Today let’s talk about wedding trends, but I won’t be going into decoration styles — instead, this is about the physical scale of a wedding. From now on, weddings will shift in two important ways. The first is that weddings will keep getting smaller in size. This may be due to the economy or other factors — if we look around us right now, or at the main wedding trends both internationally and in Thailand itself, small-scale weddings are being held more often and talked about more often, so weddings are genuinely moving into a phase of shrinking down.
The second thing is that in this era of shared information, couples get to see the other side of weddings more, beyond just the beauty of it — that is, the real problems of planning a wedding, as experienced by other couples. Problems between the elders and the couple, problems between the couple and the organizer, problems between the elders and the organizer. This has changed the shape of the questions people ask about weddings — from once asking “how many khan maak (engagement trays) do we need,” to “why do we need khan maak at all,” and eventually to the final question: “why is planning a wedding this complicated.” This leads, in the end, to an era where the importance placed on wedding planning is reduced.
Smaller scale and smaller numbers are what’s coming
On the other hand, what’s actually happening is that couples are looking for weddings that carry more real meaning for their lives, and are genuinely asking themselves more what they actually want from having a wedding. This means the job of everyone working in the wedding industry — whether planners, organizers, hotels, restaurants, venue decorators, or every party involved in putting on a wedding — is to adapt in order to be able to answer this very question.
In the end, planning a wedding is a matter of relationships.
If holding the event makes the relationship better, or at the very least keeps it the same,
then the wedding has fully done its job.
I hope every couple gets a wedding that fulfills their life and brings them happiness.
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