How to Decide Your Wedding Aesthetic and How to Bring it to Life

Advice From Our Wedding Planning Course

From color palettes to textured linens, every little detail on your wedding day will contribute to the overall look and feel of your wedding—your wedding aesthetic. But how do you decide what you want that to be? And how can you bring your wedding style to life?

According to our Utah Valley Bride wedding planning course, it’s more than just your wedding colors that perfectly capture your wedding day vibe—it’s about the textures, the fonts on your stationery, and even the type of glassware you use in your toasts, that all add up to create the wedding aesthetic that you dream of.

Whether it’s country glam, coastal chic, or whimsical romance—and all styles in between—the overall aesthetic of your wedding can be determined by anything and everything.

How to Decide Your Wedding Aesthetic

Start with the reason you’re getting married in the first place—your love story. What details from your relationship with your future spouse are sentimental and sweet? How can you incorporate the cute parts of your love story into wedding details?

Maybe you met your fiance while hiking—so you can incorporate hiking elements into your big day, like going for rich green colors with textures and florals that are reminiscent of the trees and the moss on the rocks where you first said “hello.”

Or maybe your first date was roller skating—so you can incorporate retro colors and groovy signage with disco balls decked out in flowers as centerpieces and above the dance floor.

Whatever your love story is, use it as a starting point for the aesthetic you want your wedding to be!

It also doesn’t have to be quite as on-the-nose—maybe you’re just so in love you feel like it’s your wildest fantasy come true, so you want your wedding day to feel as whimsical and happily ever after as a fairytale. Or maybe you just like the idea of a beach wedding, and that’s what you plan your wedding day around.

Using Your Personal Style to Create a Wedding Aesthetic

It can also depend on your existing personal style—you can take reference from everyday details in your own life. Try to think about what colors and styles you gravitate towards in your clothing, around your house, or out and about in nature or at restaurants. What color exists the most in your closet? Which flowers at Trader Joe’s always catch your eye? What kind of dishes are you putting on your registry?

What you already love and tend to like in your personal style is a great place to start when you’re deciding on your perfect wedding aesthetic.

Here’s where it’s important to have a wedding planner—not only are they experts and helping you decide exactly what kind of wedding you want to have, but they can do all the hard parts of figuring out your wedding style preferences and using their expertise to know how to bring your vision to life!

And here’s where it’s even more useful to check out our wedding planning course—even with a wedding planner, you’ll want to be aware of everything you can do to capture your wedding aesthetic perfectly with our videos and guidebook, and then hand it over to your planner!

How to Use Details to Bring Your Wedding Aesthetic to Life

So let’s say you’ve already decided on your wedding aesthetic. Now the question becomes, “How do I use wedding day details to capture that aesthetic perfectly?”

Let’s start with the most obvious—color. Colors are the easiest way to capture the wedding aesthetic you’re going for. If you want something summery, exciting, and fun, maybe you’ll want bright, neon colors like pink and yellow. Or maybe you want a classy, timeless, and modern-feeling wedding, so you lean towards colors like gold, black, and cream. Or maybe you just love the way blue looks on your fiancé, so that’s your starting point.

Whatever your wedding style, your colors will be the first step in bringing it to life!

Here’s a little tip right from our wedding planning course—wedding color trends are always changing, so it’s important for you to focus on what colors you’ll love years down the road. Just because a specific color palette is super popular right now, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll love the way it looks on your walls in the next ten years.

Using Textures, Not Just Colors

The next best thing to help you capture your wedding aesthetic is the textures you use. Here’s a quote from wedding planner Kaushay Ford, right from one of our wedding planning course videos:

“Texture on your wedding day is something that shows up everywhere—even though you might not recognize it. It starts with the different textures that you have in your flowers, whether you’re choosing fluffy blooms or things that feel a little bit more dried or sharp in their shapes. You’re also going to see this in the kind of stationery that you choose. Whether you’re using acrylic signage, hand-torn paper, or something that’s got a smooth pearlized finish.

“You’re seeing this in things like your glassware and your flatware too. Do you have a cut crystal glass? Or flatware that’s brushed and looks very smooth? And of course, we see it most in the textiles that we have on your wedding day—so things like your wedding gown, your bridesmaid’s dresses, and the groom’s and groomsmen’s suits. But we also see it on your tabletops in things like your tablecloths and your napkins, and even in your chair selections.”

Here are some examples. If you want a sleek, modern, and elegant type of wedding aesthetic you’re probably not going to go for things that are heavily textured like burlap or even sequins—you’ll want things like acrylic chairs and smooth glassware that feel a little bit more modern.

On the other hand, if you want something that feels romantic and traditional—like a storybook wedding—you’ll go for a lot more curvature and less sharp angles in things like your dishes and your flatware. You can use decor like traditional golden candelabras, or you can incorporate a little bit more texture in the linens that you’re choosing, like lace.

We have even more examples of using colors and incorporating textures to bring your wedding aesthetic to life in our wedding planning guidebook—be sure to check it out!

Your Wedding Aesthetic Decides Your Wedding Day Atmosphere

Most importantly, while you’re in the process of deciding your wedding aesthetic and how you want to use colors and textures to bring it to life, focus on what you truly want to surround yourself with on your wedding day.

“Make sure that whatever you choose feels like you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if a color palette seems trendy or outdated—if it doesn’t feel like something that you love, don’t choose it. We want you to be excited about the colors and the textures—and the emotions and the vibe that you have on your wedding day.”

Your wedding aesthetic is going to help create your wedding day atmosphere!

“It all comes back to you having something that is personal to you.”

If you want even more ideas on how to incorporate cool details and beautiful color palettes into your wedding, feel free to click around on Utah Valley Bride for a while—we have style inspo, real wedding articles, and so many different wedding vendors who are experts on making your wedding dreams come true.

And of course, check out our Utah Valley Bride wedding planning course. This is just a small glance into the immense amount of helpful information we have put together specifically for you. From budget calculators to seating chart help, and even more information on bringing your dream wedding to life, we have everything you need!