Biggest and Most Popular Wedding Trends in 2022

The wedding boom is here, and couples are ready to celebrate their weddings in 2022 like never before, including engaging in stranger chat. While there are still some restrictions, weddings are resembling their pre-pandemic form with larger guest lists, destination events, and significant design moments. Couples are now more intentional in their planning, prioritizing the guest experience, incorporating personalized details, and allocating a higher budget per guest to ensure they feel genuinely included in the overall experience.

Embracing Modernity: Trends in Contemporary Weddings

Anarkali Silhouette

While there are many new trends in bridal lehengas like asymmetrical hems or bodycon skirts, the one design that will never go out of fashion is the A-line lehenga or the 'Anarkali Silhouette'. Conventional and stunning, this is a style many millennial brides have embraced due to their unending charm.

Vibrant & Unconventional Hues

Bridal lehengas just keep surprising us again and again. Brides are either going for the traditional red lehengas or taking us by surprise with completely off-beat colours like yellow, orange or turquoise blue! There's just no in-between anymore.

Back-Garden Weddings

Romantic, back-garden weddings and weddings at venues with enchanted gardens have become super popular over the last two years, as couples took advantage of the magic (and enhanced safety!) of gorgeous, greenery-filled outdoor spaces.

Curated Guest Lists

We are still not ready to return to the days of larger than life weddings with guest lists running into the thousands. Even though guest restrictions have eased in most places, couples and families are still seeking the comfort and hassle-free enjoyment of smaller get-togethers with just those closest to them.

Storytelling through food

The food menu is one of the most important and memorable parts of your wedding celebration, and more and more couples are opting for unusual dishes and special options. A great way to connect is to have dishes or concepts with special significance to your love story, such as your first date, first anniversary, favorite restaurants, favorite vacation, or special memories.

Drone Photography along with Special Wedding Entertainment

Wedding photography is a special mode to preserve those moments for memories. To bring the modern effect to photography, drone photography is in trend nowadays to shoot videos and take photos as it is fancy as well as a lot more useful with fine quality photographs.

Focus on Small Details

Instead of focusing so much on formalities with a lot of people, families are preferring small, intimate wedding celebrations to spend quality time with each other. What matters is the happiness and quality time with the loved ones instead of the number of people to enjoy the show.

Micro-Weddings and Elopements

It comes as no surprise that one of the biggest 2022 wedding trends will be micro-weddings and elopements. Even despite most COVID restrictions being lifted, couples are making a deliberate decision to host small, intimate gatherings where the focus is very much on each other and the act of getting married, rather than a wedding itself.

Reinventing tradition

One thing we won’t see in 2022 is couples investing in traditions simply because it’s the “done thing”. Moving forward, couples will be very intentional about what elements they decide to include in their big day.

The way this looks for every couple will be different but some examples include:

• Mum walking down the aisle.
• No wedding party or mismatched, gender mixed wedding party.
• Either no readings or several, non-traditional readings.
• Personal vows full of laughter rather than full romance.
• Signing marriage certificates discreetly post ceremony.