Online Tools: A Round Up & Silly Fun

So for the past few posts we have been sharing a series of great online tools to help you plan. Here is a round-up of those posts and to finish up, some silly online tools: fun!

Inspiration Board Generators
Play online on your lunch hour! Use the pictures on theses sites, from gowns to cakes, jewelry and shoes. Make an inspiration board for your wedding quickly and easily.

Wedding Widgets
Have a wedding blog you want to dress up a bit? Choose from many wedding weddings. Count down the days until your wedding, cakes, gowns, celebrity wedding news and polls. Add our widget up as well so you know what great stuff we are blogging about to make your online planning easier!

Wedding Color Generators
HELP! Have a picture you have simply fallen in love with? Want to copy that color scheme? Upload it and get the color palate and the color codes to streamline that style.

Wedding Mapper
DIY or choose a professional. Make maps to include in your wedding invitation and/or to give out after the ceremony so guests can make it to the reception and not miss a moment of fun.

Miss. Now Mrs.
After the wedding, a fantastic service for changing your name with everyone! Makes a great gift too!

Wedding Wire
Easily becoming a must for planning your wedding.

EZ Wedding Planner
An easy and simple resource for planning your wedding. The email alert telling you what's on your schedule that you can have emailed to yourself, or anyone you choose is a great help!

Wish Pot
A great resource with easy sign up, community and the ability to add to your wish list from any store online!

My Invitation Link
Want to go comppletely gree? How about an online invitation? Give it a shot! Handmake a few invitations for those on your guestlist who are not so savvy and save money! Now *that* is savvy!

Get Married - Online Chats
Over at GetMarried.Com you can log on and chat with the leaders in the wedding industry. Get advice from the professionals!

Here are some other tools you may find useful or just silly & fun!

Horoscope Compatibility

David's Bridal - Dress Your Wedding

iVilliage - Are You a Bridezilla

Online Flower Guide

Bliss - Wedding Floral Generator

Brides.Com - Flower Finder

Happy planning!
~w.s.

Online Tools: Color Palate Generators

Choosing the colors for your wedding scheme may have been a daunting task in the past. Comparing ribbons in the fabric store or going to Home Depot for fistfuls of paint chips are certainly trips that are no longer needed.
A great benefit of the internet is the ability to browse thousands of pictures for inspiration as I am sure you already know! It's what you can now do with those photographs to create a clean and professional color scheme is what you may not know. Le us take you on a tour of four wonderful sites that have free online color tools you can use right this very second!

Try DeGraeve.com!
I used a background image I just love love love from COULORLovers.Com, and gave it to the generator to see what it came up with, albeit easy ;). They give you the color codes this pattern was made with, so matching is easily done. Seems to inspire me to use the colors from the pattern to throw someone a bridal shower and decorate the table accordingly *wink wink*! Still very acceptable colors for the autumn we are easing into.


I then went over to ColorHunter.Com
I used a photograph of a wedding arrangement from a wedding I worked on with florist, Wendy with Ravenna Bloom. She created this gorgeous arrangement for the tabletops that went so well with the overall grand design and colors of the ballroom at the Olympic Fairmont Hotel in Seattle. Let's see what colors ColorHunter came up with from those lovely flowers along.



Big Huge Labs also has a great online color generator.
In fact there is something about the very presentation that makes me usually pick them when I am looking for some color inspiration. Same interface as the other sites above, you take a photograph, upload it and see what the generator comes up with. Here at Big Huge Labs the generator the color gives you the option of downloading these swatches in Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) format for Photoshop or compatible applications.
I used the cover of Elegant Bride's summer issue to see what hues would come from this mostly monochromatic minty cover and cake...I like it (the pink did generate roof terracotta...interesting)! Perfect for a spring time wedding don't you think?


BigHugeLabs generates the ASE with the help of our next featured Online Tool...


COULORLovers.Com
Last today but not least I wanted to introduce you to ColourLovers.Com.
What? You haven't heard of them? Well, my dear, you simply *must* click on over, create an account and share the love. All the inspiration and codes you could ever need.

In addition to colors, there are so many creative folks sharing patterns, you may be able to find more than just colors for your wedding, but a background for your wedding website, your sideshow, a backing for your invitations?!

I am particularly crazy about this post since coloring as a kid was a favorite pass time. All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts! You can find ALL the color codes to that perfect color crayon you always coveted! Then work it into you wedding color scheme easily with the help of their fantastic tools and groups and forums! A must visit.


Choosing the right color combinations for you wedding just got a little easier with these fantastic online tools. With the code generators, it also makes creating some DIY elements much easier. Use the codes to continue the colors very easily into all your online, computer generated tasks so you can run that color theme though it all.
Also check out a previous post of our that will guide you in choosing wedding colors and most importantly *when* in your planning process you should make the color decisions.

Happy planning!
~w.s.

The Links

Here are the links, again, to the above online tools:

ColourLovers.Com

ColorHunter.Com

DeGraeve.Com!

Elegant Bride

other tool s I didn't mention above, but still like:

WellStyled.Com has a color scheme generator I enjoy.

ColorJack, super easy and quick.

Other articles from the web about choosing colors for your wedding!

WIAB - Choosing Wedding Colors

Favor Idea's - A Guide for Designing Brides By Blake

Also by Blake, over at Squidoo, Fall & Autumn Wedding Theme Trends

YourWeddingCompany.Com- Choosing Your Wedding Color Scheme

About.Com What is a Monochromatic Color Scheme?

Also at About.Com I really loved this article: Top Five Color Mixing Tips

BrilliantWeddingPages - Choosing Wedding Colors

WeddingHue.com has recently been posting about finding flowers in certain colors. Read thir post about flowers that are Purple, Red and Lavender