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Most stuff that's popular on blogs, I haven't seen.
Candy buffets, photobooths, pomadors, colored shoes . . . I have been to a wedding that served cupcakes and a wedding that didn't use flowers for centerpieces. Everything else has been pretty much expected.
Candy Buffets (I'm planning on having one just because it's different), colored shoes, solid color bouquets, bridesmaids in different dresses, a "reception dress", pomanders used as a bouquet, colored wedding gown and a wedding band.
Now some people who read that maybe like "she must not go to weddings often" but I actually average a wedding a month fiance and I own a DJ business and in the last yr and a half we've been running it most of our business is based off of weddings.
ive seen most of the trends, to include, cupcakes, candy bar, late night snacks, damask, non flower centerpieces, photo booths, signature drinks, birdcage veils, and colored shoes. the funny thing is my sister got married in 2003 and she wore bright blue shoes then. mom just about had a heart attack when she did that but she and i thought it was cool. apparently we were ahead of the game LOL
I've never seen: birdcage veils, mantilla veils, photo booths, non floral centerpieces, damask, colored shoes, candy buffets, cake buffets, pomanders, and OOT Bags. I'm sure there's more...
I've seen just about everything, however, I go to weddings every weekend.
I think that we as vendors DO feel things are overdone... i.e. for the love.... stop with the 'single ladies' song for the bouquet toss! :-)
BUT... that's mainly where it comes from in mags, etc... People who are in the industry DO tire of the "trends" where as guests think it's new and unique. Even the most social of people only go to a handful of weddings a year.
@KLP: Hahaha I was planning on "single ladies" as my bouquet toss song. Whoops! lol. I've never heard it played, but then again, I'm definitely not at weddings every weekend! I'd probably be sick of it too :)
I have seen:
-a photobooth (FI LOVED it)
-no cake (cookie & adult milkshake)
-candy buffet
-signature drink
-homemade cookie favors
-donation instead of a favor
I haven't seen the decorative drink containers, any sort of non-candle non-floral centerpiece, feathers, peacock anything, or cupcakes. All of which I would LOVE to see!
There's a lot I have never seen at a wedding:
I have seen cupcakes, my cousin did cupcakes instead of a cake, but there wasn't a stand, they were just at every seat. I think in my area, people don't really get into wedding magazines and they just do the same thing they've seen a billion times over at other weddings.
I can definitely say that I haven't seen any of the popular trends. The closest would be a wedding I went to 2 years ago where the ceremony was held in a garden and the couple had fan programs.
It's funny cause I get on here and I'm like man everyone's doing what I'm doing? But at weddings I've actually attended I haven't seen any of it. Birdcage veils, photobooths, fun games in the programs, pretty DIY anything. We're a rare breed I think...haha.
In real life I have only seen a candy buffet. I have NOT seen any of these:
I think because I work at a hotel that does a lot of weddings..and was the Banquet Manager at one time..I've seen it all and then some! trends are just that..trends..one year its ice sculptures or ice luges for cocktail hour..the next its starfish place cards in a box of sand...personalized bottles of wine for the favors..mini trees to take home to plant..it's all relative, we all enjoy them while they're here and then something new comes along 
I personally enjoy seeing all the new trends that come in each season and am embracing a few myself!!
I haven't ever seen:
A lot of this "trendy" stuff is relatively new, and most NY weddings (among my friends) tend to be pretty traditional. Ha, and my dad still regrets that we're not having a big Italian-style wedding, he really wanted to see us come up through the floor on a platform with a smoke machine. No, I'm not kidding - this happens a lot at one hall near us.
I live in Oklahoma, and it's always the same old same old. I have never seen any of the trends at weddings and I have been to several in the past year. Things we are doing at our wedding are:
*Birdcage veil
*Colored shoes - My feet deserve some attention
*Cupcakes- it's for the Groom's cake but still they will be there on a very cute stand
*Pomanders - made of tulle, thanks to a very helpful DIY of weddingbee
*Photobooth with mustaches -Who can resist!!!
I'm sure there are some others that I am forgetting. I have so many projects at my house it's ridiculous. It is a lot of fun doing things ourselves, and really making this wedding about us and reflecting our personality instead of doing what everyone else has. It just so happens that some of these new "trends" are so us!
The only thing I've seen is a candy buffet, and that was before I started reading wedding blogs. I thought it was the cutest thing ever!
