Wedding Ideas: 63 Ways To Make Your Wedding Stand Out

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One of the best ways to create your own stunning wedding look is to narrow down exactly what style and theme fit your ideal day. With many amazing wedding ideas out there we wanted to share some of the most exciting and beautiful ones to help you plan a special day. From wedding ceremony ideas and wedding food ideas to wedding reception ideas and unique wedding ideas, we have something for everyone.

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Take some time to jot down what your ideal wedding day looks and feels like and then find your perfect wedding ideas on our amazing list.

First Look for Everyone

Have a “first look” moment not only with your partner but also with parents, siblings, or close friends for an emotional and intimate pre-ceremony experience.

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Handmade Paper

Apart from its original look, handmade paper is a new trend that is environmentally friendly and a great choice for wedding stationery.

Expert tip: You can set your wedding apart by going with an eco-friendly theme. A truly green wedding idea using sustainable items such as recycled handmade paper that is completely wood free. Having a wedding that gives back would be a great way to start a journey of a lifetime. The charm and unique feel of eco paper doesn’t hurt as well.

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Wedding-Planning Subscription Box

With 71% of couples saying that wedding planning is more nerve-wracking than finding a new job, it’s no surprise brides-to-be need something to bring them back to enjoy their engagement journey. A wedding-themed subscription box is at the top of the list of what brides said is a must-do as soon as getting engaged.

When is the best time to subscribe?

Right after the engagement is the best time, because subscription boxes usually contain a lot of fun bridal merch and wedding planning help that is useful for all stages of wedding planning.

Miss To Mrs® Box allows you to subscribe even if you don’t know your wedding date and they tailor which themes you receive depending on where you are in your planning journey.

What is included in the subscription?

Typically, boxes come with full-size bridal merch – apparel, decor elements, bachelorette party & honeymoon essentials, and lots more exciting products to help you enjoy the engagement journey.

Some companies go beyond merchandise. For example, your membership with Miss To Mrs® Box Subscription also includes a Wedding Planning Guide in each box, as well as other FREE premium perks to help with wedding planning and save $$$ for your big day.


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What makes Miss To Mrs Box our favourite?

Miss To Mrs® Box is the most award winning bridal box on the market 2020-2022, as well Best Overal Bridal Box as reviewed by our editors. Here are some key highlights:
  • Themed boxes, like “Bridal Swag”, “Wedding Day Essentials”, “Honeymooners” and more.
  • Delivery frequency and themes sequence is curated for your engagement journey, so you can subscribe even if your wedding is 12+ months away or don’t have a date set.
  • Includes FREE wedding planning help – tools and guides, discounts to preferred vendors and FREE Name Change Kit
  • Exceptional 24/7 customer support and rated 4.7 / 5 with 9,000+ reviews on TrustPilot.

Cocktail Towers

Add some fun to your wedding reception with well-stacked cocktail towers for wedding ideas. Whether you’ll be having a designated bar or not, this can be an entertaining part of your celebration.

Expert tip: If you are collecting outdoor wedding ideas on a budget for a more pocket-friendly event, then this is a great idea. If you find yourself out of a professional bar or bartender, a cocktail tower poured by the couple after cutting of the cake, or even the best man, can take care of all that.

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Dramatic Dance Floor Florals

Acording to Carrie Negri, Director of Operations Emily Coyne Events, most of 2024 couples are loving a more dramatic ceiling installation over the dance floor – it invokes an incredible wow factor and creates a big impact for their wedding design. They’re seeing increased requests for lush hanging florals paired with beautiful lighting fixtures.

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Unique Guest Book

There is no strict rule about tradition when it comes to weddings. Couples can do what they wish, coloring outside the lines to make more personalized memories for their wedding day. Even with something as seemingly simple as a guest book. Take a look at the Confetti – this unique experience excites, connects, and captures like nothing else.

Confetti offers the most immersive digital guest book ever created, allowing you to relive your wedding day through photos, videos, and voice notes from loved ones who shared this unforgettable moment with you.

  • It sends personalized text prompts to guests before, during, and after the big day.
  • Prompts are scheduled and created by the couple themselves, resulting in over 150+ priceless moments captured in each Confetti Digital Guest Book on average.
  • No app required—simply upload your guest list and begin.
  • Used by over 100,000 happy customers like Laurel K. From Cleveland, OH: “It showed how much everyone cared about us and wanted to contribute to the day.

