What is a Micro wedding?

You’re engaged – yay! I know it’s a frustrating time at the moment but there is absolutely no reason to not be as excited about your engagement as you would have been in a pre-lockdown timeline. 

Many couples are choosing to host chic, stylish and intimate micro-weddings with restrictions that limit guests to 15 or less that are safe and socially distanced whilst planning a bigger party later down the line.

What is a Micro Wedding?

It’s important to understand the difference between Elopements and Micro Weddings – Elopements are celebrations involving just the couple and their celebrant, and perhaps a photographer. 

Micro Weddings possess the same qualities as a wedding would, just on a much smaller scale. You would still have your usual wedding vendors such as a wedding planner, a floral designer, a venue coordinator and photographers involved.

Why have a Micro Wedding?

There are so many reasons why a Micro Wedding can be just as spectacular as a typically larger wedding, here’s why (with a few added benefits!) –

• Less stress: If you’re someone that either hates planning, has a busy lifestyle, or isn’t a fan of large crowds or lots of attention, a Micro Wedding is for you! 
• More quality time with guests: Everyone wants to check in with the happy couple on their wedding day to congratulate them. A smaller list pool means you’ll be able to spend more quality time with those invited!
• You save a lot of money – Only inviting your nearest and dearest also allows you to direct your budget more into areas that would enhance the guest experience, such as the menu!

How to go big for with a Micro Wedding

It is still your day – you deserve to feel special whether you’re surrounded by 13 guests or 130. There are plenty of ways to shower your day with beautiful blooms and add an extra layer of luxury to your day. Here are some tips on how to achieve the floral look on a smaller scale!

• Making your bouquet the main event: It’s the arrangement that will be included in the majority of your wedding photographs, you may choose to focus your flower budget on this key arrangement. Furthermore, you may also choose to add a vase to your shopping list, allowing your wedding bouquet to double-up as a gorgeous centrepiece for your signing table, cake table, or any other area of your venue you’d like to add a floral touch to!
• Going outdoors: Many couples are choosing to take their vows into open areas that allow for much more space and versatility for floral arrangements. There are many floral accents that can decorate an outdoor intimate wedding ceremony, including aisle petals, large altar arrangements such as urns, arches, flower columns and flower walls.
• Choosing moveable floral installations: If you’re looking for that one ‘wow’ statement arrangement, a floral installation is a great choice! The best thing about these arrangements is that the majority of them can be moved from your ceremony to your reception so that they can double-up as amazing features at different moments of your wedding. Is coming down a stunning staircase the main event for your big day? Opt for a staircase flower meadow or a flower garland which can then be moved to another location for further photo opportunities!
• Adding extra touches to make it luxe: Finishing touches such as candles, natural petal confetti, single flowe stems placed upon table settings, tealights, fairy lights, luxe table cloths, knotted napkins, and beautiful vases can be added to truly elevate any occasion!
• Transform your cake table into a design feature: Give your cake table a glow-up and show off that gorgeous wedding cake of yours by adding vases filled with lush flowers, dainty bud vases, comfetti, and some candles to the table.

Recommended wedding vendors in East Sussex

There are some completely fabulous wedding vendors that will transform your wedding day whatever the size of your guest list is!

• Wedding Planning: Hire Societies
• Photography: Photography by Paloma
• Hair & Makeup: Kate Waller Hair & Makeup
• Cake Design: Sparkles & Swirls

Next steps

If you’re looking to inject flowers into your special day, our Wedding Packages is the perfect solution – you’ll be able to pick the key pieces that you need such as personal flowers, vase arrangements, cake flowers and flower crowns and seamlessly insert them into your vision for the day. 

What’s more, we’ve already done the hard work for you by curating four gorgeous and on-trend colour palettes to take the stress and time out planning so that you can concentrate on other areas of your day!

Ready to get the ball rolling?