Designing a blush wedding? Go for it — it’s a color we all love and know well! It’s playful and sweet and can be dressed up in a black tie, elegant affair or provide the perfect touch to a more natural, rustic barn soiree. Not to mention there are many stops on the road between these two ideas where this tone can be used and shown well. While we love the classic blush-cream-green palette and can dress it up any which way, you might be looking for ways to bring a little more personality or a signature touch to the color.

Below are five combinations that we adore and can get you started on your wedding color palette! These can be tailored to a rustic vineyard wedding to a more traditional mansion wedding. Whatever your fancy, blush can make it happen!

Blush Wedding Palette: The Vibrant Vineyard Wedding

taupe // ivory // blush // magenta // burgundy // rattan

photos: robert norman photography // floral: blush floral design // venue: jonathan edwards winery

Blush Wedding Palette: The Romantic Home Wedding

ivory // cream // blush // rose // marsala // slate blue

photos: carla ten eyck photography // floral: blush floral design

Blush Wedding Palette: The Elegant Mansion Wedding

ivory // champagne // blush // pink // lavender // royal purple

photos: carla ten eyck photography // floral: hana floral design // stationery: coral pheasant // venue: branford house

Blush Wedding Palette: The Charming Shoreline Wedding

ivory // champagne // blush // silver // charcoal

photos: robert + kathleen // floral: blush floral design // stationery: coral pheasant // venue: old saybrook point inn + spa

Blush Wedding Palette: The Organic Tented Wedding

ivory // cream // peach // blush // sage // gray

photos: carla ten eyck photography // floral: blush floral design

For more ideas for your blush wedding color palette, visit our last post here.

One of the first questions people will ask you about your wedding, after the way you were asked, when is the date, and what will you be wearing: your color palette! If you don’t have an idea where to begin for your summer wedding, we have a few ideas to inspire you no matter the locale of your day or the style you envision for it. Beyond your table linen, stationery, and floral pieces, there are many other places sneak in your wedding colors, including your menu, lighting, and celebratory decor!

These are a collection of just the start of our favorites — after all there are thousands of ideas to choose from and each one is like an ingredient in a masterful cake! 

periwinkle pink // magenta // clementine // peach // tanzanite // green

photos: Robert Norman Photography // floral: Just for You Floral Design

blush // ivory // champagne // lush green // navy

photos: Armor + Martel // floral: sayles livingston design // paper: coral pheasant stationery // linens: la tavola linen

magenta // petal pink // pink sand // peach // turquoise water // gray

photos: Ali + Julie // floral: Hana Floral Design // paper: We’re Into It

peach // blush // petal pink // mauve // violet // navy // chrome

photos: Carla Ten Eyck // floral: Stoneblossom // rentals: Peak Event Services

cream // petal pink // peach // tangerine // gray

photos: Lisa Berry // floral: Blush Floral Design // linen: La Tavola Linen

Tents are easily our favorite spaces to design! It’s always an exciting process to see how the decor in the tent comes to life. From lighting, to draping, hanging florals and unique customized pieces — we’ve done it all. One element we love is classic wedding tent decor using draping and lighting. Trust us when we say there is not a chandelier or swag of fabric that does not have our heart! So, we put together 3 draping ideas to spruce up your wedding tent decor.

3 Ways to Spruce Up Your Wedding Tent Decor Using Draping

Photo: Ali + Julie   Tent Decor: Drape Art Designs

Wedding Tent Decor: Texture

Play with textures. For Alicia & Corey’s wedding at a private home in Connecticut, we decked out a Sperry Tent with alternating fabrics, bringing texture to the ceiling. Speak with your planner or tent decor company about other fabrics and textures that can be introduced into your design to heighten your aesthetic!

Photo: Carla Ten Eyck Photography   Tent Decor: Drape Art Designs

Wedding Tent Decor: Use of Color

Bring in a touch of color! We said we love classic draping, but you don’t have to limit yourself to a white or ivory fabric. For Kara & Victor’s tented wedding at The Branford House, we brought in their color palette with beautiful mauve and blush draping. Draw inspiration from your own color palette, stretching this to every aspect of your design, making your wedding day look complete.

