Debating between traditional ceremony reception or micro wedding

Micro wedding all the way! They are so so very special and fun and oftentimes way cheaper. Of course if you have a lot of friends and family that you want to be there when you say “I Do” then it’s still completely practical to go the traditional route.

I think the best thing to do is to look at what your top priorities are for that day along with you you couldn’t imagine not being there with you and that will help set some direction. For example my husband and I decided we want a great location, amazing food, open bar and fun music. From there we made a list of 50 must have people and yes some people got their feelings hurt. After that we ended up with a destination wedding and we didn’t do any of the traditional things except the first dance and cake (because it was my husband’s first wedding and my second). The most important thing is to do you and not try to make others happy. Good luck with your planning.

We had a micro wedding and the only thing we didn’t do was bouquet/garter toss because it was mainly couples and the only single male was my 6 year old step son, so we nixed it. Everything else, we still had at our 20 guest wedding, and just because something is small, doesn’t mean it’s going to be cheap. You can make it as elegant as you want with that many people. Our wedding was 24k total, which included a 3 course plated dinner, with cocktail hour!

I'm with Emily all the way! We had a micro wedding with 20 people. COVID forced my hand because I never would have considered it otherwise, but I call my microwedding my COVID rainbow. It was absolutely perfect. Although we had to downsize our guest list a great deal (from 250 to 20), we did not cheat ourselves out of the full wedding experience. Like Emily, we did everything (bridal gown, photographer and videographer, traditional ceremony, cocktail hour, 3 course reception, grand entrance, first dance, cake cutting, shoe game and a little dancing) with the exception of the bouquet and garter toss. And because we wanted the full wedding experience it was not cheap (we definitely spent more than your average 20 person wedding), but I wouldn't have it any other way.