Elopements vs Micro weddings

When we started this shebang almost 5 years ago, not many people had even heard of a micro wedding. Some people even now, when we say elopement say, “huh”. The exciting part for us is that many couples are learning this is one special way to be married, and there are so many reasons why this works that we wonder why it hadn’t grown in popularity before now.

So what are the differences between a micro wedding and an elopement?

Elopements

verb eloping

Run away secretly in order to get married.

Well, this maybe an old way of looking at it, we love a good secret elopement and do many of them, but couples are more open with family and friends about their elopement plans than ever. The main part of this means, elopements are generally just the couple, their celebrant and their photographer, and videographer if they want one. That’s the true meaning of an elopement.

Elopements are truly special, a time where you can share your heart, just the two of you, and put a stamp on time for your marriage and have that for yourselves forever. Your photos and film will allow you to relive that and share with your family and friends. Some couples love to keep this moment for themselves and then create a party later where they announce their elopement, celebrate and look through their images and film with everyone on one big night, marry now, party later, if you will. Other couples choose to simply keep it at that and announce their marriage online within 24 hours of their day (we send sneak peeks photos to announce this).
Like all weddings, big or small - the rules are, there are no rules. We have also had some couples purchasing ‘announcement’ cards to old school snail mail send everyone their announcement they have been married. these are just a few ideas for your elopement and how you can share the news with your family and friends.

Micro Weddings

Bringing along a handful of guests (or more) then turns your intimate elopement into a micro wedding. Micro weddings are the fastest growing way to be married in Australia (and the world).

We generally do micro weddings for 4-40. Any more than that and it becomes a small wedding and thats another level of planning and organisation needed that we are hand over to our partner venue teams.

Intimate weddings are what we do, we have many couples ask us to go to 50 or 60 guests but then it’s not really a micro wedding anymore. Some vendors and venues and people in the industry have different definitions of what micro weddings are in terms of numbers, this is our own. We feel we are amongst a handful of intimate wedding specialists writing the rule book on how epic micro weddings can be, as we have been at this for such a long time compared to the rest of the market.

The other questions that come up for couples is: Can I have a bridal party? Can I walk down the aisle? Can we have music if I have a micro wedding….and more. The answer with all (micro) weddings is there are no rules, if you would like your bestie up standing beside that doesn’t change the nature of your wedding, we have couples that choose whatever is important to them. You decide what you want for your day, this is the absolute glory of this type of wedding it offers even more flexibility than ever before.

Having an intimate wedding is about creating something so personal and bespoke to you both. It can be whatever you desire, and great micro wedding and elopement specialists can brings those dreams to life with minimal fuss or worry. This is why we create your micro wedding from the ground up, we pit together a package that is very specific to whats important to you both as a couple and we believe thats what micro weddings are about.

Head to our contact page if you would like more micro wedding or elopement info or have any further questions, we would love to hear from you.