A Look at Must-Know Wedding Trends for Couples in 2025

Updated March 2025

So far, the wedding trends for 2025 haven’t pivoted too far from last year’s trend. But – this year, bolder colors, and more artistic décor and designs take the front seat. 

According to our research from prominent publications, such as Vogue, Brides and The Knot, where wedding planning experts are featured, couples are prioritizing more intimate wedding celebrations tailored to couples’ individual styles and preferences; smaller guest lists and unique details are the key. 

In the below, we’ve highlighted 2025’s new and recurring themes that will hopefully spark your creativity and create exciting possibilities ahead.

Read about what trends are standing out.

1. Changing Positioning of Wedding Events and Formats 

In the past few years, we saw the rise of micro weddings where couples hosted smaller guest counts (to the tune of 20-50 guests). Before, couples celebrated big after the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.

This year, couples are opting for more intimate experiences, and there are many formats to experiment with, depending on your mood and style.

According to Vogue, the changing of the schedules for wedding celebration comprises:

• Multi-day events

• Private vow

• A much smaller wedding party followed by grander-scale parties accompanied with late-night bites

• A family-only event before the beginning of the festivities

2. Using Dramatic Draping As a Way to Spruce Up Wedding Space 

The role of traditional drapery in weddings is simply to cover the tents and interiors with some fabrics, yet there’s a recent surge in popularity for the use of dramatic draping.

According to Brides and its featured wedding experts, couples are using more dramatic draping as a way to showcase their personality, their storytelling, conjure some type of ambiance, as well as to define individual spaces. 

Couples are enhancing the space, by using richer fabrics, textures, imaginative sculptural designs as ways to augment the sensory experience, as well as to evoke some type of mood – or a sense of intimacy, like they’re hosting the guests at home.

3. Embracing Bold Color Palettes as Well as Calming Hues

The fad of using bold and earthy colors in weddings has not changed. Juicy red is the color of this year, according to The Knot and The Wed. Muted color palettes along the spectrum, like coral, are also popular.

On the other hand, wedding experts are also seeing more and more couples incorporate earthy colors like green and wildflower hues as a way to bring a sense of earthiness and naturalness. For more ideas, check out Sapphire Event Group’s trending colors guide for 2025.

4. Love Nature? Vegetables and Fruit Décors Are in

According to The Knot, the trend of integrating vegetable decorations and elements into weddings has seen a steady rise in recent years, including in 2025. 

Interweaving vegetable décor in your wedding is ideal for couples who possess profound love and reverence for nature and vegetations; it also shows their preferences for farm-to-table practices, sustainability and local farmers support.

Best of all, vibrant colors of the plants, flowers and fruits bring vitality and natural pops of color to your space that can easily bond couples and guests closer to nature.

There are many whimsical, artistic and sophisticated ways to infuse vegetable décor elements.

Some examples include:

• Placing a bouquet of seasonal fruits and vegetables as the table centerpiece 

• Sprinkling smaller pieces like grape bunches, artichokes, persimmons along the table

• Using dry fruits and/or flowers to decorate an arbor, pergola or the aisle! 

• Best of all, the party can snack on fresh fruits that are ripe

Martha Stewart doles out savvy tips on how to create beautiful and aesthetically pleasing arrangements using various flowers and fruits together.  

5. Be Playful With Your Dresses and Suits!

More than ever, couples are ditching traditional wedding attire for more playful, expressive clothing choices that reflect their unique styles. They either emphasize certain decorative elements or completely deconstruct it to create something that truly embodies their artistic expression.

Modernizing the Bride's Dress

Similar to last year’s trend, The Wed talked about brides experimenting with statement pieces, putting modern twists on traditional wedding dresses such as with:

• Oversized bows

• Short veils

• Color wedding dresses

• Dropped waists

Basque in All the Romanticism

(Image source: Paris by Maggie Sottero – Bridal Closet)

For 2025, the standout trend is modernizing basque waist style for the bride’s dress, defined as having a dramatic V- or U-shaped dip. This style accentuates the waist line and torso nicely, while also giving it a regal and romantic touch harking back to the Victorian era.

Weaving in Cultural Elements in Your Attire

Daringly Fun Outfits for the Groom and His Party

6. Heighten the Romance Factor Through Fairytale Wedding

Vintage decor aesthetics have always appealed to couples who desire adding a splash of romance and timelessness in their weddings. According to The Wed and Lena Christine, vintage décor from many eras and styles is making a stealthy comeback in 2025. 

You can go for:

• A wedding in the castle

• Cottage

• An old Hollywood theme

In terms of decorations, The Wed offers a plethora of styling ideas – from ivory-hue decor to baroque style silverware.

7. How Monogrammed Accessories and Décor Can Enrich Your Celebration of Love

Monogramming items are not a thing of the past, where they are meant to simply show ownership or wealth status. It is very much an integral part of special occasions today. Southerners would agree! You can put a modern twist on an age-old tradition. 

Monogramming wedding decorations and accessories adds a unique, personal touch that truly reflects your union.

