As a luxury wedding planning team, it’s our job to maintain our fingers on the heartbeat of what’s happening on the planet of essential life events. Whilst working on our 2025 and 2026 couples’ wedding plans, we’re starting to see some emerging trends – and we’re loving them! Never one to subscribe to transient style trends, bow to in-vogue color schemes or in any way attempt to box our couples in, our Wedding Style Forecast focuses on wedding trends that centre around the sensation and ambience couples are striving to attain, irrespective of the aesthetic.
Here are our 9 wedding trends to observe this 12 months, in our Elegante by Michelle J Wedding Forecast.
The Forecast: 9 2025 Wedding Trends to Watch
Wedding Trend #1: Weddings Planned in Under a Yr
Shorter planning journeys? No problem! Because of greater flexibility from couples regarding the dates of their weddings (starting with the rise of midweek weddings which has continued beyond the 2020 pandemic), planning weddings in under a 12 months is entirely possible. We expect to see many more weddings with shorter lead times in 2025 and beyond, and need to encourage couples to still reach out to a marriage planner even in the event that they think they’ve ‘left it too late’.
Last 12 months, we delivered a multi-centre destination wedding which was planned and curated inside just 7 months, involving complex logistics, exquisite venues and a spotlight to each detail. Whether you’re a pair living and planning a marriage in London, or looking for a celebration in Europe while your base is within the US, we are able to make the magic occur.
Examine Talia and Nadav’s wedding planned in under a 12 months here.
Moreover, in 2024 we planned a London wedding for Kerri and Yann in only 8 weeks! Even when it sounds not possible, our experience and connections are the important thing to success.
How you can plan a marriage in 6 weeks.
Wedding Trend #2: Considered Welcome Bags
An increased awareness of sustainability, paired with an appreciation for thoughtful detail, is paving the way in which for wedding welcome bags with impact. Gone are the times of filling welcome bags with low-cost freebies that, let’s face it, often find yourself left behind – say hello to welcome gifting, fastidiously considered contents and truly personalised additions akin to handwritten welcome notes.
We’ve got a complete guide on creating great wedding welcome bags which you’ll be able to access here, because we imagine that each element of your wedding needs to be elevated. Delivering a welcome bag with wow factor sets the tone for a very memorable experience on your guests, and so they don’t need to cost the earth.
Wedding Trend #3: Wedding Dress Codes
Love them or detest them, wedding dress codes are gaining popularity. Couples are approaching their wedding planning with clear visions of how they need their celebrations to feel and look, and a part of that is giving guidelines and suggestions to guests for his or her outfits.
With this wedding trend, our advice is to ‘know your audience’. You already know your folks and family the most effective, and have an understanding of how offering up a dress code will probably be received. There are different levels you’ll be able to take this to, from a straightforward ‘please wear black tie’ all through to a booklet of example outfits for every event of your wedding.
As your wedding planner we are able to advise on the most effective plan of action for implementing dress codes, but we’re definitely seeing more couples taking this route in 2025.
Wedding Trend #4: Multi-Day Destination Weddings
Multi-day destination weddings are back in a giant way, with couples looking for the experience of celebrating over an extended time period with their family members. Quality time has grow to be increasingly essential in a world existing within the aftermath of a pandemic and getting ready to an AI surge, and alluring your entire nearest and dearest to a brand new, exciting location to rejoice with you is admittedly the epitome of this.
It’s now common for couples to host a welcome event, wedding day and farewell event, and our 2023 couple Taylor and Matt went one further still – their 4 day Tuscan wedding was a real home-away-from-home style celebration for all their US based family and friends.
Discover their wedding here, then go on a tour of Tuscany with us as we show you around more of our past multi day destination weddings.
Wondering how much a destination wedding costs? We’ve got a guide for that too.
Wedding Trend #5: Alternative Styling and Centrepieces
2025 will see couples going greater and bolder with their wedding visions and styling concepts, and we’re already curating weddings with alternative table centrepieces, bouquets and aesthetic decisions. Structured, precise tablescapes are giving strategy to more organic, free flowing designs, and we expect to see more different mediums mixed with florals in the approaching months and years. The marriage trend for combining fruit with flowers is already popular, and this creativity is bound to be pushed further with more surrealist design decisions emerging.
