covid Brides! Small ceremony ideas??

My mind is all over the place, too, I feel you.

My fiance and I originally planned for a 10 person, micro-wedding in France. If it were in the states, I wouldn't be worried one bit right now, but since France has closed it's borders, we have no idea if our wedding will happen. However, I never regretted wanting to do something small and initmate. After helping plan 4 weddings and attending so many, here are my thoughts for you. Go through with your wedding, even if you have to cut your guest list, and you won't regret it. It will be less stressful, and the people who matter the most to you will be there. I'm sure by September, we can have gatherings of 50 people or less, depending on your state. You can always have a larger party later on an aniversary of yours. I think celebrating a vow renwal is so much more fun than the beginning of a marriage because it's easy to start one, but much harder to keep a healthy one.

If you want to go the park route, I would recommend finding a park in which you can rent a small area out or finding an AirBNB with some beautiful grounds.

I feel your stress. This whole situation sucks and is unfair. Keep your headup.

I get married this Friday as well. I didn’t start planning my wedding until a month ago yes it was stressful with everything going on. I originally was doing a small wedding (back yard anyway) because is just to stressful to have a big wedding in my opinion. What I did was called my local justice of peace ask if she was do house call etc payed her the money and gave her a date. I got my marriage license today I made an appointment last week for it. Cake I ordered two weeks in advance wedding dress cake topper and cake cutter ordered two weeks in advance. Everything came together pretty good I did my electric invitation via Greenvelope for free and do a Group FaceTime for my family. I say call around you’ll still be able to get everything done if you start tomorrow early in the morning depending on your state. I live in Louisiana.

Hi there,

I'm so sorry you had to change your plans! I just wanted to pop in here to let you know I am thinking about you. While I'm certain this wasn't an easy call, I think you and your partner should still do something special together or Friday to remember the day! Even if it's just getting a pizza and eating it together on a picnic blanket in the park. Enjoy your time together.

I can't wait to hear what you decide to do for your big day!

Sending lots of love your way!

Hi Tijahra! This is all uncharted territory so you can really do whatever you'd like!!

Here are a few discussions where other couples have shared their small ceremony plans:

Anyone still getting married despite Formal wedding postponed?

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If you’re postponing, are you legally getting married before your big reception?

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Hi Tijahra

We postponed our wedding but still going ahead with legal marriage ceremony. Right now I have two idea, one is to get married on our backyard, with parents present and some food. Number two is more something that we both enjoy which is a hike up a mountain near our area. We have hiked many times before. The idea is to hike a couple of miles, have my brother hike with us as he is the officiant, meet few family members, have small ceremony and have a picnic.

Maybe do something you both enjoy and have that as part of your ceremony. Hope it works out for you and you do come up with what will work best.

We learned of a family health issue just 10 days before our original date, so decided to do a minimony after all. Our venue is being amazing and letting us use the outdoor site at no charge and even providing us some chairs for our parents and a table for signing our marriage license.

We are having just our parents, officiants, a few members of our wedding party, our photographer, and our dog. We are doing a first look and some photos with the photographer, then our vows, a first dance, and cake cutting and a champagne toast - that's it! My mom is making my bouquet and we are going to DIY arbor decorations. I'm wearing my dress and my mom, my FH, and the groomsmen are wearing their outfits. My MOH's dress never came in, so she's just wearing whatever, and my FH's parents didn't go shopping before the pandemic hit so will probably just wear casual clothes because they said they don't have anything fancy at home. The whole event will probably be maybe 40 minutes.

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Do the hike! I always loved this idea, and my FH and I are very outdoorsy, but unfortunately our parents have some heath issues and aren't super active, so hiking is out of the question if we want to include them. If you can do a hike at a place that is beautiful and means something to you, I think that makes it so special! I feel like if we Covid brides have to change plans because of a pandemic, we might as well take advantage of having fewer guests and really pick locations that mean something to us and that you could never use if you had 50+ people.