Especially if you're planning a springtime wedding, this colour scheme can't be beaten. The collection of pastel shades featured together almost resemble Spring itself; colours is their newest form, waiting to bloom.

The pastel wedding palette often consists of a collection of colours, however, of course you can select one or two you particularly like as your theme instead. You often see pale yellow, mint green, light blue, coral, pale pink, lavender. You see these presented in varying shades and coupled and omitted as the bride wishes.

One of the lovely advantages to this colour scheme is that it allows for a lot of choice with the rest of the wedding colours. It doesn't narrow down your wedding choices to one shade and it allows for certain parts of your wedding to be coloured slightly different to others. You could have pale pink bunting and yellow name place settings, edged in mint green and it would all look as one because of your overriding theme.

Picking flowers within your pastel colour scheme couldn't be easier, especially if you are having a springtime wedding. Peonies of all shades, coupled with hydrangeas and gypsophila make for an ethereal feel, whilst our Guide to Roses shows how easy it is to find these blooms from March onwards.