After Micro Wedding

It’s up to you as to what you want to do with your guests after the ceremony. Maybe a small dinner at a restaurant with a cake depending on the time of the ceremony.

A simple dinner or cake and punch reception sound good

We had catering and cake cutting at our apartment with 7 people.

Catering dinner and had alcohol and other drinks *

Whomever is invited to the ceremony needs to be invited to a reception. It can be dinner if are able to afford for everyone or cake and coffee in your home. Don't invite more to the reception than ceremony but something needs to be extended to your guests based on what you can afford.

We’re going our separate ways

A micro reception to thank guests. Cake & punch, or a meal.

My SIL had a backyard microwedding. It was in the morning, so we had pastries and mimosas right after the ceremony. Nothing fancy but it was nice.

We are planning a micro reception in my parents backyard after our October 2020 micro church wedding. This will be immediate family only so maybe 12 people. We are renting a tent with string lights and a mini dance floor and a whiskey barrel to display our cake. We have a photographer so I want good, fun pics. We haven’t decided the food but probably something easy like Bbq and subs. I’m envisioning a laid back chill night with fun drinks and to dance like no ones watching, bc let’s face it no one will be watching lol. Honestly the more we have planned, the more I’m getting excited! Good luck!

A micro reception with dinner / drinks / whatever you choose. A micro wedding is just a completely scaled down full wedding. You can still do everything but in a smaller timeline.

We had 12 ppl at our ceremony and catered from a local restaurant and ordered a small cake. We just told our guests we would be having the ceremony and lunch to follow. We put up a canopy and seating that allowed for distancing but still looked nice.

You can really do anything you want, there are no rules for this. I still wanted ours to *feel like a wedding* which for me means we are having micro-reception. We're not having a dance floor but we are having a tent with string lights, tables with centerpieces, a light, catered dinner, drinks, speeches, and an ice cream truck for dessert.
What would you need for yours to *feel* like a wedding?

People have had small weddings long before it became the trend to call them "micro weddings". Dancing or not, cake or not, all the details are up to you. But I do think that as soon as you invite even one guest, you should provide some type of refreshments as a thank you for attending.

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Many coronabrides never intended to have micro-weddings. Due to circumstances beyond our control, some of us have chosen to pivot away from planning our bigger, traditional weddings (that we've always dreamed of) for the moment. Thus, there is a very real emotion and effort to try to figure out what a "micro wedding" can or should be for us (unlike couples that planned small weddings to begin with). The struggle is sooo real.