I thought about you after viewing a wedding my cousin went to. The theme was Fall, I believe. If you take a careful look at the bride's gown, she has a brown satin sash wrapped around her (which is the same color as your bridemaids). I think if you go with orange/red tints, your colors will tie in nicely. Hope this helps! Congrats...btw!
I haaaaaate the sash idea - it was the only thing I knew going into this whole wedding charade that I didn't want. It's great for some brides - not for me.
I'm SO confused with colors! My soon-to-be mother in law kinda threw me off. We had her over for dinner the other night and I brought out my wedding binder with printouts of the fall color pallet, different dress styles, the flowers (I presented her with the small white calla lily bouquet with the bordeaux colored dress for the girls, and me with the bordeaux/black forest calla lily bouquet - then the guys with the corsage that we liked, 1 white calla lily with a black magic (deep wine colored) tea rose to the right of it - and she says "no offense - but I don't know why you guys are all about this red for when you're having a fall wedding. It does not go AT ALL".
ok...? So we showed her the fall color pallet we're working with:
And she didn't see how the bordeaux goes with the pumpkin color - and now I'm all torn! She didn't like the calla lily idea... she hates the idea of having my bouquet not be white... and I know I should be like "it's my wedding" - but that's not how I am. I've never been married - I don't want to look like a fool. I take her oppinion seriously, especially being I really don't have a mother to help me... Oh man
So this is what I presented her with:
For me, either black forest calla's alone, or mixed with black magic roses:
The girls:
The boys - this picture is where I got the idea - but this isn't *it* - it's just the basis. I like this, but take the white rose to the left out of the picture - turn the red rose into a black magic rose, and remove the hideous red ribbon:
But she wasn't into it! I think she's very traditional - white bouquet of ROSES for me - some elaborate thing for the girls - but roses. I wanted to be different... but I don't want to look like a fool!