Why Monogrammed Décors Can Set Your Wedding Part

Last year, Vogue reported that monogrammed crests in weddings are experiencing a resurgence. This year, that trend hasn’t buckled. According to Kimenink, couples want to further personalize their wedding décors down to the details, by monogramming a wide variety of decorations. Personalizing such details helps immerse you and your guests in the world of your love. 

Monogrammed items span a wide range such as from large-scale pieces to smaller details like:

• Table runners

• Aisle runners

• Signages

• Invitations

• Napkins

• Gift bags

• Bouquets with monogrammed ribbons

• Accessories, like handkerchiefs and cufflinks, as mentioned in the dresses and suits section above

Doing so adds charm and timeliness to the vibe. It is also a symbol of unity, heritage and everlasting love. If you’re more sentimental, this is the ideal embellishment. 

How Can Monogrammed Handkerchiefs Complete Your Look? 

Similarly, adding monogrammed handkerchiefs to the mix is a nice finishing touch for adorning your wardrobe and accessories. According to Inside Wedding, monogrammed handkerchiefs make for the ideal pocket or attire accessory in more ways than one. How so? 

Monogrammed handkerchiefs can: 

• Add a touch of timeless elegance and heartfelt sentiment, deepening the celebration of love
• Serve as a reminder of the start of a couple's new lives
• Come in handy when you use it to dab any joyful tears on your wedding day
• Transformed into a keepsake
• Passed down for generations to come

Several ways of monogramming handkerchiefs, include embroidering you and your loved one's initials or with a personal message. You can also go for a more ornate handkerchief with lace trims or clean lines for a modern look and feel.

Not only are they available for the bride and the groom, you can also gift your father and mother customizable wedding handkerchiefs for them to remember the occasion by.

8. Deconstructing Cakes and Desserts into Exciting Culinary Creations 

In 2025, the dessert trend is more experimental than ever! Last year, the trend focused  on providing an interactive experience, such as having a chef-assisted interaction at the food bar, building-your-own tacos or noodles station, doing live s’mores, renting out food trucks, and serving street food and mobile bars. Don’t get us wrong, this setup is still a hit.

However, according to The Bride and The Wed, the standout trend for 2025 is reimagining the wedding cake, as well as familiar treats and desserts in fun, artistic – and unexpected ways. 

Instead of a traditional wedding cake, you can create:

• Fun cake sizes and shapes such as domed cakes

• Add piped flowers and lambeth piping for a vintage and romantic style

• Create unique architectural confections. 

Here are some gorgeous cake design ideas from The Knot.

In lieu of cutting a wedding cake in front of everyone, more couples are serving tiny desserts such as but are not limited to: 

• Towers of many kinds, like macaroons, donuts and madeleines

• Mini bundt cakes

• Decadent pastries and fruit tarts 

• Croquembouche (which is a tower of tasty pastry puffs)
  

9. Integrating Wellness and Group Activities 

Weddings can be stressful for the bride and groom and its respective parties – and even their guests at times! What better way to feel restorative and decompress by building in some wellness activities into the schedule?

The focus on self-care has exploded in recent years, with individuals and society embracing bettering their mental health, and seeking balance and peace through mindfulness practices and healthy habits.

So naturally, integrating wellness activities into the wedding agenda comes as no surprise. Wellness focus has already been trending, but this year, the roster of activities is expanding.

According to The Knot, wellness activities range from: 

• A sound bath

• Group meditation

• Yoga

• Other group exercises like: dance fitness, scenic bike rides, etc.

• Pop-up massage services on the ground

• Couples can also make wellness the theme of their wedding, whether it’s hosting at a wellness retreat, having a wellness-centric menu, and many more

In addition to wellness, interactive game activities are also a hit, providing entertainment and helping guests bond through team-based activities. 

Games can be as elaborative or simple as you want it, such as:

• Pickleball tournaments

• Bocce ball

• Giant Jenga

• Cornhole

• Interactive trivia games

• Scavenger hunts

• Relay races
  

10. Capture Your Special Moments Through Next-Level Content Creation

According to The Knot and The Wed, couples from the millennial and gen Z generations are tapping into content creators to create more unscripted, genuine and memorable moments of their wedding day.

Candid Moments Are Sometimes the Sweetest

Capture Your Special Moment Through Film

Trending documentation styles include:

• A 8mm or 35 mm video to evoke a cinematic feel and the timelessness of the 1960s and 1970s retro aesthetics
• A documentary-style video to capture organic moments
• Using drones for wedding photography to provide a comprehensive as well as different views and angles of receptions, parties and outdoor activities

Your Wedding Can Be Canvas for Creativity and Vast Imagination

When planning weddings, you don’t always have to play by the rules if the wedding doesn’t feel authentic to you.

This day and age, not many people just go through the motions or sticks with a generic, cookie-cutter wedding. The age of personalization and authenticity has been our cultural zeitgeist, so why not apply this to weddings?

Shake it up by using different elements of a construct, color schemes, out-of-the box designs, and organizing hobby- or interest-based activities, which present endless choices. 

The most important thing is you design the wedding that you and your loved one feel most comfortable with – one that truly represents your personality, style and interests.

Resources and tools are readily available to make the wedding as simple or as elaborate as you want. 

So start painting that canvas!