Wedding Planning · Intimate Weddings
The question we hear most from couples considering a small wedding is a quiet one: will it feel like enough? It is a fair thing to wonder. So here is an honest, hour-by-hour look at what a small wedding day actually looks like here, so you can see for yourself that intimate does not mean lacking. It means unhurried.
Your day starts slow, which is the whole point. You and your people arrive at the bridal suite a couple of hours before the ceremony. Hair, makeup, a little music, someone's mom tearing up early. Nobody is rushing you, because there is nothing to rush toward except each other.
Some couples do a first look before the ceremony, out by the chapel or in the field. It is a soft, private moment before the day opens up, and with a small wedding there is time to actually have it rather than squeeze it in.
You walk in to a chapel full of people who genuinely love you. That is the difference a small guest list makes, there is not a single face in the room you had to invite. The ceremony itself does not feel shorter or smaller. If anything it feels more present, because everyone is close enough to actually be in it with you.
After the vows, you celebrate. Depending on your day, that is cake and punch the old-fashioned way, or a sit-down dinner with everyone at the table together. Either way it is relaxed. You actually get to talk to your guests, all of them, which almost never happens at a big wedding.
Your first dance, a toast that runs a little long, and then a send-off with everyone throwing petals as you go. The whole day runs a few focused hours instead of a marathon, and you remember all of it, which is more than most couples can say about their wedding.
Every couple who has done it here says the same thing afterward: it was exactly enough, and they would not change a thing. A small wedding is not a big wedding with pieces missing. It is a whole day, built around only the parts that matter. If that sounds like what you want, come see the chapel and we will help you picture your own.