Also, I like to DIY a lot of things with our wedding being one of them. Wedding invitations are mailed out so I'm ready for RSVPs to start pouring in(hopefully) and finish the last details of our wedding. Here is what "I" have chosen for our wedding and WE are both excited and can't wait for it to get here!

Wedding Colors: I always knew I wanted pink, it's my favorite color. So, pink ended up being the main color with accents of cream, black and a bit of gray. Pink and cream will be our main colors. They are featured in wedding invitations, programs, centerpieces, bouquets and pocket squares.

Black comes in with the bridesmaids. I had zero luck finding any bridesmaid dresses that I loved and we're not ridiculously expensive, so I decided to have the girls pick their own dress. Since black is the easiest color to match, I went with that. There is a little gray in our wedding invitations and our bird seed packages, which I love it paired with everything, so I may try to incorporate it elsewhere.

Wedding Location: Of course, one of my earlier posts explains how we settled on Anthony Chapel at Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, AR. I'm still so excited I picked it and can't wait to see it in the springtime with all the beautiful flowers. Now, I'm just hoping for a bright and sunny day with no rain.

Dancing & Drinks: While down in Hot Springs, we checked out a few locations for our wedding reception. In the end, we chose The Porterhouse for our reception. It features 3 rooms that will offer a place for eating, dancing and playing pool. I love how the room looks and think it will portray our wedding. Hopefully, our guests will love the room and the food that will be provided.

The Flowers: Once I started the wedding planning, and I saw pictures of peonies and hydrangeas, I knew I wanted those for my wedding flowers. I love them. A single peony will serve as the bridesmaid bouquets, peonies and hydrangeas will create my wedding bouquet. They will adorn every table as centerpieces at the reception.

I threw in a few branches and lace to create beautiful finishing touches for the wedding. Although, I did throw some carnations in there to represent my sorority flower and use them for the flower girl's kissing ball and corsages. I can't wait to see everything together!

Let Them Eat Cake: There will be a wedding cake, groom's cake and mini cupcakes! We figure our guests will be up moving around a lot so mini cupcakes are great to pop in your mouth and go. We actually have chosen 6 different flavors to fit every taste bud that are sooo yummy!

Of course, there had to be a wedding cake for cutting purposes and it's a simple 2-tiered cake with a feather cake topper. I forgot to mention that I love feathers and have incorporated them into a centerpiece, corsages, cake and my reception dress. Bart isn't a big fan like me.

The thing I'm really excited about, because I thought it'd be a nice surprise for Bart, is his groom's cake. A fun 3D sport's cake featuring a St. Louis Cardinals hat on a baseball field. Hopefully he'll love it! I love sweets and can't wait to eat all the delicious flavors that we'll have at the reception.

Thank You For Coming: For our wedding favors, we have chosen personalized koozies, setting up a candy buffet and having a photobooth. So excited about everything! That might have been my biggest problem during the planning process, I needed to have restraint. I love photobooths, our fun props and the fact that one of the pictures will go in our guest book and another picture will be something the guest can take home with them. The koozies have our names and the candy is more for looks, but I'm sure people will enjoy it too.

Of course, this isn't all of our details. There's the wedding dress, bridal party gifts, photography and all the little details that I've included in our wedding that I love. We can't wait for it to all come together and for the day to get here!

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Everything has a meaning. The month of birthdays, holidays and even colors have different meanings that supposedly represent you as a person. They are said to represent who we are and what we stand for as a person. So when deciding your wedding colors, do they describe you and your style? What are all their meanings exactly? Do your favorite colors describe you? We all have one and are drawn to each one for a reason. Here's a fun post on the meanings behind your wedding colors!

Red: Oh red, the color of passion, anger, dramatic and desire. This color represents urges. For example, "I must have this" is a commanding urge. Red is a commanding color. This color can signify immediate gratification too. You are a bold and passionate person. With such a bright color, pair it down with white or black. Even turquoise too! Does this describe you?

Orange: When you think of orange, do you think bright, unique and not many people can wear orange? Orange is actually a toned down version of red. Orange is another power color and can stimulate creativity, enthusiasm and even the craving for food. It also represents the passionate urges like red, except mellowed down. If you are choosing orange for a color, you are truly passionate about what you do. So when used for a wedding, you must be extremely passionate about the person you are about to marry.

Sunny Yellow: Yellow is the color of the sun. Which represents cheerfulness, optimism, vitality and power. It's a beautiful color and can represent that you're truly loyal to your friendships. However, if yellow is your favorite color, it is sometimes interpreted that you like to use "I" a lot. This beautiful color can be paired well with whites, greens, or even navy. So pretty!

Green: First off, green represents money. Which is then interpreted to love. It represents life and abundance, such as trees, leaves or grass. Green represents true love. If you're using this in your wedding, you take more of a modern approach on your wedding or you're taking a more eco-friendly approach. Pair it with hot pink for a fun take or white for a more regal look. A beautiful color for a beautiful wedding.