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What inspired you to create a digital wedding guestbook?
The Confetti Interactive Guest Book was created because, after getting engaged, I realized there were limited options for fun and interactive technology at weddings. While functional tools like wedding websites, guest messaging apps, and shared albums exist for planning, they don't enhance the guest experience. We believed that by offering a fun way for guests to contribute through photos, videos, and voice notes, everyone would benefit from the Confetti experience. This approach allows friends and family to express their love, providing couples with hundreds of unforgettable moments from their special day. Today, we've been used in over 20 countries by over 100,000 couples and guests, and our growth continues. We feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that content from intimate moments will shift from being shared publically to a more exclusive forum like Confetti.

Bridesmaids Bouquet Frames

How about finding a way to immortalize your wedding bouquet? With all of the work that goes into these floral arrangements, you don’t want to forget them after the wedding.

Expert tip: Get even more fun wedding theme ideas with bridesmaids’ bouquets. The bouquets can be lined around the face of the bride to create the perfect floral frame for a picture. Another pose could be holding the bouquets up to each other’s noses for the perfect sniff.

Interactive Food Stations

If you dream of a destination wedding, Narelle Janineh recommends these unique elements which can help to infuse the chosen location’s culture into the celebration:

Expert tip: Food!! Have interactive food stations, interactive cocktail stations and showcase local vendors. Your guests will love having an interactive element to your wedding especially involving food and drinks.

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Minimalist Stationery

There is a minimalist trend on the rise, and minimalist wedding stationery can set the tone for the rest of your wedding. Whether you need big and opulent or small wedding ideas, your stationery will have a lot to say.

Expert tip: For that minimalist look, consider a monochrome color scheme, or better still blacks or whites with stylish metallic fonts.

Non Traditional Venues

In 2024/2025, couples are gravitating towards unconventional venues that mirror their individualities and interests. Whether it’s the rustic charm of a farm, the industrial vibe of warehouses, the artistic allure of galleries, or the serene beauty of vineyards and botanical gardens, the idea is to opt for distinctive and even quirky event spaces.

Expert tip: Choosing non-traditional locations allows couples to break away from the norm, fostering a one-of-a-kind ambiance that resonates with their unique style and passions.

Wedding Map

Make sure your guests know how to get to all of the wedding celebration events you have planned for your wedding by providing a wedding map. With easy online printing services, wedding maps can be created in almost any style and to fit most budgets.

Expert tip: Wedding maps are extremely popular for destination weddings since many guests will be coming in from out of town. Wedding maps are perfect to share locations and details for where the ceremony, reception, rehearsal dinner and more will take place. Many couples have their wedding maps completely customized.

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Potted Flowers

Potted full blooms or succulent plants can be a great addition to your wedding decor. They can be used to line the aisle, the wedding entrance, or even the altar.

Expert tip: For wedding reception ideas, succulents such as aeoniums, sedum clavatums or even seasonal blooms of all types can be suspended from the ceiling as hanging decor. This can also inspire some creative wedding archway ideas.

Repurposing Vintage Decor

Creating chic wedding decor can be easy when you find some vintage items to repurpose and bring to life in a new way. Couples are using everything from vintage suitcases as cardholders, church pews for outdoor seating, and windows for the seating chart to bring a vintage vibe to their wedding.

Expert tip: If you are planning a boho or vintage-inspired wedding you should definitely take a look at repurposing vintage decor. Consider items like vintage windows, books, china, chairs, benches, and doors.

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Fire Show Entertainment

A Fire Show is one of the most exotic wedding entertainment ideas for country, coastal, and beach weddings. They are perfect indoor and outdoor affairs with minimal danger risks. The fire performers use props like hula hoops, juggling tricks, fire poi, stunts, fire eating, and more to give guests an exhilarating experience.

The show would usually take between 10 to 30 minutes depending on how many persons were hired. A solo show would cost about $340 and an additional average of $250 per extra person. But if the Show is highly choreographed, it could cost more. Make sure you hire a team that has expert safety personnel on retainer. Discuss insurance, acquire adequate space, and get a fire permit if the event is indoors.

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Live Wedding Painting

“Many new & different entertainment options sprouted, says Carissa – Founder & CEO of Carissa Corsi Events, including live painting where solo artists capture the big day through a custom piece of artwork that’s created at the event. The benefit of live painting is that it not only produces a beautiful piece of memorabilia for you (while supporting a local artist) but also creates an element of entertainment for your guests to watch and enjoy. We’ve also seen some couples make copies of the painting and gift it to their guests as an everlasting wedding favor!”

