One of the questions I received all the time when we first got engaged, usually right after "did you choose a date?" was "what are your colors?" I could not believe how many people cared about colors!

Adam pretty much was opinion-less on this topic, so as long as I didn't choose anything totally girly, he was going to be on board. Before we chose a venue, I really liked the idea of having different shades of grey be our "colors," with some pops of something bright, probably either orange or yellow, here and there. (I have been obsessed with the grey-yellow and grey-orange color combos lately. I would love to decorate a bedroom or office around one of those palettes.) Adam approved.

After we chose Glen Echo, I thought that grey was just going to be too muted for that location. We chose Glen Echo because of all the great photo opportunities, so I wanted to go with colors that went with the park. If you google images of Glen Echo, you'll find that a lot of the park's buildings are in primary colors. Blue seemed like the best choice, plus the J Crew chiffon dresses I chose for the bridesmaids came in blue.

Apparently, "blue" isn't good enough, but I swear... we just wanted straight-up blue. Not navy, not cobalt, not sky. Just blue. You know, like when you're five and you pull a blue crayon out of the Crayola 8-pack. Eventually, we settled on "royal blue" as being the closest approximation to just plain old blue, which is apparently not a color in wedding world. (J Crew calls it vintage blue, but that doesn't mean anything in wedding world either.)

We (okay, I) had some trouble trying to decide on an accent color to go with the blue. I can't remember what we had been considering (Yellow maybe? I know Adam at one point said orange and I almost got him to go with that until he realized that we'd have Mets colors.), but in the end, our decision was driven by our centerpiece choice. We (a) didn't want floral centerpieces and (b) couldn't have candles. So, we decided to go with bowls full of Granny Smith apples... making Granny Smith green our accent color. (In the end, this actually ended up being "lime green" to many people, even though the color people call "lime green" is NOT the actual color of limes, but is more like the color of Granny Smiths. And "apple green" is darker, like the color of limes. Whatever.)

So, straight-up blue and Granny Smith green. Those are our colors. The girls are in blue dresses (I gave them the option of any of the J Crew chiffon dresses and they all chose the same one!), the guys have blue and green striped ties, Adam has a green tie with small blue squares. Our linens are "royal blue" and white, our centerpieces are white bowls filled with Granny Smith apples. We got fabric from a baby bedding company (again, with the royal and lime!) for our aisle runner and chuppah cover. The girls will have bouquets of green flowers (I am super excited to see the florist's vision in action... I never would have thought of green flowers!) and mine will be white with touches of green and blue. The guys will have green button mum bouts. I think it's going to be fun and come together pretty well. Plus, blue is my fallback favorite color (my favorite of the moment is always changing), and green is Adam's favorite (I think), so it all works out pretty nicely in the end.

(But I would LOVE to see someone plan a grey and orange or grey and yellow wedding. I think it'd be fabulous!)