WEDDING TREND PREDICTIONS FOR 2024-2025
Wedding trend predictions! Our most favourite topic. If you’re like us, you’re constantly on Instagram and Pinterest looking for inspo, and it’s very exciting when you start to notice new looks pop up over and over again. Trend alert! Below you’ll find a list of what we think will be big in 2024 and 2025, along with some of our favourite inspo photos. So whether you’re just here for the eye candy or you want your upcoming wedding to be on point (hint, we know someone who can help with that), scroll for more!
MINImalist bouquets
Big, garden-inspired bouquets are over - it’s all about contemporary, art-inspired ones now. Not to say we don’t still love big bountiful bouquets - what’s not to love? - but structured, statuesque florals with less filler are definitely having a moment. We’re seeing a lot of amaranth, lillies, anthurium - flowers with large petals that have a lot to say and aren’t afraid of being the centre of attention.
Calma • Rachel Fosbenner Photography
oversized SHEET CAKES
The classic tiered wedding cake has been the norm for so long, with bakers and cake designers focusing on icing and piping and other details to create new looks. Oversized sheet cakes are a drastic break from that tradition, and we think it’s wonderful and fun and welcome it whole heartedly! Our only question is, how many people does it take to carry one cake? Actually we have another question: do you have a fridge large enough to store it?
100 Layer Cake • Anna Lucia Events • Sav & Cam Photography
HIRING A Wedding Content Creator
Do you ever see absolutely fantastic, choreographed, mini wedding reels pop up on your feed and wonder how the heck the bride had time to pull that off? Wonder no more - they likely hired a wedding content creator. Kind of like a videographer but for Gen Z, the wedding content creator is another pap that follows you around armed with their phone and making random ridiculous asks, kind of like a dare you can’t say no to. We predict this trend will be around for a while and may even become a vendor staple.
BOWS EVERYWHERE
We’ve been seeing bows everywhere, giving any event a proper dose of vintage charm. From candle holders, to plate decor, to champagne glasses, to wedding gowns, you can basically put a bow anywhere. “Bow stylist” will definitely be on our list of offered services this coming year!
Edénique Floral Design • Amanda Drost Photography
Pendant and Chandelier Lighting
This could be said about basically anything, but we’ll say it anyway: It’s kind of all about lighting. We’re seeing more and more pendant and chandelier installs of every style - modern, vintage, modern-vintage… You need ceiling beams and a great A/V tech, but if you check those boxes, you can pretty much have all the hanging lamps your heart desires.
Eventos Clandestine • Joy Zamora Photography
Noel Nassar Events • ImageHaus
OVER-THE-TOP CEREMONY FLORALS
Do you like flowers? We hope so, because you’ll be seeing a lot of them! Florals have of course always been a wedding ceremony staple, but we’re seeing larger, bigger, grander, more flowers, lining the aisle and forming spectacular oversized arches and floral backdrops. This maximalist, dreamy trend definitely requires a bigger spend, but if it’s in the budget, you may be seeing more of them.
Tulipina • Jose Villa Photography
Benevent Planner • Elisabetta Riccio Photography
MAXIMALIST DESIGN
Not to say that minimalism is out, more to say that maximalism is also back in. Taking risk with inventive colour palettes, mix and matching materials, layering patterns - we are seeing a lot of eye candy these days. As we said, clean lines are definitely still in, so this modern take on maximalism does involve a sense of order, just with more risk, colour, and activity within those lines.
Something Vintage • Abby Jiu Photography
Benevent Planner • Chris & Ruth Photography
Boldly Patterned table linens
Not to toot our own horn, but we’ve been on this one for a while. We’re seeing bold patterns pop up more and more in our feed, especially as table linens, which makes perfect sense, since fabrics are the best medium for pattern design. We have seen cowhide tablecloths, very bold and colourful tablecloths, as well as classic floral tablecloths… Basically all the table cloths. It can be a little scary to pull together a look with a bold pattern that has so much to say and a lot to coordinate with, but when it’s done right, it’s eye candy to the extreme.
Something Vintage Rentals • Abby Jiu Photography
Mad Bash Group • Tara McMullen Photography
PLACEMATS
These aren’t your granny’s placemats - these are custom-designed, branded, printed placemats. We are also seeing fabric placemats take the place of charger plates. Printed placemats are a great way to get creative and display your wedding’s logo, if you have one, or menu, or place card, and they can be in the exact right colour. We’ve been doing this one for a while so it’s nice to see the world catch up!
Green Wedding Shoes • Liz Barnes Photo
State of Reverie • One Spoon Two Spoon Photography
Hand Drawn StationEry Features and Illustrations
This trend is all about bringing humanity back to design. Despite the millions of fonts available to us, all of them speaking to different aspects of our personality, sometimes nothing can compare to the authenticity of hand written lettering and hand drawn illustrations. This trend also relates back to an overarching trend: a desire for weddings to feel more cozy and comfortable rather than ultra elegant.
CUSTOM BARS
Custom bars have been the norm in corporate event design for a while, since identifying all the branding opportunities in a space is standard practice, and bars have that large flat front area that are just begging for some sprucing up. Custom bars are becoming more trendy for weddings, when you wouldn’t have seen them all that frequently in the past. And people are getting super creative with them - not just simply vinyling the front of a plexi bar (how passé), but employing custom carpentry, applying wallpaper panels to wooden bars, and sourcing transparent bars for displaying whatever their heart demands!
Alison Bryan • Tory Williams Photography
Something Vintage Rentals • Afrik Armando Photography
ADORNED FRUIT
Give a stylist a piece of fruit and see what happens! Decorating with fruit is kind of like decorating with florals - celebrating the natural beauty and slight imperfections within natural decor is a beautiful thing. It also gives a feeling of abundance, celebration, and a bit of a Mediterranean vibe. We have been known to decorate with fruit from time to time and it is cool to see the trend evolve from just fruit to adorned fruit - adding pearls, beads, cherry tomato garlands, you know the usual, and giving yourself just a tad more work to do! But that’s okay, anything for beauty :)
Libby Styles • Captured by Georgie
When you’re designing your wedding, it can be hard to keep your finger on the pulse of modern wedding styling, and although it may seem like so much fun to do it all yourself and really infuse everything with your personal style, it also requires not only a helluva lotta work, but forethought, too. That’s why we’re here (bats eyelashes). Event design is our literal specialty, and we offer different packages at different price points, from wedding design consultation (where you make your own choices but with our guidance), to event design, to event design and month-of coordination (our signature service), to full-on wedding planning. If you are looking for a planner and decor is important to you, reach out! And if you aren’t super into trends, that’s fine too! We have mastered all kinds of styles and absolutely love listening to people’s different dreams and inspiration and bringing them to life. We’d love to hear from you!
