What is a Tiny Wedding?

As with elopement, Tiny Wedding is about concentrating on the essentials - you. You only invite those people who you really want to have with you - people who are particularly close to your heart. So you can let out all emotions at the wedding and don't need to pretend or hide. Because you only have your favorite people with you at your celebration - those who you trust and with whom you want to share your feelings. That relaxes a lot, is more personal and often more honest than in a large group.

For you this not only means more togetherness, but also more time. At large weddings, many couples repeatedly find that they hardly get around to exchanging a few words with each guest. On the other hand, you will have a lot more time for your friends and family at a small wedding party and you will actually be able to talk to them. So your guests are much closer to you and will experience your wedding much more intensely with you.

Fewer wedding guests also means that you have significantly more freedom with your budget. What you save in food and drinks, you can invest elsewhere with fewer guests - in quality, a little luxury, the extravagant special idea - or you can invest in your piggy bank and fulfill a dream in a completely different place. Of course, you also have more budget left over for the photographer. And I'm not just saying that it's worth it out of self-interest.

But you decide what is really important to you and what you want to focus on at your celebration. Surely you have your own ideas and wishes for which a little extra flexibility would not be harmful.

A small wedding also offers you that little extra flexibility when choosing a location. It starts with the fact that a civil wedding with many guests is often not possible. Not many registry offices have wedding rooms that offer enough space for larger societies. And in Germany it is even more rare to have a civil wedding ceremony outside of the official premises. You can save yourself this worry with a tiny wedding.

But a smaller wedding party is not only advantageous in the registry office, there are also many more doors open to you when it comes to choosing a location for a few guests:

How about a wedding outdoors in nature? Or somewhere that means something special to your relationship? A castle or a castle? The small café in your neighborhood or the trendy bar at the other end of town? Or do you want to go straight to a starred restaurant or on the roof of a Frankfurt skyscraper?

Of course, this also applies if you want to celebrate your wedding not at home but at your favorite travel destination - whether in your favorite city, on a beach, on a lonely island or on a mountain peak.

Many of these ideas are out of the question with a large company or are simply easier to implement with fewer guests.

As simple as it sounds, fewer people make life easier - even on the wedding day. Whatever the issue, pretty much everything can be solved more easily in a small group than with many people. Be it looking for a parking space at the wedding ceremony, the space in the wedding hall itself, the logistics for sparkling wine and snacks or organizing the taxi to the hotel after hours together with too much wine and cocktails.

The weather also loses its horror with fewer guests. If, for example, the free wedding on the meadow threatens to fall into the water because of a sudden rain shower, it is much easier to guide a small wedding party under a protective tree or simply hold an umbrella for each guest.

Whatever you can imagine, almost everything can be solved in a more relaxed manner with a Tiny Weddings.

Of all the arguments in favor of small weddings, a global pandemic is probably the least attractive. But since 2020 there have been framework conditions that make planning large weddings difficult.

How many people are allowed in the registry office? Will wedding locations or restaurants be open? If not, how many guests can be accommodated in the garden or in private rooms?

Something other than a tiny wedding is often not possible under the respective restrictions. And even if they do, it is difficult to assess whether the rules will not have changed again in a few months. With a shorter guest list, it is much easier to react to such changes in the planning. A Tiny Wedding therefore also offers more planning security due to the corona.

Not least because of this, among the bridal couples who are thinking about a tiny wedding today, there are also those who are actually planning a large wedding celebration, but have already had to postpone due to Corona. They are currently faced with the question of what to do if the situation has not gotten better by the new date. Move again? Or maybe you would rather have a small party?