Wedding fads: What’s hot right now?

Weddings are one of, if not the, best days in people’s lives. It’s no surprise that as a result immense amounts of planning, precision and detail go into them.

The options with weddings are endless. There are so many different styles and designs out there that it can become overwhelming, yet at the end of the day a wedding is expected to be perfect. Dresses, cakes, flowers and jewelry are all some of those hard-to-decide aspects of a wedding, but luckily in Clark County there are people who are ingrained in the wedding game — people who know what works well. Below is a collection of their thoughts.

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A bride’s dress is arguably the highlight of a wedding. It’s something she’s been thinking about and imagining for years, meaning she might already have a pretty good idea of what it’s going to look like. But what about how it feels?

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According to Brenda Smith of Tutus en Tournant, a custom bridal wear producer in Clark County, a lot of brides in the area aim for comfort as more of a premium.

“As far as requests for custom bridal dresses, some of my brides have asked for Bohemian styles — more casual for outdoor venues,” she said. The idea makes perfectly good sense when you consider how many couples take advantage of the Pacific Northwest’s beautiful scenery and have outdoor weddings.

Having more or less comfort though, doesn’t affect the next key factor of a wedding dress — the color. White is usually the base color of the dress, but that is just the start.

“Some (brides) want a little color mixed in their gowns/dresses. Lots of lace,” said Smith. “Not bright colors, just a hint of like a blush or mixtures of different shades of ivories. Most dresses that I work on are not white-white, they are usually a diamond white or a soft white, or soft ivories.”

The use of other colors on a dress in addition to the plain white are important to consider.

“I’ve heard brides say many times that pure white does not work well with their complexions,” Smith said.

Something that seems to be hot right now is getting creative with the veil. Smith said recently she made a veil for a bride from the bride’s grandmother’s old wedding dress. She also put together a birdcage-style veil with the incorporation of some flowers the bride was using as decor for the ceremony to match.

Flowers

The types of flowers that are used in a wedding generally depends on what the overall theme of the wedding is. In a lot of cases, certain flowers can be made to work with pretty much anything. According to Wendi Reynolds, owner of Clark County Floral, roses are one of those flowers.

“Most of my brides like to use roses due to the fact they see it as romantic flower,” said Reynolds. “You really can’t go wrong with roses because of so many themes you can use them in.”

Reynolds believe roses go great with weddings themed “a little out doors,” such as a garden theme or a country theme.

But once a type of flower(s) is picked out, the floral planning side of things for a wedding isn’t over yet. Careful consideration goes toward the volume of flowers that will be used. The amount can greatly vary.

“That (the number of flowers) depends on how big the wedding is, it could be 75 flowers up to like thousands,” said Reynolds. “I have a bride for this month of February that has ordered over 300 stems of just roses, that’s not including the greens.”

Too often Reynolds said brides lose their flowers right before the big day.

“They don’t realize they need a cooler to keep them cool when the weather gets hotter in the summer. We have had many brides come in and said they lost flowers due to heat,” she said.

Another mistake Reynolds said she sees brides do with flowers is trying to do it alone.

“I think the biggest mistake is the bride taking on a task of doing her own wedding flowers. There is so much more to do than to spend time doing their own wedding flowers the night before the wedding,” said Reynolds, adding many brides have said after their wedding they didn’t think it would be so difficult without any help.

Reynolds said one use of flowers that’s popular is to decorate the stage arches or aisle arches with them.

“Most of our brides love the flowers on the arches,” she said.

Reynolds also noted that at Clark County Floral they will often add floral to chandeliers in weddings.

Cakes

Cakes are a special part of every wedding because they’re one of the only things that’s part of the event that brings a whole other sense to the party — the sense of taste.

That is perhaps the perfect explanation for why the wedding cake scene seems to be changing perhaps more than anything else regarding weddings.

Traditional cakes with all kinds of fondant on them aren’t as big today as they’ve traditionally been. According to Desirey Gibson, the cake designer for Battle Ground Bakery, customers seem to favor with “naked cakes” lately — cakes that don’t have much icing on them.

“People don’t seem to like fondant anymore I think because it just doesn’t taste as good,” said Gibson. “It’s always been used more for decor than taste, and I think people are just valuing that higher these days.”

A lot of wedding parties aren’t even using cakes for dessert. Many people now, Gibson said, will order a smaller-sized cake (one to three tiers high instead of four or more) just for the bride and groom and then feature a secondary desert around it. Cupcakes and ice cream are prime examples.

With that new trend, decorating hasn’t gone away. Some people love getting cakes for their weddings and theming them. Right now the hot theme seems to be to make it look natural.

“Flowers, trees, anything that looks outdoorsy,” Gibson said of the more popular natural trends. Most decorations today are edible she said. Rarely anymore do people still want something on the cake that is just there for show, such as a plastic bride and groom on the top.

Jewelry

At the end of every special wedding day everything becomes just a memory, stored away in people’s minds and reminisced on through pictures. One thing that will last is wedding jewelry.

Jewelry might be small, but it’s expensive for a reason. It’s elegant, and that’s why the tiniest of tiny details matter so much.

Right now, halo designs for bridal rings are the fad, but another, perhaps more interesting shift in the industry is that brides aren’t doing two piece ring sets as much anymore (engagement ring, then added wedding band after). Instead, more and more brides are doing away with that tradition.

A bridal ring style that’s been pretty steady for several years now is white-gold coloring. In the past yellow-gold coloring was the popular way to go.

Randall Brown of Celebration Jewelers in Battle Ground said the rise of alternative metals for men’s wedding rings is significant. Black and grey rings from titanium, cobalt, and ceramic steel have become as popular as gold rings.

Wedding jewelry isn’t just limited to rings. According to Brown, pearl necklaces are popular for brides, and pendants (any color) are often given to bridesmaids to wear.

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