Italians are used to planning their wedding celebrations at least a year in advance. The most popular time for a wedding still remains the end of spring – the beginning of summer, so preparations for the 2025 season are already in full swing. And if your celebration isn’t far off either, we invite you to discover which wedding trends will be popular in Italy this year.
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3. Aperitif and Wedding Banquet
6. Wedding Attire: Casual or Elegant
Wedding for Two
Italians are great conservatives when it comes to food and celebrations. They prefer the old reliable classics over any novelty. Weddings are no exception. Yet even in Italy—with all its love for a grand celebration—intimate ceremonies for two are gaining popularity. Nowadays, everyone wants to avoid unnecessary worries about guest tests and vaccines and simply enjoy the most important day.
Wedding for Two is a wonderful opportunity to create a celebration exactly as you dream of without having to accommodate others. You don’t have to worry about entertaining guests while you are being photographed or whether anyone might be allergic to a fish menu. By choosing this wedding option, you can afford so much more – for example, holding the ceremony abroad.
Wedding Trends: Outdoor Wedding
In recent years, the trend of holding weddings outdoors has been gaining increasing popularity. This applies not only to the banquet but also to the ceremony itself. Italy is the ideal country for a celebration in this style. Rainy days here can be counted on one hand, and in some regions the temperature never drops below +15 even in winter.
When choosing a venue for your wedding, a garden, a forest glade, or a beach will dominate over the traditional banquet halls in restaurants. According to surveys, 55% of Italian couples would prefer to celebrate their event in the great outdoors.
This will also affect the wedding décor. The motto will be “the closer to nature, the better”. The guiding principle of the wedding ceremony will be harmony with nature – with fabrics and materials made of linen, wood, moss, lanterns hanging on trees, and candles. All of this will add magic and create an atmosphere of enchantment.
Wedding Trends: Aperitif and Wedding Banquet
In Italy, there is a tradition to serve an aperitif before the main feast. This applies not only to dinners with friends but also to weddings. While the newlyweds are being photographed, guests can mingle over a glass of Prosecco and light appetizers. According to new trends, in 2025 most couples will want to move away from the classic restaurant scheme of “aperitif, first course, second course, and dessert.”
There will be a preference for an “easy” style banquet – a light and relaxed atmosphere where creativity has its place. For 40% of couples, the banquet is primarily about a rich selection of dishes. But the main thing is that this selection must be original. It is not enough to simply feed the guests deliciously; they must be surprised! The trend toward small portions of assagini is growing, as they say in Italy. Guests will have the opportunity to sample several first courses, several second courses, and there will also be room for a variety of desserts.
The choice of the menu itself is also becoming eco-friendly – wedding trends dictate a fashion for closeness to nature and natural ingredients. Preference is given to so-called 0 km products – cheeses and meat from small farms, fruits and vegetables from local gardens. The balance tips in favor of a restaurant that produces its own cheese, makes fresh pasta from farm-fresh eggs, or grows vegetables in its own garden.
Cake or Sweets Buffet?
The tradition of cutting a cake at a wedding is unlikely to ever disappear. However, more and more couples are opting to make their main dessert single-tiered, so that guests literally receive just a piece. The focus is shifting to a sweets table featuring pastries and mini-cakes to suit every taste. In this way, the tradition of a huge wedding cake takes a back seat. For beautiful photographs, a mini version is perfectly sufficient, according to 55% of surveyed Italians.
Wedding Trends: Decorations
You might have already guessed that wedding decorations in 2025 will be more inspired by nature than ever before🙂. Regardless of the chosen venue, it will be important for the newlyweds to show that they celebrate their love in contact with nature. Trees and flowers will play a crucial role in creating the event’s atmosphere. The trend will lean towards English Garden style floral decorations – abundant and tall floral arrangements for decorating tables and banquet halls.
In Italy, it is not customary to celebrate a wedding all day long. Typically, the celebration is either a luncheon if the marriage ceremony is scheduled in the morning, or a dinner if the registration is in the afternoon. Many Italian couples surveyed for the next wedding season will prefer to celebrate their wedding in the evening – everyone wants to add a bit of sunset magic to the event.
Wedding Attire: Casual or Elegant?
Every bride has her own special wedding dress, and there’s no doubt about that! Sooner or later, you will find “the one” perfect dress, whose style and fabric might have nothing to do with current fashion. Although, to be honest, no radical changes in wedding fashion are anticipated.
This coming year, brides will favor dresses with off-the-shoulder designs made of smooth, simple, and light fabrics. Such attire is ideal for summer ceremonies. Short wedding dresses and pantsuits are also in vogue. However, most Italian brides still opt for long, pure white dresses, while grooms prefer elegant tuxedos.
As for hairstyles, Italian brides tend to wear their hair in a romantic updo. Braids and loose hair adorned with floral crowns and wreaths are in style. And we remember the wedding trends for the coming year – the more natural and closer to nature, the better.
Guest Souvenirs
In Italy, there is a tradition of giving guests mementos of the wedding. Such a souvenir is called a bomboniere. Usually it is something symbolic and connected to the newlyweds. For example, it might be a toy car on which the bride and groom traveled on their wedding day. At international celebrations, Italian guests enjoy receiving a matryoshka as a gift. A note with the wedding date and five candies is typically attached to the bomboniere.
Online Wedding
In recent years, we have increasingly witnessed the use of digital technologies in wedding organization. This applies not only to meetings with vendors via webcam and planning the celebration from home, but also for elderly grandparents or distant relatives who cannot physically attend the ceremony yet would be delighted to participate online. The trend of live-streaming the wedding will continue in 2024. This is an opportunity to unite all your loved ones and share the most wonderful day with them.
As we can see, in the 2025 wedding season, great attention will be paid to the details. This new approach affects the choice of menu, floral décor, and even the overall style of the wedding. All of this requires prior preparation and an understanding of the Italian mentality. We advise you to entrust the organization of your celebration to professionals. With the WowItaly team, the wedding of your dreams is possible!
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