All I'm seeing in the magazines and online are very modern, hip colors: tiffany blue and red, chocolate brown and pink, etc. They're pretty but I want something different and original, like you all had!
FWIW, those aren't too modern. DH proposed in early '01, we married August '03, and those colors were in the Martha Stewart/Elegant Bride magazines around then, and ALL over the British bridal mags (I was never brave enough to add up all the cold hard cash I spent on THOSE things...around $12 each, augh).
For our originally planned wedding which would have been Sept '02, we were doing red, red, and more red. Such a pain! Red is very very difficult to match, especially from one sort of fabric to another. And IMO red is the hardest if you do have some unmatching...one red can look so orange while another red can look so different, and it's really hard to explain what you are actually going for. I was tormented that whole time, but I was trying to put in a Korean thing b/c hubby is half Korean, the big poofy wedding was for HIM (I wanted Vegas), and it just felt right since it was going to be on the solstice going into Fall.
Then things changed and August worked the best, and red just didn't feel right anymore. Plus, I'd realize how little his mom was going to help (zero help is little, right?), we'd canceled the plans for a Korean honeymoon for all sorts of reasons, and red in the heat of the summer didn't work for me.
So we moved to pink and green. I find variations of pink go well together (like in Ember's pictures) so I didn't have to be as exact, and the green I used was a light sagey bright sort of green. We were going to go with certain dresses in a light pink, but they were really expensive and the bridal shops were warning me they were going to be discontinued, so we dropped that plan. My bridesmaids absolutely revolted at the idea of choosing their own gowns...we were all in our 30s and knew that the concept of wearing a b'maid dress was just ridiculous, so they wanted me to just choose and tell them and stop talking about it so much. My MOH is a seamstress whose dad worked at the outlet of a big fabric store in WA, and could get me a discount off a discount on silk, so she made long skirts from a springy green shantung silk fabric. And they ordered tops from a Separates line (and shortly after our orders, we were told the company wouldn't accept "just tops" orders anymore) in an ivory...they were supposed to choose the top that worked best for them, but they ended up insisting on coordinating so they didn't have 4 of one, 1 of another, 1 of a different one...that bugged them. I always thought bridesmaids LIKED choosing their own stuff, but not mine!
The florist didn't quite get the pink right...I used dahlias for the main flower and she got it too light...I'd showed her ONLY bright, nearly hot, pink, but she went with almost a purple...that was the exception to the "variations of pink go well". She messed up some other stuff too...but she used amaranthus, both deep red and green, and that turned out to be awesome. I also had her use an idea that was new *at the time*, using limes at the base of the centerpiece vases.
Everyone who noticed that loved it.
I'm now talking too much, sorry.
The guys just wore suits. Well, they were the suitiest tuxes I could find (no one was renting suits then...they are now!), with a normal dress shirt and ties. I'd tried to get hubby to agree to fun ties that I was thinking of making or buying from a place like Simple Silhouettes, but he just couldn't see it in his head. Then we watched Love Actually, and it's been since '03 but he still smacks himself after seeing the wedding scene and those great bright colored ties the groom and best man wear.
I'm so glad we didn't go with red!
Though I've been planning a renewal since we were AT our wedding, one with a colored gown for me (I wanted a deep red gown from Ian Stuart but was too chicken), something great for DH, and nothing much to match to each other since I'd have no one standing up with us...and red without needing to match it sounds nice!
Pink is my favorite! My backup colors are green (and yet, its hard for everyone to look good in green *sigh*) purple, red, or this champagne/silvery color.
7 years together.
It was really very pretty and elegant. 
but it was the style. the girls wore floral dresses of baby blue and big floppy hats. i carried daisies and the girls carried white baskets of mixed spring flowers w/daisies. our wedding pictures are a hoot.