Custom Live Music

Many couples prefer Live bands to DJs, and why not? A live display is more energetic and authentic, capturing the guests and leaving memories. Live bands are suitable for every kind of wedding, from country to ballroom, beach, coastal, farm, garden, and more. The average cost of a live band is about $4000 with a 10% tip. However, this price is influenced by day of the week, season, the number of band members, travel distance, package deals, and more.

To get the best of bands, hire one that doubles as a DJ, and get involved in the music selection. Choose a package deal that includes the supply of instruments and insurance. Also, opt for only the needed team members so that you’re not paying for redundant guests.

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Will you carry a bouquet and if so what kind of flowers?

A delicate bunch of peonies, lilac, hydrangea
35.94 %
Crisp, white roses bound by a ribbon
14.31 %
Some loose daisies, ferns, or succulents
12.30 %
A few long stem white lilies
7.31 %
A colorful bunch of assorted flowers
30.14 %
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Voted : 1984

Mono-Floral Look

This fresh new floral look has taken over the wedding scene. The mono-floral look is centered around the idea of having your florist create floral arrangements for the wedding only using one type of flower.

Expert tip: The mono-floral look is perfect for couples who are trying to achieve a minimalist look but still want a major impact and to add some floral beauty.

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Dried Flowers

Dried flowers are hitting the wedding market in a big way; they might even be able to save your budget. Work with your florist to create a look of dried flowers and work in wheat and eucalyptus.

Expert tip: Perfect for fall weddings, outdoor weddings, and vintage-inspired events where couples want to add some unique decor and centerpieces.

Herb Centerpieces

Herbs can make for a beautiful and budget-friendly wedding centerpiece. Brides all over the world are getting in on this trend. Herb centerpieces can be made from a large variety of herbs and can be dressed up or dressed down depending on how formal the affair is.

Expert tip: Herb centerpieces work perfectly for a wedding that is trying to go with a more simple style, especially for their table decor. DIY brides will be willing to take on this task since it does not entail much experience.

Mismatched Bridesmaid Bouquets

No two bridesmaids are the same so who said their bouquet has to be the same as well? With the rise of mismatched bridesmaids dresses, we are also seeing the trend of mismatched bouquets.

Expert tip: Create one-of-a-kind bridesmaids bouquets that work with the specific dress, style, and personality for each bridesmaid. Florists can change up the type of flower, bouquet color, or arrangement style.

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Succulent Wedding Bouquet

Adding a succulent to your wedding bouquet or going for a complete succulent bouquet look is a wonderful way to add some drama and unexpected color to your wedding bouquet. Succulents come in a variety of colors and shapes allowing you to find just the right look for your bouquet.

Expert tip: This bouquet first became popular with boho wedding brides; but it seems now we are seeing it in rustic, country, and industrial style weddings.

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Will your wedding be inside or outside?

Inside
27.55 %
Outside
41.52 %
Both
30.93 %
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Voted : 3699

Superhero Themed Decor

This may not be one of the most popular wedding themes, but there is no reason you can’t have this as your wedding theme. From Batman to Superman to Wonder Woman and Captain America there is no shortage of creative ways to work in your favorite superhero to your super day!

Expert tip: Couples are adding in superhero apparel, flower arrangements, cake design, and even favors that play up and show off their favorite character.

Birthstone Decorations

Love the color of your birthstone? Why not take the idea of your birthstone color and add it to your wedding decor. You can add in your birthstone color to your floral displays, table linens, wedding invitations, and more.

Expert tip: Create a colorful theme or add your birthstone colors as an accent to your decor.

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Fruits Wedding Decoration

Fruit wedding decorations make a major impact and can be easy on your budget. We love it when couples add apples or lemons to their wedding centerpieces or pears and limes.

Expert tip: Hosting a summer wedding? Add lemons and limes to your wedding decor. This creates a fresh look and helps to cut down on the floral budget. If you are looking to add something special to your fall wedding consider adding apples throughout the reception in centerpieces, place cards, and even candy apples for favors.

Burnt Orange Theme

A Burnt Orange wedding theme is a great way to add a vibrant and unique touch to your special day. This bold color palette is perfect for couples who want to make a statement with their wedding decorations.

