- Red is a bold color, so choosing the wrong accent colors can make your wedding look tacky. Choose a second shade for your color scheme depending on the type of atmosphere you want to create. For a formal wedding, pair red with black or silver. For a more casual or outdoor wedding, use aqua blue or lavender as your accent color. Both of these will make the wedding look fresh and cheerful. If you want your wedding to be colorful and lively, pair red with orange.
- Incorporating red into your menu is easy. Ask the bartenders to create a signature drink using red ingredients, such as raspberry martinis or a cocktail that includes the red liquor Campari. Arrange for waiters to carry around trays of these drinks during cocktail hour. For a summer wedding, fill glass pitchers with raspberry lemonade. At dinner, serve tomato or beet salad. Order a red velvet cake, or make the red color even more visible by offering red velvet cupcakes.
- With the variety of red flowers available, you'll have plenty of options when planning red centerpieces. Use simple white vases filled with red roses, carnations, tulips or Gerbera daisies. Decorate the vases with ribbons in your accent color. For non-floral centerpieces, line up red glass candle holders down the center of your table and fill them with votive candles. Scatter red rose petals or small cut-out red hearts across the table before setting up the centerpieces.
- Continue the theme all the way through the wedding by sending guests home with red favors. Edible favors are appealing to nearly everyone. Pass out jars of locally-made raspberry or strawberry jam. To make favors yourself, bake cookies in the shape of hearts and frost them with red frosting. Use frosting in your accent shade to pipe on your names or the wedding date. For a quick and affordable favor, buy hard red candies in bulk. Divide the candies into small plastic bags and tie them closed with ribbon.
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