Top 5 Wedding Guest Trends for 2025

Love bold colour? Or rather have a classic black dress? It’s time to reveal the top 5 wedding guest trends for 2025. Read on to see emerging dress styles seen recently on leading celebrities and based on keynote weddings. What will be your favourite go-to?

 

1.       Bold colour and Bardot

Dare to bare, it’s time to reveal your shoulders as the number one top wedding guest dress trend for 2025 is a Bardot. Move over spaghetti straps, you’ve had your day. Welcome, the demure Bardot midi dress. Add a splash of bold colour and you’re going to be the best dressed at your friend’s wedding, hands down.

Without further ado, we introduce our best seller, The Watercolour Dress. This is the firm favourite for the year. A bestseller since 2017, originally known as the Alesha Dixon Watercolour dress after the famous celebrity, it’s a sure winner for wedding guest style. The gorgeous abstract colours are bold and unflinching. A splash of rainbow hues adorn this full-skirted midi dress – complete with pockets (an essential for those eye-dabbing tissues).

The Watercolour dress, £165 Shop here

Or, why not try the Mulberry Bardot True Decadence dress? This is a great option if you’re going shoulders strong. It features a high low hemline and is currently on offer in our winter sale. So a bargain, if you’re quick.

 

2.       Simple lines and one shoulder designs

So, moving onto the second emerging trend for 2025, is the need for simple lines. Think Jackie Kennedy or Kate Middleton as they step out in style for an official ceremony. It’s a classic 1960’s look, a simple shift dress with an over-coat, similar to a two-piece aka Chanel. And like Chanel, fabrics must be of the best quality. The Gina Bacconi Eva is a classic example of this trend created in a superior jacquard fabric. Team with a wide brim hat and even matching wide brim sunglasses.

Gina Bacconi two piece, The Eva in sizes 8-20. 

 

3.       Dancefloor favourites – After Party

 If you’re a day guest, it now quite the thing to change into your after party dress once the formalities are over with. It can be a long day and what was appropriate for religious vows, your outfit is now in need of a fun, disco makeover. You could change your wedding guest dress completely. Once the toasts are over, the dancefloor emerges. Whether you've got a live band or a wedding DJ, the excitement builds. Trends for 2025 already show that metallics remain strong for evening wedding dos, with glitzy silver sparkle and decadent golds. The hemlines also go shorter.

The Scarlet Dress, a great metallic mini dress for after party style.

4.       Maxi Modest styles

Some nuptials require a more modest dress code. Raishma Couture are well on trend for 2025 with their new range of couture styles. Glimmering with embellishments, these maxi dresses are positivity brimming with excitement and joy. The fourth biggest wedding guest trend for 2025 is a long, flowing gown.

See our Natalie gown from Raishma Couture, £450 with hand sewn beading.

 

5.       Black Dresses for Bridesmaids

Finally, our fifth trend is the emerging pattern of LBDs for bridesmaids. Not only do we wholeheartedly agree (it is our most favourite colour after all) but it means the dresses can be re-worn on repeat as black is versatile. So, it’s also a sustainable option. Brides are opting for different necklines to suit their bridesmaid body shapes. Whether that is a fit or flare style for voluptuous figures or halter-necks for more boyish figures.

The True Decadence besteselling tulle dress, perfect for bridesmaids this 2025.

What do you think? Would you like to dress up in a black dress as a wedding guest? We don't see there's an issue here. We’ve all heard of brides choosing their colours, and 2024 seemed to be the era of the white dress wedding guest. But we think it’s more than time for the LBD to now take a bow.

Love to hear your thoughts. . .drop us a line below. The best comments receive a 10% discount code.

 

We leave you with some more black dress options for bridesmaids (or wedding guests), see below.

 

The Gabrielle, an exclusive fishtail sheer sequin dress, perfect for the bride's best friends.

 

See the Jenner dress, spoft waves of ruffles fall effortlessly to the floor. Great for wedding guest or bridesmaid.

 

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