Wedding Planning: Choosing Your Colors

We did it.  We chose our wedding colors.  Phew!  It was not easy to narrow down the choices when there are soooo many lovely combinations.  How does one choose?!  We wanted there to be meaning in every little detail, right down to our color choices.  El Señor's favorite color, like most men, is blue.  Not just any blue, sapphire blue (hence my ring).   That was our starting point.  I on the other hand love color.  Lots and lots of color. Have you been to the shop? ;)  But we didn't want anything too crazy or overwhelming.  So I chose a few of my favorites and luckily they all matched quite nicely with his shade of blue.  While poking around Pinterest I kept coming up on these pics below that really spoke to me.  Not only did they have the colors that we wanted but they incorporate a lovely shade of violet that was used in my mom and dad's wedding.  Sweet! This combination of colors sets the mood for the kind of wedding we want - fun and festive, yet elegant.  What do you think?  Do these work for a November Mexa themed wedding?

Images: Drinks, Outfit, Flowers

Britt's Picks: Bright Bedroom Inspiration

I’m usually one for earthy color palettes with a few pops of bright color here and there, but every once in a while I succumb to the more adventurous side of my design style and enjoy interiors with bright colors and lovely florals. The Pinterest bedrooms and inspiration I’ve chosen are teeming with brilliant pinks, blues, and turquoise, and mix and match different floral patterns:

AMOR: Pretty Painted Walls

There is so much to do to get ready for the new store (eek!).  We leave next week on our buying trip leaving us little time to make some big decisions.  Picking colors is one of them.  One thing we absolutely love at Casa Artelexia is color.  Lots and lots of color.  We've painted every single room and ceiling a different color.  The outside of the store is even painted a bright orange (and I mean BRIGHT) with a royal blue trim (think Frida Kahlo's house).  It took us forever to choose the colors our first time around - we practically lived in the paint department at Home Depot and changed our minds about a trillion times.  It is so hard to decide on a color palette when there are so many possibilities.  With the new space we have a TON of wall space and we will be doing the painting ourselves.  Yup, you heard right.  I'm counting on YouTube to teach me how to faux paint.  Crazy?  Absolutely.  Once we settle on the colors then everything else is a piece of cake.   Have you ever faux-painted?  Any tips?  Which colors do you like best?  Here are a few colors that caught my eye.  Enjoy!

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