This bride achieves a sunny wedding day look with a floral head of balsa wood flowers, acacia, leucadendron, wax flower, and seeded eucalyptus. A small faux bird is the finishing touch.

A bolt of yellow striped fabric from the 1960s, found at a fabric store for just $1 a yard, was rolled out and fashioned into an aisle runner for this ceremony. For added brightness, paper lanterns in the same sunny hue were strung from the rafters.

This bride dyed her flower girls’ vintage dresses yellow and paired them with floral head wreaths in the same palette.

Sunny and vibrant or pale and romantic, the color yellow can be used in a myriad of ways in your wedding celebration. Gather inspiration from these real weddings that feature a yellow color palette.

These striped ring pillows are the work of groom Tim's mother. On top of them sits a yellow-and-orange bouquet.

This effervescent letterpress suite, designed by artist Jeff Canham, invites guests to a stylish San Francisco wedding. The invite on the bottom right is for a casual celebration, complete with a taco truck, the following day at Golden Gate Park.

Bride Joanne's sunny bouquet -- golden peonies, garden roses, honeysuckle, ranunculus, and poppies -- is courtesy of friend and florist Naomi deManana.

Mini-yellow programs (an old typewriter's imprint was scanned and reproduced) tuck easily into a purse or pocket as a souvenir at Tasha and D.W.'s wedding in Ghent, New York.

An assortment of "Ridiculous Rum Cakes" by Pamela Cianci, who owns Sugar & Spike, rest on a stacked cake stand built by the groom, Luke, and painted by the bride, Joanne; the cakes were baked in antique pans the couple found at flea markets.

The groom, Mickey, designed a small comic-strip-style wedding invitation, illustrating a brief history of how the couple met and fell in love, as well as what guests could expect at the wedding. With a color palette of navy and yellow, the stationery also featured a perforated reply card for guests to rip off and return.

The bridesmaids carry sunflowers; the bride's bouquet includes sunflowers, mini calla lilies, fresh herbs, roses, gaillardia, and geraniums.

The bride's bouquet is a hand-tied mix of friendly flowers -- carnations, Marguerite daisies, daffodils, chamomile, variegated tulips in yellow and red, and alchemilla (lady's mantle). The bouquet is bound with striped grosgrain ribbon.

Yellow sashes are tied to these Melissa Sweet bridesmaid dresses. Their bouquets are yellow and white, continuing the color palette.

Bride Haylee's bouquet combines canary-yellow lilies, tulips, ranunculus, mimosa, and narcissus and is wrapped in a satin ribbon.

A close family friend, Els Shine, who is an incredible gardener, grew many of the rainbow-colored dahlias and zinnias used in the centerpieces at Vanessa and Mickey's wedding in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The arrangements were supplemented with even more blooms from the local Four Town Farm.

This boutonniere is made with a mini yellow calla lily and foxtail grass.

Bride and groom Lena and Joshua pose against a yellow-and-white backdrop of Marimekko fabric reproduced from an early-1960s pattern.

Each guest's place is outlined in chalk on a roll of black paper; red artists' tape secures the corners to the tablecloth. Single-flower arrangements in yellow, red, and white rest in milk bottles, latte bowls, and ceramic tumblers. Votive candles illuminate paper bags trimmed with scalloping shears.

A groomsman wears a yellow-and-orange boutonniere made of freesia, pyracantha berries, spray roses, smilax curls, and dusty miller.

Hundreds of buttons scattered throughout the site are the result of a crafting night held before the wedding by bride Vanessa's sister-in-law, Kim. Some of the buttons convey messages about Vanessa and Mickey, and others have hearts drawn by their niece Sabina. Mickey designed a few motifs for the wedding, and Kim wrote "I Love You" in different languages (including "Mena Tanda Wena," in Zulu). Guests were invited to wear the buttons and keep them as mementos.

A groomsman wears a yellow-and-white boutonniere made of aster and Italian pittosporum, and a tie patterned with tiny life preservers also in yellow and white.

Flower-patterned napkins and yellow-and-white floral plates play into the theme of cheerful and quirky contrasting patterns.

Guests are welcomed to the ceremony with mint iced tea, which complements the yellow color palette of the day.

Yellow pop quizzes are set on each table at this school-themed wedding. Guests are invited to fill in the answers and deposit into drop boxes. Bride and groom Minhee and Truman mailed the graded quizzes after the wedding with their thank-you notes.

This simple white cake is decorated with sugared candies and fruit in yellow and green. The birch cake topper is by Sara Casilio.

Not wanting to put her bridesmaids into dresses they'd never wear again, bride Vanessa came up with a novel idea. She'd had her eye on 1950s-inspired dresses with poofy, embroidered petticoats from Etsy seller MissBrache, Inc. Custom Clothing. She worked with the designer to create reversible yellow dresses.

Bride and groom Jennifer and James' relaxed attitude is showcased in the rustic decor. For the centerpieces, different sized containers are filled with a variety of yellow flowers.

Yellow and white alpaca wool twine wraps around the save-the-date, as a play on the location, Snow Moon Ranch, a Suri alpaca and llama farm. Packaged in pillow envelopes with custom llama postage from Zazzle, the small spool-style card lists the basic details of the wedding and the couple's wedding website.

Whether your heritage is Italian or you just want to infuse yellow and flavor into your favors, bottles of limoncello, personalized with your wedding date, serve as a cute and delicious favor for guests to take home.