The buzz in wedding decor for 2024 isn’t themes or colors. Rather, the buzz is about customizing and enhancing the enjoyment of the traditional wedding experience for everyone from the happy couple to their slightly tipsy friends. The idea is to add beauty, highlighting the personal nature of your love story. In essence, 2024’s wedding trends are more like trappings for the uniqueness of your story, defining it with design.
So, it’s more than fair to say that the biggest trend in wedding decor this year is “telling your story,” dressing it in the finery of the traditional wedding but expressly tailored. Let’s look at some of the stand-out wedding decor ideas trending at the moment and see how they might elevate your big day!
More Is More: The Maximalist Wedding
Following recent maximalist trends in homescapes and commercial spaces like restaurants and bars, maximalist design has landed in the realm of wedding decor. There are several key areas this trend is asserting itself: flowers, ceiling treatments in ceremonial and reception spaces, and table settings.
But the maximalist trend is asserting itself in wedding decor trends this year in novel ways, including the use of fabric to create new head table and reception area treatments and a new approach to dressing the bride and the wedding party. And so, maximalism affects the look of the entire wedding, bringing your big day the layered delight of sublime excess. Let’s look at some of maximalist wedding decor’s more pronounced impacts on some key areas.
For Ceremonial and Reception Spaces: Maximalized Flowers
How you deploy wedding decor flowers for maximum impact is entirely up to you as maximalist design is intensely personal. The idea of maximalism goes beyond excess to the type of spatial storytelling that’s completely at home in the matrimonial design space.
Your maximalist flowers may be launching a full frontal from only the altar area of your ceremonial space but massed on guest table centerpieces at the reception. It’s your flower budget and your story being told, so how you deploy your blooms is up to you. But know that the more of them you use in your arrangements, the higher your maximalist design elevation.
TIP: Silk flowers can take the budgetary heat off for items like flower arches or head table centerpieces. Or, use only silk flowers for your wedding decor that you can reuse at home or for other events!
Look Up! Ceiling Decor
Your event space has a ceiling, and this year, it’s been pressed into service as a site of wedding decor opportunity! Getting the ceiling involved in the decor activities has to be the most maximalist thing I’ve ever heard of, so this trend falls under our brief review of 2024’s wedding decor maximalism.
Installations over the dance floor are enormously popular, taking the extravagance of lighting, flowers, and other decorative elements higher for incredible impact. There’s something unexpected about seeing a decor element suspended overhead, especially when it’s heaving with flowers and lighting elements. Surprise your guests with this maximalist wedding decor trend!
Over-the-Top Table Settings
Take your wedding decor to uncharted territory with over-the-top, maximalist table settings. Excess isn’t just for the head table. To begin with, throw away the wedding template and opt for richly layered settings involving multiple table clothes in rich jewel tones. Important-looking chargers under your plates, ornate drinking vessels, and detail, detail, detail, make the maximalist table setting.
Centerpieces demand to be seen. Keep them low to facilitate conversation but leave no gap unfilled with an abundance of flowers in petite vases, candles, and tealights set strategically among your beautifully arranged flowers. Create reflections in the form of mirrors under candle holders to multiply the abundance. Indian fabrics with mirrors sewn into them add to the sparkle. Use these for runners, placemats, a layer of your table cloths, decorations for chairs—wherever you can. More is more, let’s not forget!
And that’s key to maximalist wedding decor. Layer, juxtapose, and clash. Excess is maximalism. But remember that balance attends excess to bring order from chaos in a lushly beautiful way!
Metallics and Disco
Just when you thought the 2024 wedding decor couldn’t get any more thrilling, enter disco, bringing with it glittering, gleaming metallics, including mirror balls in all shapes, sizes, and colors.
I know you can sense the thrilling opportunities in this trend. But brides needn’t shop for their dresses with the 70s in mind. And holding the powder blue tuxedos, please!
Again, less than a theme, this trend is about giving color and design impetus to the story of the love being celebrated. Hopefully, you’ve seen the individualism of maximalist wedding decor trends. The metallic and disco trend is no different. Mirror balls aren’t just for hanging over the dance floor. They’re for scattering among centerpieces and fixing to flower arches.
Metallics, especially when they’re Art Deco revival, bring a sleek sheen of sophistication to wedding decor, curved, faceted, and geometrical designs adding to any aspect of your wedding decor, with mirror balls bringing you the glamorous sparkle your wedding deserves.
Making the Trends Work for You
There’s no point introducing a trend to your wedding decor if you don’t intend to thoroughly tame it to your design intentions. All the trends mentioned here are great representatives of 2024’s general wedding decor trend toward enhancing the wedding experience by customizing it.
So, find those perfect taper candle holders, then bend them to your design will, deploying the expressive potential of maximalism or the glitter of a thousand mirror balls amidst your divinely decadent excesses of flowers. It’s your wedding. Make those wedding decor trends work for you!
