Category Archive

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.

Use favors to help guests find their seat at your small ceremony

Planning a small wedding? Need to make the best use of limited seating at your ceremony? Take a page out of Jeremy and Eric’s book. These grooms placed their wedding favors with name tags on guests’ chairs for their small backyard ceremony. Ta-da! No hunting for a seat and no empty chairs.

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Grooms in veils and a solo by The Mama Tits: just another gay Seattle wedding

After a decade-long partnership, Jeremy and Eric were finally married last June — on the very day that the state of Washington converted most state-registered domestic partnerships into legally recognized marriages! The couple said their vows on their own backporch in front of a few close loved ones. Damn, everything looks perfect. The colors, the smiles, the view, the weather — it all looks lovely and intimate and romantic and everything a wedding should be between two people who’ve been together so long.

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Sammye & Ashton’s Southern eclectic waterfront elopement

During hectic wedding planning, sometimes it’s nice to just rest your eyes on a simple, meaningful, no-frills ceremony like this one. These two didn’t want to go over-the-top, but rather focus on sweet vows, their nearest and dearest, and their cherubic baby. Let’s gaze at their tiny waterfront elopement.

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Danielle & Andrew’s 1920s-inspired tiny wedding

Just wait until you see this tiny wedding with some Velveteen Rabbit, a gorgeous black dress, a groom in a dapper top hat and coat, all with a cross-country, long distance plan. It may not have been their original intent, but we can’t deny that it’s a fabulous result. Don’t miss the gothically delicious black feather and flower bouquet!