It’s an exciting time of year! Everyone who works in, or has a passion for, the arts looks forward to the moment when the Pantone color of the year is announced.
The wedding industry is no exception. The visual arts, as well as our entire lives, are heavily influenced by color. The slightest shift in hue can change a negative vibe to a positive one or a cool feeling to a warm one.
The Pantone Color of the Year is most likely to have the biggest impact on society. This year, the renowned organization has chosen Cloud Dancer.
“At this time of transformation, when we are reimagining our future and our place in the world, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a discrete white hue offering a promise of clarity,” – says Leatrice Eiseman, an Executive Director of Pantone Color Institute.
Brides Often Ask
What Are The Color Trends For 2026?
Color trends for 2026 focus on calm, nature-inspired shades. Earthy tones like olive, clay, and soft brown bring warmth and stability. Deep teal and muted blue-greens add depth, while warm neutrals create comfort. Gentle pastels—lavender, blush, and misty green—offer a fresh, optimistic mood for modern spaces.
Why do we have a Pantone Color of the Year?
Because color is highly representative and possesses the ability to reflect what society is at this moment in time.
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What Is The Pantone Color Of The Year 2026?
For 2026, the Pantone Color Institute selects PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a billowy white imbued with a feeling of serenity. An ethereal white hue, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer serves as a symbol of calming influence in a frenetic society rediscovering the value of measured consideration and quiet reflection. A breath of color whose vaporized and aerated presence gently illuminates and enlightens, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a whisper of calm in a noisy world.
Pantone Color In Wedding Attire
Bridal Dresses
Choosing a bridal dress in Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer brings an effortlessly elegant and timeless look to your wedding day. This soft, refined white offers a clean, graceful aesthetic that flatters every silhouette. Whether you prefer a classic A-line, a romantic ball gown, or a sleek modern sheath, Cloud Dancer enhances the dress’s purity and lightness.
Complement your gown with delicate accessories in silver, pearl, or soft champagne tones to maintain its airy sophistication. Jewelry with pearls, crystals, or subtle metallic accents pairs beautifully with Cloud Dancer’s gentle shade. For shoes, consider ivory, nude, or metallic options to complete the ensemble without distracting from the gown’s serene beauty.
Bridesmaids Dresses
Cloud Dancer bridesmaid dresses offer an ethereal and harmonious look beside the bride. This soft white shade creates a cohesive, polished bridal party aesthetic and photographs beautifully in any setting. Cloud Dancer also works wonderfully in mixed-palette lineups, allowing bridesmaids to blend soft neutrals or pastels for a dreamy, balanced look.
This shade pairs flawlessly with silver, pearl, nude, or blush accessories, giving each bridesmaid freedom to express her personal style while maintaining a unified appearance.
Flower Girl Dresses
Cloud Dancer flower girl dresses bring sweet, angelic charm to the ceremony. The soft white tone feels pure and timeless, making it ideal for floral crowns, lace accents, or simple ribbon details. This gentle hue complements all ages and skin tones, adding a delicate and heartwarming touch to your wedding aesthetic.
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Pantone Wedding Decor
Wedding Arches
Cloud Dancer–themed wedding arches create a light, romantic focal point for your ceremony. Whether draped in soft fabrics or adorned with flowers, this airy white shade symbolizes purity, harmony, and new beginnings. Cloud Dancer pairs beautifully with greenery, blush tones, champagne florals, or metallic accents, creating an effortlessly elegant backdrop for your vows.
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Wedding Table Decor
Use Cloud Dancer table linens or runners to establish a clean, serene base for your reception décor. Pair them with soft florals—ivory, blush, sage, or champagne—to create depth and gentle contrast. Gold, silver, or neutral-toned tableware enhances the refined palette, while candles in soft warm whites add a romantic glow.
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Wedding Signs
Wedding signs in Cloud Dancer offer a crisp, sophisticated canvas for elegant lettering. Use calligraphy in gold, silver, charcoal, or champagne for clear visibility and luxurious contrast. These accents seamlessly blend with a soft, refined wedding palette, keeping the overall décor cohesive and stylish.
