Each year, the teams at Brides and Minted come together to select the defining color for wedding events over the course of the next 12 months. After months of brainstorming, trend forecasting, and reviewing photos of everything from real weddings to runway fashion, we found our next hue: Introducing, Verona Sunset, the Minted + Brides Wedding Color of the Year 2025. This punchy, perky orange is the perfect match for all of the bold, inventive couples planning their nuptials right now.
As we zeroed in on our second-annual Wedding Color of the Year, a lightbulb went off for both our teams: The ever-growing popularity of Italian aperitivi (who doesn't love an Aperol Spritz?) further proved that Verona Sunset was a no-brainer. And with destination weddings continuing to be on the rise—with a particular emphasis on celebrations taking place in Italy—naming our warm, rich orange after an iconic Italian city couldn't have been more fitting. The fact that said city also serves at the backdrop to Romeo and Juliet was just the icing on the cake. Need even more proof that this fiery color is hot right now? According to our partners at Minted, big-day stationery orders with orange as part of the color palette have increased threefold in the past year alone.
Though bright, eye-catching, and particularly well-suited to destination celebrations, the color is surprisingly versatile and can work for just about any wedding theme. To help you envision ways to bring Verona Sunset into your own wedding celebrations, our team put together a guide to our favorite new colorway. First, we asked three weddings planners to create mood boards using Verona Sunset, and they prove that the hue works just as well in splashy, all-orange applications as it does as a supporting hue in a more pared back color palette. And though it's certainly fun and fresh, making Verona Sunset a great option for more modern or relaxed celebrations, it's a stunning complement to classic wedding white, romantic lavender, and calming green.
Then, we rounded up the best Verona Sunset wedding fashion inspiration, ceremony and reception décor, and food and drink ideas, all of which help you seamlessly incorporate this trending color into your celebration. Of course, we didn't forget about paper goods. The brand-new Minted + Brides Verona Sunset stationery collection includes four incredible suite designs featuring everything from save-the-date cards and invitations to day-of paper goods and personal stationery.
Whether you're committed to planning an all-orange event or are looking for small, impactful ways to add pops of color to your ceremony and reception, we invite you to get to know Verona Sunset—and the many creative ways to use it as part of your big day—here. After all, you're going to be seeing a lot of the color over the course of the next 12 months (and beyond!), so why not start now? Move over, tomato red. This year is going to be all about the orange.