Photo: Armor + Martel   Tent Decor: Ryan Designs

Wedding Tent Decor: Patterns & Styling

 Pattern your fabric! Your guests will look up to revel in your romantic decor as soon as they enter the tent. Add a bit of intrigue and impact by weaving your fabric between the center poles, allowing this aspect to shine a bit more! We love this look that we created for Amy & Scott’s tented wedding at the Eisenhower House. The weaved fabric is unexpected, and added A LOT of drama to the ceiling of this magical tent!

Want to see more of our Connecticut tented weddings?

Ocean Themed Wedding Invitations

Paper is a serious obsession of ours because you can do practically anything with it!! Size, color, texture — and that applies to each facet of your paper suite. While these are just the start to how your invitations or day of paper is created, inspiration can derive from more than just your color story. Cue the design bells! And these ocean themed wedding invitations from Kara & Victor’s wedding are stunning!

Ocean Themed Wedding Invitations: Details

Kara and Victor’s invitation suite below was a perfect nod to who they are. They were a stunning introduction to where they would be hosting their nearest and dearest for their Connecticut wedding. It started with a painting, one that Kara passed every day in her Stonington home. There was something about the way it made her feel, it’s essence giving way to this peaceful, untouched atmosphere that invites you to soak up the moment.

Though our day of design was packed with warm summer tones, we balanced it out with pops of Pantone’s serenity and navy focused as an ode to the shore. The script and feel emulated the wedding decor as being classic and sophisticated with whimsical touches of floral notes on the RSVP envelope and card. The best part?! That beloved envelope liner you see was just that of the painting Kara adored, seguing into the perfect wedding day setting at the Branford House!

Thanks to Nichole from Coral Pheasant Stationery for tapping into our girl’s brain to put into paper form just what she experienced each morning.

Interested in seeing more of our clients gorgeous wedding invitations? Check out our archives!

Connecticut Home Wedding Planner: Jordan & Mike

Jordan! My dear Jordan! My kindred spirit in all things cupcakes and dessert. Kind, genuine, and charmingly funny, all traits mirrored in her hubby, Mike! Behind everything the other one did, you always saw some helpful intent, something that said “I am here to take care of you.” Behind every action and every word was warmth and love. As I went through these images, the ones most noticeable were those of Jordan and Mike smiling. I found myself doing the same as I spent time with each one because their happiness is so infectious!! Tell me you didn’t do this as well!

Connecticut Home Wedding: The Details

Details and decor are something we have a keen appetite for and our family knew just how to love it the same!  Not only was our church the most stunningly ornate setting for our vows that day, but the bride’s family’s home was packed with keepsakes and ornamentation that told a story about them. Inside the home, Jordan’s mom had displayed her own wedding dress — as well as those of other family members! It made you feel like that little girl that ooh-ed and aah-ed over the array of gowns in the windows as you passed by.

Set under a dreamy Sperry Tent with lights to match the twinkling night sky, we created a room that would be colorful, energetic, and the perfect complement of summer and fall as we fell right into that particular season. We were so lucky to have the works of Elisabeth from Blush Floral Design gracing our tables and tent. To pair with our blue and slate tones in our linens and stationery, our florals were packed with warms hues in cranberry, marsala, and blush, bursting from their gold vessels (the dahlias!!!)! We used this plan for our table decor to inspire our amazing paper story, created and designed by one of our favorite masterminds, Nichole from Coral Pheasant Stationery.

Now this family was one after my own heart. As you may have gathered in my entirely too brief explanation of how wonderful Jordan and Mike are, these two are food lovers, most specifically in terms of dessert – my kind of people! One of my favorite details of this wedding was the create-your-own cupcake bar, courtesy of the amazing Sweet Maria’s. Here, guests selected their favorite flavor cupcake, buttercream filling, buttercream topping in any design they wish, and a few additional goodies to add a signature flare. Two of the most important aspects of the event came together in a smashing way!

My other favorite? Well, what happens when you have a little time between the end of the ceremony and the beginning of your reception? It only made sense to bring along an ice cream truck, none other than College Creamery, stocked with all of the nostalgic treats that we think of when we hear the jingle of the truck’s melody approaching our street.

Jordan and Mike, thank you both so much for allowing us to be a part of such a fairy tale day! We so appreciate you letting us into your home and bringing your story to life there. We wish you many days of happiness paired with endless amounts of sweets. Cheers to you and your families!! XO

Interested in seeing more Connecticut home weddings? Check out our archives!

