A cool clear metallic that can be bright and shiny or dull and textured.
- Combine with reds of all hues and white

- With blues of all hues, sand or pearly grey and white

- With purples, lilacs, mauves, gardenia white with or without pearl grey

- With saffron yellow and mid grey and touches of bronze

- With orange hues from apricot to dark orange, leaf green and white

- With pinks of all hues, touches of grey and off white

- With cherry red, chocolate brown and white

- With black and white and touches of green

- With greens of all hues – add touches of black or bronze brown and white

- Silver in shoes, hair combs, filigree earrings, ornate belts, jewellery, belt buckles, cufflinks, tie pins

- Silver edged lace as edging or appliqué on dress, veil, wrapped around your bouquet

- We envisage making silver the hero of your reception scheme – lots of silver in candelabra, candlesticks, containers, silver embellished glassware, silver rimmed crockery, silver napkin rings

- Find some really beautiful fabric silver ribbon in different widths to tie napkins, favour boxes, attach to the backs of chairs with ornamentation or flowers

- Silver sugared almonds, silver foil wrapped chocolates, silver wine bottle stoppers, silver keys, silver spoons, napkin rings for your favours

- Find silver coloured metal filigree decorations to hang from the ceiling or from candelabra

- Enhance your silver with lots of sparkling glassware and candles in the white of your choice

- Linen could be white, white and more white, with touches of your chosen secondary colours and lots of silver in containers, candlesticks etc (as mentioned above) for a really elegant scheme

- Sugared fruit with soft coloured flowers for a pastel pink scheme, flowers in large silver containers, pale pink napkins, pale pink beading on the table cloth’s edging, silver candlesticks with white candles, a pale pink wedding dress with pale pink shoes embellished with a rhinestone bow, a pink diamond platinum engagement ring, silver edged white china

- Gossamer voile over cloths appliquéd in silver designs, or used as draping over an archway, or used generously as a draping over a ‘chuppah – like’ area to say your vows in

- For a quirky touch consider tarnished silver for all your containers, candlesticks etc. Decorate with paper flowers made out of blotchy vintage paper or old music scores. Would look great in an all white, white and black or gunmetal grey scheme or with darker colours such as midnight blue or smoky purple

- An emphasis on silver can be used effectively in a:

• modern, stark setting to add softness, a sense of generosity and sparkle with lots of silver and glassware
• a rustic setting to lighten the feel and add a touch of pizzazz – against stone walls, an open fire, old wooden furniture
• an outdoors setting to add a touch of whimsy and surprise, silver lanterns swinging from trees, silver bird garlands or ribbon cascading from branches
• a rich, dark colour scheme with dark furniture, dark colours, moody lighting, lots of candles and the sparkling silver to add the magic

Silver Jordan almonds from Cloud Nine Wedding Store, Justin Alexander Signature gown from Brides, Cobra candlesticks from Georg Jensen, Clutch from ChristyStudio on Etsy,

A lovely neutral – not quite latte, not quite grey, but with a touch of both.

Combine with any of the browns

-       Creams, off whites, white

-       Rust and bronze brown

-       Metallics – silver, bronze, pewter

-       Apricots of any shade

-       Greens – of any shade from Kelly to sage to spring green

-       Pinks – from old rose to baby pink

-       Berry colours – deep amethysts (the purples with a grey undertone), deep berry red

-       Blues – navy, sky, Tiffany or baby blue

-       Dresses in this colour lend themselves to lots of embellishment – pleating, lace, beading

-       Suits for the men could be black, very dark brown or even a charcoal grey with a brown tinge to the fabric

-       Add texture to the scheme with soft lustrous fabrics, linens, rough and smooth, shiny and dull

-       A disciplined approach featuring only this colour and the off white of your bridal dress, broken by touches of dark green in leaves and the occasional dark green candle or bead to add a jolt of colour, sparkling glassware

-       Use this as your secondary colour in an all magnolia colour scheme. Add taupe beaded sheer or lustred fabrics to the tables, taupe candles and candlesticks, taupe or white dinnerware, magnolia flowers in off white containers, taupe ties for the men with black suits, a magnolia  coloured cake with subtly shiny taupe embellishments

-       For the bride a very pale version of taupe in a softly lustrous dress with a darker taupe mantilla style veil and shoes – great if you have very dark red hair or dark hair

-       Lilies, clematis, stephanotis, magnolias, sugar frosted fruit, autumn fruits such as pomegranates, autumn leaves, grape vine leaves, hydrangeas – any flower that ties with your chosen colour scheme

-       Speckled feathers, seed pods, twine, delicate filigree, tiny delicate bird’s nests with speckled eggs, paper butterflies or flowers – chose one or a few to include in your table settings

-       Metallic shoes, pearls, crystals

-       The bride in soft white, the bridesmaids in soft taupe dresses with a simple shape and great ornate earrings

-       Use this colour as a simple restful background with French inspired theme – furniture, flowers such as full blown roses everywhere, heavily patterned fabrics, crystal chandeliers, ornate glassware – think Marie Antoinette and the French court

