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micro-wedding

We adore intimate weddings with very small guestlists, and this archive is filled with microwedding ideas and real wedding inspiration. If you’re skipping the guests entirely, be sure to browse our elopement archive. Elopements are the ULTIMATE microwedding.

HeatherSue105 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Love long and prosper: a lesbian Star Trek wedding in Central Park

We both have a profound love of Star Trek, so our officiant seamlessly tied in quotes and trivia into our vows to represent that love. Our guests were the two people we’d met at a Star Trek convention, the very same one where the two of us had first met!

casual and rustic outdoor wedding Dutcher Photography16 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

The pizza picnic wedding of our dreams

Next time you walk through your neighborhood park, take a look around… could you imagine saying “I do” to your beloved there? That’s exactly what Olivia and Jim did as they prepared for their big day, and they pulled it off big time — complete with a pizza picnic!

Michael Sami Brooklyn Microwed 7 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Big love in Brooklyn at a botanical garden micro wedding

If we were going to do the damn thing, it needed to be unique to us and our life and not put us into debt as the first act of our marriage! It was also important to us that despite our straight-passing relationship, our queer identity and the community we have made for ourselves was present in the day.

NYC Rooftop Jewish Wedding 1 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How do I have a New York micro wedding? Take notes from this couple!

Looking to have a New York micro wedding? The pandemic made tiny weddings all but mandatory, but there are plenty of happier reasons to keep it small. Witness how Dejuanah and Sam did it right on the 22nd floor!