We are doing a lot of "different" things that haven't been at any other weddings we've been, too. I just want our day to reflect who we are :)
Having black as a wedding color is such a popular trend right now, and I as well as many people I have talked to are actually doing it. So that seems to be a "real" trend.
I haven't ever seen any of the trends that I read about here. The only thing even remotely close was the out-of-town bags at the hotel that I received at one wedding. I am doing colored shoes, candy buffet (hopefully, if I can get my act together!), flipflops at reception, and a signature drink - along with a few DIY projects that I also have never seen.
funny thing: my Future Grandma was the one who said I should have a good amount of mint juleps at the reception and it became my signature drink. She's actually a super classy lady, but she can make a mean julep.
I just got back from cousin's wedding and I told my brother that it was like her mother (for we know that the bride had little say in a good number of things) just went through the bridal magezines and picked all the trends:
Photobooth (real), mustaches on a stick, candy bar, whoopie pies (mom's side is PA dutch so makes more sense than macaroons), photo slideshow, Candles covering the tables, big, tall centerpieces, pompadors, signature drink (alcholic slushies), personalized everything (cocktail napkins, waterbottles, etc)
It was a very pretty wedding but not something I would pick (and as I said, we have a hard time seeing the bride pick most of it too)
The last wedding I went to before my own was my brother's, back in 2006. The next one I went to after mine was two gay guys who were having a very casual at-home barbecue reception after their Connecticut wedding, and used none of the "fashionable" wedding reception touches. So the only things I've seen that were remotely fashionable were our DIY fauxtobooth (with DIY mustaches on a stick), DIY signature drinks, and DIY chocolate fountain.
Ours was definitely all picked by us, and we had plenty of unfashionable touches (e.g., blusher veils, 1980s bridal boots) as well.
We are having a photobooth, but it will be the first one of my friends. I have never seen bird anything, cupcakes, a reception dress, signature drink, or groom's cake. I have never received an OOT bag and am rarely asked to return RSVP cards - people mostly do it online. I do feel like people take personal offense to changing tradition - I'm not carrying a bouquet and I have no idea why so many people object to it!
I've seen one bride wear a birdcage, and I thought she was the most chic and fashionable thing I'd ever seen - and vowed to wear one myself someday, even if I felt like I was copying her. Imagine my surprise when I entered wedding world two years later and they were everywhere...
My old roommate had a candy buffet and they had so many blue gumballs left over it wasn't even funny. Seriously - BOXES of them in their garage.
I've also seen cupcakes at one wedding, but it was kind of weird, because the bride spent the whole reception going around telling everyone how much cheaper it had been to do cupcakes instead of a 'real' cake - she was so proud that she saved money! Kind of an odd thing to tell your guests though.
I think that's it... I may have seen colored shoes, because I really don't remember anyone's feet, haha.
@Blueshoes2: I'm from Oklahoma, and I've never *not* seen a groom's cake! It's apparently a very regional thing.
There is only one thing I have seen in a wedding that would not fall into the extremely traditional cookie cutter variety, and that was when my aunt wore a deep green dress when she married my uncle.
Everything else? Completely traditional as you can get. The few things that weren't are things that I haven't even seen online.
Let's see... here's what I've seen, and how I thought it went over:
Non-seated, "stations"-style reception (i.e., not really a full dinner, no assigned tables or seats, and not enough seats for everyone to sit at once). It was a total disaster.
Photobooth. People loved it.
Late-night snacks. I didn't see anyone eating them, but I think it's because they were just set out on a table in a dark corner. So I think they have to be really prominently displayed or passed around.
Donation in lieu of favor. Everyone I talked to liked this idea.
Colored shoes. I see a lot of girls (including girls on the boards) talking about their colored shoes, so it didn't really strike me as new or trendy. Although it is cute.
Dessert buffet. Only works if the desserts are really good.
Signature drinks. Great idea; people loved them, and they keep the bar lines down.
I just went to a wedding with a cake buffet and many guests seemed totally surprised... Except for me. I'm having a pie buffet at my wedding (I think!).
I'd like to think I'll be glad I have all these unique things in my wedding that not many people have seen before, but a bunch of my guests work for The Knot and are getting married this year - so I think we're all totally swept up in the latest trends. Oh well!
goodness we used some many of the things i haven't seen before that i now can't list too many! But i still haven't seen the bird cage veil, late night snack, and cupcakes ( i have seen the cake balls though and they were amazing!)
We did the signature drinks, choreographed dance, donation instead of favors, photobooth with props, kissing ball for FG, out of town bags, and a reception dress!
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