Beach Wedding Colors for the Jersey Shore

New Jersey beach wedding brides have some of nature’s most exquisite summer colors to choose from for their NJ beach wedding.

Beach wedding colors taken from nature are green, cornflower, aqua, and marine blue, orange, fuchsia, plus black and white accented with summery colors such as yellow or pink, Aqua Blue, and the lighter purples, like orchid and lavender.

For more daring brides, contrasting color combinations may include orange and fuchsia, green and hot pink, navy or black against any kind of eye-popping-color, and chocolate brown and pink or aqua.

For the more subdued, conservative bride, use of a monochromatic color palate may be more to your liking. Monochromatic appears to be the 2008 color trend for weddings. Monochromatic is using all the hues, shades and tints, of one color.  Be careful, it can be boring but if you use something from the lighter end, something in the middle, and a shade on the darker end, it can get very interesting.  As long as there is contrast, you’ll have an exciting use of color for your beach wedding. 

Here are a couple of examples on how to do it:

• To draw on the monochromatic theme in your NJ beach wedding, select three colors with different saturations. For example, to incorporate this in your wedding you may want to pair a soft peach with a light yellow and a darker orange.
• Chocolate Brown is also a color which has been and will continue to be popular next year. To use a monochromatic theme, select a chocolate brown, tie in the color of the sand, and add a gold for a sophisticated look. Or pair the chocolate brown with yellow and orange to give a more tropical feeling to your NJ beach wedding.

Beach wedding color schemes are mostly drawn from nature. For inspiration, look at summer travel photos, take a walk along the water and through summer gardens, visit an art gallery displaying summer themed paintings, or visit your local paint store for color scheme ideas. For a quick tutorial on the color wheel (color families, neighbors, and friends) visit Behr’s decorating page.

While keeping with the latest fashion colors and trends, the best advice is to use your favorite colors, experiment with the variations of those colors, research seasonal flowers, and find your own distinctive beach wedding look…not a copy of other NJ beach weddings. Let your wedding on the Jersey shore be the one that stands out from all the others.

Chocolate brown with red and khaki for the men at a beach wedding.

The bride wore a white tea length beach destination wedding dress with red sash.

The bridesmaids wore red dresses with white and red flowers and matching purses.