Choosing the perfect wedding color palette can be overwhelming, but did you know that your natural features—skin, eyes, and hair—hold the key to your most flattering shades? With a little tech help from ChatGPT, you can easily discover your best seasonal colors and create a wedding palette that enhances your natural beauty.

In this guide, we'll show you how to find your most flattering wedding colors using a simple selfie and ChatGPT’s color-matching abilities.

Why Your Seasonal Color Matters for Your Wedding Palette

Your seasonal color analysis is based on your skin tone, hair, and eye color. Each person falls into one of four seasonal categories—Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter—which helps determine which colors make you glow and which might wash you out. Choosing a wedding palette based on your best seasonal colors ensures that your dress, flowers, and decor all complement you naturally.

How to Find Your Personalize Color Palette

Step 1: Take a Well-Lit Selfie

To find your most flattering wedding colors, start by taking a selfie in natural daylight. Avoid artificial lighting, filters, or heavy makeup, as these can distort your true undertones. A well-lit, makeup-free photo will give the most accurate results.

Step 2: Extract Your Color Codes

Once you have a clear selfie, follow these steps to get your personalized hex codes:

Option 1: Use the iPhone Photos App

Open your selfie in the Photos app on your iPhone.
Tap Edit and then select the adjust sliders (3 lines with circles on them) at the bottom of the screen.
The tap the Markup tool (pen icon).
Tap the Color Wheel and then the Picker tool (eyedropper icon).
Select an area of your skin, eyes, or hair to get a color preview.
Repeat for each area and note the 6-digit code for each.

Find the color picker under the color wheel circle next to the + sign.

Option 2: Use an Online Color Picker

Upload your selfie to a free online color picker tool (such as imagecolorpicker.com or Canva’s color picker).
Select three key areas: skin, eyes, and hair. Click on a part of your face that represents your natural skin tone, then repeat for your eye color and hair.
Copy the hex codes that appear (e.g., #F4C7B8 for skin, #6A4C32 for hair, #8BA3C7 for eyes).

Step 3: Ask ChatGPT for Your Best Seasons and Colors

Now, use ChatGPT to analyze your seasonal colors! Simply enter a prompt like this:

"I have fair skin (#F4C7B8), deep brown hair (#6A4C32), and blue-gray eyes (#8BA3C7). What seasonal color palette suits me best for my wedding?"

ChatGPT will then suggest a seasonal color category (Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter) and provide a list of fashion, makeup, jewelry and complementary wedding colors tailored to your features. It even provides a visual color palette! Here’s mine:

Step 4: Refine

Initially, ChatGPT reported earth tones to be my best match. But they aren’t. Terracotta, taupe and camel wash me out! So I added a bit more info - specifically that my skin has blue undertones.

You can tell your skin undertone by looking at the thinnest part of your skin (bottom of your arm, eyelids, etc.) If you see red or neutrals, you’re warm colors. I see mostly blue veins, so I’m cool colors. You can also think about what color of jewelery looks best on you, gold = warm, silver = cool.

After adding this information to ChatGPT, it nailed my colors as cool soft summer, which includes rose, berry, sage, periwinkle and soft navy. Everything I love to wear.

Step 5: Choose Your Perfect Wedding Palette

Based on its color suggestions and seasonal type, choose the 2-4 colors that appeal most to you and the feel you want for your wedding.

Here are some sample wedding color palettes based on seasonality:

Spring Brides: Warm, light, and clear colors like peach, coral, soft turquoise, and warm pastels.
Summer Brides: Cool, muted, and soft shades such as dusty blue, lavender, rose, and cool gray.
Autumn Brides: Rich, warm, and earthy tones like terracotta, olive green, mustard, and deep burgundy.
Winter Brides: Bold, cool, and dramatic hues such as emerald, royal blue, fuchsia, and crisp white.

Step 6: Bring Your Palette to Life

Once you have your ideal colors, incorporate them into different wedding elements. You can pick your favorites or ask Chat to help.

For flowers, I asked for good floral combinations in my colors. If offered me 4 color combinations including specific flowers to consider and which ones to avoid. It even suggested the best bouquet styles for my colors (romantic, garden-style.)

But it was a total flop when I asked to see a sample bouquet in my colors.

The AI-generated image was laughable. It might be doable with artificial flowers but certainly not real flowers. And not in every season. So Chat does have its limits.

ChatGPT is helpful but often not rooted in reality. :)

Here are a few other ways to use your color recommendations:

Your Groom: Repeat the process on a photo of your groom to find his best colors too.
Bridal Attire: Choose dresses or accessories that flatter your seasonal color palette.
Decor: Use your seasonal colors for table linens, invitations, and venue styling.
Hair & Makeup: Everything from foundation shades to hair rinses, lipstick and nail colors.

Final Thoughts

Finding your best wedding color palette doesn’t have to be a guessing game. By using a selfie, extracting color hex codes, and leveraging ChatGPT’s color analysis, you can confidently select a wedding palette that makes you look and feel your best.

Do you HAVE to go with Chat’s recommendations? Clearly not. But if you want colors that are a natural compliment to your coloring and look great in photos, it’s a fun place to start!

Ready to start planning? Try this method today and let your natural beauty shine on your wedding day! Let me know what your color results are below.

How to Find Your Best Wedding Color Palette Using ChatGPT