10 Trends You Can Expect for 2023 North Carolina Weddings
Planning a wedding in North Carolina is a big project, with an even bigger reward. Whether you are putting together the DIY backyard wedding of all time or have the perfect ceremony and dance floor space booked for your dream wedding, every detail counts. Every year, new wedding trends rise to the top as the hottest colors, designs, and cool event planning innovations come to light.
Engaged couples looking for cool trends for a 2023 wedding, need only look at what is rising to the forefront of wedding plans today. Let's take a dive into the decoration styles, wedding colors, and the latest wedding technology ideas reaching the top in 2023.
1. Architectural Floral Pieces
Florals have been a hit for 2022 weddings and are only growing in popularity - and size. If you thought a wedding arbor or lining the aisle in flowers was beautiful, take a look at the architectural floral pieces now featuring in trending weddings across the board. Flowers are everywhere, and flower overhead fixtures are especially popular for both indoor and outdoor garden weddings.
Consider flower columns, hanging flower garlands, and even floral sculptures offered by your wedding florist. Bring your wedding colors to life or plunge your guests into gorgeous leafy seclusion with temporary foliage walls and archway nooks.
2. Locally Sourced Everything
If you're a locavore, love local flowers, and want to support local businesses, this is the perfect year to get married. Weddings being planned for 2022 and 2023 are celebrating all things local. This is one of the best ways to keep costs low, avoid the risk of shipping delays, and support the community you are joining as a newlywed couple. Source your catered foods from local farmers. Source your flowers from local nurseries. You can even bring in the work of local artists as part of your sculptural or ambiance decor.
3. Bright Colors Burst Into 2023 Weddings
Wedding colors leading into 2023 are going bold. 2022's best colors were sage green and dusty rose, with a rising popularity for mixed metallic weddings. However, vibrant jewel tones and rainbow bridesmaids' dresses have taken the lead. 2023 looks to be a year of vividly colorful weddings favoring one or two jewel tones in a dark color palette or a vibrant, crayon-box of wedding attire led by a new diversity of bridal dress colors with cutout and architectural bodice designs.
If you are planning a wedding in North Carolina for 2023, don't be shy about color. Pops of color can make a brilliant impact and beautiful photos while a vivid array of colors is how many are celebrating the natural diversity and joy of modern families and close-friend groups.
4. Private Affairs and Hybrid Guest Attendance
Many weddings today are smaller events with shorter guest lists - in person, anyway. Paired with the pandemic-era trend of streaming a private wedding, we are now seeing a rising wedding trend of hybrid guest lists. Those guests who are closest to the family and who live nearby will attend a small, low-risk wedding celebration, while extended family and friends can tune in for a hybrid wedding experience through designated camera devices. There may be a camera with a front-row seat to the ceremony, and another pointing at the DJ and light show so that your friends can dance at home during the reception.
Virtual event planning now has couples sending their remote guests a goodie box of drinks, wedding food, and their own slice of wedding cake.
5. Creative Catering and Vendor Sourcing
Prices are going up in many areas of event planning, which is inspiring North Carolina wedding couples to get creative with their catering and other vendor sourcing. Individual servings are a popular choice, which has also inspired new and varied approaches to the wedding cake. Finger food versus toothpicks, barbecue or mini spaghetti bowls, it all depends on what makes a dream wedding, what your guests will love, and what you can affordably source into a delightful 2023 wedding event.
Booking early is the best way to get good prices and time to negotiate your perfect plan.
6. All-Inclusive Wedding Venues
Of course, you don't have to get creative when your wedding venue takes care of everything for you. Along with smaller affairs, both couples and venues can agree that closing the doors and partying all night is safer than transitioning between vendors and venues during your nuptial celebrations.
Venues are honing their decor for both the ceremony and the reception, and offering more all-inclusive vendor services like an in-house custom cake designer, catering, florist packages, and rooms for guests to stay overnight. The right wedding package or a few well-matched packages can save you a bundle on the complete North Carolina wedding experience.
7. Transformative Floor Wraps
For centuries, the floor of your venue has defined the look and feel of your wedding, but no more. Event floor technology offers floor wraps for your ceremony, reception, or dance floor space. You can completely reinvent the floor of your venue to match your wedding colors and chosen style, and it's easy to do.
8. All-Weekend Weddings
In addition to all-inclusive weddings, all-weekend weddings are also becoming popular. As couples move their celebrations to more private and enclosed venues, there is more reason to plan a full weekend of luxury, shared food, and fancy outfits. One rising trend is "cottage" weddings, in which a couple rents a large lodge and celebrates family-style in a cozy estate with bedrooms for a close family or friend-circle guest list.
Couples save on catering by ordering their groceries and food platters in bulk, eating as a family and working together to prepare decorations and wedding reception stations.
9. Mismatched Bridal Parties
In addition to the color revolution of 2023 wedding trends, you can expect to see fewer identical bridesmaids. Depending on your wedding party, bridesmaids' dresses are a rainbow in the wedding party, or each may choose their own hue of a shared color tone. This creates more dynamic wedding photos and celebrates that each member of your wedding party is unique - with colors and styles that suit them best beyond what any uniform design could do justice.
10. Drone Wedding Photography
The last high-tech trend for 2023 nuptials is drone photography. Wedding drones can be hand-controlled by your photographer or automated to sweep elegantly through the venue, catching beautiful shots of guests and decor. Wedding drones can be painted to match the decor and draped with garlands to look beautiful while they catch some amazing candids and picturesque shots of a day you never want to forget.
Are you planning a 2023 wedding in North Carolina? Complete your perfect reception plans with Cool Receptions for DJs , lighting arrays, dance floor wraps, and photo booths. Contact us today!
