"Selecting just the right color theme for your wedding should take place in the early stages of wedding planning, as this theme becomes an essential part of the planning. The appropriate use of color directly affects the beauty and romantic excitement of your wedding, serving to enhance both the ceremony and reception. Harmonious use of color in bouquets and body flowers can create fabulous effects that will be especially attractive in your photographs."

"Deciding on a central color theme does not mean that every aspect of the wedding must match or be of the same color. Because flowers grow in a natural range of colors that will hardly ever match exactly, it is important to understand that different colors can work together to create harmony and contribute to the overall look you are trying to achieve."

"Whichever floral combinations you select, it is important to let the natural colors of the flowers and foliage work together to create enchanting flowers for your wedding"

- John Henry Inc. Lansing MI

ANALOGOUS COLOR

This term refers to the use of two colors next to one another on the color wheel. Combinations include yellow and orange, orange and red, red and violet, violet and blue, blue and green, and green and yellow. Analogous colors are vibrant and interesting, creating a strong complement to an existing color theme.

COMPLEMENTARY COLOR

Colors directly across from one another on the color wheel are complementary colors, providing the most interesting and intense of all color schemes. Complementary color schemes, including yellow and violet, red and green, and blue and orange, promote the strongest contrast and a very dramatic effect with your wedding colors, especially in the wedding photographs.

TRIADIC COLOR

The use of three colors equidistant from one another on the color wheel is called triadic color. red, yellow, and blue (primary colors) or orange, green, and violet (secondary colors) are the two triadic color schemes. Using these colors in combinations can create a very dramatic effect

MONOCHROMATIC COLOR

The term "monochromatic color" refers to combinations of tones, tints and shades of a single color on the color wheel. Using the tint, tone and shade of the primary color red as an example, red + white=pink, red + black=burgundy, and red + gray=mauve. Selection of a monochromatic color scheme will create a bold color statement