Five Colors, One Garden: The Palette Behind a Black-Tie Wedding at Greensboro Country Club

Merri and Christian married at Greensboro Country Club, and the choice worth studying is the color scheme. They worked with five: lavender, chartreuse, blush, ivory, and gold. Three of those are soft, two are not, and that is the point. Chartreuse gives a garden setting something the greenery cannot supply on its own, and gold does the same work once the light drops and the formal dress code takes over. Ivory and blush hold the middle so the pastels read as a palette rather than a scatter. For anyone planning a formal wedding outdoors here, this is the useful lesson: a garden already supplies green, so the colors you add should either sharpen it or carry the evening.

With reporting from Style Me Pretty.