Ombre Obsessed!

Ombre refers to colour fading from dark to light, or vice versa. In French, the word “ombre” means shadow or shade, and we’ve gone pretty crazy for this trend, (the boss loves it!) However, as with all trends they can get totally overdone, and become way to incorporated into the mass market. But remember this idea was born from ‘dip dye’ which, if you’re a bit of a creative, you’ll have been doing it to everything from crop t-shirts to curtains to your dog (kidding) for years! So really, the original dip dye just had a new name and the world became obsessed with it. What I like about it though (apart from the idea of playing with colours) is that it’s totally DIY-able, easy, fun, and fairly cheap too.

Calling out to you colour fiends, this might be a great thing to incorporate into your wedding styling. There’s so many YouTube vids on how to do it that you really can’t go wrong, and if it does, then what a perfect job for your bridesmaids to get involved in! We’ve come across some great ideas including pretty table cloths in varying shades of purple, ombre flower bouquets, cakes going from deep navy blue to baby blue to white, beautiful watercolour stained stationary and menus, and if you want to be really bold – dip dye the dress! I’m thinking Gwen Stefani style of course.

I think if it was me, I like the idea of an ombre table cloth, going from fuchsia pink to white via slow gradients, then dressed with crisp black and white table wear, including some stripes, with gold cutlery and centrepieces, probably filled with ombre flowers going from black, to dark purple to white. That way it wouldn’t be too over done, not too much ombre going on but the largest piece i.e. the table cloth would be the real showstopper…one can dream 🙂