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Wedding planning is a labor of love. You spend months pouring over the details to ensure everything will be perfect. One aspect that many couples enjoy is the opportunity to try a new trend and explore the latest in wedding designs, styles, and event themes to make a truly fantastic special day. It’s about the vows, the event, and having a wonderful time with all your closest loved ones to celebrate the beginning of your shared life together.
Banquets of Minnesota can help you plan a wedding that embodies your favorite of the top wedding trends of 2025. Let’s dive into the trends to discover which ones speak to your heart and would be perfect for your wedding celebration.
Aesthetic Dress Codes
Forget the monochrome. Embracing a love for wedding photography, couples are looking for a dress code that pops. Guests have begun to receive invitations to wear outfits that fit an aesthetic color scheme instead of simple black-tie or white-tie formalwear.
Aesthetic dress codes lead to gorgeous wedding photos in which your guests represent a jewel box or floral bouquet of colors that make your wedding both beautiful and unique.
Bridesmaids often represent a spectrum of matching shades, while gentlemen can wear colorful suits or a dress shirt and accessories that fit the theme. This is not just a lovely trend; it also allows each guest to choose a shade that suits their complexion and personal style.
Elegant Minimalism
Extravagance has been the bridal trend for a few years, but the pendulum of fashion is swinging back toward classy minimalism. Elegant draperies, simple dress lines, traditional lace, and styles that hearken back over the centuries are coming to the forefront. Instead of going overboard with the details and decor, you can make your wedding stand out by selecting stunning minimalistic styles. As a bonus, minimalist wedding design is also easier on the budget.
Unique Decorations for Your Love Story
Speaking of creatively affordable designs, many couples make their wedding unique by framing their love story with vintage, thrifted, and hand-made decorations.
Vintage dresses, furniture, and decor bring family history into the celebration, while hand-made decorations can weave love into every crocheted lace accent and folded paper flower.
Thrifting for decorations can also be extremely fun for wedding parties that love antique hunting together and can lead to fun restoration DIY projects that will make your wedding truly unlike any other wedding that has ever been planned.
Private Vow Readings
Vows are something precious and special between the wedding couple, and you don’t have to say them in front of a crowd. Private wedding vows are a growing trend.
You have the opportunity to say your vows with passion, without stage fright, and as softly as you like in a moment that shares profound meaning just between the two of you.
Short Ceremonies
Couples are also favoring shorter wedding ceremonies. With all the essentials like the wedding party standing up front, the musical wedding march, and the big kiss, everyone will be satisfied and ready for the cake.
Especially if your ceremony is in the same venue as your reception, there’s no need for an hour-long sermon about love and commitment while you and your beloved stand in your most uncomfortable (but beautiful) shoes. If you’re thinking you want a short ceremony, go for it.
Transforming Attire
In addition to beautiful color-palette dress codes, it’s also becoming more common for weddings to be relaxed or transforming when it comes to attire. In other words, let everyone (including the bride and groom) change into their dancing clothes or alter semi-formal outfits into dance mode so that no one is too restricted when it’s time to kick up your heels and get the real celebration started.
Guest Experience Planning
Lastly, wedding planning is turning toward guest experience. Destination weddings, in particular, are featuring multi-day event planning to make long-distance travel worthwhile. But even local weddings are focusing more on fun and games, interactive activities, and other guest-focused planning.
Creating attractions, planning all-day activities, and ensuring everyone gets home safe with Uber vouchers are all rising in the wedding trends.
Plan an Unforgettable Wedding at Banquets of Minnesota
The latest wedding trends in 2025 can guide and inspire the wedding you are planning now. The expert event production team at Banquets of Minnesota can bring your vision to life, from beautiful color palettes and in-house catering to fun events and activity stations to keep your guests engaged throughout the celebration.
Inquire with us for an exceptional wedding venue and planning service.