10 things you didn’t know about rose gold: the perfect floral accompaniment

As the rose gold trend continues to shimmer across all kinds of industry and still with serious celebrity backing, here at Corsage Creations we knew we had to lead the way in rose gold floral accessories for the 2018 wedding season. To ignite your inspiration, we’ve compiled a list of lesser-known facts about the special metal, and to make sure it’s insanely easy to incorporate into your designs we’ve added a rose gold option to a large number of our most popular product lines. See the full rose gold selection here, which includes brooches like favourites Heirloom and Aurora, as well as our chair backs, amazing wraps, diamante branches and rhinestone quintets, pearl sprays and loops, plus buttonholes, corsage bracelets and our gleaming and lacey leaves. 1. With flowers, it’s perfectly paired with pale pinks and serenity blues While there are a million colour combinations to be made, rose gold accessories are particularly striking when paired with pale pink blooms, naturally. Think Sweet Akito roses, Pink Lollypop hydrangea and Fantasy snowberries. Head down the vintage route with an Antigua or Babylon carnation and you’ll find your rose gold accessories will draw-out that antique appearance. If you’re looking for contrast, be led by Pantone. Their colour experts paired ‘Rose Quartz’ (a pale pink) with ‘Serenity’ (a cool blue) to create 2016’s Colour of the Year, so opt for a similar serene shade of blue to follow suit. Delphinium, nigella and scabiousa make the perfect choice for summer, while muscari looks sweet in spring and there’s a huge selection of cool blue hydrangea varieties, including Blue Lollypop. You’re spoiled for choice when it comes to the rose gold aspect, so scour the range at Corsage Creations where you’ll find a whole host of pins, picks, brooches, stickers, corsage bracelets, buttonholes and more; all designed for pairing with flowers. 2. Its Russian history In nineteenth-century Russia, Carl Fabergé (of Fabergé egg fame) brought the luxury metal to public attention when he opted to blend yellow gold with copper to create an alchemic, blush-toned hybrid, originally called ‘Russian gold’, but very similar to the rosy shade we see today. 3. Its (even earlier) ancient Colombian history Researchers found that Colombia's Nahuange people, who lived during the first millennium AD, were capable of making impure gold appear more valuable by giving it a rosy sheen. After studying 44 pinkish metal artefacts including nose pendants, necklaces, earrings, belts, and bracelets, experts discovered that they often intentionally over-polished, refined and burnished their gold products to reveal pink and orange tones underneath, creating fashionable rose-gold jewellery. 4. It became an icon with Cartier It returned to the spotlight around the 1920ѕ when Cаrtіеr launched their Trinity ring. It may be almost a century old, but the Trinity ring remains one of Cartier's most iconic creations. In the jewellery world it’s a cult classic and comprises of three bands of gold in shades of grey, yellow and of course, rose.

#Cartier creates the Trinity Ring in 1918 for Jean Cocteau. It is still a traditional #wedding ring in France. pic.twitter.com/epwQXcLZLk

— Celsteel (@CelsteelDiamond) June 25, 2015

5. Pantone gave it the nod It’s commonly known that the famous paint company’s trend predictions almost always come true, with their Colour of the Year consistently infiltrating all sorts of industries for years after it is announced. Rose gold was given official permission to shine in 2016 when Pantone cited it as one half of its first duo Colour of the Year, named Rose Quartz & Serenity. “It's hard to dislike a colour that you will naturally look good in,” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute, told Allure. “With pink and any of the rose colours, whether used in a ring, a piece of jewellery, or something you wear around the face, it throws this wonderful glow onto the skin.” 6. As did Apple Not just a tech company, Apple is widely recognised for pushing boundaries in trends and stylish product design, developed to clothe its ground-breaking technology. And while it didn’t invent rose gold gadgets (Wired tell us Samsung did that with its Galaxy Note 3 in 2013), Apple did make them mainstream with its iPhone 6s in 2015. 7. Vogue says: avoid using it everywhere at weddings But DO use it to accessorise. In the magazine’s recent report named “wedding trend mistakes to avoid”, Mindy Weiss of Mindy Weiss Party Consultants says: “Don’t get me wrong, I love this elegant colour and it’s still very much in-demand right now. But going all-in with rose gold can make your wedding feel dated years later. Instead, opt for touches of rose gold throughout your wedding decor. It will make the colour pop and feel less overwhelming. Take it a step further by mixing other metallics as well.” 8. It’s going to be 2018’s big engagement ring trend According to leading jewellery blog JewelryKind it will be this year’s top engagement ring choice for soon-to-be-weds, as demand is still sky-rocketing and it’s still regularly spotted on celebrities. 9.It’s a huge current hair trend The shade of hair dye, which goes by an interesting mix of names from ‘buttered rose gold’ to ‘rose brown’, is all over beauty blogs and magazines right now. Experts at L'Oreal Paris and Wella Professional have given their seal of approval while even Kim Kardashian has dabbled with it too.

Watch our new How To video to learn how to create a soft cascading rose gold hair color using Magma by Blondor and Color Fresh Create 🌸 https://t.co/F49AXF8xA5 pic.twitter.com/Yo6ePtU9tW — Wella Professionals (@WellaPro) January 19, 2018

10. It can be found everywhere (even in plumbing) And finally, just to name a few more places it’s appeared: Northstar Balloons said it was their most popular line in 2017, it’s a trend spotted in plumbing fixtures (according to top US interior designer Danny Russo), Ferrari has made a rose gold car, it’s sprinkled on wedding cakes, all over interior accessories, lining fabrics, it’s taking over technology, oh and of course it’s one of the biggest new lines at Corsage Creations.