8 Popular Wedding Colors And Their Meanings

For a wedding to become more memorable, unique and exciting, a good and well planned wedding theme is a must. Wedding theme sets the tone and the overall feel of the wedding ceremony up to the reception. For you to come up with a nice theme, you have to choose and decide the color(s) you wanted to be seen at the wedding.

Below, I listed down eight of the most popular wedding colors as of this date along with their meanings. I hope it can help you out to choose or decide the perfect theme for your big event. Here they are.

Red. Red is absolutely the most popular wedding color around. It's a traditional color or symbol of love. This color represents the great and unconditional love between the couple. Red is also the easiest tone to be partnered with other color in terms of wedding decorations.

Yellow. Yellow wedding is a happy and vibrant wedding. Yellow symbolizes joy and happiness and its a perfect color for a happy couple celebrating their big day. This is a great color for a summer or spring wedding.

Blue. Blue is the color of peace and tranquility. Perfect for small and intimate weddings. Blue is often used at beach weddings partnered with white or light colors. Blue is also used traditionally in a summer or spring wedding.

Black. Black is growing in popularity nowadays and even celebrities are using black as their wedding theme color. Black represents class, formality and elegance. Black color is best partned with yellow, gold or silver colors. Black is a perfect wedding color in a winter wedding celebration. Word of caution: black colored wedding is not designed for all so use it with great caution.

Green. Green is abundance, wealth, growth and positivity. Green is usually seen at a garden wedding and most especially in a sping season wedding.

Purple. Purple wedding is royal wedding. Purple represents sophisticated and classy wedding. Purple themed wedding is often seen at small intimate weddings.

White. White is the traditional wedding color that represents purity, innocence, fertility and cleanliness. Most traditionally planned and excecuted weddings uses white as their dominant color.

Pink. Like red, it represents love. Aside from that, pink also represents innocence, sensuality and sweetness. Pink is often complemented with white or red color.

There you have it, the common wedding theme or colors of this generation. I hope you find it helpful and useful enough if ever you are looking out for the kind of wedding color to use at. If you are in doubt, it's better to consult a wedding planning expert for tips and advice. If not possible, you can jump into the trend of multi-colored wedding theme just like what is presented below. :).

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2013 Color Trends For Wedding Dresses

In this kind of time and generation, it seems like the traditional wedding dress colors are becoming out of fashion. The colors of white, ivory and cream aren't seen that much if you will take a good look and review some of the popular (celebrities and alike) weddings.

According to wedding trends analysts, colored bridal gowns will be seen much more this 2013. Coloured bridal gowns will be the top trend in terms of wedding dresses. This kind of gowns gives the bride and the whole wedding ceremony itself the style, fashion and uniqueness or freshness that people would love to see.

Check out below information that kind of proves that colored wedding dress or gowns will be the hot trend this year of 2013.

Celebrities With Their Colored Wedding Dress

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel
Donned designer wedding dresses with shades of pink last fall.

Anne Hathaway Wedding Dress With Shades of Pink

Gwen Stefani 
Wore Galliano wedding gown with shades of hot pink last 2012.

Jessica Biel (left) and Gwen Stefanie (Right) With Their Pink Wedding Dresses

Reese Witherspoon
Wore a blush-coloured gown.

Reese Witherspoon At her Monique Lhuillier wedding dress

Wedding Dress Designers

Vera Wang
Showcased an all-black gown collection for fall 2012.

New York Designer's Bridal Collection 
Showcased various tones of red for spring 2013.

Oscar de la Renta and New York-based Canadian designer Romona Keveza
Showed bridal creations for spring 2013 with colors of red and blue.

The above celebrities and designers are just few of the many that showed the world that colored wedding dresses are indeed the future of wedding gowns.

If you wanted to know more information about 2012 wedding trends and alike, you can check out this Huffington Post article entitled 2013 Wedding Dresses: Top Trends Include Pink, Red And Blue

Image Credits:
Anne Hathaway Wedding Dress Image via People.com/FabSugar.com
Jessica Biel and Gwen Stefani Pink Wedding Dresses Image via style.mtv.com
Reese Witherspoon Wedding Image Via People Magazine

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Black Wedding Dresses

Black Wedding Dresses - New Wedding Gown Fashion

Black wedding dresses are now a hot trend. Believe it or not, black wedding dresses are really popular. Reasons and beliefs on why does the color "black" is now the "in thing" in terms of wedding dresses.

Some countries and group of people that wearing black on wedding day is a bad luck or doesn't feel like wedding at all. Traditionally, white is always the dominating color on a wedding event. White represents pureness and virginity. While black is always associated with bad or evil things.

But things changed, so as well as the traditional white wedding gowns and dresses.

Back in 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker got married to husband Matthew Broderick in black wedding dress and set a new trend. Sarah wanted to marry "invisibly" and her way of doing it was to wear a black wedding dress.

Of course, black wedding dresses is not only for celebrity or popularity, there are so many reasons for you to consider wearing black wedding dresses.

Black Wedding Dresses - Wear Them For The Following Reasons

Cheaper Price
You don't need to visit a bridal store as you can hunt for the dress of your dreams in prom dress stores or even buy a little black dress from your local discount fashion store. You may also customize the black dress you bought anyway you want. Its a lot cheaper than any traditional wedding dresses.

Personality Issues
Wearing a black dress on your wedding day will cause huge controversy but it's sure to put your individual stamp on what would otherwise be yet another traditional, unsurprising day. Uniqueness will always be remembered by people.