Hanging Decorations
Opt for Cloud Dancer lanterns, fabric drapes, or hanging florals to add lightness and airiness to your venue. Pair with subtle pastel or metallic touches for added depth. These delicate hanging elements create an elevated and serene atmosphere, enhancing the romantic feel of your celebration.
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Wedding Centerpieces
Centerpieces featuring Cloud Dancer tones bring fresh elegance to any table. Choose white and ivory blooms—roses, peonies, ranunculus, or hydrangeas—and pair them with soft greenery or champagne accents. Arrange them in clear, pearl, or metallic vases for timeless refinement. This palette creates a luminous, graceful ambiance perfect for a classic or modern wedding.
Pantone Wedding Bouquets
For Cloud Dancer bouquets, select soft white florals such as garden roses, peonies, calla lilies, or ranunculus. Add greenery or barely-there blush accents for delicate contrast. Wrap the stems in Cloud Dancer ribbon or a pearl-toned fabric. Consider light touches of sparkle with pearls, crystals, or subtle gold detailing.
Pantone Wedding Stationery
Stationery in Cloud Dancer creates a crisp and polished foundation for your wedding theme. Enhance invitations with calligraphy in gold, silver, charcoal, or soft blush. Add floral elements or minimalistic patterns in coordinating neutrals for a refined, harmonious aesthetic throughout your wedding suite.
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Pantone Wedding Cakes
A Cloud Dancer–inspired wedding cake offers simple, elegant beauty. Opt for smooth white frosting, delicate sugar flowers, or soft textural details like ruffles or lace piping. Incorporate touches of metallic gold, silver, or subtle pastels for added sophistication. This timeless look suits both classic and modern celebrations.
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Pantone Color Of The Previous Years
For two decades, Pantone Color Institute has released a total of twenty-four colors of the year including 2022. 2016 and 2021 have two colors each, all forecasting global color trends.
Mocha Mousse
Pantone 2025 Mocha Mousse exudes warmth, depth, and timeless elegance, offering a rich, comforting tone that brings a sense of grounding and sophistication to any setting. This smooth, earthy brown creates a cozy and refined atmosphere, perfect for weddings, celebrations, and everyday design.
- Suitable for all wedding seasons—its warm undertones feel inviting in winter, naturally rustic in fall, and beautifully organic in spring and summer.
- Pairs effortlessly with ivory, blush, champagne, gold, sage, and soft neutrals, enhancing both warm and cool palettes.
- Versatile and beautifully balanced, allowing for creative styling while maintaining a luxurious and harmonious look.
Pantone Color 2024
Peach Fuzz embodies warmth and self-care, offering a soft, nurturing tone that uplifts both the spirit and the surroundings. This gentle peach hue creates a soothing and harmonious atmosphere, perfect for any occasion.
- Complements all wedding seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter.
- Pairs beautifully with whites, greens, pinks, and golds.
- Versatile and balanced, allowing for creativity without overpowering other colors.
Pantone Color 2023
Viva Magenta is highly symbolic of the times. It’s meant to represent the newfound strength and energy we emerge from trying times. It both celebrates the moment as well as our collective optimism for the future. It’s energetic and evokes the power of, and reconnection to, nature.
- Viva Magenta seamlessly slips into most wedding themes. Wedding guests wearing the color will compliment the harvest palette of fall weddings, the florals of summer weddings, the endurance of winter weddings, and the vivaciousness of spring weddings.
- Viva Magenta offers unlimited wedding bouquet combinations. Pair with white flowers and luscious greens for a traditional approach. Depending on the season you can also mix and match other pinks, reds, purples, and pale blues.
- Although it’s a highly pronounced color, Viva Magenta oddly doesn’t compete with other bright colors. This Pantone color of the year also doesn’t demand attention. You can feel free to experiment with every rainbow color without worrying about visual chaos.