-       Favours such as tiny bottles of liqueur, handmade chocolates with a coffee cream filling, marzipan ‘fruits’, nougat

-       Have fun with taupe and soft white stripes for a ceiling tented effect, tablecloths

Boutonniere from Martha Stewart Weddings, wedding gown from Vera Wang, choker from BlueRootPress, Ballet flats from Dessy, Invitation from All’Antica

An intense hue – not quite pink yet not quite violet. For those who like a dramatic, eye popping scheme.
Combine with ivory, deep purple and violet blue
- With bright orange, hot pink, dark lime green and touches of egg yolk yellow

- With pale grey, violet and white

- With pewter grey, navy and ivory

- With sage green and ivory

- With shades of white and touches of black

- With periwinkle blue, silver and white

- With ruby, deep burgundy and dark navy

- With aqua, ivory, mid pink and touches of spring green

- Fern fronds, ivy, lotus pods, orchids, lilac or magenta roses, larkspur, delphiniums, purple hydrangeas, dramatic white blooms, privet berries, African violets in tiny pots, burgundy foliage

- Choose a dramatic fabric such as a check, floral or toile for table linen in one of your other colours on a white background and pipe in magenta. Add napkins or placemats in magenta, or magenta covered buttons or ribbons holding up folds of an overcloth

- Mercury glass balls, mirrors or containers. Glass covered tabletops

- Think the vibrant hues of saris and the touches used in Indian weddings

- Brass, silver, black wrought iron, pewter

- Beach weddings using the aqua or bright orange colour scheme. Magenta table cloths, patterned runners, coloured crockery and candles, cane chairs, palm fronds, hibiscus, orchids – a riot of colour on white sand

- Pewter grey chairs, magenta linen edged in grey beads, navy napkins and crockery, brushed stainless steel cutler, muted silver or pewter candlesticks, navy candles, dull pewter or zinc floral containers filled with magenta and purple orchids and green peppercorn berries, magenta favour boxes tied with pewter and navy ribbon

- Brightly coloured and patterned Portuguese, Spanish or Moroccan tableware

- Clusters of beaded strands or small lights hung from the ceiling to mimic the feel of chandeliers

- Jewellery could be cloisonné, turquoise, marquasite, diamonds, silver

Dress from Lazaro via Brides, Magenta shoes from Faith, bouquet from Boutwell Studio via Wedding Channel, hair flower by Bower Bird Inc on Etsy,

Think of bitter sweet dark chocolate. Just the thought is a treat!

Combine with soft baby pink and magnolia white

-       With spring green and coral

-       With mid green and soft apricot

-       With duck egg blue and pearl grey

-       With Tiffany blue and blue green and white

-       With bronze brown and coral and warm white

-       With touches of burnt orange and dull silver or old brass

-       With copper and dull teal green (think the colour of aged copper)

-       With old rose pink, stone and magnolia cream

-       With cream, stone and caramel

-       Beeswax candles, rusted wire chandeliers, old wooden pots, wine barrels, wire baskets, linen coloured cloths, old French linen, wire bird cages

-       Favours of chocolate crackles, chocolate fudge, chocolate balls, chocolate hearts, spice mixtures

-       Silver/pewter candlesticks, cutlery, silver/pewter vases of burnt orange roses spiked with greenery, brown tablecloths, brown piped napkins held together with burnt orange beaded tassels, dark brown furniture, a roaring fire, stone walls, rustic lanterns. White, brown and (the occasional) burnt orange candle

-       Coloured leaves e.g. canna, coleus, aeonium, autumn leaves and berries, brown coloured orchids, brown boronias, leucadendrons, kangaroo paws, dried seed pods e.g. poppies, gumnuts

-       Old earthenware pots filled with dry leafless branches hung with pomegranates

-       Old wooden boxes with lids open filled with twigs, birds nests and speckled eggs, pebbles or filled with fudge as your table centrepieces, on duck egg blue over cloths atop brown table cloths, earthenware stone coloured crockery, touches of duck egg blue ribbon (patterned or stitched in brown) tied around handles, around favour boxes, around the bunched cutlery at each place setting or around the napkins, cream flowers tied with chocolate ribbon fastened with duck egg blue pins, blue/brown patterned fabric covered shoes

-       A long table at the entrance to the reception filled with randomly set round glass vases of various sizes filled with beeswax candle

-       A wedding built around a warm white such as magnolia, white chairs, a garden setting, white accessories, white flowers with touches of spring green and chocolate in leaves, lanterns hung from trees, dress embellishments, shoes, jewellery and food, brown and white polka dot invitations in spring green envelopes

-       Chocolate martini, hot chocolate, chocolate mud cake, chocolate fountain, chocolate flecked pavlova, chocolate ice cream with fudge sauce

Ring Pillow from bkylnpillow, Chocolate letters from Chocogram, boutonniere from Martha Stewart Weddings, Mocha cupcake from Martha Stewart Weddings.