emerald & aqua.

I picked up the latest issue of Martha Stewart Weddings a week or so ago (it's like a compulsion), and ever since I've been meaning to post about her latest "perfect palette," Emerald and Aqua:

{collage image courtesy of Glamour this! whose recent post spurred my memory}

It's funny seeing these two colors together, on their own, without the sharp contrast of black and white. The effect is so different, so fresh and cheerful. When I envision these colors together, it's almost always paired with black and white in my mind:

These swatches* sort of represent the colors I've been thinking of using for some of our wedding elements. Please note that I deliberately avoided using the word "envision" here because I can't take myself seriously when I use that word. (Now I have to go and check to see if I've ever used that word on this site prior to this moment ...)

Anyway! The primary colors will be black and white -- then accented with a sharp green (Apple green? Grass green? Clearly I don't know my fancy color names very well -- you should hear me talk to my florist) and a teal/turqouise/aqua (I realize those are all separate colors, each with an individual, emotive feeling of their own, but to be honest -- I haven't really decided on a particular shade. I'll address their respective emotiveness later).

Most of the pictures that catch my eye are black, white and green -- so I'l be on the lookout for some black, white and aqua/turquoise/teal images so I can get a better sense of what this crazy color combo is going to look like when it gets pulled together.

* every time I hear the word "swatch" I think of Sleepless in Seattle:

Jay: What do you mean, how do you do it ? You call her up. You say, "Come on, let's get together. We'll look at swatches.
Sam: Call her on the phone? Say, "Come, let's look at swatches"?
Jay: Yeah, you know, color schemes.
Sam: She's not gonna see right through that?
Jay: No, well, you don't do it like I do it.
Sam: Nah!
Jay: You, you do it in your own suave way. Think Cary Grant.
Sam: Cary Grant would call up and say...
Jay: Think Cary Grant.
Sam: ... "come over and look at my swatches?"
Jay: Hello? How do you do know? Maybe he did.
Sam: He didn't, uh, not in a movie.
Jay: He didn't, I, I know he didn't do it in a movie.
Sam: No movie I ... "Gunga Din"? He didn't call, call Din ...
Jay: No, "Gunga Din" is not a, a swatch kind of movie.
Sam: What...
Jay: What, what? Who knows what he did in real life?
Sam: Oh? But he did that with Dyan Cannon? Oh yeah, sure!
Jay: "Hello, Dyan! Take a look at these swatches."

No? Just me? Okay.

Comments

[Jessica]

Love the color scheme!!

[Sarah Dennis]

That color scheme was fantastic! Great Blog, I discovered it from a comment you left on Lucky Designs.

I'll be back!