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Pantone Color 2022
Thematically, Very Peri is very forward-looking. It attempts to represent the emotions we all share about the near future. Simultaneously, the color represents how we all got here and harnesses those emotions as well
- Very Peri would be a very bold choice as the main color of your wedding palette. Brides and grooms are likely to prefer the traditional route and to enhance their black tuxedos and white wedding gowns with splashes of the award-winning hue. For grooms, think boutonnieres, ties, vests, shoes, pocket squares, and other accessories.
- Be cautious with this color. A light purple on white could be difficult to read. If you are taking our design advice, make sure that the letters are large enough for even your most elderly guest to read.
- Very Peri makes for a delicious-looking icing hue. This can be applied as a highlight to a traditional white cake with dried purple flower petals for additional ornamentation.
- Finding an exact Very Peri Pantone match in nature will be difficult. However, there are some very close matches that will do the trick perfectly. Lavender, bellflower, balloon flower, and allium, or just a few of the options you have at your disposal. Compliment the purple colors with a variety of greens, whites, and textures for best results.
Pantone Colors 2021
There are two colors, comprising the ultimate gray and the illuminating vibrant yellow. Ultimate Gray 17-5104 connotes strength, calm, stability, fortitude, comfort, and resilience.
We see a light at the end of the tunnel and this is where the Illuminating13-0647 color comes in. Represented by the vibrant yellow, it signifies, positivity, continuity, hope, and nature. Its bright nature forms an agreeable contrast to ultimate gray.
- The groom’s wedding attire doesn’t necessarily have to match with the bride or groomsmen attire. However, to create a cohesive palette, there must be a similar touch across the board.
- Illuminating will take the form of embroidery, waistband, or floral motifs. A bride can pair this with a mix of ultimate grey for shoes and illuminating jewelry plus hair accents. These accents and accessories can either be simple or bejeweled.
- Your wedding stationery gives you room to explore your wedding color palette. But it gets better as the illuminating and ultimate grey Pantone colors are perfect for different wedding themes.
- The Pantone colors of the year 2021 redefine wedding cake creativity with its blend of calm and vibrancies.
- Make your table more interesting by choosing a colorful theme. Use atypically shaped illuminating place and menu cards. Alternate between grey and vibrant yellow plates and glassware. Match napkins and centerpieces to this setup and add some white chargers.
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Pantone Color 2020
The 2020 Pantone color of the year is classic blue, looking like the sky and synonymous with the return of a new day. It signifies dependability, trustworthiness, constancy, and credibility. These traits are very much needed in the current high-stress situation we are in. It’s also deep and calm, making it resonate with so many people.
Classic blue is a versatile color that can stand on its own and also blend with other colors. To use…
- Classic Blue is a work of art, so whether touch or full option, they work for cakes. Apply it as crystal geodes, adorned colored flowers, ombré icing accents, or watercolor artwork.
- If you’re veering away from an all-blue bouquet, apply it as accents. They range from classic blue ribbons, a sprig of thistles to your bouquet or buttonholes.
- Have the bridesmaids wear classic blue dresses or get them matching classic blue swatches.
- As the bride, take something classic blue to your wedding. For example, it could be a touch on your dress, bouquet, or hair.
- To avoid overwhelming the eyes at the wedding, set the table with minimal classic blue. Incorporate it strategically at different heights. Like the plate, the goblets, the candles and, the candelabra.
- Switch up your venue from formal reception to disco ready in a heartbeat. For example, fix up a mix of classic blue and neon heart-shaped lights in the background at the reception.
- Create a cozy atmosphere at your lounge with classic blue throw pillows on muted tone couches. At the ceremony, design your altar with classic blue drapes and asymmetrical greenery.
The Pantone color of the year did not disappoint! Viva Magenta is a powerful yet gentle color that perfectly captures the sentiment of today and our collective aspirations for the future. The wedding industry is sure to have a lot of fun with the possibilities this color brings, and we look forward to seeing it absolutely everywhere.
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