Royal Wedding Inspiration – 6 Trends To Steal From Royal Weddings

Royal wedding inspiration is ageless and elegant – perfect for brides searching for classy wedding ideas. Royal weddings are huge trendsetters in every decade. Scale and formality is something that sets them apart from other weddings but even if you’re not having a 600+ guest royal event you can pick the best and most beautiful aspects of royals weddings to use in your own.

1. Small Wedding Bouquets

I don’t know if small bouquets are something royal brides choose for practicality, but I certainly love the tiny bouquets. This trend has certainly been growing in 2010’s after big bouquets of 90′ and 00’s.

Whether you check Kate’s or Meghan’s bouquet or Princess Alina of Romania, you see each of those is a smallish arrangement. Even Pippa Middleton sported a beautiful small bouquet a’la royal style.

More and more brides opt for locally grown flowers which is great! If royal brides carry flowers like sweet williams, forget-me-knots and garden roses it’s all the more reason for us as well give up blooms flown in from elsewhere of the world. 

2. Traditional Flower Girls and Page Boys

Flower girls and page boys with their white dresses and breeches are something that screams a society wedding for me. Having small children walk before the wedding couple is a symbol of growing up, fertility and losing of youthful innocence and stepping into the world of adults. 

Nowadays the symbolism is not that meaningful perhaps, as many couples are closer their 30’s. Still the traditional look of white taffeta dresses, white stockings, peter pan or sailor collars and wide sashes is still very ageless and sweet. Totally one of my favorite royal wedding inspiration element to use. 

3. Bateau Necklines

The most famous of them right now is probably Meghan Markle’s wedding gowns. But bateau necklines has been seen in royal weddings before Meghan. For example Princess Victoria of Sweden wore a bateau neckline as well as her sister Princess Madeleine. It was also seen on Mary Donaldson when she married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. 

I believe the biggest draw to the bateau neckline is how it leaves the decoltée open and shows a bit of skin in a tasteful way even with long sleeved styles that are often seen in royal weddings. 

4. Tiaras

This is very obvious royal wedding inspiration, because what is more royal than tiaras? Tiaras are making a true comeback along with veils to the wedding fashion after being ‘out’ for many years. In recent years tiaras have been often seen worn quite far back from the forehead so the tiara is more in an upwards position. 

The hairdo accompanying it is often a low bun, although Kate wore her hair open back in 2011. The bun can be messy, sleek, oversize… Plenty of variations from a very simple, yet elegant style! The best thing is, that you don’t have to pick a huge tiara for yourself as many tiaras can be quite low.

5. White Bridesmaid Dresses

All white bridal party is often something that common brides shy away from. White bridesmaid dresses, flower girls and page boys has been quite a typical view at royal weddings in the recent years and before. In all white they make a sweet entourage for the princess bride of the day. 

The dress style for bridesmaids and the maid of honor is typically sleeker and more minimalistic. One of the big trend setter for modern all white bridesmaid style was definitely Pippa Middleton at her sister’s wedding 2011. That was some serious royal wedding inspiration!

6. Long Veil And Train

Princess Eugenie’s lack of veil was noted as a nod to her work to spread information about scoliosis. Otherwise most royal brides have been wearing a veil and their dresses often have a train. Long veils and trains have typically been seen as a part of royal wedding dress code and they work well in big, formal chapels the royal weddings typically take place. 

Statement veils have been listed as one of 2019 wedding trends and I’m super happy to seen them in fashion again! Veils are something you will wear only at your wedding, so take that chance. A good rule of thumb when deciding your train and veil lenght is that the larger and more formal the ceremony site, the longer the train and veil. 

If you’re worried about how to move in a dress with a train, talk with your seamstress about bustling the train up or making a detachable train. You can see one in the down left on Princess Victoria’s wedding gown.

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Love,

      Iida