Creative Colour – Slate Blue

This beautiful elegant colour has a grey base and lends a soft, yet crisp look to your wedding colour scheme.

Combine with ivory and champagne

-       With apricot and ivory

-       With darker peach, magnolia and pearl grey

-       With mid pink, blush pink and ivory

-       With grey-ish lavender and pewter

-       With ivory, magnolia and cream

-       With pewter, pearl grey and white

-       With navy, magnolia and pearl grey

-       With pale slate blue, silver and touches of indigo

-       With milk chocolate and ivory

-       With taupe, dusty pink and magnolia

-       With sweet peas, hydrangeas, daisies, peonies, roses in creams, white, apricots or pinks, grey gum leaves, gardenias, lilacs, anemones, dusty miller, lamb’s ears, dried or fresh lavender

-       Armfuls of a single flower such as sweet peas or white anemones, slate blue linen, organza over cloths in ivory, embroidered in  slate blue,  napkins, sparkling silver edged glasses, silver candelabra, slate blue and ivory candles, ivory crockery

-       Pewter and silver filigree in brooches, shoe clips, printed on invitations

-       Capiz shell in garlands, ‘chandeliers’ , dishes, mother of pearl, crystals

-       Think Wedgewood and their ivory silhouettes on slate blue – that effect could be used on invitations and other paper items, cake decoration, in white chocolate as part of a dessert, printed on placemats or napkins

-       Pearlised paper items printed with your monogram in slate blue

-       Cream or ivory crockery with ornate crimped or lace-like edges, cutwork cream cloths over slate blue under cloth, slate blue or cream cutwork napkins, echo the cutwork design in your cake embellishment, off white peonies in cream china bowls, add a touch of silver in napkin tie embellishments, candelabras

-       Use slate blue as the basis of a different take on a nautical theme. Add fabrics in taupe, peach, navy and ivory stripes. Bunting, paper flags, twine, white wooden furniture, ship’s lanterns, clear glass bowls filled to the brim with ivory and peach coloured shells and starfish. Add in a few silver shells for elegance. Serve small bites in flat pearly abalone shells, set on serving platters.

-       The bride in a transparent pale slate blue over ivory with pink crystal and pearl embellishment, the bridesmaids in darker slate blue with a touch of the bride’s dress embellishment carrying white anemones, purple privet berry, dusty miller and pink rose bouquets, the guys in mid grey suits, slate blue ties, pink rose boutonnieres.

Cake from Cake Occasions, Chanel dress via SoloLisa, Meadow Letterpress invitation from Bella Figura, Sergio Rossi suede heels from Beso

Want more? Check out these posts from the archives

1. Creative Colour – Ice Blue
2. Creative Colour – Midnight Blue
3. Creative Colour – Sapphire Blue
4. Creative Colour – Hydrangea Blue
5. Creative Colour – Duck Egg Blue

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