How the Color Plum Became a Huge Part of My Life

After a few weeks of engagement bliss passed, I started the wedding planning process. It started harmlessly with a few wedding magazines and wedding TV shows, but pretty soon I was spending hours every day perusing wedding websites and blogs. With so much information and inspiration I couldn’t help but get excited and maybe a little carried away. I had no idea you could have bird cake toppers, trees for centerpieces and gobos with your own design. Actually, I didn’t even know what a gobo was until I started planning our wedding.

A few weeks into wedding planning, my friend linked me to Nirali Magazine’s wedding section. I think it is one of the best sites for anyone planning a South Asian wedding in North America. I used their shopping guide when I was in India looking for bridal outfits, and was comforted reading their article highlighting interracial marriages. It was also Nirali that led me to my color scheme and invitation designer. I opened an article on invitation trends featuring Saima Khan’s work and was enthralled. (If Saima’s name sounds familiar it’s because she also happened to be Miss Jasmine’s invitation designer.)

One of Saima's wedding suites:


After Saima and I talked about what I was going for (traditional Indian and Moroccan images presented in a modern way), she sent me a moodboard. A moodboard is a collection of materials that represents the ambience or theme of a design. When I saw the moodboard Saima created for me, I was immediately drawn to the plum and orange colors on the board. They represent classic colors in South Asian culture and combined together they evoked the unique and rich vibe that I was looking for.

The Moodboard:


The Lotus flowers:


The image that sold me on our color scheme:


So, long story short, that is how plum and orange (with ivory and copper accents) became my wedding color theme.

Up next, our wedding invitation suite…

All images courtesy of Saima Says Design