Expert tip: Colors that complement burnt orange include, a variety of natural hues, brown, shades of gray, dark, pale, and dusty blue, as well as blush pink. Being a fall color, it can also be paired with fall tones like in terracotta or burgundy and burnt orange weddings.

Seasonal Wedding Flowers

Seasonal blooms are a great idea for wedding decor. If you require wedding entrance ideas, then why not line floral arrangements by the door and along the stairs leading up to the entrance?

Expert tip: The great thing about flowers in season is that they smell the best, they are easy to access and they can be used in every aspect of your wedding. Whether you need wedding centerpieces ideas or even wedding bouquets, use seasonal blooms.

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Pre-Ceremony Cocktails

Start the wedding ceremony off with a festive feeling. Many couples offer pre-ceremony cocktails as a way to get their guests to celebrate upon arrival.

Expert tip: Perfect for warm-weather weddings there has been a spike in couples offering a pre-ceremony glass of champagne or another cocktail that allows guests to kick off the celebration.

Unique Seating

Seating is a big part of the planning process but gone are the days when you have to seat everyone in a traditional manner. Couples today are mixing table sizes and shapes, offering unique seating such as lounge furniture and even covered hay bales for a rustic feel.

Expert tip: Get creative and start looking at ways you can play up a unique seating chart at your event. From long tables to a mix of square and round tables it seems tables are a fun way to mix and match a unique seating arrangement. If you want to play up other seating arrangements you can add in benches, vintage chairs, couches, and even a relaxed lounge area.

Canvas Wedding Ceremony Backdrop

Create some drama at your ceremony location by adding a canvas wedding backdrop. Adding a backdrop creates a special atmosphere and a great focal piece for your wedding ceremony.

Expert tip: The options are endless if you are looking for a stunning canvas backdrop. From floral designs to marble styles to bible quotes and monograms you can definitely find the right design to fit your style and location.

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Non-Traditional Wedding Officiant

Getting married also means having someone officiate the wedding ceremony and believe it or not you have lots of choices when it comes to who will oversee the ceremony. If you are looking for a fun twist at the wedding ceremony consider having a friend, a special family member, or an important person in your life officiate.

Expert tip: You don’t need to have a specific person or a religious leader officiate your wedding. You can pick anyone and have them get the proper paperwork online. Couples who are having a wedding outside of a traditional religious location can consider having someone special officiate.

Terracotta Wedding Bridesmaid Dresses

A major trend in modern weddings is earthy colors and terracotta bridesmaid dresses for weddings have taken a front seat.

Expert tip: Terracotta dresses for wedding guests or bridesmaids is a great option if you need rustic wedding ideas.  Burnt orange wedding colors such as terracotta copper can be used as a base for matching or mismatched bridesmaid dresses in all styles and sizes.

Karaoke

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Wedding karaoke is fast becoming a popular wedding reception idea for couples. If you want this for your wedding, hire and work with a band karaoke to curate a set-list based on guests’ preferences. Kick off the karaoke affair at the last hour of the reception and let guests jump on stage.

Expert tip:  You can help guests with the wording by setting up a projector. This last-minute boogie is unforgettable.

Children Corner

Keeping children happy at a wedding is a big task but one that can be fun as well.

Expert tip: Create a children’s corner filled with games, toys, special seating, snack food, and coloring pages to keep kids happy and busy at your reception. Many couples also provide a babysitter or two to watch over this area so parents can eat at their assigned table or dance without having to worry.

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Surprise Wedding Dance

Sometimes it is fun to shake things up and ditch tradition. Many couples today decide to surprise their guests with a surprise wedding dance which sounds both fun and memorable.

Expert tip: Couples who decide to have a surprise wedding dance often start with a traditional first dance song and routine and then without notice break into something more upbeat with fun choreography.

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Unique Guest Transportation

Moving guests from one location to another takes planning but no one says you have to transport guests in a traditional way. Couples are getting creative and offering local trolley cars, party buses, boats and ferries, and even golf carts.

Expert tip: Work with local transportation companies to see what options might be available in your area and don’t forget to think outside the box. Even if your ceremony and reception are at the same location you can still offer transportation to and from local hotels.

How can I surprise my wedding guests?

1. Bring some artists to sketch a small, personalized portrait on the point of each guest.
2. If it is springtime, hire a florist to make a bouquet or headpiece for the ladies.
3. Creating personalized favors for each guest according to his/her taste to keep safe.
4. Hire a mobile bar with a barman that will teach your guests their favorite cocktail.

