{"id":1625,"date":"2018-08-03T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2018-07-17T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:18:55","slug":"overdone-wedding-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/overdone-wedding-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdone wedding trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> TOO MANY BRIDESMAIDS<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone are the days of having one or two bridesmaids; now, \u201cbridesmaid armies\u201d are the hot new trend, with some opting for as many as 10 close chums to accompany them to the altar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe \u2018bridesmaid army\u2019 trend swiftly came over from the US and has taken hold of wedding parties everywhere in the UK, This can be great for photo-ops, he says, \u201cbut it can sometimes take away from the ceremony, as they get crammed up by the altar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This trend, however, is slowly being faded out thanks to the new Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> OVER-THE-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weddingbranch.co.uk\/category-page.php?par_cat_id=5\">TOP WEDDING CAKES<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wedding cake trends also have seen a huge transformation in recent years. The humble iced fruitcake wedding cake is long gone, due to \u2018Instagram wars\u2019 for that perfect cake shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From drip cakes and naked cakes, then onto doughnut walls and eight-foot macaroon towers, and recently even Meghan Markle\u2019s 154lb deconstructed lemon and elderflower wedding cake! This is a trend that\u2019s becoming increasingly competitive.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> LIGHT-UP LETTERS<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may prove a hit with most. While some couples choose to spell out their initials, others opt for their own wedding hashtag or go for a simple \u201ccongratulations\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DRAMATIC BRIDAL ENTRANCES<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to dramatic bridal entrances, From the bride literally being ballooned into the ceremony, to being walked in by a dressed-up dinosaur, the bride\u2019s entrance has become yet another aspect of the wedding that can be blown up to unimaginable heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOO MANY BRIDESMAIDS Gone are the days of having one or two bridesmaids; now, \u201cbridesmaid armies\u201d are the hot new trend, with some opting for as many as 10 close chums to accompany them to the altar. \u201cThe \u2018bridesmaid army\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/overdone-wedding-trends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[263,272,285,5],"tags":[297,313,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingbranch.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}