Yoruba traditional wedding colours to choose for your big day
There are no minor details during preparation for the wedding. The quality of food, the professionalism of musicians, and design of the banquet hall should be at high level. It’s also especially important to choose the right colour combination for the clothes of the groom and bride.
When preparing for a white wedding you do not need to invent something special. There is almost always white dress for the bride and a black and white suit for the groom. But traditional ceremony opens up more possibilities for imagination.
In accordance with the Yoruba traditions, the families of the bride and groom can choose different gender colours of clothing. However, at the moment, many newlyweds deviate from these rules and create a single colour combination for all guests.
The wedding day is the moment when two families unite into one. The outfits of similar style and shades serve as an additional rapprochement factor from a psychological point of view. As a rule, two families at least wear the same headdresses to show that they have become a kind of united team.
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So, it's time to choose attires for your Yoruba ceremony! To perform the creative experiment successfully it is worth studying the most beautiful and exquisite wedding colours.
The most popular colours for Yoruba traditional wedding
Champagne gold colour is very feminine and gentle. It creates a positive mood and awakens warmth in the soul, symbolizes comfort, pacification, dimensionality, harmony. Champagne gold looks good on the dark skin as it creates a beautiful contrast.
- Peach and gold aso ebi
It is an obvious sign of a luxurious wedding. Surely, an event of such colors is organized by people with impeccable aesthetic taste.
In 2018, peach and gold is one of the most popular combinations. You will get wonderful photos and videos owing to your Yoruba attire. Modern designers offer a lot of delightful outfits in this colour scheme.
- Peach and mint green aso ebi
If you want to create an interesting contrast, add light blue, bright pink or turquoise. Especially delightful looks the peach and mint green aso ebi.
For several seasons, such attires do not cease to be extremely popular in Nigeria. This colour combination creates a feeling of lightness, reminds the natural motifs. It's a perfect choice for a ceremony in the open air.
- Gold and green aso ebi
Also in 2018, the bride can wear the teal green aso ebi and offer her mates to appear at the solemn event in dresses of similar colour.
This is a very noble and elegant colour creating an atmosphere of luxury. Headdresses of golden colour will be a wonderful addition.
The brighter option of the same colour scheme is emerald green aso ebi.
This colour is beautiful in combination with red headdresses and accessories.
Green is a symbiosis of two colorus: blue and yellow. So the meaning of this colour is a twofold psychology: on the one hand - unlimited energy, and on the other - all-consuming tranquility.
For each person, green colour subconsciously means growth, development, and harmony in nature. Life itself - that's what directly green means. In addition, this colour is accepted as the safest all over the world.
For those people who like green colour, generosity and reliability are the main distinctive features of the character. The shade of this colour is also important. For example, a dark green means that a person strives for stability. And pale green colour means relaxation and soothing.
- Blue and gray aso ebi
The colour of the sky and the sea, cold and restrained but at the same time giving peace and tranquility - blue is the most "calm" colour for psycho-emotional perception.
In the cultures of many peoples of the world, various shades of blue symbolized eternity, constancy, spirituality, fidelity, stability, indestructibility. Blue was considered the colour of wisdom, higher knowledge, and spiritual power, so it was used to paint the walls of churches and temples, and the clothes of the gods were depicted in blue tones.
Blue and gray is quite a tranquil combination. It should be chosen by people who strive for a safe and quiet family life.
- Blue and violet aso ebi
It is the choice of bright personalities who want their wedding to be a memorable and joyful event.
- Orange and blue aso ebi
Also, blue looks great in combination with orange or any other warm shade (red, yellow).
- Purple and white aso ebi
Purple colour is a symbol of dignity, greatness, luxury, spirituality and tranquility, humanism, and modesty. It is able to cause a person's desire to be filled with the feelings and thoughts of a loved one. In addition, the purple colour can soothe anger. It helps to relax, remove anxiety, and irritation.
You can use several shades of purple or combine it with white.
- Burgundy and beige aso ebi
Another fashion trend of the season that allows creating of beautiful and stylish colour combinations is burgundy. A fabric of this colour looks especially beautiful with golden sparkles. You will have an outfit for a truly royal wedding. Bride and groom are always regal and elegant in burgundy. To diversify the combination, you can add beige or pink accents.
Burgundy colour in clothing is chosen by people with great viability and strength. It represents purposefulness, steadfastness, assertiveness, and restraint. It is loved by business people and celebrities endowed with such qualities of character as confidence, solidity, conservatism, having a good financial position and stable views.
Burgundy is considered a symbol of power and strength. People who like burgundy are energetic and have good organizational skills. Among the fans of this colour are often found creative persons, actors, musicians, philosophers, and connoisseurs of art.
- Yellow and pink aso ebi
The colour of the sun and heat, joy and wealth, intelligence and optimism, these words come up when yellow colour is mentioned. Bright and cheerful, it is the embodiment of energy, movement and positive vibes.
If you like to attract attention, yellow and pink is the colour combination that you need.
- White and pink aso ebi
It was mentioned above that white colour is usually used for a classical ceremony when the bride puts on a gorgeous dress with a corset, plume, and veil. However, nothing prevents you from sewing a white traditional wedding attire with the addition of bright accents.
You can use almost any additional colour because white serves as a blank canvas of paper for your creativity. In any case, you will get a very gentle, refined, and feminine composition.
Perhaps you will be surprised but black fabrics are also used for wedding attires. Black is paradoxical: it is connected with infinity, silence, the female life force, causes a feeling of mystery, security, and comfort.
- Black and white aso ebi
In the 21st century, this colour is a symbol of grace, meditation and wisdom, excellence and power. A person who is completely self-confident stops his choice on black emphasizing his superiority.
The black colour is extraordinary. Its "magic" property is the ability to emphasize or drown out. Black fits perfectly with all colours. Another important advantage is that it makes the figure seem slimmer.
- Black and yellow aso ebi
It is impossible not to say that this colour is considered very stylish in the design of clothes. Especially if you use black in combination with white. Very strong energy compositions can be created with yellow which means intellectual superiority, with red - physical power, and with pink - a respected social status.
As you can see there are really plenty of options. Choose colours that match your character and evoke the most pleasant emotions. Also, pay attention to the interior of the hall in which you will celebrate the wedding: the shades of walls and floor, tables, and chairs. All this can affect the choice of the palette.
We wish you to have a beautiful and joyful ceremony, enjoy the long years of conjugal happiness, mutual understanding, and inexhaustible love!
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Source: Legit.ng
