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Bridesmaids Wearing Sweaters!

I showed you this unique trend a month or two ago when I featured an inspiration board with a bride who while in a white dress wore a mustard colored cardigan, which I totally fell in love with. Now bridesmaids are catching onto the same trend.

It's a perfect swap out for that accent-colored ribbon trend which has long outlived itself. No, I'm not saying I dislike bridesmaid dresses with ribbon sashes, but my goal is always to find new and unique ideas so that you can have a wedding where people say, "oh who would've thought to do that?!"

Take the wedding I was planning for myself until it got called off. It was a carnival theme, and while I didn't share many of the details with all of you (trying to hoard them to myself until I could show you my great production, I know, sorry!) I was definitely working with a wide variety of colors in my color scheme. A faded red, mustard yellow, teal blue, and marigold orange were my colors, and I wanted them present in so many aspects of our wedding. I had originally thought of the idea to have each girl wear a different color dress in that color scheme or some variation of that...but my former fiancee' was going to be wearing military uniform and i worried about it all matching.

This trend might have solved my problem. If I would have had all of the girls wear black cocktail dresses with a different colored sweater, and the groomsmen wear black tuxes with matching colored ties, I could have really incorporated my color scheme without overwhelming the pictures with color and awkwardness.

While I'm on the trend of ways to incorporate color, look at this photo:

Think of accessories as another unique way to incorporate color schemes with your bridesmaids. While they also followed the "different colored dresses for different girls" theme, they also then used those same colors in their necklaces but swapped them with each other to create a really unique balance of varied colors.

And if you refer back to the first photo, they used their shoes as another way to incorporate the wedding colors. I love it!

But do beware, too much variation can make your carnival wedding look like a circus (and not in a good way) or even your formal wedding look like a mess. So vary it up a bit, but not so much that you go over the top. Also try to pick a color scheme in the first place that blends well together, because while wearing a grey dress, red shoes and black necklace may turn out looking fabulous, I might worry about your bridesmaids in an orange dress, blue shoes, and yellow jewelry.