Black Is Cool
Yes, you read it right, now black is cool! Some women just do not suit white or ivory. Whilst pink, blue or red wedding dresses are other alternative choices, why not consider a dark shade too especially if you love wearing the color.

Black Is Sexy
Do I need to elaborate this one? Black is and always be a sexy color. Period!

In wearing a black wedding gown or dress, the basic tip I can give out is to wear minimal jewelry. If you were planning on wearing a huge Victorian-style necklace with your black wedding dress, you’re better off with a simple pair of drop earrings. The focus is on your dress and you don’t want to look cluttered. That actually goes for any dress with strong colors or a lot of detail.

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Top 10 Wedding Nightmares Of All Time

10 Worst Wedding Horrors of All Time

Who wants their wedding date to be ruined or goes like hell? No one right? Well, that is how major preparations, plannings and consultations are being made prior to this special event from the attire to wear up to the food to eat. But, sometimes, disaster and accidents do happen. Read below the top 10 wedding nightmares of all time.

1. Robbed Memories - No Photos Or Videos Of The Wedding Day.
Although most couples successfully preserve their bridal bliss in photos or on video, certain unforeseen events can leave newlyweds with no record of their special day. Recently, Celebration Studios, a regional photography service, left dozens of couples throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania without photos, even though the couples had paid for the entire service up front. Apparently, the studio shut down shortly afterward and is currently in the process of filing for bankruptcy.

2. Runaway Brides or Grooms.
Although nervous jitters are perfectly normal, some brides and grooms develop such a serious case of cold feet they head for the hills. Perhaps the most famous runaway bride was Jennifer Wilbanks, who disappeared from Duluth, Georgia, in 2005 to avoid her wedding and later falsely claimed she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted. Wilbanks was eventually sentenced to two years' probation and 120 hours of community service. In 2008, her former fiance, John Mason, married another woman.

3. Unpaid Wedding Rings .
Wedding crashers are never welcome, but when the uninvited guest is a repo man, it can quickly turn a fairy-tale event into a humiliating scene. At a 2006 wedding in South Africa, the groom was about to exchange vows with his betrothed when the unthinkable occurred: A private investigator stormed into the venue, interrupted the ceremony, and seized the wedding rings for non-payment. Apparently, the rings had been purchased with a check that had later bounced.

4. Food Poisoning.
When you're choosing a caterer for your big day, you never imagine they'll put salmonella, campylobacter, or E. coli on the menu. But according to experts, wedding-borne illnesses are more common than you might think. At a 2004 reception in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, dozens of guests became gravely ill after eating salmonella-tainted food. The bride, Marsha Cochenour, has since filed a lawsuit against the restaurant where the event was held; the restaurant's attorneys, however, claim the salmonella stemmed from the wedding cake, which was provided by another vendor.

5. Stolen/Missing Gifts.
It's hard to believe that anyone would burglarize a bridal couple, but there have been numerous cases of staff, party crashers, and even guests doing just that. At Mary and Herb Wright's 2005 wedding in Jacksonville, Florida, reception staff told attendees to leave their presents with them, rather than directing them to the gift table. The result? Thousands of dollars in gift cards, cash, and checks were stolen. Fortunately, one of the thieves was promptly arrested, and the venue where the wedding was held offered to pay for the stolen goods, as well as the fees for canceled checks.

6. Stolen Gown/Dress.
When a couple is saying "I do," all eyes are on the bride-and, of course, her gown. While a minor mishap, like a broken button, is no big deal, what if the dress suddenly disappears? That's exactly what happened to Eula Strickland, a bad-luck Chicago bride whose dress was stolen from her car just hours before she was scheduled to fly to Jamaica for her wedding. Apparently, someone pried open the car's trunk and simply walked off with the dress.

7. Drunk Grooms/Best Man.
While most people view bachelor parties as harmless fun, too much drunken debauchery can lead to catastrophe. In some cases, grooms have gotten so inebriated that they've missed the rehearsal dinner or even the wedding (which is why experts recommend throwing the bachelor party at least two weeks beforehand). Other outcomes have been even more devastating: A Houston groom recently drowned in a friend's pool at his bachelor party just days before he was scheduled to say "I do."

8. Brides Gone Wild.
Most of us have known at least one bride who becomes so mired in wedding minutiae, she drives herself-and everyone around her-crazy. In 2003, a Connecticut bride went on a rampage after restaurant workers closed the bar at her wedding reception. She reportedly began throwing cake and gifts at the staff and even tried to bite a police officer while being taken into custody. Bridezilla later pled guilty to a reduced charge of creating a public disturbance.

9. Environment Disturbance.
A little smog is one thing, but what if the wedding venue suddenly fills with poisonous fumes? At George Quenneville and Sharon Strack's 2007 reception at Dante Caterers in Queens, New York, a malfunctioning boiler in the basement caused carbon monoxide fumes to spew into the dance hall-sending numerous guests, including the bride and the couple's 2-year-old daughter, to the hospital for oxygen treatments. The venue's owner later apologized and offered to refund the $15,000 cost of the event.

10. Honeymoons Goes Wrong.
Just because a couple has survived their wedding doesn't mean the honeymoon is smooth sailing. Travel delays, lost luggage, and stolen credit cards can put a damper on any dream vacation, but that's nothing compared to other, more sinister scenarios. In 2006, eight days into George and Jennifer Smith's honeymoon cruise, George mysteriously vanished.

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