Beautiful Blue: Blue represents clarity and charm. You like to be understood and are expressionistic in all things. When it comes to blue, different shades of blue can represent different meanings. For example, royal blue can be seen as grand a traditional. It reminds you of ballrooms. While, navy is a truly classical wedding. Blue is a beautiful color that everyone enjoys.

Perfectly Pink: If you're choosing a softer pink, it refers to playfulness and happiness. You have a sense of fun and a special fondness in your heart. A very playful color. However, if you're choosing a hot pink, it represents energy. A sense of girl power. Paired well with a variety of colors, whites, black and even green. Makes for a fun wedding color.

Purple: Purple represents imagination, challenging, mysterious and fantasy. It can inspire people to be a little coy or romantic. Again, different shades of purple can mean different things. Lavender represents soft, dainty and a lady-like personality. You can use these colors in many ways for weddings. Deep purple set the tone for a lavish wedding and pairs well with black or gray. While a lavender can be more of a simple, yet elegant wedding. Either way this color is absolutely beautiful.

White: The meaning of purity. It represents simplicity and spirituality. Such a beautiful, elegant color that can be paired well with many colors. You can take a more traditional take or even a more modern one. White is such an amazing color and is incorporated into everyone's wedding, unless you're going outside the box, with your white wedding dress.

Black: Black is the unknown, unseen, mysterious, sophistication and a strong opinion. It is the opposite of white. If black is your favorite color, you are more reserved. In a wedding, it represents pure sophistication. Black is seen as formal. A color that can be paired with any color and still match is definitely black. You can play it up or down and is a popular color trend in weddings. Looks great in bridesmaid's dresses and even in your wedding decorations.

Do your wedding colors suit you best? All colors mean a variety of things. So choose the one that YOU love the most and that fits your wedding theme. Whatever color you choose will absolutely fit your personality, style and theme of your wedding.

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Don't know if you've heard, but copper is the new trendy color for weddings. I saw a table setting done in copper and crystal and it was so glamorous and festive! It would look gorgeous for a wedding and reception. When I started thinking about it, the possibilities are endless!

Colors That Accent A Copper Wedding

Of course, you could do copper bridesmaid dresses, copper ties and vests, copper colored flowers, but you could also pair copper with just about any color. It would really set off lipstick pink, crimson red, sapphire blue, even black.

If you didn't want to use copper everywhere, you could just use touches of copper throughout, like on the pew arrangements and as embellishments in bouquets and floral centerpieces. Even a copper handkerchief in the groomsmen's pockets would be a cool touch.

A Fabulous Copper Wedding Reception

The copper theme could easily be carried through to the wedding reception. A copper table runner on a crisp white tablecloth is an elegant way to begin. You could find copper fabric that could easily be made into runners if you can't find pre-made runners. Beaded copper placemats could be layered on top of the runner to be a base for centerpieces of white flowers in crystal vases.

Intersperse white votive candles throughout several flower arrangements for a dramatic effect. Again, pairing copper with other colors would add depth of color and pizazz to your wedding reception.

Copper is showing up everywhere — in fashion, in gift shops, in fabric stores. It's a neutral metallic color that will add POP to any color or look great all by itself. Consider using it for your wedding day and wedding  reception.

I recently watched a children’s program with my toddler where a little boy asked why his mommy stripped all the leaves from the flowers his daddy gave her. He thought the leaves were the best part of the flower.

It made me think about fall leaves and how their colors are the best part of autumn. Nature offers such beauty—why not use it for wedding decorations? Using the natural hues (gold, russet, burgundy, and mocha) of fall leaves makes a gorgeous decorating theme. Think about it! With brown being the new black, mocha colored for bridesmaid dresses (especially in silk) set the stage for a rich earthy essence that can carry through to the wedding decorations.

Bridesmaids could carry flower bouquets in an array of fall colors tied with chocolate silk ribbon and a few fall leaves tucked in—how elegant! The pew flowers could be all one color—maybe chrysanthemums—with leaves and raffia ribbon. A lavish combination of rich fall-colored flowers with willow twigs could complete the altar flower decorations. Rather than the flower girl dropping petals, she could scatter fall leaves down the aisle before the bride’s entrance. The warm glow of candles (in fall colors) grouped in various sizes at the altar will create a stunning backdrop for pictures.

Using nature's hues and fall leaves is a theme easily incorporated into all aspects of your wedding from your wedding program to wedding reception decorations and wedding favors. It even lends itself to eco-friendly weddings where couples give seedling trees as favors so guests can take them home, plant them, and have a lasting memento of their wedding day.

So take a clue from nature and work fall hues into your wedding decorations.

It may not be 2010 yet but 2010 wedding colors are already making a big impact on upcoming ceremonies. Check out which colors are HOT this year! HOT is the new theme for the next year so bright hues of orange, yellow, red and pink perfectly accent the spring season. Even black is back once again for 2010 adding a touch of class to the table.

