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Wedding color palette generatorthat checks your florist can get them
Build a five-color palette. Lock the ones you love and regenerate the rest.
Then tell it your wedding month. It names which flowers actually exist in those colors that month. It also gives you a swap when they don’t.
Free · No sign-up · Saves as you work
1. The feel
Press the spacebar to generate again. Locked colors stay put.
2. Your date
This drives the flower check. Seasonal blooms cost 30 to 50 percent less. That’s compared with the same flower shipped in out of season.
3. Keep it
Lock a swatch with the padlock, or reroll just that one color. Everything saves to your browser.
The 60-30-10 rule. One dominant color covers roughly 60 percent of what people see. A secondary sits at 30, and an accent at 10.
A neutral and a metallic hold it together. The bar above shows your palette at those proportions.
What this generator actually does
Three things no other generator does
It checks the flower calendar
Tell it your wedding month. It names which flowers exist in your colors that month, and which don’t. Peonies have a six-week domestic season. Dahlias can’t be imported at all.
Every other generator hands you five colors. It has no idea whether anyone can actually supply them.
It gives your vendors real numbers
Hex for the web, RGB for screen, CMYK for print. All on one page.
Hand it to your stationer, your florist and your venue. All three then work from the same five colors, not three interpretations of “blush”.
It checks your signs will be readable
Every pair in your palette gets measured for contrast. You’ll know which combination works on a seating sign read from across a room in low light.
You’ll also know which two blur into each other.
Generate, lock, reroll
Press the spacebar for a new palette. Lock the colors you love and they stay put. Reroll any single swatch on its own without disturbing the rest.
Filtered by season and mood
Soft and romantic, deep and moody, earthy, bold, classic or coastal, in any season. The filters change what the generator draws from. They don’t just relabel the same colors.
Built to the 60-30-10 rule
Five colors in the structure designers actually use. A dominant, a secondary, an accent, a neutral and a metallic.
You see them at their real proportions. So you can judge the balance rather than guess it.
Eight starting palettes
Ready-made combinations by season and mood. Each one uses colors with a real flower behind them. Load one, then lock what you like and regenerate the rest.
Copy any code instantly
Click a swatch or a hex to copy it. Print the whole palette, or save it as a PDF. Take it to your first florist meeting.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no email wall, no watermark. Your palette saves to your own browser. Close the tab and come back to it.
Choosing your wedding colors
Pick the season first, then the colors. It sounds backwards. But the flowers available in your month set the palette more than any mood board will.
And working with them costs 30 to 50 percent less than working against them.
Then hand every vendor the same codes. Most color problems at weddings are not bad taste. They’re three suppliers each reading the word “blush” differently.
Common questions
Answered properly
How many colors should a wedding palette have?
Three to five. Fewer than three reads as underdressed, more than five stops looking deliberate.
The structure most designers use is a dominant color, a secondary, an accent, a neutral and a metallic.
The 60-30-10 rule sets the proportions. Roughly 60 percent dominant, 30 secondary, 10 accent. The neutral and metallic hold everything together.
The generator above builds exactly that structure. It shows the proportions as a bar. You can see the balance rather than imagine it.
What flowers are in season for my wedding month?
Roughly: spring brings peonies, ranunculus, tulips and sweet peas. Summer brings garden roses, hydrangeas, zinnias, sunflowers and lisianthus. Fall is dahlias, chrysanthemums, marigolds and celosia. Winter is amaryllis, anemones, waxflower and evergreen.
Roses, eucalyptus and olive branches are available every month of the year.
Set your month in the panel. The flower check tells you which of these come in your palette colors. It names a swap for anything that doesn’t.
Can I have peonies at an fall wedding?
Realistically, no. Peonies have one of the shortest seasons of any wedding flower. Late April through early June, peaking in May.
Imports from Chile and New Zealand appear October through January. They cost two to three times the price. They come in fewer colors and are often smaller.
The usual swaps are garden roses, particularly the Juliet, Keira and Patience varieties. Dinner-plate dahlias also work. They peak in September and give the same scale and fullness.
October dahlias depend on your first hard frost. Confirm with your florist rather than assuming.
Why can I not get dahlias in spring?
Unlike roses or peonies, they have no established import pipeline. They also don’t survive cold storage. From November through June, domestic dahlias are essentially unavailable at any price.
If dahlias matter to you, the wedding needs to be between July and early fall. October depends on your local frost date.
Outside that, garden roses, ranunculus or chrysanthemums give a similar look, depending on the month.
What is the difference between hex, RGB and CMYK?
Hex and RGB describe light, which is what screens emit. CMYK describes ink, which is what a printer lays down. They’re different physical systems. They can’t match perfectly.
Your website and digital invitations use hex. Your printed stationery uses CMYK, or a spot color if the printer offers one.
Expect a printed color to sit slightly duller than it looked on screen. Always ask for a physical proof before approving a full run.
Should I pick colors before or after the venue?
After, if you can. A venue arrives with its own colors already fixed. The carpet, the walls, the wood, the garden. A palette chosen in isolation can fight all of it.
Photograph the room in the light your wedding will be in. Then build the palette around what’s already there. It’s far cheaper than trying to cover a carpet you dislike.
Do bright colors really affect the photographs?
Yes, in one specific way. Strongly saturated colors reflect light onto skin. A bright green or a vivid yellow near faces can cast a tint. That has to be corrected afterwards.
It’s not a reason to avoid color. It’s a reason to keep your most saturated shade as the accent, not the dominant.
That’s what the 60-30-10 structure does anyway.
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- How to choose wedding colors your florist can actually getFive colors in five roles, checked against what is in season in your month and the CMYK values your stationer needs.