Wedding Trends '05: Making It Yours

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Once again, the major trend in weddings this year is making the Big Day as personal and unique as possible.

FOXNews.com asked two wedding know-it-alls, Modern Bride magazine features editor Betsy Goldberg and New Jersey wedding expert Sharon Naylor, about what's hip, cool and beautiful this year. Here's what they said:

Betsy Goldberg, Modern Bride features editor

Wedding Colors: We're seeing a lot of trends based on what's happening in fashion: chocolate brown with pastels, pinks, light green, light blue, bright hues like corals, turquoise, lime green.

Dresses: Vera Wang is big, Monique Lhuillier — she did Britney Spears and is big on the red carpet and for celebs. Reem Acra is popular with brides who want a glamorous, ornately intricate gown. Popular bridal gowns have bright color in the sash or details, or silver or gold — some sort of colorful element.

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Food: The emphasis is on creative presentation. For the main course, one trend is four or five little dishes, sample plates like restaurants are doing.

Bouquets: Brides are adding feathers for textures or crystals, so when they walk down the aisle, they sparkle.

Favors: Edible favors are still the most popular — often tied into the colors or theme of wedding.

Dancing: People aren't feeling like they need the first dance to be slow and traditional. They're choosing high-energy songs to get the party going. A lot of people are dancing throughout the reception — there is another room for dancing decorated differently. The feel is more after-hours club.

Vows: A lot of people are writing their own vows, and facing the group or doing it in the round where everybody has a good view.

Sharon Naylor, New Jersey wedding expert and writer

Video: Edited video segments showing the bride and groom separately and then together — this opens the reception. This gets everybody very excited and sentimental right at the top without stealing from the toasts. This also tells your personal story.

Transportation: Limos are still big — so are stretch Navigators, Cadillacs, convertibles. Cars for just the bride and groom are popular, like Aston Martins, Bentleys, Rolls-Royces. These make for great, fairy-tale pictures.

Dance lessons: Couples want to do something other than just swaying. It's a performance. Tango is especially big. Waltzes and traditional dances are still big, or starting off traditional and seguing into a tango. This reflects the couple's personality.

Destination Weddings: These are still on the rise — the travel industry picked up on it. They are creating amazing packages, a lot of adventure packages, like swimming with dolphins.

Honeymoons: Doing something that's unique from the vacation they've always taken together — if they've gone to the shore every summer, they're going on safaris or on really unique cruises. Wildland sets up these really, really exorbitant honeymoons — not the usual thing. There's privacy — it's not a resort with 10,000 other honeymooners all doing the limbo. It's a bungalow over the water — something out of a movie, not something they'd do again.

Entertainment: They're hiring a D.J. and a soloist — guests are getting a show. MusicInTheAir has cello players, other musicians.

And start saving now: Naylor says bigger weddings are coming back.

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