CREDIT REEL

Photography: Carla Ten Eyck Photography
Ceremony Location: Saint Stanislaus Church
Reception Location: Bride’s Childhood Home
Event Planning + Design:  Diana of Jubilee Events
Flowers: Blush Floral Design
Videography: Vantage Point Films
Catering: Eli’s on Whitney
Music: DJ Eko
Bride’s gown: Modern Trousseau
Stationery + Bar Panels: Coral Pheasant Stationery
Hair and Makeup: Dana Bartone + Co.
Ice Cream Truck: College Creamery
Cake + Cupcake Bar: Sweet Maria’s
Tent: Greenwich Tent Co.
Tent Decor + Lighting: Drape Art Designs
Rentals: La Tavola Linen, Party Rental, Ltd., Rentals Unlimited/ PEAK Event Services, Gather + Lounge

The dear, sweet, and wonderfully infectious smiles of Jordan and Mike are on Carats and Cake today!! This is an all time favorite that we relive every chance we get. Great news is they will be on the blog in just over a week and we can’t wait to share with all of you! In the meantime, stop over to C+C blog and see the gorgeous couple, details, and killer vendor team now!

I’m certain we will never tire of seeing these breathtaking photos of Amy and Scott’s big day, which you can see right here!! With Newport, Rhode Island as the perfect setting and all the right personal touches, this will go down in history books as one of our all time faves!

Thank you to the fabulous ladies over at Carats & Cake for sharing this special event! XOXO

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Amy and Scott are two wonderful people that you cannot help but adore the moment you meet them! Right away I knew that we would have an incredible adventure planning and designing their wedding together. Without a doubt, their Eisenhower House wedding was a day we still get giddy over!

Their hearts, made of gold, always took such great care of their guests’ experience, making sure that every aspect of their wedding was something for everyone to look forward to and enjoy to it’s full extent. They were so invested in every step of the process and it truly showed on the big day! Amy and Scott so perfectly exemplified while planning a wedding is so FUN!! They embraced every step, loved talking through ideas and questions, and also placed their guests’ experience at the forefront of their thoughts, which is an element we always lead our plans with!

The Eisenhower House: Design

Amy and Scott’s design was a perfect reflection of one of their favorite places they enjoyed every year – Newport, Rhode Island! Fort Adams, where the Eisenhower House is set happened to be the where our couple spent many weekends picnicking on the lawn, watching the sailboats drift by. Naturally, we developed a classic, nautical inspiration, set on the lawn of the historic yellow house, complete with the most elegant sailcloth tent from Newport Tents (just wait until you see the epic draping and to-die-for crystal chandeliers!). The views of the historic Pell Bridge added the perfect touch to an already perfect evening!

Flowers are a staple in our couple’s love story, so there was no better person to go to than the wildly talented Sayles Livingston Design. She created the most luxurious centerpieces full of blush, ivory, and cream buds bursting up from champagne rich tables. Pops of gold graced our tables and, my favorite element, the gold foiled script on our invitations and stationery courtesy of the immeasurably talented designer, Nichole of Coral Pheasant Stationery!

We were graced with the most colorful sunset that evening, bidding farewell to the most perfect Newport wedding and couple. Amy and Scott, we are so grateful to have had the opportunity to collaborate with you, to spend time getting to know you, and eating pounds of cake with an array of fresh buttercream and fillings. We miss you dearly and wish you the very best first anniversary in the coming weeks and many more exciting adventures in the decades to come! XO!!

CREDIT REEL

Photography: Armor + Martel
Ceremony Location: St. Augustin’s Church
Reception Location: The Eisenhower House
Event Planning + Design:  Diana of Jubilee Events
Flowers: Sayles Livingston Design
Videography: Vantage Point Films
Catering: Blackstone Caterers
Music: The Sultans of Swing
Bride’s gown: Marchesa from Ultimate Bride
Stationery: Coral Pheasant Stationery
Hair and Makeup: Dana Bartone + Co.
Bridesmaids’ dresses: Jenny Yoo
Cake: Confectionery Designs
Groom’s suit: custom Salvatore Ferragamo
Tent: Newport Tent
Tent Decor + Lighting: Ryan Designs
Rentals: La Tavola Linen, Rentals Unlimited / PEAK Event Services

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