If you aren't a bride who's in love with the color pink bridesmaid dresses, then choosing wedding accessories in blue may be the answer, especially the shade that's referred to as duck egg blue.

It's a pastel shade - meaning it will melt into the background if you would like it to

It works beautifully in spring, summer and winter weddings

Combine duck egg blue wedding accessories with gold or silver and also you get a very special luxe effect

Think about bronze, silver or gold shoes for the bridesmaids - or listen to it down with neutrals

Duck egg blue looks fabulous on wedding cakes too

You'll be spoilt for choice with regards to flowers. Talk to your florist and a starter you are able to opt for; hyacinths, bluebells, delphiniums, clematis, grape hyacinths, ranunculus, lavender, larkspur, anenomes ...

The blue is really a classic color for wedding invites too. Nothing is quite as inviting like a crisp blue envelope coming into the mailbox, filled with beautiful sage green bridesmaid dresses.

This shade of blue utilizes laces too. Consider placing lace on the blue tablecloth. Or dressing your bridesmaids in various shades of blue to have an ombre effect.

And obviously, you will be following the old rhyme for which to wear in a wedding permanently fortune:

"Something old, new things, something borrowed, something blue ..."

Credits: Wedding Cushion by Cherry ,Pete from Not On The High Street, bridesmaids  flowers via stylemepretty.com, wedding photo with balloons by Max Friends via greenweddingshoes.com, buttonhole by Anna del Greco at BridalbyAnna.