Ultimate Guide For An Intimate Wedding

Over the past decade, the wedding landscape has transformed in ways we could have never imagined. With different themes, decor aesthetics, and destination weddings, the trend for weddings in India has evolved drastically. Today, couples are rethinking the size of their big day and opting for an intimate wedding instead, also known as micro-weddings.

An intimate wedding doesn’t mean a smaller celebration; it’s just a wedding celebration with fewer guests but lavish, impressive decor. This blog covers the game-changing trend of splurging on immersive wedding decor to redefine how Indian weddings look and feel.

If you have a small guest list or are planning a small wedding, this blog is for you.

Intimate Wedding: Celebrating Love With The Closed Closest Ones 

An Intimate wedding is a scaled-down version of a traditional Indian wedding and usually involves 20 to 50 guests for the celebration. With micro-weddings, you can organise a more intimate, personal gathering to set meaningful connections and create a relaxed atmosphere. However, a small wedding with 50 guests doesn’t mean the celebration isn’t grand. Even the smallest gatherings can be lavish and grand; you will remember it forever. 

While the intimate guest list focuses on close family and friends, couples take this opportunity to be creative with the decor and aesthetics. And when this happens, you experience a personal, intimate, visually stunning and unforgettable wedding. 

Is shifting to an Intimate wedding worth it?

Choosing a micro-wedding over a traditional one depends upon your personal preference and budget. After the coronavirus pandemic, all of us attended weddings where only a few guests were allowed, experiencing something new for the first time. The crowd restrictions forced couples to scale down their events, but in doing so, they discovered the magic of intimate, small-scale weddings.

Today, we meet many couples who prioritise quality over quantity. They want to invest in high-end experiences in their weddings to reflect their personality rather than spending money on a big guest list. To do so, we help them plan micro-weddings, channelling their budgets into other things like personalised, lavish decor, impressive settings, etc.

So, if you have a small guest list and want to plan a dreamy micro-wedding, here is a guide on how to properly channel your budget.

Luxurious Decor: The Heart of An Intimate Wedding

Planning a small wedding can help channel your budget toward other better things. With fewer guests, there is room in the budget to enhance every aspect of your wedding. With this opportunity, couples are choosing to splurge on lavish decor that creates breathtaking experiences not just for them but for all the guests involved. 

Here are some of the decor elements that you choose for your wedding:

1. Personalised Wedding Themes: A small wedding can be a perfect way to plan an event the way you have imagined. From a romatic garden party to a minimal boho wedding, Bridgerton theme lunch to vintage wedding, couples are going all experimental with their wedding themes.  

With fewer guests means a small venue, which allows transforming every inch of the space to offer personalised experiences.

2. Flowers, Flowers and More Flowers: One of the trendy aspects of a micro wedding is to go all gaga on floral arrangements. From lush, exotic flowers to overflowing floral walls, centerpieces and floral arches, you can create a fairy-tale like ambieance at the venue.

With proper budget planning, you can use premium flowers in your decor to create a “wow” factor at your wedding.

3. Small Venues, Big Vision: When you have only 50 or less guests to host, you can book unconventional venues that wouldn’t typically fit large crowds. You can use your creatviity in choosing a venue out of options like intimate courtyards, private estates, pool-side spaces, to tranform the venue with high-end decor.

4. Storytelling On Every Table: When small venues means lesser tables to design, you can afford to spulrge on personlising every little details on the tables. From luxirious dinnerware, to inticate centerpiecs, custom linens to name cards, you can offer a lavish, personlised experience to all the guests. 

5. Lights, Camera, Action: Lights are aesthetics, and Lights are drama. And with the right lights, you can plan a fun-filled night. Just like flowers, lights play a significant role in setting up the mood of the event. For your micro-wedding, don’t just go with boring lights; choose luxurious options. 

From romantic candlelit entry, to dazzling chandeliers, custom LEDs to vintage lamps, you can be all creative for your lightning setups. 

Are Intimate Weddings All About Decor?

Most part of the wedding expense depend upon the event size, i.e the guest list. More guests will require a bigger venue, more rooms for guests, more meals, and overall a expanded budget. However, on contrary, a small wedding with 30-50 guests require small venue that saves a big chunk of money that can be used to enhance the overall experience. 

Couples are using this surplus money on decoration, not just for the aesthetics, but to offer an unforgettable experience to each guests. Instead of getting lost in the crowds of hundreds, a small wedding can help couples connect with every guests, offering personalised memories. 

Conclusion

In the era of grand weddings, you can plan your lavish wedding with fewer guests, a small venue but an unforgettable experience. A micro-wedding with grand decor represents intimacy and visual impact of a celebration. For couples who want to reflect their style and love on their wedding without being lost in the crowd, then this is your sign to plan an intimate wedding. 

However, planning weddings, whether small or big ones, require lot of energy and time. You can hire our wedding planners and leave all the stress on us. Contact us today and let’s plan a dream wedding for you.