{"id":2140,"date":"2018-01-01T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-01-01T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:39:27","slug":"humanly-possible-keep-wedding-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/our-blog\/humanly-possible-keep-wedding-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Humanly Possible to Keep Up with Wedding Trends?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I\u2019m a bit puzzled that wedding trends and fads changing so quickly, as laid out, for example, in this Vogue article about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/wedding-catering-food-trends\">2017 wedding food trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/smlwindia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2141 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/smlwindia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/our-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/smlwindia.png 500w, https:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/our-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/smlwindia-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what I mean: Fashion trends come and go quickly too. But you wear clothes every day, and it\u2019s understandable that you\u2019d get tired of this or that style after a time.<\/p>\n<p>But you only get married rarely, one hopes. You aren\u2019t having a 2016 wedding and then a 2017 wedding, one hopes.<\/p>\n<p>So it would seem like wedding trends would therefore be a lot more slow-moving and dictated by the ways the groom and (especially) bride have always imagined their wedding to be, often for years beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I underestimated peer pressure, though, and how many weddings young trendsetters, thoughtfluencers, and buzzwordians attend each year to establish a moving baseline.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmorebrides.com\/social-media-marketing-2017\/\">Social media is powerful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Vogue article, things are going in a more classical direction this year, with more formality and tradition and less quirk.<\/p>\n<p>Tower cakes are back. Family-style dinners, all the rage in 2016, are\u00a0<em>so gross<\/em>\u00a0now, ew.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your feelings are about trends and fads in general \u2013 I think it\u2019s rather clear that they bring out a skeptical side of me \u2013 there can be no denying that they matter very much to a lot of brides and bridegrooms, and so, like it or not, they need to matter a lot to you as a wedding pro.<\/p>\n<p>So you need to stay on top of this stuff. But how?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Research Smartly<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You probably don\u2019t need me to tell you that a good place to start would be by googling \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmorebrides.com\/hot-trends-weddings-2017\/\">Wedding Trends 2017<\/a>\u201d and reading the relevant pieces that come up.<\/p>\n<p>But do you use Google Search tools? It\u2019s right there on the page after you get your results: Tools.<br \/>\nClick on that, and you can crucially search by recency, or a range of dates.<\/p>\n<p>So just get the results from the last day, week, month, whatever, thereby assisting you in your quest to get on and stay on the real cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>Example: I just chose to only get results from the last month, and it gave me an article on *2018* wedding trends.<\/p>\n<p>Weddings are apparently like cars, then. We don\u2019t have to be in the calendar year yet for the models to come out.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> Focus On Vocabulary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Vogue article makes mention of \u201croaming buffets,\u201d a current trend. The author helpfully explains what that is, but your customers won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a wedding caterer, and a prospective customer asks you if you do roaming buffets and you don\u2019t know what that is (unlikely, but still) what are you going to do?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll either have to navigate the minefield of pretending you know and winging it, or admit you don\u2019t and look uninformed while potentially losing a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, those are both horrible choices and you want to avoid being put in that position as much as you can.<\/p>\n<p>So whenever you come across a trendy term you\u2019re unfamiliar with, slam on the brakes and look it up.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Worry Not About Contradiction<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your customers will probably come at you with ideas, wants and desires that fly in the face of their\u00a0<em>other<\/em>\u00a0ideas, wants, and desires.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s okay. It\u2019s human nature. As long as its logistically possible, without undue hardship, to (for example) play nothing but gospel songs and Insane Clown Posse tracks at the reception, you should do it, and do it with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>I bring up this point because the first listicle item in the Vogue piece is \u201cKeep It Small\u201d and the last one is \u201cBig Is Back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does this make me want to throw my laptop out the window and run to a small off-the-grid commune in the Alaska where I will live out my life making ink out of seal blubber?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>But will I? No. I am a consummate wedding professional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your best tips for staying on trend? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smlwindia.com\/\">Click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I\u2019m a bit puzzled that wedding trends and fads changing so quickly, as laid out, for example, in this Vogue article about\u00a02017 wedding food trends. 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