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Art & Antiques Vintage by Dr. Lori
Wedding Trends
June is a most popular month for weddings. A new trend
in weddings is throwback nuptials that highlight antique
and vintage elements that enhance the wedding day
experience.
We all know about the tradition of wearing something old
along with something new, borrowed, and blue but today’s
old things at weddings are going beyond the run of the mill
pearl necklace that belonged to grandma or a pair of your
mother’s earrings. Today’s brides are selecting rare and
unusual objects to serve as their something old objects like
espadrilles wedged shoes from the 1970s, jewel studded
sweater clips from the 1950s, and vintage tortoise shell or
rhinestone encrusted hair clips, tiara style headbands, and
barrettes.
and small scale glass or ceramic bud vases. Grooms are using pieces of their mother’s or
grandmother’s lace wedding veils to accompany floral boutonnieres or as pocket squares.
Bridesmaids and groomsmen are wearing antique family stick pins, brooches, and even war
medals to remind wedding attendees of the family lineage on this special day.
For weddings that take place far from a family home, couples are selecting wedding decorations
that remind them and everyone in attendance of the family home and bygone days.
Decorations that recall vacation homes, family cabins, or long ago-sold family homes are
being integrated into the design of a wedding gazebo or wedding reception floorplan, too.
If you are using precious and cherished antique and vintage
objects that are irreplaceable for a wedding ceremony,
establish a “keeper of the goods” that is not a member of the
wedding party to care for these keepsakes after the ceremony.
Perhaps you are wearing the set of black onyx mourning
jewelry that was worn at your great grandfather’s memorial in
the late 1800s. It will be this person’s responsibility to collect
and safeguard these family heirlooms and related objects so
the wedding party cannot worry about losing these items and
enjoy themselves at the reception.
Brides are going vintage when decorating for receptions, pre-wedding parties, rehearsal
dinners, and wedding showers. Some antique inspired design ideas include antique glass
Ball canning jars filled with wildflowers for centerpieces, placing a small toy from the bride’s
childhood next to a wine glass, and printing out digital photos of the members of the bride’s
and groom’s family who have passed away and sewing them into the underside of the
bride’s wedding dress as a remembrance.
Rococo, Victorian, and other period wedding items are being re-introduced into contemporary
weddings today. Brides are carrying flower bouquet holders like vintage tussy mussys
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