Live Music Band

There is nothing like dancing the night away to great music as you celebrate the newly married couple. You don’t have to stick to the traditional wedding DJ or music piped in when you can hire a live music band.

Expert tip: Live music certainly does create a fun and festive vibe and will get your guests up and moving. Work with your venue to see how couples in the past have managed the live music and dance areas in that specific location.

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Photo Scavenger Hunt

Create a list of specific photos for guests to capture during the day. It encourages them to explore and document the wedding from their perspective.

Mono Floral Cake

According cake design & sugar art, Victoria Made, a wedding style method that translates really well to your cake is the ‘mono’ floral. One floral element used throughout the styling and décor. Many of couples ask for sugar florals that replicate the décor of the day for seamless styling. Matching the most complicated florals is now possible with the rise in expert sugar artists, a long way from the rather old fashioned designs of the past. Complimenting modern floristry in style and composition.

Weddings with a foodie element are also gaining ground and the humble dessert table can compliment this with fine patisserie, a step up from cake pops and cupcakes.Theming your cake to the season will lend relevance as well as timeless reminder in your photographs.

Expert tip: Don’t be afraid of going dark with your cake, navy rather than black adds a classy but dramatic canvas for the décor. Work with your light – white cakes in venues with a lot of glass always look stunning, dark cakes with wood add a fine art element.

Ice-cream Cart

Everyone loves ice cream so why not have an ice cream cart at your reception? Couples add an ice cream cart as either a replacement for the traditional cake dessert or as an extra bonus.

Expert tip: Of course, any wedding can have an ice cream cart but they do work perfectly for warm-weather weddings. Many local ice cream vendors offer carts that you can have come to your reception and serve yummy treats to all of your guests.

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Crafted cocktails

Elevate your wedding soirée with artisanal libations that cater to every guest’s unique taste buds. From crafted cocktails that tell your love story to personalized drink options, indulge in a beverage experience that leaves an unforgettable mark on your big day.

Expert tip: Craft a bar experience as unique as your love story. Collaborate with a mixologist to design a drink menu inspired by your journey. Set up interactive drink stations where skilled bartenders create tailored concoctions for each guest, adorned with creative glassware and garnishes. Watch your wedding memories take a delightful, personalized sip.

Vegan Wedding Menu

If there is anything more intricate than setting a wedding menu, it’s choosing a plant-based menu. Vegan wedding menu ideas require details and creativity to have your guests comfortable. For a first course, pair smoked cheddar nut cheeses served on seeded crackers with white truffle. Or summer fruits, ceviche, and vegetables topped with edible flowers. The entrée will see delicacies like zucchini noodles and sweetcorn, romesco and smoked king oyster mushroom or lasagna, and macadamia ricotta cheese.

Expert tip:  Serve banana Coconut Cream Pie with macadamia crust for desserts. Other options are hazelnut ice cream with Choco-Berry Mousse and vanilla shortbread, sorrel, pistachio, and Strawberry Hibiscus Cheesecake with lime curd.

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Trail Mix Snack Bar

Allow your guests to munch in style and fill up a bag of treats at a trail mix snack bar. Offering a variety of options allows your guests to mix and match exactly what they want to make their ideal trail mix and as an added plus this can always serve as the perfect favor.

Expert tip: Trail mix bars can be created with little effort by shopping in bulk and displaying items in baskets and bins for your guests to sample. Some great ideas to add to your trail mix bar are nuts, seeds, fruit along with candies, pretzels, and chocolate chips.

Expert Answers
How to make a small wedding feel special?
With the smaller details. Less is more and the capacity to surprise the people that you love is one of the best things that you can do. Our ‘most important point’ in a smaller wedding, and specially in the smaller destination weddings, is to organice a lot of activities where your guests and the couple enjoy themselves. The wow effect and the surprises for everybody is a must in our weddings.

Secret Garden Wedding

Invite guests to celebrate your wedding day with an enchanted garden wedding theme. Romantic flowers, intimate candlelight, and a beautiful location will create a truly one-of-a-kind garden wedding.

Expert tip: The secret garden wedding theme of course works the best in spring and summer when flowers are in full bloom and outdoor venues are available. Creating a full secret garden wedding theme can be achieved by adding dramatic candlelight, an abundance of flowers, and dazzling table decor. Venues such as botanical gardens, arboretums, and estates are all great options for planning a secret garden wedding.

Instant Poll

Where would your dream reception take place?

