Color Inspiration: Pale Green

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Pale Green Table

Pair green flowers with warm creams and clear whites, give them room to be wild and lush, and you'll never again equate modern with cold. While these centerpieces of viburnum, snowberry, bells of Ireland, asclepias pods, and carnations in salt-glass vessels could certainly hold their own in a downtown loft or art gallery, they're refreshingly free of attitude.

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Bouquet

Dana Gallagher

From a distance, this bouquet of viburnum and a Queen Anne's lace look-alike appears to be a bunch of soft, puffed snowballs; a close look reveals tiny blooms. Like real snowballs, viburnum needs to be kept cool. Keep the stems in water, and mist the blossoms every half hour until you walk down the aisle.

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Seating Cards

Formula Z/S

These tiny chairs may be too small for sitting, but they are the perfect size for displaying guests' names and table numbers. The seats are made from heavyweight paper -- we used pale yellow for ladies and pale green for gents -- and can be calligraphed or run through a printer.

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Bridesmaids

Victoria Pearson

Hydrangeas are ideal for single-flower bridesmaid bouquets. These green bouquets complement silk-shantung sheaths.

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Bouquet

What it lacks in color, this bridal bouquet more than makes up for in texture and fragrance. A glorious cascade of stephanotis vine, fritillaria, and muscari tied with a cluster of lily of the valley is luxurious yet carefree enough to feel as if it's just plucked from the garden. Calligraphy by Grace Connell.

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Floral Centerpiece

Like a tailored oxford shirt, an all-white wedding feels at once fresh and timeless. Bring the color's polished elegance to every aspect of your big day, from almond dragees to creamy centerpieces. Here, lilacs, garden roses, jasmine, and fritillaria, plus pale-green hellebores, create an arrangement that would have felt spot-on in an Edith Wharton novel.

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Swizzle Sticks

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Swizzle sticks topped with crepe paper flowers -- a spider chrysanthemum and a sleek calla lily -- add zest to lime spritzers.

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Textural Green Bouquet

Christopher Baker

This bouquet has a variety of textures and colors, thanks to the mix of muscari (grape hyacinth), lamb's ear, lily-of-the-valley, andromeda, helleborus, thyme, rosemary, sage, and scented-geranium foliage.

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Bridesmaid Dress

Pale green and peach bridesmaid gown from the Siri Spring 2009 Collection, siriinc.com, 415-431-8873

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Bouquet

See Doo-Ri and Jeffrey's Wedding

Florist Matthew Robbins created a simple and chic but still luxurious bouquet for bride, Doo-Ri, by wrapping lilies of the valley in a pale green patterned ribbon.

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Stationery

See Christina and Peter's Wedding

Letterpress invitations set the tone with a lavender and green palette and delicate images of lavender, which echo the actual plants that surround the property.

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Cake

See Eleanor and Rodney's Wedding

This cake from Eleanor and Rodney's wedding has octagonal layers, green icing, and sugar hydrangeas.

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Bouquet

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Hydrangea Arrangement

Victoria Pearson

Hardy, cloudlike hydrangeas are among the most enduring and versatile flowers for a wedding.

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The Wedding Party

Christina's sister and maid of honor, Mary Donna Meredith (right), and two flower girls gather with the rest of Christina's family for a photo with the couple.

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A Table Setting

A pale-blue tablecloth and green cushions help the same palette convey a more traditional mood. A white footed bowl holds an arrangement evocative of shade gardens, with tweedia, hydrangea, ornamental green dates, maidenhair ferns, nigella, chinaberries, mint, and gomphrena.

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Boutonnieres

Johnny Miller

A group of green boutonnieres perfect for an outdoor wedding.

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Favors

For favors, a quote was written on Japanese rice paper, which was rolled up and tied, then placed in heart-shape dishes made by Christina's aunt. The box cover mimics the ring pillow.

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Bouquet

A splash of Panicum flowers injects youthful exuberance into an otherwise restrained bouquet of cymbidium and lady slipper orchids with white nerine

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Cake

Victoria Pearson

This five-tier buttercream cake, made by Sylvia Weinstock of New York City, is covered with sugar hydrangeas, which we also added to French macaroons.

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Ribbon

A white napkin is tied with striped green ribbon threaded through a store-bought grommeted tag.

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Table Number Centerpiece

Charles Schiller

Enamel pails overflowing with fresh green and white hydrangeas are charming for an informal reception table. The buckets do double duty as table numbers with the addition of numeral stickers.

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Bouquet

A stunning single-flower clutch of creamy astilbes has a textural warmth that Magnolia's Gomes describes as "almost like cashmere."

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Cake

William Meppem

A traditional tiered confection covered with pale-green fondant has fresh hydrangeas between the layers (each cake tier is topped with clear acetate so flowers don't touch the icing).

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Leaf Cuff

AMY NEUNSINGER

Pale-green silk leaves lend an ethereal quality to a bouquet of fragrant white tuberoses and sweet peas. As you proceed down the aisle, the bouquet will appear to float, gently anchored by your grasp.

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Touches of Green

The purple, green, and brown palette is lighthearted when bright colors dominate. In this setting, inspired by European pastry shops, colorful ceramic latte cups hold green carnations, mauve roses, and dark-purple scabiosa. A tiered candy stand holds dragees in shades of lavender. Favor boxes double as place cards; their calligraphed bands are tied with thin eggplant ribbons.

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Favors

Ensure a cheerful end to the evening with confections. You can package them in endless ways. Polka-dot paper cones keep the candy a surprise.

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Fresh Green Bouquet

Don Freeman

This bouquet was made with maidenhair ferns, lady's-mantle, white lilacs, and green hydrangea blossoms. Velvet ribbons serve as counterpoint to the fragile flowers.

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Cake

The edible pleats here recall the crinolines beneath a cream puff of a wedding dress. White wafer papers, cut with scallop scissors and folded, were painted with gold luster dust and petal dust in pinks and greens. They were then piped with white royal icing and attached to the mint-green fondant-covered tiers with more royal icing. The fluted pastry cups, filled with pillow mints, complete the pleated theme.

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Program

Luca Trovato

This simple program features letterpress text on textured paper. Have 8 1/2-by-11-inch sheets of paper professionally printed in three horizontal columns (or print text yourself using a computer); fold each sheet into thirds, creasing first with a bone folder for the cleanest lines. Then slip on a band of paper with names and wedding dates, secured with double-sided tape in the back.

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Bouquet

Victoria Pearson

This white bridal bouquet features lacecap and mophead hydrangeas; some blooms are fully open, others still tightly budded. Wired hydrangea leaves and snowberries offer contrasting color in pale green.

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Cake

This classic white fondant cake is rendered truly glamorous with elegant curling Calla Lilies. Only the bottom layer is meant to be eaten; the remaining tiers are Styrofoam, which keeps the flowers from touching the cake. Rubbing the stems between fingers renders them bendable.

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Stationery

Use this gentle, evocative color combination with floral touches to give guests a taste of the warm celebration to come, then repeat the colors to personalize other paper pieces and carry the theme throughout.

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Floral Centerpiece

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Swizzle Sticks

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Textural Green Bouquet

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Bridesmaid Dress

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Stationery

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Cake

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Hydrangea Arrangement

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The Wedding Party

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A Table Setting

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Boutonnieres

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Favors

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Cake

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Ribbon

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Table Number Centerpiece

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Cake

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Leaf Cuff

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Touches of Green