Hot Pink, Pale Pink and Raspberry Red

Brides for the new year will consider tossing out the classic white dresses and flock to bridal shops for a new sizzling look.

A top pick for the brides of 2010 will be dresses in pink. Sashes and accessories in bright, pastel and classic pinks are perfect paired up with white dresses. This will be a bright and colorful relief to classic single hue weddings.

Photo courtesies:
(1) Pink bridesmaids dresses photo with contrasting pink sashes courtesy of Ella Park Bridal, a bridal shop in Newburgh Indiana.
(2) Pale/baby pink bridesmaids dresses photo courtesy of Briar Rose Cottage Flowers, a Jesup Georgia flower shop.
(3) Raspberry red bridesmaid dress photo courtesy of Side Effects Unique Flowers & Gifts, a Denver Colorado flower shop.

Bright Orange and Sunny Yellow

Also making a comeback for the new year are bright orange color schemes. Brides will be adding touches of orange to their weddings by having bridal bouquets of bright orange blossoms. Working well with soft pink tones, the two hues would greatly enhance the bright, fun mood around the reception table.

Photo Courtesies:

(1) & (2) Red and orange bridal bouquet photo and yellow groom's boutonniere photo courtesy of Bella Studios, a flower shop Colorado Springs.
(3) & (4) Orange carrot reception food picture and yellow candy display photo courtesy of Catering Creations by CruLaRo, an Athens Alabama catering service.

Turquoise, Ice Blue and Aqua

Blue has been a favorite wedding color for as long as anyone can remember. Modern brides in 2010 are spicing things up with ice blue accents in everything from the wedding cake to the bridesmaids dresses.

Turquoise and aqua are popular colors for beach themed weddings. Aqua paired with chocolate brown (another hit color) is still a favorite pair for brides.

Photo courtesies:

(1) Turquoise/Sky Blue bridesmaids dress photo courtesy of Ella Park Bridal, a bridal shop in Newburgh Indiana.
(2) Blue beach themed wedding reception centerpiece photo courtesy of Way's House of Flowers, an Albany Georgia florist.
(3) Four tier blue wedding cake photo provided by Blue Note Bakery, a bakery in Austin Texas.

Chocolate Brown

For the Groom and his groomsmen, chocolate brown will be a popular choice for weddings in 2010. This color is very universal and perfectly pairs with a bride's pink accented wedding dress. Chocolate brown and aqua are popular wedding combinations in 2010 as well, with brown always supplying the base color.

Already customers are finding brown is the new black (though black is also a popular accent color) and merchandisers are scrambling to keep up with the demand.

Photo courtesies:

(1) Chocolate brown bridesmaids dresses photo courtesy of Curtis' Photography & Videography, a wedding photographer in Uniontown Ohio.
(2) Chocolate wedding favors photo courtesy of Robin Chocolates, providing chocolate wedding favors in Longmont Colorado and special orders.

It might be the most frequently asked question of the wedding season, “So, what are your wedding colors?”. As if you haven’t toiled over it enough already. The truth is choosing wedding colors is much easier than you think. The key to creating a stylish and successful wedding color combo is recognizing the relationship amidst the hues. No, you don’t need an Art Degree to apply the ideas. Here’s how you start:

1. Consider the Site. When deciding on colors used for the wedding, it is wise to play up prominent colors offered by your wedding venue. For example, a church layered with burgundy and navy carpet isn't going to be complimentary setting for lime green and hot pink bridesmaid dresses and bouquets. It simply won’t quite cut it. Instead opt for rosey, blue and cream shades or even burgundy and gold. Selecting complimentary colors makes for a much better wedding color and venue combo.

2. Let The Season Be Your Guide. Mother Nature knows best, so take her advice. The fact is all colors can be used year round. However, it’s the shade of the color that matters from season to season. Light pastel hues are perfect for spring and summer weddings. These same colors can look washed out and inappropriately "springy" in winter months. Reserve the darker shades like burnt orange and hunter greens for fall and winter.

3. Visit the Hardware Store. DON’T go buy a jig saw and start making DIY Wedding Decorations. DO visit the paint section. Paint swatches are a great way to see an entire color palate right down to the exact hues you desire. Pick up a few and stick them in your purse while making wedding arrangements.

4. Pair Colors By Personality. Choose colors that have the same color intensity like baby blue and lavender, rather than baby blue and dark purple. You don't want a vibrant color overpowering a soft delicate color.

5. Consider Your Friends. Remember, not all colors are easy to wear and you have bridesmaids to dress. Think of them when considering whether to have "sunburst orange" bridesmaids’ dresses. If your bridesmaids are washed out or look ghastly in the color you choose, all eyes will be on them in horror instead of on your with admiration.

Keep these 5 tips in mind when choosing your wedding colors and you’ll be ready to go … without any mortified bridesmaids!