Typically, Elegante by Michelle J weddings lean more towards the soft, romantic aesthetic, but we now have recently delivered a more contemporary celebration featuring salt table runners and a novel chuppah design and are at all times excited to explore latest concepts with our couples.
Wedding Trend #6: Abundant Floral Installations
There’s a marriage trend emerging for giant floral installations reasonably than a number of small incidental pieces, with couples selecting abundant, densely packed floristry designs that more closely resemble sculpture than nature.
In lots of Elegante by Michelle J weddings this centres across the chuppah, as within the case of Natalie and Marc’s impressive Jewish wedding cover in Rome or the floral chuppah which was later floated out over the dancefloor on the Rosewood late last 12 months. Nevertheless, this wedding trend just isn’t only for Jewish weddings.
Many couples with weddings of every kind are selecting large statement floral pieces, for instance trees, opulent meadow aisle runners or table centrepieces which run down the perimeters and appear to puddle onto the ground.
Working with a fantastic florist is vital to pulling off your floral vision, and we’ve put together a guide to selecting the proper wedding florist which you’ll be able to read here.
Wedding Trend #7: Production!
If Shakespeare said ‘all of the world’s a stage’, Elegante by Michelle J says that in 2025, all the marriage’s a stage. Couples are realising increasingly more that production is so essential to the atmosphere you’ll create at your wedding, almost turning your venue right into a theatre on your celebrations.
Once we say ‘production’ we’re talking about lighting, sound and even structures akin to stages and platforms. Identical to the West End and Broadway use clever lighting and set design to bring a story to life, so too can we fastidiously consider how we are able to elevate your venue to attain your vision.
This is especially essential in case your event goes into the evening at a time of the 12 months when it should get dark; we never leave the atmosphere to probability, and there are sometimes just a few production-based surprises after the sun sets…see in the event you can spot one in the photographs below!
Wedding Trend #8: Premium Wedding Day Coordination
Over time it has been possible to book very reasonably priced ‘on the day coordination’ packages from wedding planners, geared toward those couples who don’t want or don’t have the budget for full planning services. Historically these involved a marriage planner getting in contact just a few weeks before your wedding to get all of your suppliers’ details and understand the plan for the day, then coming along to the marriage to run it.
While we’re confident that many couples have enjoyed this experience and located it helpful, we’re finding that increasingly more couples now recognise the worth of premium wedding day coordination services. Somewhere between full wedding planning and easily ‘on the day’ coordination, these premium wedding day services offer the most effective of each worlds.
We all know that, at the purpose of handover, there are sometimes still many loose ends to tie up and final elements still to place in place. Simply picking up where you left off isn’t as helpful because it sounds, which is why we developed our Elegante Piccolo service – a lighter version of our signature full planning service with all of its signature sparkle.
Quite than allowing you to proceed with an imperfect plan, we’ll pick up on any gaps, discrepancies or uncertainties and fix them for you, working with you in our usual warm and friendly strategy to enable you feel supported from start to complete. We’ll also provide three Elegante team members in your wedding day, to assist all of your fastidiously laid plans go off and not using a hitch.
In 2025 we’re already seeing a marriage trend for couples leaning towards these more premium wedding day coordination services, looking for assurance and peace of mind and wanting their essential life event to be in secure, capable hands.
If this has piqued your interest, discover more about how it really works here.
Wedding Trend #9: Experiential, Storytelling Weddings
Last but not at all least, the ultimate wedding trend we’re seeing continuing into 2025 is a desire for celebrations to feel more experiential and bespoke. Couples are looking less for weddings that follow prescribed formats, and more for unique elements, tailored timelines and thoughtful references throughout that feel deeply personal. It’s almost like making a brand for every couple, delivering moments and memories that feel like they may only ever belong to that wedding and people people.
Where multiple locations, venues or rooms are used for various parts of the marriage, they’re intrinsically linked through their aesthetic, ambience and clever storytelling, and lots of the previous trends we now have referenced come into play here.
Are you feeling as enthusiastic about these 2025 and 2026 wedding trends as we’re? If we’ve got your creativity flowing and your vision on your wedding burning in your minds, it’s time to take the subsequent step and reach out on your complimentary consultation call.
