2025 Wedding Trends are All About Distinctive, Personalized Moments

This article is all about 2025 wedding trends. 

Infusing your wedding with the season’s top micro trends is a great way to add fun elements to ensure your celebration is highly personalized. Different from years past, 2025 wedding trends incorporate different materials for distinct decor, and old-world traditions made modern. Try experimenting with these fresh trends in your 2025 wedding to level up your event. 

Event Design instead of “Themes”

While traditional wedding decor has stayed more or less the same for decades, the event design industry has grown immensely over the years with the increase in bespoke event designs. The rise of influencers and brand events has taken over social media and inspired many to think outside the box with wedding decor.

Event designers and creatives alike now seek out nontraditional, creative avenues to make luxurious settings that feel more event-like and less like a traditional wedding. Thinking of your wedding as a unique event with an aesthetic rather than a “theme” is the key. While themes are too conspicuous, cohesive design elements create an overall feeling for guests. 

Unique Wedding Venues

Firstly, having your wedding at a unique venue is a great way to ensure the vibe of your event is nontraditional. While vineyards and gardens are typical, finding unique wedding venues like theaters, museums, summer camps or historic properties could be the perfect setting for a unique wedding. 

Micro-Destination Weddings

One trend we’re seeing more and more in 2025 are micro-destination weddings. A trend that started during COVID social distancing days has grown stronger over the years due to its practicality. Micro weddings are typically weddings smaller than 50 people.

Especially if a destination wedding is preferred, a micro wedding is a more practical choice for handling logistics and overall budget. Plus – a micro-destination wedding feels more intimate and centered around the couple. Unlike a typical wedding day, a micro-destination wedding elongates the event and allows the couple to spend lots of quality time with their guests over multiple days. Also a benefit – you and your guests will enjoy a unique vacation together.

Circular Ceremony Formations

Another wedding trend for the ceremony is to have unique formations like this circular layout above. Chairs in a unique circular layout ensure that every guest will have an intimate view of the couple while they speak their vows. Interesting seating arrangements with florals and decorations will be sure to stand out from other ceremonies. 

Ribbons as Decor

Ribbons have had a place in both fashion and decor trends in 2025 so it only seems fitting that they made their way to wedding decor. There’s something romantic about ribbons that feels fitting with wedding decor. Add ribbons to candelabras, table settings, used as cake toppers, or part of bridal attire. One tip is to layer the ribbons heavily. Stacked ribbons are dramatic and feel current.

Fruit as Unique Centerpieces

Fruit centerpieces are a beautiful and unique way to decorate a table. Match the color of your flowers with fruit. Use grapes, cherries, strawberries, pomegranates – or any colorful fruit that acts as a beautiful centerpiece will do. Strewn about the table, the appearance provides a look that feels straight out of a Dutch still-life and is relaxed yet elegant.   

Tall Candle Tapers

Tall candle tapers are an elegant detail that has come back into style. While this trend is certainly not new, it’s a reference to the past and an excuse to bust out those old candelabras.  Tall candle tapers also add a vintage flare to your table setting and provide sufficient glow. One overarching trend is incorporating and modernizing old-world traditions and decor, and tall taper candles are a great way to add an alluring, picturesque ambiance.  

Custom Matches as Party Gifts

Custom matches have become a favorite creative wedding favor. Personalized and specifically branded, these small tokens are useful, beautiful, and minimally costly. Shops like Etsy make customizing party favors like matches so simple. If you plan to make custom matches for your wedding, use programs like Canva or Indesign to create a unique design and share it with the match vendor to print them. Use your creativity to craft a special design that best represents you as a couple or speaks to the theme of your wedding. 

Espresso Martinis

Just as espresso martinis have been trending in cocktails, the drink has also picked up in popularity in specialty wedding drinks. Espresso martinis are a great choice of wedding drink as they have both a high alcohol content and caffeine; AKA the perfect pick-me-up to keep the party lively. The foam that comes with the drink also makes it easy to decorate. Add espresso beans or the initials of the couple to decorate.

This year we expect to see espresso martinis in various ways – espresso martini towers, signature espresso martinis, or simply seeing the drink as a design motif to use in themes for bachelorette parties, invitations, napkins, or wedding favors. 

Large Wedding Sheet Cakes

Different from traditional yet complicated, multi-tier cake towers that traditional weddings are known for, wide sheet cakes are the latest trend in wedding desserts. Sheetcakes are for the understated couple who want a delicious dessert but don’t want to pay hundreds. They are wide, flat sheets of cake that can often even span an entire table. Topped simply with frosting, flowers, or even fruit, these cakes focus more on taste than presentation. Their simple presentation is the ultimate sophistication.

Alternative “Champagne Towers”

Move over champagne towers, these alternative champagne towers are in! Towers of fruit or other delectables in coupe glasses at your dessert table are such an elegant way to present food to your guests. Complete the dessert table with an alternate “champagne tower” of sweets to complete the look. 

Dramatic Drapery

Another 2025 wedding trend that’s making waves is dramatic drapery as decor. Draped fabrics are an easy, cost-effective solution to wedding decor. Like flowers, draped fabrics can be quite dramatic. Yet unlike flowers, they are a fraction of the cost and can be reused, recycled, and rented. Use long, voluminous fabrics like silk or chiffon to drape over tables, chairs, wedding arches, and more. 

Cigar and Whiskey Stations

Another fun, niche trend is to incorporate unique, celebratory “stations”  like a cigar and whiskey station. These after-dinner aperitifs are a cheeky way for guests to enjoy the party reception, and to keep the people celebrating longer. 

Film Photography

Wedding photographers have started to include film photography in wedding packages. Film photography provides a unique aesthetic that captures the beauty of light, color, and grain. Film provides an element of vintage nostalgia and romanticism to photos that are perfect for capturing a romantic event like a wedding. Ask your wedding photographer if they include film packages! 

Basque Waist Wedding Gowns

Wedding dress trends come and go as quickly as typical fashion trends. The latest trend: basque waist or drop waist wedding gowns. The style got its’ name from the Basque region of late 19th-century Spain.  This universally flattering cut elongates your torso and accentuates hips for a look that is quite elegant. The basque waist is defined by a waistline lower than the natural hip line that highlights curves beautifully. The hip accentuating look adds an element of romanticism to your wedding outfit. 

Traditional Cathedral Veils

Long, cathedral veils are having quite the renaissance in wedding trends. Long, lacey white veils in old-world styles provide an incredibly romantic look. Brides are sourcing antiques or even utilizing family heirlooms for an incredibly sentimental touch. Even veil blushers- the short veils that cover the bride’s face during the ceremony have increased in popularity. The look feels traditional and very romantic. 

As you can see, 2025 wedding trends play on elements that are modernizations to old-fashioned wedding decor.  Level up your wedding event by creating dramatic, personalized moments that speak to the couple’s tastes.