Top Wedding Personalization Trends for 2024 & 2025
Wedding trends are always evolving because of new technology, style fad, and cultural and social shifts. Evolution has continued to shift toward offering greater personalization and innovation choices. You can customize every aspect of your wedding to match your personality and taste. So what are the latest and most popular wedding ideas trending in 2024 and 2025 that you can incorporate in your wedding?
In the below, we’ve carefully curated resources and tips from wedding planning experts, and compiled a high-level list of standout trends for venues, decorations, attires, food to entertainment.
Let’s take a look at some that may help spark your creativity and inspiration!
1. Setting the Vibe
Where and how you want to celebrate your lifelong love and commitment are arguably the two most important factors when it comes to wedding planning. These factors will help guide the look-and-feel of your wedding.
Micro-weddings
Ever since the pandemic, couples have been keeping weddings small so they don’t become super-spreader events. And this hasn’t gone away.
According to Wed Society Pro, low-key weddings, such as micro-weddings, with only 50 guests, are ideal for those who prefer a more manageable, budget-friendly and intimate affair.
Ultimately, you and your fiancé should do what feels right for the both of you. You can even have as little as 20 guests. All that is important is that you get to celebrate your love with those who truly cherish and support you (and have quality time).
Micro-weddings are typically followed by a big reception. Big parties are becoming as equally important as the ceremony.
Alternative Wedding Venues
Gone are the days of only sticking to getting married at churches and hotel ballrooms. Here, you can get totally creative! According to Complete Weddings + Event, more and more couples are choosing unique venues that reflect their personality.
For example, you can get married at a venue from a flower farm, vineyard, a bookstore, your favorite city park or trail, industrial warehouses, a museum to even a historical ancient amphitheater. The possibilities are literally endless!
For more inspiration, check out Carats and Cake’s fun wedding venues.
Sustainability
According to The One Event, being eco-friendly is here to stay for the long haul in 2024 and beyond. Couples are much more mindful of being sustainable these days. You can incorporate sustainability in every aspect of your wedding or just a few.
For example, you can choose to source local flowers, food and drinks, work with local vendors; rent decorations; use reusable plates; minimize food waste by considering a seasonal menu or by donating food; wear sustainable clothing; or choose a location that practices sustainability, whether they are LEED-certified or possess any eco-friendly features. The New York Times’s or The Knot’s articles offer a wealth of eco-friendly ideas for weddings.
2. Go Bold or Go Home!
Decorations and invitations are the reflections of your brand for the wedding. You can opt for simple, minimalistic or something more elaborate. Whatever it is, this is your opportunity to set the tone and bring the vibe!
Bold Colors and Earth Tones
In 2024, according to One Fab Day, experts are seeing a lot more bold colors combo, such as color-blocking schemes, against more muted colors.
Some of the bolder color aesthetics can be used for flowers, invitations, signage and backdrops. They can be colors reminiscent of memories in your relationship and can totally set the mood!
Other trending colors include soft, muted, earthy colors and pastel palettes.
Monogram Crests
Monogram crests, which are initials of you and your beloved, decorated with floral, geometric or ornate borders or elements, always add an elegant touch when branding your wedding decorations, whether they are engraved on invitations or on signage or napkins. They honor the couples’ personality, values and heritage.
Not only are monogram crests experiencing a resurgence, according to Vogue, your monogram crests don’t even have to include the couples’ initials. You can also create your own custom logo!
3. Find Your Swagger
Here comes the bride and groom indeed. People often say you are what you eat. Perhaps you are what you wear?
Dress
More and more of the bride’s dresses and accessories are veering away from the traditional.
For example, we are seeing style trends of short and unique-looking veils, oversized bows, colored wedding dresses, and dropped waists, etc. Bold colors and soft hues are popular color choices for those who opt not to wear a white dress. Check out Vogue’s article for more dress inspiration.
For grooms, we are also seeing a lot more color, pattern and texture options than your simple black and white tux.
Guest Dress Code
Wedding planning experts are seeing more and more couples setting a dress theme for the wedding party so the guests can blend into the aesthetic of the party!
Depending on what your wedding theme is, the attires can be anything from the roaring 20s, garden party, beach theme, retro theme to something more simple like bold color schemes, glimmers, pastel or shades of blue! The ideas are endless. Check out Brides’ article for more inspiration.
Monogrammed Accessories
(Photo is from Linen Whites' customer)
Continuing along the lines of personalization and monogrammed crests, according to Inside Wedding, monogrammed handkerchiefs are the ideal accessories for your wedding, as you wipe away your tears of joy and happiness! The most precious of all, you can monogram you and your beloved’s initials on there to make it even a more treasured item.
Often, monogrammed handkerchiefs, especially in the Southern traditions, are family heirlooms that are passed down from generation to generation through the brides. The handkerchiefs, often ornately embroidered, serve as a reminder of the start of a couples’ new lives and the continuation of the family line.
Not only are there handkerchiefs for the bride and groom, there are also some available for the mother and father of the bride and groom.
To shop for some handkerchiefs, check out Linen Whites’ exquisite line of monogrammed handkerchiefs.
4. Sip n’ Nosh
The food trend at weddings has been more experimental than ever! Gone are the days of plated dinners with only chicken, salmon and beef options, and the standard buffet.
If you want more of an interactive and unique experience, consider doing a chef-assisted interaction at the food bar (like building-your-own tacos or noodles station or doing live s’mores), renting out food trucks, serving street food and mobile bars.
According to CNBC and Nielsen’s IQ report, more of the younger generation and aging demographics are partaking in less alcohol. Coming up with more eclectic mocktail options is another way to be more inclusive to guests who don’t drink alcohol.
And what’s a party without serving your guests’ comfort food and midnight snacks after all the dancing and merriment?
5. Get Your Fun On!
Sure, the live band and photo booths are nice. But to really showcase your personality and personalize it even more, come up with activities that reflect your interests.
For example, you can hire a live painter, create a giant crossword puzzle telling your love story or do a scavenger hunt for the guests!
If you have the budget, drone shows are all the rage. Drone shows are more environmentally friendly than fireworks, plus, you can tell your story through projecting photographs up above and creating mesmerizing multidimensional graphics that will delight the audience.
Another trend that’s been a mainstay throughout our research is audio guest book. Instead of the physical guest book, you can do an audio guest book where guests can record their well wishes through audio or video, and couples can keep it as a keepsake.
Go Forth and Have Fun
When planning a wedding, it’s easy to get frustrated, feel stressed or simply uninspired.
But it doesn’t have to be! You can have whatever kind of wedding you want, from the grandiose to minimalism.
What is the most important is that you feel the wedding reflects you and your loved one’s personality, style and interests.
In this day and age, there are endless personalization options you can fine-tune and play with. You have endless resources and tools to design a wedding that’s uniquely you and your loved one.
So go on, have fun with it because it's you and your loved one’s special day. Celebrate how you want it.