On the beach
23.21 %
At a historic landmark
15.66 %
Inside a barn or countryside retreat
33.28 %
At the restaurant or hotel
11.31 %
At the backyard
16.53 %
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Voted : 1379

Orange Centerpiece

Orange is a vibrant and cheerful color that can bring life to any wedding. An orange centerpiece is a perfect way to add a touch of elegance and fun to your wedding decor. Whether you choose an all-orange arrangement or combine oranges with other colors, this color will bring warmth and energy to your special day.

Expert tip: A favorite wedding decoration idea is the creation of contrasts. You could consider a muted table setting of gray and turquoise for dinnerware and table linen, with orange centerpieces for that burst of color that makes a statement. A major part of the wedding décor, such centerpieces can range from floral arrangements to colored candles or votives.

Minimalistic Wedding Arch

From simple metal frame arches to swags of greenery to a simple wood arch you can really find the perfect match for your venue and taste.

Expert tip: Wedding arches really work best when couples are having their ceremony at a venue or location that needs to create a focal point and backdrop. Outdoor ceremonies, barn, and garden venues along with loft spaces and beaches are ideal locations for a minimalistic wedding arch.

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Speaking of vows, you're most likely to...?

Keep them short and sweet
32.90 %
Stick with the traditional
22.71 %
Write my own
44.39 %
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Voted : 1167

Creative Unity Ceremony

When a couple gets married, they are becoming one, so many couples want to spotlight that importance with a unity ceremony at their wedding. There are a number of creative ways couples can signify this coming together as one. Consider lighting one candle together, pouring sand together into one large container, braiding a rope together, blending paint, pouring beer or wine in one glass, and even planting a small tree in a pot.

Expert tip: Creating a moment to showcase the unity at your ceremony is an important one and often couples can find a unity ceremony that reflects who they are as a couple. If you are hoping to make this work at your wedding make sure you decide the appropriate amount of time for it at your ceremony.

Intimate Vow Exchange

The one trend that is on the rise is couples deciding to exchange vows before the actual ceremony in a more private and intimate way.

Instant Poll

It's time to say your vows! Where are you?

Near an enchanting waterfall
54.82 %
A quaint church alter
31.45 %
A luxe ballroom
13.73 %
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Voted : 830

Expert tip: An intimate vow exchange is perfect for any wedding where the couple wants to say their intimate words privately and perhaps recite more traditional vows at the ceremony when surrounded by family and friends. Anyone who feels slightly shy about saying their personal vows in front of a large crowd should definitely consider this trend.

Cotton Candy

Who doesn’t love cotton candy? Remember being a kid and loving the look, smell, and taste of cotton candy well many couples are finding fun and unique ways to work in cotton candy on their big day.

Expert tip: Setting up a cotton candy station for guests to snack on for dessert is just one way we are seeing couples work in this classic favorite to their big day. Other fun options are cotton candy bridesmaid bouquets (yes, that’s right), cotton candy machine stations, and pre-packaged cotton candy as a wedding favor.

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Ask For Song Requests

Create the perfect wedding playlist by getting your guests to help and request songs.

Expert tip: Many couples are getting their guests involved early in the wedding planning process by asking them for song requests to then have the band of DJ play. Couples can request this type of information by adding fill-in space on the RSVP card, on the couple’s website, or via email.

What do you do at a wedding instead of dancing?
Create an experience to your guests with the following way:
- Have the pastry chef decorate the cake on spot and in front of your the guests.
- Hiring dance performers at the reception dinner
- Hiring a famous band for the wedding party instead of a DJ.

Non-white Wedding Dress

A non-white wedding dress is the unconventional choice for that bride that loves to stand out. While white is a great traditional wedding idea, there are many exquisite wedding dress styles that come in other colors.
Expert tip: You can design your dress after the theme of your wedding. A lovely bohemian design for a boho style wedding. For unique wedding ideas, you could choose a dress in a completely different color, or a white dress with detailing in a contrasting color.

Your Pets at The Wedding

As members of the family pets deserve a place at the wedding too. In many ways they can even up the cuteness level of your celebration if they are included in the ceremonial duties.

Expert tip: When thinking about guest wedding outfit ideas, be sure to include the furry friends. From cute little tuxedos, bow ties or decorative leashes, there are many ways they can be styled to match your theme.

