Want to know what the wedding trends for 2015 are going to bring?...
Katherine Hudson, Founder & Director of The Arabian Tent Company gives us her insider tips for what’s going to be hot this summer.
Hip to Sip ~ Taking a cue from experimental pop-ups and late night speakeasies, 2015 is the year to treat your guests to something a little bit more original; as couples throw out the staid, tried-and tested menus and opt for exciting, contemporary tastes. Add an element of surprise with artisan food-trucks and pop-up tasting stations of DIY Ceviche, pulled-pork, lobster rolls or Oyster shucking and don your mixologist cap to experiment with and personalise the brew of your favourite cocktails; served with prohibition panache in mis-matched miniature jars or Gatsby champagne glasses.
Quintessentially English ~ The tinkle of vintage porcelain teacups; a splash of Hendricks and cucumber, a gentle Summer’s breeze, the comforting distant thwack of cricket bat against ball… and your great-Aunt Nora doing her best ‘disdainful Dowager Duchess’ on the lawn. Arrhh this is England. The trend for old-English everything has leapt further back in time to Victoriana and beyond for 2015, as bright young things everywhere are channelling Downton Abbey, Oscar Wilde and Austen. Think Victorian lace detailing, wild-flower garland table-runners, prints, elaborate topiary and lashings of strawberries and cream.
DIY Bohemia ~ It’s OUT with the Bourgeois and IN with Bohemia as Weddings become less ostentatious conformity and more you and your loved ones pulling together to make it all happen. Invitations drawn by the flower girls, wildflower centrepieces picked by your mother-in-law, funny anecdotes from friends and family printed on napkins… Get crafty and add quirky elements of humour to let your personalities shape the day. More a huge dinner party for everyone you know and love, than a fanfare of fuss and formality; create a personal and intimate atmosphere by sitting together on long rustic tables, passing shared plates and lighting it all perfectly with homely, twinkling lights. Informal and unconventional weddings will be BIG in 2015. You heard it here first!
Go GREEN ~ it was back in 2011 when the Royal wedding inspired us to bring the outdoors in, and we have it on good authority that the trend for green has definitely stuck. Herbs such as rosemary and mint strung together with ivy, magnolia leaf and fern are adorning table-runners; framing cocktail menus, redefining tent ceilings and softening chandeliers. Topiary and architectural trees bring form and height in to tents and venues as well as adding life in to the spaces. The key here is to adorn with foliage and hint at the great outdoors, rather than sending your guests in to the jungle to forage for their supper (although that could be a lot of fun too!).