Colors and dresses and flowers, and oh my?

Question

Okay, my wonderful fiance and I got engaged and like most girly girls, I've kicked the planning into overdrive, and I'm needing some suggestions. I know that I want one of our colors to be periwinkle (cross between light blue and light purple) but I don't know what to compliment it with. I have no idea what to do for flowers with this color. And my dress is what I'm scared of most of all. I'm having issues finding a plus size bridal gown that I like. I've started my diet and fitness routine, and know I have time to lose some, but I still don't know what my dress should be. I've gone to all the sites I can think of and still can't decide. HELP

Answer 1

what might look really nice is an orangey hued flower...like wildflowers, or tigerlily.

gold is pretty too, like periwinkle w/ gold sash or trim (shoes)

good luck, and congratulations~

Answer 2

Colors: go to the paint department and pick a shade of periwinkle that is the color you like. Then, start looking for colors that you also like and see which looks best with it. That's the easiest way. And if you still can't decide, stay safe with the black, white and silver. It's very weddingy, sophisticated and will be quite elegant.

Dress: look for dresses with a drop waist. It's the way to go for us plus-sized gals! Go try on dresses. It may take a couple of Saturdays (full, hard days - take bottles of water with you), but the only way you're going to find "your" dress is to try some on. You'll know "the" one when you see it.

Flowers: periwinkle is a flower also.... If it's in season, go with white flowers and sprigs of the periwinkle sprinkled in, or go with white roses and do the ribbons in your periwinkle. Or, go with the accent color you choose along with white and use the periwinkle for the ribbons as well.

Hang tough, gal - you'll make all the right decisions and it will be beautiful!

Answer 3

Color ideas: pale pink, pale yellow, a darker blue or darker purple, a pale or sage green

For the flowers: this is a hard color to find unless you go with faux flowers. My suggestion would be to have the girls wearing the periwinkle color, and then have them carrying flowers in your complimentary color (light pink, for example) with a few periwinkle accents - you could use jewel picks, ribbon, etc for the accents. Talk to your florist for more ideas as well.

For your dress, you could try sites like http://chryscrossbridal.com were you can get your dress custom made to fit, but don't stress about it to much. Sometimes it takes a while to find 'the one"

Answer 4

Congrats on your engagement!! Silver, black, and pink go well with periwinkle. As for the dress. If you haven't looked at David's Bridal I would highly suggest looking through on of their magazines. Their dresses are gorgious and they are having a $99 sale right now. Almost all of their dresses can be ordered in plus sizes. Whatever you decide to do to worry!! You will find the perfect dress and your day will be magical. Best of Luck.

Answer 5

Girl I know what you mean!

As for the dress, Aurora D'Paradiso has the most amazing plus size dresses. I have already ordered mine even though my wedding isn't until 2008. I absolutely love them! You can also try Sydney's Closet, Bonny, and Katherine La'Croix. They have a wide variety of dresses.

The colors already suggested would be great, or you could do what I did. Go to the local paint shop and find the EXACT color you want and start compairing them until the one you love jumps out at you. I just went to the paint dept at K-mart. No one bothered me and I was able to compaired to my hearts content.

I have listed a few websites starting with dresses and the some wedding planning sites. These have been VERY helpful to me and I hope they help you.

God Bless

Answer 6

Personally, I think that silver would be a good accompanimate. Being a wedding/bridal consultant, I have had several brides that have the problems that you are having. With periwinkle, metalic colors are perfect. Oranges tend to "drown out" the calming effect of periwinkle. It confuses the guests as to what your trying to produce. If I can be of any service please feel free to email me.

Sami
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Answer 7

periwinkle is a great colour.. it goes really well with dark lavendar, a grey-beige and french navy.. flowers that would look great with these colours are daisies, lavendar or roses in light purples and whites.. the best thing to do is go round trying dresses on because i bet you find something you fall in love with when you try it on even if you arent happy with your body (just remember though curves are sexy!).. go shopping with an open mind and try on as much as you can so you get a good idea of what styles suit you (it might look awful on the hanger but great on).. plus with all that shopping and changing your bound to drop the pounds! have a lovely wedding and i wish you both a lifetime of love and happiness x

Answer 8

How about just "shades of purple and blue" can be your colors, with periwinkle being predominant? I think mono-chromatic weddings are gorgeous and you can really get into it with lilac, sky blue, cobalt, royal purple, pastels and even neons.

For your gown, buy the size that fits you now and you can ALWAYS get it altered down to fit your body closer to the wedding date. You can always take a dress in, but you can't always let it out.

Good luck!

Answer 9

I bought my wedding dress off of ebay and I am a plus size girl too it was amazing I could have any dress I wanted as the company made it to fit me! I also had a periwinkle type colour we matched it with Alfred Angelo's lettuce green. (its like a pastel sage colour) feel free to email me I will send you pics.the company I got my wedding dress from was called giannabridal on ebay.(my dress cost me 320 including alterations, crinoline , shipping and my daughters flowergirl dress was in that price too) I was measured by my sis who had never measured anyone for a dress before it fit when I got it but, i decided to remove sleeves and have a few other things done to personalize it bustle etc.

Answer 10

i didnt know what kind of dress i wanted so what i did was rip out every dress i thought was nice from the magazine and pasted it onto a big board. i narrowed it down to a thought of what it might look like that i would like to wear. i went to davids bridal and i just went in there to try on different dresses, regardless if i liked it or not. i just wanted to see what styles i was leaning towards.

re: the colors
maybe you can compliment it with white, blue, orange.
flowers can be something simple like orange daises or orange orchids with a white table top, white seat covers and the lace on the seat can be periwinkle.

play around with actual material to see what you think looks best.

Answer 11

reckoning on only how gentle orange, the flora ought to bypass 2 techniques: a million - subtle. cream or white flora or maybe even very diminished pink. no longer something too extraordinary or vivid. 2 - formidable. extraordinary yellows or oranges. i could surely must have a pattern of the colour of the gown to be sure for confident. yet while uncertain, i could choose for a greater subtle flower shade in the previous doing something formidable/extraordinary that ought to conflict with the gown.