2021 Wedding Design Trends
The 2021, and let’s be real, 2022 wedding seasons are descending upon us quickly! We have already begun planning and designing for our clients 2021-2022 weddings, and we are seeing a ton of trends and common themes pop up! We broke it down for you in this blog, so you can stay on top of the newest wedding design trends you’ll be seeing a lot more of in 2021! So log into your Pinterest wedding board, and get ready to add these 2021 wedding design trends to your own wedding!
Acrylic everythaaaang
Venue: Central Station Memphis
Photography: Elizabeth Hoard Photography
Florals & Planning: Connor and Co. Events
Rentals: White Door Events
Stationery & Signage: Dayflower Designs
From acrylic seating charts, chairs, table numbers, and floral boxes, acrylic is everywhere! We personally love using acrylic because it’s such a versatile material! You can paint it, stack flowers on top, display flowers or balloons inside, literally possibilities are endless! It’s a little on the expensive side but seriously will be used over and over again! We have a ton of rental companies in Memphis that even have acrylic rentals like the black chairs we used for our Central Station Styled Shoot!
Venue: Central Station Memphis
Photography: Elizabeth Hoard Photography
Florals & Planning: Connor and Co. Events
Rentals: White Door Events
Stationery & Signage: Dayflower Designs
2. Menus for seated dinners
Venue: Central Station Memphis
Photography: Elizabeth Hoard Photography
Florals & Planning: Connor and Co. Events
Stationery & Signage: Dayflower Designs
With smaller and micro weddings on the rise, family-style dinners are the way to go! With that being said, creative and unique menus are appearing on the 2021 wedding scene, and we are so ready to use this trend! Personalization is also on the rise because it’s so much easier when you’re having a more intimate wedding! Personalizing wedding guests’ escort or place cards allow for another wedding gift for your family and friends. So bust out your thinking caps and get creative!
Venue: Central Station Memphis
Photography: Elizabeth Hoard Photography
Florals & Planning: Connor and Co. Events
Rentals: White Door Events
Stationery & Signage: Dayflower Designs
3. Mini Wedding Cakes or even alternative desserts!
Venue: Mallard’s Croft
Photography: Whit Photography
Catering: Me & My Tearoom
Florals & Planning: Connor & Co. Events
We’ve seen more and more couples stray away from the grand wedding cake days! More people are getting an assortment of desserts for the guests and a mini cake for the cake-cutting portion of the night! We’ve seen it all from donut walls to mini cupcakes and cake pops, anything sweet, it’s been on a dessert bar!
Venue: Central Station Memphis
Photography: Elizabeth Hoard Photography
Florals & Planning: Connor and Co. Events
Cake: Gilded Bee Cake Co
4. Dried Flowers
Photography: Whit Photography
Florals, Rentals, & Planning: Connor & Co. Events
Dried flowers mixed with fresh flowers are something we’ve been seeing more and more of! With bohemian and retro color schemes trending, dried flowers like dried or fake palm leaves and pampas grass are making their mark on the 2021 wedding scene this year! We love getting to mix dried and fresh flowers for added texture to a bouquet or ceremony arch or backdrop!
5. Tented/outdoor events
Of course, with event restrictions and outdoor venues being more open, we’ve noticed an upwards tick towards tented and outdoor events, and we are here for it! You can easily make an outdoor space feel more intimate with several long tables, some twinkle lights and candles, and a family-style dinner! There are still plenty of venues with outdoor spaces available for both your ceremony and reception, so take full advantage!
Photography: Jacqueline Fugatt Photography
Venue: Brooks Museum of Art
Planning & Florals: Connor & Co. Events
6. Living Room Seating Décor
Photography: Shelby Renee Photography
Venue: Orion Hill
Florals: Connor & Co.
Rentals: Ila Vivian
Dress & Accessories: Miranda Marie Bridal
Living room décor seems to be the newest way to personalize your wedding in 2021! It adds a vintage or bohemian vibe to your wedding but rentals can be suited for any wedding design! The living setting decor trend adds an element of intimacy to your wedding too. Instead of using the basic white, foldout chairs at your ceremony, try living room seating furniture to encourage your guests to get nice and cozy and make them feel like they’re all truly part of the family!
Photography: Danielle Lozeau Photography
Venue: Annesdale Mansion
Rentals: White Door Events
Florals: Everbloom Designs
7. Brunch Weddings
With tented and outdoor weddings becoming trendy, brunch weddings are gaining popularity. The natural sunlight and morning air make the perfect setting in an outdoor and tented brunch wedding. A Bloody Mary and mimosa bar for the guest to mix their own cocktails adds a relaxed feel and allow the guests to mingle with one another. Having a brunch wedding also makes way for the wedding to be an all-day event! You can celebrate during brunch then continue the after-party that night!
8. Color, Color, and more Color!
Color is the new white! Gone are the days of an all-white wedding design. Color palettes are being pushed to the absolute max and creativity is flowing in 2021. From color floral arrangements to pops of color in the rentals, color is super trendy for wedding design in 2021! Experiment with bold colors and push your wedding design to the limits!
Photography: Whit Photography
Florals: Connor and Co.
9. Mixed-matched Bridesmaid Dresses
Photography: Whit Photography
Florals: Connor and Co.
Brides are leaning more and more towards letting their bridesmaids choose a dress silhouette that fits their body type as well as dresses in different shades that match their wedding design. Mix-matched bridesmaids’ dresses aren’t revolutionary for 2021 wedding trends but seem to be more and more popular with each wedding season! The overarching theme of making weddings more and more personalized is definitely evident with mix-matched bridesmaids’ dresses!
10. Hanging Installations
Photography: Whit Photography
Venue: Mallard’s Croft
If you want an instant wow-factor to your wedding design, you have to incorporate a hanging installation into your wedding design! Floral and greenery wreaths above the dance floor seem to be all over the wedding design scene! You can even get creative like our Christmas wedding (pictured above) and hang ornaments as a festive salute to the holiday season! Whatever it is, hanging installations are never NOT going to be super impressive, and the possibilities are endless!
Whatever your taste in wedding design and decor, these top trends for 2021 can be incorporated with any design! The unique thing about these trends is they can be personalized to your specific tastes, venue, guests, whatever you need them to be! We cannot wait to see what other trends pop up in 2021, and we are so ready to keep incorporating these favorite wedding design trends into our own wedding designs!