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Photo Booth

Capturing the fun and celebration of a wedding is important and a great way to do this is to have a photo booth available for guests to participate in. There is no shortage of photo booth vendors who can make this fun and interactive addition come to life for you.

Expert tip: There are many different styles of photo booths from simple ones that just print out images to more tech-savvy ones where you can have images sent to your smartphone so make sure you find the one that you want and will work best for your guests and event.

Time Capsule

Mark your special occasion by creating a time capsule to open at a future time. You can fill your time capsule with anything that is important to you and marks the time you wed. Here are a few ideas of what to add include: your wedding invitation, a picture from your engagement, a note to each other, a wedding favor, a small wine bottle, honeymoon memorabilia, and your wedding cake topper.

Expert tip: The idea of creating a wedding time capsule and opening it on a future date is nothing exactly new but it is something that couples are doing more and more. Not only are the ideas of what you can add endlessly but there is a large variety of containers you can purchase and even customize.

Masquerade Ball

Invite guests to a masquerade ball, where everyone wears elegant masks, creating an air of mystery and glamour.

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Wedding Hashtag

Hashtags are a new type of language that has taken over our world thanks to social platforms like Twitter and Instagram. A hashtag will make sure you and your guests find all of the images or text shared on social media outlets by using a specific hashtag.

Expert tip: Get creative with your hashtag and make it unique to you and your big day. Couples are finding ways to combine their names, event location, or play-on words to make their hashtag unique for the day. Can’t think of something interesting for your hashtag? You can now get a hashtag generated for you by using the Wedding Wire’s hashtag generator.

Jenga Guest Book

Unique guestbook ideas are something we always see as a trend and now you can take it to the next level with a personalized Jenga set where your guests can sign each piece and it allows for hours of future fun.

Expert tip: Create a dedicated area at your reception for guests to be able to sign your Jenga set and you can even purchase a personalized box to keep your special Jenga set in.

Table Games

Everyone loves having something fun to do at their table as they mingle so why not have some fun table games that your wedding guests can enjoy. Couples are having fun by setting out on their tables trivia games, eye spy games, tic tac toe, and more.

Expert tip: Table games are perfect for any wedding and help your guests start conversations with one another as well. You can buy premade games online or you can create your own.

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Paint and Sip Station

Offer a “paint and sip” station where guests can create their own artwork, sip on wine, and take their creations home as wedding favors.

Alternative Boutonnieres

Floral boutonnieres are always in style but many grooms are opting for something a little more interesting and that represents their style. Consider going in a new direction and sporting a button, feather, leaf, pinecone, ribbon, or even shell made boutonniere.

Expert tip: If you want to get crafty this is a perfect DIY project to take on for your wedding day. Create something that showcases the groom’s personality or favorite hobby like using golf tees, fly fishing gear, or colors from their favorite sports team.

Flower Crowns

Flower crowns are a great way to accessorize for a wedding and can look great no matter your hairstyle. Whether you need beach wedding ideas or even Christmas wedding ideas you can choose florals in colors that fit each season or location.

Expert tip: You can choose flowers that match with your wedding bouquet. A floral crown can also be designed to sit just on the front part of a hairstyle with bangs or sit in a complete halo on a wavy let down hairstyle.

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Eclectic Table Decor

Eclectic table decor mixes together different styles to create one cohesive focus. Many times couples will use cultural influences or pull together different elements that have a common characteristic such as color, shape, pattern, or motifs. Eclectic table decor really allows a wedding couple to showcase their personality and a style that truly reflects who they are.

Expert tip: Unique wedding venues such as loft space, museums, libraries, barns, and vineyards are the perfect spot to host your wedding and create an eclectic table decor since the venue itself is nontraditional.

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Creative Escort Cards

Traditionally an escort card is a small tented card that tells you which table you will be seated at; but it seems couples are going to great lengths to make their escort cards unique. A simple online search will show just how many amazing ideas there are out there for making your escort cards totally one-of-a-kind but some of our favorites are using shells, glass, stones, luggage tags, ribbon and more!

Expert tip: Perfect for any wedding but we especially see couples who are hosting their wedding at a destination spot get creative with their escort cards since they can draw inspiration from their location.

Movie Screening Reception

Set up an outdoor movie screening area for guests to enjoy classic or meaningful films. Provide popcorn, blankets, and cozy seating.

Making your wedding unique and adding creative details is a fun part of the planning process. There are thousands of wedding ideas you can add to your wedding to make the day one-of-a-kind and unique for you, your partner, and your guests.

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