create a color swatch for a wedding
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When planning a wedding, the first question asked by wedding planners, florists, reception hall managers and wedding dress sales associates is "what are your wedding colors." Knowing this information help to match colors, hues and shades perfectly for all parts of the wedding -- this includes matching swatches to your wedding dress since there are many shades of white. To keep everyone on the same page, create a wedding color swatch is essential.
Things You'll Need
- Camera
- Card stock
- Scissors
- Glue
- Hole puncher
- Ribbon
Instructions
1
Ask for color samples from where you purchased your wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses. Many boutiques and wedding dress stores keep hundreds of extra color and fabric samples that they give to wedding planners to create a color swatch. If they do not have any fabric available, take a close-up picture of the dresses, in natural lighting and without the flash on to capture the color.
2
Snap a close-up picture of flowers in different colors that you like for your wedding. Again, take these photos in natural lighting and without the flash to get the best picture of the color as possible.
3
Continue to collect pictures of the colors already liked or wish to have for your wedding. For example, if you see lighting with the perfect shade of red for your wedding, take a picture of the lamp or lights, and keep it for your swatch. Other things like linens and place settings, if they are very inexpensive, purchase the linens and cut out a small section of the shade to use in your swatch. Also, flip through wedding magazines and books at a bookstore or library for other ideas on colors.
4
Cut your card stock so each piece is about 1-inch wide and 3- to 4- inches long.
5
Apply a few drops of glue to one piece of card stock. Press a color/fabric example or printed color example picture to the glue. Hold the color example there for a few seconds to ensure it glues properly.
6
Continue gluing all of your color examples to different piece of card stock. When finished, trim the edges of the color examples so they are the same size as the card stock. Allow the glue 1 hour to dry completely.
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Punch a hold through the end of each card stock -- try to align each hole in the same spot. Thread a piece of ribbon through the holes and tie in a bow. Now, when you go to look a more flowers, a different wedding dress or the reception hall, take your wedding color swatch with you to match colors perfectly.
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Collect and make new swatches as you continue to plan the wedding. Simply untie the bow and slide the new swatch onto the ribbon to add to the wedding's swatch collection.
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