How To Downsize Your Wedding Without Sacrificing Your Dream
Since the novel coronavirus has taken over the world, everyone needs to find ways to continue with their lives while respecting the social distancing guidelines. With no possibility to hold large weddings, more and more brides need to find ways to downsize their wedding without sacrificing their dream.
Downsizing a wedding is a challenge, and you really need to consider every vendor, every guest, and of course, every one of your wishes.
Let’s look now at what you can do in order to downsize your wedding, but still keep it as unique as it can be.
Image: Kayla Temple Photography
6 Tips To Downsize Your Wedding
Look For A More Intimate Venue
Start by looking into smaller, more intimate venues. With everything from drive-through wedding chapels where guests remain in their cars to pop-up micro-weddings in stunning gardens, you may be surprised by all of the options.
Smaller venues are also more budget-friendly and you will still be able to have almost everything the way you want. Just double-check with your favorite vendors to find out how many guests they can accommodate right now.
Image: Kayla Temple Photography
Recalculate Your Budget
Instead of setting your budget for 200 people, set it for 50 at most. You will be able to actually buy everything you wanted for your wedding. All your guests will feel very welcome and will forever remember the day.
Of course, you can always keep your original budget and use the excess for some extra special touches. For example, if your original budget didn’t leave much wiggle room for wedding favors, considering using some of the excess for that. On the other hand, you can always take the extra money and put it into a really amazing honeymoon once travel bans are lifted.
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Downsize Your Guest List
Sometimes people invite EVERYONE they know to their weddings. Maybe because your mothers believe that some distant cousins need to be there, or your work colleagues heard you talking about it.
Now it’s the time to take advantage of the situation and only invite the people close to you. It’s going to be so much more beautiful to have your family and closest friends, instead of people you may have never seen before.
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Add A Personal Touch
Maybe you make incredible cakes, but you wouldn’t want to make a cake for 200 people. Well, now it’s your chance to allow everyone to have a bite of that amazing thing you do. It’s going to be incredibly personal, and your friends and family will be so grateful for attending a wedding that was made for them too!
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Make It Completely Yours
Without a doubt, your day is your day, and it’s important to add everything you want, to make it in the theme you love. Since it’s a relatively small wedding, you can even create your own decor and have all your family pitch in.
Without a doubt, everything needs to be the way you dream it to be. And it’s your chance to get all that incredible vintage decor you saw and it’s not going to completely break the budget.
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Capture Every Moment
With a small wedding, it’s going to be much easier to get to interact with all your guests, and no one will feel left out. Besides, you will probably need only one photographer, and he will be able to capture every single moment.
Downsizing your wedding doesn’t mean that it won’t be the way you want it to be. Even though you may have to recalculate some aspect, it can still be everything you dreamed of! In fact, with more wiggle room in your budget, it may be even better than you ever imagined.
Image: Kayla Temple Photography
Written by: Nicole, Editor in Chief of Love You Wedding
