What is genuinely changing in weddings this year, what is being quietly retired, and which of it is worth paying attention to.
In this guide
- In: colour, and a lot of it
- In: fewer guests, more per guest
- In: the details guests can hold
- Out, or fading
- Worth ignoring
- How to use a trend list well
In: colour, and a lot of it
The all-white wedding has loosened. Butter yellow is the runaway colour of the year, terracotta and chocolate brown continue to grow, and sage green remains the single most-used wedding colour — now paired with warmer golds rather than dusty greys.
Coloured wedding dresses, coloured suits and mismatched bridal party palettes are all firmly mainstream.
In: fewer guests, more per guest
- Guest lists of 50 to 80 rather than 150
- Served meals and family-style over buffets
- Longer celebrations: welcome drinks, wedding day, next-day brunch
- Weekday and off-season dates, chosen deliberately
- Personalised detail at every place setting rather than one big centrepiece
In: the details guests can hold
Printed menus, place cards with a handwritten line, custom signage, keepsake favours. As guest lists shrink, per-guest detail becomes affordable, and it is the fastest-growing category in wedding spending for exactly that reason.
Out, or fading
- Rustic mason-jar styling, finally
- The garter toss and the bouquet toss
- Matching bridesmaid dresses in a single shade
- Elaborate favours nobody takes home
- Phone-free ceremonies as a novelty — now just a normal request
- Head tables that separate the couple from everyone they know
Worth ignoring
Any trend requiring a large single-use installation: flower walls, neon signs with a hashtag, balloon arches. They photograph well for one season and date fast. Anything you would still like in ten years is a style, not a trend.
How to use a trend list well
Pick one current element and let the rest of the wedding be timeless. A butter-yellow palette with classic stationery ages well; a wedding built entirely from this year's trends will look precisely dated in five. The photographs last far longer than the trend does.
From Sagevow
Pick a palette once and every piece — signage, menus, numbers, place cards — arrives matched to it.
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