Wedding Trends: L.A. Experts Tell Us What To Look For In 2013

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We've talked a lot about the hottest wedding dress trends for 2013, but what about the biggest trends in wedding food and design?

On Wednesday, HuffPost Weddings stopped by the St. Pucchi boutique in West Hollywood for A Soolip Wedding's press preview event. There, five of Los Angeles' top wedding industry professionals shared their thoughts on the most popular trends of the year.

Cocktail Weddings

 

Pauline Parry of Good Gracious! Events says cocktail weddings will be popular this year. At a cocktail wedding, there is no formal sit-down dinner or buffet, but rather trays of food passed throughout the event. "It's a complete meal on a small plate, but you're grazing throughout the night," she said. "It doesn't disrupt the speeches or dancing!"

 

Personalized Decor

 

Rrivre Davies of Rrivre Works, a custom luxury rental and design company, says that more couples are looking to design homey, unique weddings. "Brides and grooms are designing weddings like a house," Davies said. "They used to want it to look like a 'wedding,' but now they're expressing their personalities. They're using a lot color -- not just white draping."

 

Clean, Classic Rings And Colored Stones

 

Jeweler Nelson Holdo of Black, Starr & Frost said that classic, clean settings are in style for 2013, along with yellow gold bands and colored stones. "Vintage-inspired rings were so prevalent in the last few years and they got overdone," Holdo said. "Also, for the first time in I don't know how long, we've seen yellow gold. For the longest time platinum was the thing. Yellow diamonds are the most accessible colored diamond, so they're gaining popularity too."

 

Illusion Necklines

 

Rani Totman, designer and owner of St. Pucchi, says illusion necklines are making a huge splash in 2013. "They still give you the feel of a strapless dress, but with some coverage," she said. "Sleeves are so elegant, so romantic."

 

The Death Of Vintage

 

This is more of an anti-trend, but David Pressman (pictured at left) of David Pressman Events says that many of 2013's couples are rejecting the vintage trend of the past several years. "I see less and less vintage now," Pressman said. "Bales of hay, mason jars -- they've been done."