10 MAJOR Trends: How To Make 2017 Trends Work For Your Wedding This Year!

Planning a wedding in 2017? We’ve rounded the best wedding trends of this year and brought it out to you! So get your bridal planner out or simply bookmark away.

Trend 1: Greenery

It’s the Pantone colour of the year! Think bright parrot colour lehengas for mehendi or even deep jewel tones for your reception. One of the easiest ways to incorporate greenery into your wedding is to have your wedding outdoors you can incorporate lush foliage in your décor. Think rustic or even a garden themed mehendi. For an indoor wedding, you can use garlands of green or even mango leaves as décor or centrepieces.

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1. Invest in the right ferns. They don't wilt so soon like flowers so there is longevity.
2. Add your own twist by creating an enchanted forest.
3. Backyards and gardens with their natural beauty make for a great green event.
4. Don't clutter the space too much with artificial decor items - find those that blend with the theme!
5. It can get and look too dark so always add fairy lights to lighten it up.

 

Trend 2: Metallics

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No, we are not talking just gold or copper. We are talking about mixing the whole bunch! Rose gold, brass, copper or even a hint of silver! And it can go beyond just jewellery. You can go with copper vases with flowers or even a metallic gold theme sangeet night. Go bling or go home! But at the same time, bling this year means subtlety.

1. Use rose gold as that kind of gives you a luxe feeling.
2. Make white your BFF because it balances out the boldness of metallics. Or even pastels. Bright pairings with metallics is so so out!
3. Use more Indian ideas: Brass articles or gota decor - that way we are intrinsically Indian.

Trend 3: Image Mapping

 

Using light and technology you can transform an indoor space into a completely new theme. Want an enchanted forest? Have images of trees mapped onto the ceiling and walls for a crazy effect

Trend 4: Vintage Made New

 

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Using vintage pieces but styling them in modern ways is going to be the in-thing in 2017. Think taking an heirloom sharara and pairing it with a sleek ponytail like the photo above. Or taking your moms lehenga but with edgy jewellery and a crop blouse

1. Make sure you look up services like Apparelogy that actually take your old stuff and give it a new dimension.
2. You can easily get your mom's old jewellery and give it a twist by adding your own twist. Make an earring into an ear cuff, a pendant into an old earring etc etc.
3. Wearing something old nowadays is actually more appreciated and admired!

Trend 5: Interactive Food and Entertainment

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We thought we’ve seen it all with food trucks and champagne popsicles at wedding. But 2017 is going to bring in interactive food and how!

1. This interactive, "experiential," trend also extends into entertainment like having event space down into different 'scenes' that guests get to navigate throughout the night. Each area can offer thematic decor, activities, music, and cuisine, which gives guests the feeling of traveling through time or space. It's almost as if they were at multiple events in one night. That sounds ah-mazing!
2. Food that is hanging, and needs to be plucked off is also a major trend. Whether you find it great or gross is a personal preference though

 

Trend 6: Unique Invites

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Get your guests excited to celebrate from the very beginning with quirky and unique invites. Plexiglas invites, foil stamping and glow-in-the-dark ink are a few of the stationery trends catching our eye for 2017. Bespoke illustrations and bold envelopes, think shocking fuchsia with white ink, are other ways to get noticed.

Trend 7: Virtual Planning

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Couples have gone fully mobile with their wedding plans. Millennials are all about instant gratification, so they want their wedding planning right at their fingertips at any given moment. There's going to be a continued increasing in seeing the whole planning process online. So you can showcase your wedding in a million ways to a bigger audience. Someone we know and admire, Masoom Minawala has used this platform beautifully to showcase her amazing preps and behind-the-scenes etc.

1. Put up selfie stations and plug points so you guests never run out of ways to showcase the magic of your wedding.
2. Have a virtual wedding on social media: A blow by blow account for all those who are not invited.

Trend 8: Technology

 

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Couples are finding new ways to integrate technology into their wedding. From Drone photography, social media craze and 3D printing to personalize cake toppers, place cards, favors, wedding bands and more. It’s the year of the techy!

1. Never fear using new technology, it might add a new dimension to your wedding.
2. Use it to personalise your wedding in more ways than one!
3. It is a bit expensive to use drones or go for 3D printing or high-end editing, so look up on the internet, you might find something cheap or you can prioritise.

Trend 9: Intimacy

Big fancy weddings this year have somehow paved way for simple intimate ideas. Lesser people but a more value-for-money feel. You only want to spend on who we want, rest can catch your wedding - virtually. More sit-down dinners and smaller events - more fun ideas to incorporate and less extravagance, overall.

Trend 10: Personal Details

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Adding more personal details into a wedding is what makes it unique. So if you like a theme, the quirk ends with that. You need to add maybe personlised invites, crazy badges or tees or even a cute hangover kit. Whatever it is, generic is totally out!