Rather than relying on paint store rejects for the actual wedding woodcrafts, I decided to go ahead and purchase paint. But what to do when I don’t know exactly what colors I want, and I certainly don’t need a gallon of each?

I got samples!

Behr has a feature on their site that lets you pick colors and order an 8oz sample of each, with free shipping if you order a certain number of them. They’re a little pricy at $4 a pop, but it’s way cheaper than buying a gallon or quart of each color and way prettier than relying on the rejects. I’m sure other paint websites have something similar. We usually use Behr paint for our wall painting and I’m very happy with the quality of their paints, so I just naturally went there for this too. And no, I don’t know the difference between Premium Plus and Ultra. I don’t think it really matters for this project.

So, these will likely be the colors we use for our wedding. Greens and browns, with pops of a sweet blue when we need something to break things up. Now I just wish they would get here already.