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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A small, self-uniting wedding

We wanted to keep things simple and inexpensive, but we still wanted some traditional elements. We prepared the food ourselves, and I made the wedding cake. We cooked steaks and baked potatoes on the park grills, and used antique china plates and saucers we got at a local thrift store.

The day started out very chilly and windy. My in-laws helped us set up, but because of the wind, we weren’t ready to begin when the guests arrived. Not to fear! They were wonderful family friends, and jumped in to help us finish putting things together. (There is a picture of me standing on a picnic table in 4″ heels while our guests help me decorate the wedding arch!) We had rain off an on, and my father-in-law had to hold an umbrella over the grill as my new husband tended it!

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Danielle & Roland’s halloween wedding party

The Offbeat Bride: Danielle, Business Owner Missing Piece, LLC Her Offbeat Partner: Roland, Photographer/Carpenter Location & date of wedding: Our house in San Francisco, CA — Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: I met Roland at Burning Man and we were married exactly two months later, on Halloween. He is from London […]

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Laura & Jim’s vintage gazebo wedding

The Offbeat Bride: Laura, history detective My Offbeat Partner: Jim, army captain Location & date of the wedding: Gazebo in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lovingston, Virginia — July 26, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: When Jim and I made the decision to get married in May, we knew we weren’t going to have the […]

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Sexy Simple Montana wedding

Y’all know I’m a huge fan of a simple wedding … and this gorgeous Montana wedding feels like the perfect combo of small, stripped down, and yet insanely sexy.