Creative Colour – Duck Egg Blue

This gorgeous colour is a watery dreamy grey blue with a slight green tinge – perfect for those who love a different take on blue.

Combine with browns from milk chocolate to dark chocolate and cream

– With ivory, dark chocolate and a pop of cherry red

– With charcoal grey and dark plummy red

– With deep apricot, pale creamy apricot and pearl grey

– With dark navy blue, white

– With dark greyed green and terracotta

– With cream and a pop of orange

– With cream, mid pink and touches of milk chocolate

– The cooler metals such as pewter, stainless steel and silver, zinc

– Twig nests filled with painted blue eggs speckled with brown, and tiny feathers, wire birdcages, dodda vine wrapped around large glass, white orchid filled containers

– Engraved pebbles either real stones, or cream ceramic ones

– White orchids, white or apricot roses, echeveria – particularly nice when in flower, grey leafed plants such as dusty miller, frangipani, cherry blossom, Japanese quince, peppercorn berries, tamarisk, poppies, tulips, orange banksia, anthuriums, sweet peas

– Zinc troughs filled to the brim with grey leaves, cream and pink flowers along a table covered with a duck egg blue cloth, add chocolate touches such as napkin ties, duck egg blue place cards with chocolate script, sparkling glassware, a mix of cream and duck egg blue French Provincial style crockery

– Make ‘placemats’ from heavy duck egg blue paper with hand written script in chocolate – sayings, poems, phrases that are meaningful to you. Would look stylish on dark wooden tables

– Metal work that is rusted either through a painted effect, or real rust. Laser cut screens lit from behind, flower filled urns, candlesticks, tea light holders, planters, wire trays – use as part of the overall theme to create the feeling of gentle age, or to add a point of difference to garden décor

– For cloths or table runners, consider wallpaper or fabrics in a vintage design – think Laura Ashley, Liberty, Florence Broadhurst type designs which might pick up several of the colours in your palette

– Create a ‘bower’ indoors or outdoors, by winding flowers and leaves around a structure such as an arch, or pergola. Hang long strands of flowers and sparkly beads to enclose the area on 3 sides (rather like a beaded door curtain) to create a pretty area in which to say your vows

Cake from Martha Stewart Weddings, dress by Peter O’Brien from Awear card from Ceci NY, Pashmina from Eastern Silk.