When I asked reader for wedding advice, one included this recollection of her wedding:.jpg)
"I spent so much time coordinating dress colors with flowers etc but all the nice pictures are in black & white." Her husband's mother selected a high-priced "artsy" photographer who had a preference for black and white shots. But there are other ways that deep seated plans for color coordination can go awry.
The following is an example:
Dear Ms. Maven,
I have planned to have my wedding perfectly coordinated. I pored over hundreds of swatches of color until I found the color theme in persimmon perfection. The florist is going to have accents of persimmon perfection, and the caterer is going to get the linens and settings to match my color.. I even made sure the envelop liners of our invitations will be in the right color. Obviously, this is the color I want for the gowns of the women and girls in the family. I told them which shop to go to because not every place had exactly the right shade. I decided to be really nice by including my fiance's brother’s wife in the wedding party and gave her the same direction about her gown.
By now all the family members have ordered their gowns except for my fiance's sister-in-law. When I reminded her to place the order to be sure the gown would be ready in time, she had the audacity to tell me that she already had a gown. She was actually planning on wearing the peach gown she wore to her sister’s wedding! Peach is not persimmon perfection! Why something so obvious has to be pointed out is beyond me, but I kindly told her that her peach gown would clash with the color scheme. Then she said that she could instead wear the beige gown that she wore to her brother’s wedding so that her gown will not clash. How clueless can she be? In a beige gown, she may not clash, but she will still destroy the coordinate harmony I want. It will look so wrong in the pictures! What can I do to fix this problem?
See Ms. Maven's response in the next post.
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