Tips and Tricks for Choosing a Colour Scheme for Your Sussex Wedding

When planning a Sussex wedding, choosing your colour scheme is like choosing the emotional frequency of the day. It powers everything: your décor, florals, bridal party outfits, stationery, even how your photographs feel when you look back decades later. Once the palette is chosen, planning becomes less chaos and more curated joy.

As a Sussex wedding photographer, I’ve seen palettes elevate weddings into unforgettable atmospheres. Here’s how to choose yours with clarity, confidence, and a sprinkling of Sussex flair.

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Start With Your Venue – Sussex Sets the Tone

Your venue already gives you a visual language — borrow from it.

• Barns & rustic venues (for example: Swallows Oast weddings): earthy tones, terracotta, sage, soft blush.

• Coastal venues (Brighton beach wedding photography): sea-glass greens, powder blue, sandy neutrals.

• Stately homes (Buxted Park weddings): ivory, gold accents, emerald or classic navy.

✨ Tip: If you’re unsure how a colour reads, browse real venues – e.g.

“View my Sussex wedding gallery for palette inspiration captured in natural light.”

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Choose Your Mood Before Your Colour

Ask yourselves: what should the day feel like?

• Romantic: blush, lavender, soft peach

• Timeless & classic: champagne, ivory, navy

• High-energy celebration: coral, saffron, teal

• Modern Sussex chic: slate, black-tie black, sage

Once your chosen mood is clear, the colours will reveal themselves.

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Seasonal Sussex Inspiration

Tie your palette to the landscape and it becomes visually effortless.

• Spring weddings in Sussex: lilac, yellow, soft pink (inspired by gardens across Rye & Eastbourne)

• Summer weddings: bright florals, coral, gold, navy (think vineyards at Rathfinny & fields around Lewes)

• Autumn weddings: burgundy, copper, moss green (echoing Ashdown Forest)

• Winter weddings: emerald, mulberry, silver (perfect for Brighton Town Hall weddings)

Anchoring to season = flowers easier to source + lower cost + natural visual cohesion.

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Three Colours Only – Your Golden Rule

One dominant colour, one support shade, one accent.

The moment a couple adds the fourth and fifth, décor starts whispering chaos.

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Swatch Everything Like a Creative Sleuth

Create a flat-lay before committing:

• Place bridesmaids’ fabric swatches beside boutonnières

• Test linen samples next to stationery

• Hold floral stems against your venue photographs

Colours shapeshift — sage becomes mint in harsh daylight, burgundy becomes brown under candles. Checking them side-by-side avoids shocks.

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Think Of How It Photographs

If photography matters (and it does — it’s your future memories), consider:

• Pastels love daylight

• Jewel tones adore candlelight

• Metallics thrive on evening festivities

• Deep reds sometimes require soft lighting to avoid appearing flat

If you’re unsure?

View real examples on my:

Sussex Wedding Photography Portfolio

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Let Your Story Be Part of It

Colour can be a secret autobiography:

• Blue for Brighton Pier date nights

• Lavender for a proposal among summer fields

• Forest green for that walk through Chanctonbury Ring

Personal = powerful. Weddings should tell your story.

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Trends Are Fun – But Only If You Love Them

Sage + beige are everywhere. They’re beautiful… but if neon pink lights up something in your heart, let it glow.

This is celebration, not homework.

Closing Thought

Your colour scheme doesn’t need to follow trends. It just needs to reflect you — and Sussex will always give you a beautiful canvas to paint on.

When your palette is chosen, every photograph becomes a story told in colour. I’d love to capture it.

View more inspiration:

👉 Explore Sussex wedding galleries