What Were the Best Things About Our Micro Wedding?

A few months ago, my husband and I got married in a very small ceremony with a handful of our closest friends as witnesses. It was as perfect as we wanted it to be.

This wedding was much smaller than we initially planned. However, due to circumstances beyond our control, we decided to have it here. We wanted our immediate family and a few more close friends with us but we are still happy that they are beyond supportive of our decision. We thought of them dearly during our special day.

Just a quick disclaimer: We don't have anything against those who choose larger and more traditional weddings. Your life, your choices. We are also not in any way saying that what we had is better. This blog post is only about our experience and how this was the best option for our situation and our personal preferences.

Here are some of the other things that made us realise we did choose the best option for us:

It is more practical.

Let's get the most obvious thing out of the way first. Typically, the smaller the wedding, the smaller the cost.

We are not rich and we don't have anyone paying for this wedding because we wanted full control of the decision-making so we drew out the budget that worked with our future plans. Yes, we adjusted the wedding based on how much we have "residuals" left for our financial projection for the next couple of years. What was more important to us is to be financially prepared for our future life and our future home together so we decided to go for the most practical option.

Planning was so much easier.

Initially, I contacted wedding planners but no one was very interested in planning a scale as small as a micro wedding. It might be because this might not be a worthwhile experience to add to a portfolio so I just took things on my own hands. For the wedding, there were only three general areas for the questions:

1. Ceremony - What ceremony will we have and who will officiate?
2. Location - Where will we have the ceremony? How will we get there? Where will we have the reception?
3. Guests - Who do we want to join us?

I bought my wedding dress online for a very low price. I had it altered into a dress now that I can use for more casual ocassions. In general, the clothing we wore at the wedding were pieces that we can now use for other stuff.

There are no other frills to plan out or make perfect so that does lift a lot of load off of us.

The intimacy of the celebration sinks right in the moment.

Since there was very little to be anxious about, we had enough emotional capacity to enjoy the wedding as it happened. We were able to feel the blessing of the ceremony, appreciate the warmth of the smiles of our friends when we were announced husband and wife, enjoy a good lunch and remember so many details with happiness in our hearts - all because we were able to celebrate the moments as they happen.

Worry-free celebration.

We did not worry one bit about having to impress anyone or worrying about a large amount of people having a good time because we knew that we were being joined by people who truly are supportive of us and understood that our wedding day was in its core a celebration of a lifetime commitment. We just know that if we look back at our wedding pictures many many years later, we won't be regretting inviting anyone.