It's official! "Mocha Mousse" is the The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2025.

Each year, guardians of all things colour, Pantone, declare a particular colour their "Pantone Colour of the Year", a hue that fashion, interior, beauty, product designers and wedding industry professionals use to help guide their design decisions and this year, Pantone has announced Mocha Mousse as the Colour of the Year 2025. "Sophisticated and lush, yet at the same time an unpretentious classic, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse extends our perceptions of the browns from being humble and grounded to embrace aspirational and luxe," Pantone writes on the announcement. 

A chic, brown-grey shade with serious style, this new warm, light and silky shade of brown is a result of almost a year’s worth of research and trend forecasting from the Pantone Colour Institute, which begins looking at colour trends in the late spring. Luckily for us, this hue has been a popular choice at weddings for quite some time now!

From floral arrangements and cake, to stationery and bridesmaid dresses, there's no end to the potential Mocha Mousse wedding inclusions for 2025 and 2026 celebrations. So, if you’re still trying to pick your wedding colours, read on to see if this new coffee-toned hue is the one for you! 

15 Mocha Mousse Wedding Styling Ideas

1. Work the hue into your wedding invitations and stationery in the form of a coffee-toned palette, stylish taupe fonts and illustrations, envelope liners, and other fun flourishes such as linens, ribbons and wax seals.

2. With an incredibly chic feel feel, Mocha Mousse is a beautiful shade for your bridesmaids dresses. It also blends wonderfully when mixed and matched with neutrals such as beige and cream or other complimentary shades of soft blue, blush, light green or lilac.

3. Whether you're saying "I do" in a summer soiree or having a cosy winter celebration a Mocha Mousse inspired wedding bouquet will bring a romantic, soft, and feminine feel to your bridal look. Choose a show stopping all-rose design like this Floral Aesthetics design, or, add hints of cream, white, beige and blush which blend perfectly with the hue without overshadowing it. A coordinating velvet ribbon adds an extra special touch.

4. Along with your invitations, your wedding signage will be the very first element that your guests will interact with. So, what better way to introduce your colour palette than with warm and welcoming Mocha Mousse wedding signage?

5. In addition to your ceremony, filling your reception space with this chic soft brown hue will add some serious style and give the dinner a soft, romantic flair. The dreamy design above was created using mocha mousse linen draping, modern furniture and decor in cream, beige and smoky tones, finished with table top centrepieces filled with all white blooms. So gorgeous!

6. A chic and contemporary colour block Mocha Mousse wedding menu is the perfect way to subtly add the hue to your day.

7. Create a showstopping reception table with mocha mousse details. We especially love the brown-hued dried hydrangea and crinkly mocha napkins used here which adds extra dimension and texture to the tablescape.

8. Coloured veils are hot, hot, hot for 2025 and 2026 weddings so why not rock both trends with a veil design with a nod to this season's light brown Pantone hue?

9. Decorate everywhere with silky mocha-toned blooms. And if you do want to go all out, don't be afraid to commit! Here, an abundant display of pretty coffee-toned roses by Eye Catch Events and  FRIEDA THERÉS AGENCY created an unmissable focal point along the centre of the reception tables.

10. Another gorgeous way to use Mocha Mousse to create a focal point on your wedding tables is with pretty place cards or escort cards in the trending Pantone shade.

11. Inject a shot of mocha mousse into your ceremony with lush floral arrangements or ceremony arch like this one. Here baby's breath is is paired with garden roses in hues of mocha, beige, taupe, cream, white and blush. 

12. While there are literally thousands of gorgeous options for table numbers but how about this different approach by Bella Carta: table numbers printed on linen table runners atop a Mocha Mousse-toned table cloth?

13. Smokey Earl Grey orchids, on trend Mocha Mousse roses, carnations and white amaranth all combine create this dreamy floral centrepiece by Mrs Gibbons Flowers and For Love & Living.

14. There are plenty of ways to integrate Mocha Mousse into your wedding cake, but an all-mocha creation with darling bow detail is sure to catch everyone's eye! We adore this chic wedding cake beauty by Little Button Bakery which features hand piped 'At Last' text and topped with a handtied taupe silk bow.

15. Crisp white and moody black make perfect partners for Mocha Mousse as seen here in this contemporary tablescape by MP Great Events which features black candle holders, mocha-toned taper candles and roses, smokey dinnerware and copper cutlery.

Still looking for 2025 wedding ideas? Stay tuned for our 2025 Wedding Trends coming soon!