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.

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Ali & Emily’s fairytale wedding in the woods

Emily and Ali drove from Tampa to Vermont for their weekend wedding in the woods. A friend performed the ceremony, which they wrote themselves and included a handfasting.

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Katie & Mike’s small, black, autumn day wedding

II wanted to bring you down gently from the awesomeness that was Halloween Week with Katie and Mike’s super chill, day-time park wedding on Halloween. After being engaged for two years, Katie and Mike planned a small, park elopement in two weeks. This Halloween day wedding featured black dresses, beautiful fall leaves, and, of course, pumpkins!

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Ginny & Rob’s no-budget, desert canyon, sci-fi wedding party

Did you jaw totally drop when you saw a sneak peak of Ginny & Rob’s amazing red rock wedding last week? Perhaps it was the freakin’ full-size TARDIS that blew your gourd? Or maybe your a fan from way back when we featured her Star Wars poster STDs? All I can say is that this wedding is awesome and proves that you and/or your event can be nerdy and incredibly gorgeous. – Becc

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Nikki & Chris’s Jamaican-American, Southern soul backyard wedding

After their parent’s met for the first time, Nikki & Chris realized that they wanted their wedding to have that same level of love and intimacy. So, they scrapped their mansion wedding in favor of a small backyard wedding complete with Nikki’s mom’s Jerk chicken.