Maine & NH Wedding Photographer | 2025 Wedding Trend I’m Fully Here For: Hyper-Personal, Zero Generic

Weddings in 2025 are officially done pretending to be something they’re not. Couples were ditching the cookie-cutter stuff and leaning hard into who they actually are. And it shows. Everywhere. In the best way.

Instead of “this venue looked good on Instagram,” couples are choosing locations that mean something. Family farms where they grew up running barefoot. Childhood summer camps where they learned how to be feral little weirdos and somehow turned into functional adults. Places with history. Places with stories. Places where the wedding already feels like them before anyone even shows up.

And the details? Absolute top tier, no notes.

I’ve seen:

• Entire flower plans donated by family farms because flowers literally grow there. Casual. Iconic.

• Honey from mom’s farm as favors. Not a trinket that ends up in a junk drawer—actual honey. From their life.

• Handmade arbors built by friends, because building the most amazing arbor I have ever seen is their love language.

• Capes sewn by a bride’s sister, which honestly deserves its own slow clap.

• Board game tables at receptions because not everyone wants to cha-cha slide, and that’s fine. Roll dice. Live your truth.

• Tattoo artist tattooing at the reception because the couple loves them some ink.

These weddings tell a full story—from childhood, to meeting, to how the hell we all ended up here today. Every detail feels intentional instead of just… filled in.

What I love most? Couples are thinking less about what a wedding is “supposed” to look like and more about how it wraps around their family, their people, and their actual lives. It’s less performance, more meaning. Less Pinterest board, more heart.

And honestly, it makes the day better for everyone. Guests feel it. Vendors feel it. The photos feel it. Nothing feels forced or generic or like it came from aisle seven of the Wedding Industrial Complex.

If this is where weddings are headed in 2026—more personal, more thoughtful, more you—sign me up forever.
Give me the weird traditions. The handmade stuff. The stories. The weddings that could only belong to that couple.

Those are the ones that stick.
Those are the ones that matter.
And yeah, those are the ones I’ll never shut up about.