Is grey the new chocolate brown?

This past wedding season chocolate brown has been everywhere from bridesmaids dresses, to cakes, to invites. It was paired up with pink, blue, green, and teal. After all of the chocolate brown saturation from the past year I was relieved to find an article from The Knot that was featured on MSN.com stating that grey was the new “It” accent for the upcoming wedding season.  Grey comes in so many different shades I can see it being versatile in most color combos. I think a slate great would be a great accent with a deep jewel tone blue with highlights of a bright green to make a great peacock palette.  A modern color combo with grey would be a dark grey with a bright green, with black and white accents. It also makes a great color for a subtle vintage feeling palette as well. I found a great table cloth from thevintagetable.net that has a great  grey pallette printed right on it. It has pale pink, and green that accent the pale grey background.  A small group of vases filled with classic wedding flowers would be a great centerpiece to finish the look.