At weddings in 2024, we will see a lot of unique details. From classics reimagined to modern technology, find out what's trending this year.

Authentic and free-spirited weddings

This year's aim for the wedding will be authentic celebrations and an informal atmosphere. Couples will dare to celebrate as they like rather than being guided by abstract notions. Whether it's a wedding venue, an unusual wedding concept, or a dress code for guests, couples will be creative and will impress with unique celebrations.

Top wedding themes for 2024

This year will feature three central wedding themes - new classics, garden weddings, and disco-style weddings. These themes bring something new to popular wedding concepts – classic weddings, outdoor weddings, and dancing parties. Everyone will have something up-to-date to include in these already-proven wedding concepts.

New classics

A classic wedding is a constant and relevant theme in the wedding industry. There will always be couples who want to spend their special day at an elegant and delicate celebration. However, this wedding theme transforms, and there are plenty of new and different nuances. The brightest novelty is the gorgeous retro-style wedding cakes with beautiful cream decorations.

Another highlight is pearls in wedding decoration. They can be in small, delicate details that add extra sophistication to the wedding design. For example, sugar pearls can be used to decorate wedding sweets and wedding cakes. Pearl motifs can be featured beautifully in wedding stationery. The champagne pyramids are still very much in style. Not for nothing – they look impressive in wedding photos.

Garden wedding

This year, you can interpret this theme in various ways. You can have a wedding in the countryside or an urban garden – in a mysterious yard in the city or on the terrace of a restaurant. You can also turn an indoor wedding venue into a garden by placing potted plants there.

In 2024, greenery and other plants that perfectly match the garden wedding theme will replace floral decorations. Your garden can be anything you imagine - the mysterious summer night garden, the exotic jungle garden, or even the minimalist Japanese garden. If nature and urban fusion fascinate you, then this is a wedding theme to consider. This theme is perfectly complemented by various other elements, such as a wedding meal in the form of a picnic or this year's trending wedding invitations with custom-made watercolour illustrations.

Retro wedding reimagined

This year, various vintage and retro elements are coming into the weddings. There will be disposable cameras, along with DJ playing vinyl records. The retro-style cakes already mentioned are also relevant. A disco wedding party in the 70s or 80s style – choose your favourite music, and non-stop dancing throughout the evening is guaranteed! If you dream of a disco ball at your wedding, this is the year to make it happen!

Retro-inspired elements perfectly complement the wedding decorations. The concept of retro disco also fits into the current celestial theme – you can adorn the dancefloor with lights reminiscent of shimmering stars or choose a saturated blue shade of the night sky as your wedding colour. Stylish wedding costumes also fit into the disco theme. Most often, even if the bride goes down the aisle in a long dress, at the reception, it will be replaced with a mini to get into dancing.

Saturated, unusual colour palettes

Even if you're hosting a classic-style wedding, pick unusual shades this year. Ordinary dull pastel tones will be replaced by more saturated tones. These can range from brown to deep green and saturated blues. The most popular shade of this summer's wedding will be the peach fluff. The effect of the selected colour palette will be amplified by the choice of monochrome flowers.

If you want to emphasize a specific colour palette at a wedding, guests may be asked to come to a specific dress code, as themed and tonal wedding attire will be particularly relevant this year.

Also, the snack and sweets tables, as well as the bar and cocktails, will be in accordance with the wedding colours and themes; they will become part of the wedding design. In a way, every decoration this year will perform a function at the wedding – it will form a photo corner, separate different venues from the zones and surround the already mentioned sweets and snack tables or bar.

Hanging decorations

This year, the purpose of wedding decorations is to make an impression. In addition, the accent will be on unique and unexpected decorations and not on the quantity of them. What distinguishes particularly trendy weddings this year will be precisely the ceiling decorations. These can range from layers of flowers hanging from the ceiling to various greens or drapes winding from the ceiling, covering columns and the like. Such decorations give the wedding venue a surprise effect and transform it.

Focus on quality time

This year's weddings will focus on comfort, emotions, and fun, in other words, a quality experience. Quality food and drinks are important for couples, as well as a carefully designed evening program with only meaningful activities. Also, a variety of unusual entertainment will be planned, especially on the second day of the wedding. Since this year's wedding is about true emotions and exciting experiences, accordingly, candid wedding photos will continue their victory march.

Couples will take care of their guests' well-being and comfort, so it's a new trend to have lounge areas at the venue with muted music and comfortable seating for relaxing from active dancing or for having intimate conversations. The celebration will be free, relaxed, and fun but responsible.

Since one-day weddings are still on trend, often, there's a set end time for the celebration, and it will end with a last dance. In essence, it is a good way to end the reception on a beautiful note: instead of everyone wandering away, the event can be closed together with sincere farewells and good wishes to the couple.

Sustainability, modern technologies, and optimized costs

Yes, all this goes hand in hand as couples increasingly perceive weddings as an organic entity with many variables, each of which is adaptable and changeable. Couples are increasingly conscious of what is important to them and choose to save where alternative solutions are available. For example, they don't print out brochures with practical information but send them to the guests electronically.

Sustainability is in a wide variety of details – from rings made from ethically sourced materials to ecological confetti and vegetarian food. In addition, sometimes sustainable choices mean giving up something. For example, spending money and resources on fireworks is long overdue.

When it comes to technology, couples still have wedding albums and films, but wedding social media content like Instagram Stories and Reels is on the rise. Therefore, couples choose photo and video specialists who can quickly and beautifully create such content.

Weddings in 2024 – focus on the essentials

In recent years, couples are getting married later in life, which means that the wedding is becoming an increasingly conscious and emotionally saturated event. As you can see, this is also reflected in wedding trends that are centred around authentic choices.

Author: Renāte Berga