The Colors Duke, the colors!

Picking out wedding colors it like painting a room, you are certain you have found just the right color and then you find yourself staring like a deer in the headlights at the massive wall of options.

Oh Martha, please help me!

There are just SO many options it is difficult to narrow down. I thought I knew what I wanted - midnight blue and lapis with silver and white accents - until we found our venue, The Royal. They Royal was a bakery back when the state fairgrounds still housed a military base. It has high tin ceilings, black chandeliers, brick accents and RED walls. The carpet is a compilation of red, green, black and tan in a hotel lobby-esque design. Midnight blue and lapis, not going to work here....

Enter the NCSU colors - red, white and black! The campus is COVERED in bricks so that detail even makes sense. My fiance and I religiously root for NC State any chance we get but the last thing I, who attended UNC-G, wanted was a Wolfpack wedding. I know, I am the crazy one, right?

After finally conceding that it is our best option for our venue (which I am totally in love with), I started looking in to themes.  Nothing big, just something to help me tie it all together. Perfect pair, Cut out for each other, Love, blah blah boring. We weren't at the beach, mountains, a historic monument - nor do I have an overwhelming affinity to anything girly. I was stuck. Again. Awesome.

Then like a lightning bolt it hit me -

DAMASK!

It was simple, yet elegant. Timeless, yet trendy! Score!

With my new found theme I hit the web running. I picked up these for the tables which will look fantastic offset with black linens:

And This for our guest book (we are replacing it with a red ribbon):

Our Cake will even be damask (more on that later)! Things were chugging right along until I got to damask invites. I managed to find a few I liked, but they we deemed “ok” (which is Josh code for no way) or “too girly” (read as - over my dead body!).

I finally gave up and began designing my own invitations…..

Which I will talk about next time!

How hard was it for you to pick out your wedding colors and/or theme?