Since Coronavirus came along and ruined everyone’s wedding plans for 2020 couples have been forced to postpone and cancel many times. If you’ve got fed up of postponing your wedding or you just can’t wait that long to get married think about having what is now being called a “Micro Wedding”. You can always have another big celebration with all your friends and family once restrictions are a dim and distant memory.
What is a Micro Wedding?
A Micro Wedding is an extra small wedding, a bit bigger than an elopement but essentially it’s you and your partner plus witnesses and the person carrying out the ceremony. You can then (government restrictions allowing) include other important friends and family to join you on the day. There are now suppliers offering live streaming so those that can’t be there in person can watch online from across the world (check out James from Strangeworx). If even that sounds like too much try eloping – Wee Wild Weddings can help you plan the perfect day for just you and your partner whether that’s literally just you and your partner or a few extra special guests for a micro weding.
What are the benefits?
You no longer have to invite friends or family you didn’t really want there in the first place! Joking! If that’s not reason enough these little celebrations are all the more special for happening in such a difficult year. People really value being able to get together with their nearest and dearest and celebrate something positive after so much uncertainty, stress and heartbreak, you can’t cancel love!
Micro weddings tend to be much more intimate and informal than traditional big weddings and really just about the couple and their love. This means less worrying about chair covers and favours and more time having fun with the people you love and celebrating what really matters.
Often planning a wee wedding means you have more funds available than if you had to create the same look on a bigger scale. If you only have 4 tables to decorate you can have beautiful lush flower arrangements but if you had to do the same for 15 tables your budget would be stretched. Take advantage of the smaller scale to go big and luxurious on your décor.
Micro wedding venues
Whether you stick to your original venue in a scaled down way or plan a whole new wedding day Micro Weddings let you be creative. Many couples are opting to rent Air BnB properties or have ceremonies in their own back gardens, or renting mini marquees. These are not traditional venues so as such can be a bit of a blank canvas. Although this can be a bit intimidating it’s also a chance to really make the space your own. To make these spaces seem more special and give the day a sense of occasion flowers and décor can be particularly important – especially if you can’t have as many guests there as you’d like the flowers and venue dressing help stop the space from feeling flat or ordinary.
Setting the scene
If you’re getting married in a garden or marquee think about where you will stand for the ceremony, unlike churches or traditional venues there won’t be an obvious stage or place to get married so you’ll need to create one. Think about using large flower arrangements or floral arches to create a focal point. You can make use of architectural features on buildings or nice plants in the garden. Check with your photographer what they think would work well. (Photos by Joy Story).
Little touches
With small numbers of guests your budget might stretch to included little details that make the day extra special, buttonholes for all the guests or little flowers or sprigs of herbs at each place setting are nice touches that make the occasion really beautiful but would be expensive on a big wedding scale. (Photos by Hayley Palmquist Photography)
Whether you decide to postpone your wedding or go ahead with your own small but perfectly formed Micro Wedding have a look at our wedding flowers gallery in the menu above and instagram for inspiration and get in touch if you want to talk all things flowery.