The Big Easy
What's your venue vibe?
CASALINGA: This venue has it all. It offers a number of wonderful settings for a ceremony: chapel garden, banana tree backdrop, lemon orchard, veggie patch, take your pick! They also offer a superior dining experience, summer and winter, and have on-site accommodation. Win, win and WIN!
BEECHWOOD GARDENS: This classic Hyde Park garden boasts four acres of lush beauty featuring an abundant rose garden, extensive pond, traditional colonnade and expansive raised vegetable garden. We Do Weddings offers catering and table decor at this venue. Being central to suburbia it is also the ideal venue from which to enjoy a post wedding city dinner or hotel stay. As a superior venue, Beechwood attracts a financial surcharge and is best value if you plan a reception on site too.
GROUND: There is a vineyard in Jozi! Yes there is! And it offers a lovely year round photo backdrop. This property also has an attractive dappled wattle forest and a more remote veld setting. The lux picnics and harvest table lunches (no dinner service) offered on site will cap off your wedding day beautifully. During high season, this venue will only accommodate micro weddings on week days, but we can try our luck for a weekend if your date is imminent.
THE GATSBY - HOUGHTON: This property was completed in 1918 and the moment you pass through the wrought iron gate, you are transported to another time. Elegant antique excess, art deco details, a grand facade and dappled ceremony spot are just some of its best features. Groups can enjoy a wonderful reception meal and stay overnight in one of the boutique hotel's romantic accommodations. This property is very opulent, and their reception costs reflect that.
LEWIS FAMILY FARM - LFF is a working farm in Centurion. Our ceremony set ups are willow and water vibe, or farm field and big tree vibe. We adore both. Oh. And did we mention that they have alpacas. Alpacas!
INDUSTRIAL GARDEN: Victoria Yards is a re-developed inner city space that is home to a myriad of creative workshops. Its industrial vibe is perfectly offset by lawned courtyards and the rambling veggie garden that borders each pathway. This is an uber cool venue for an uber cool urban couple keen to enjoy city vibes on their wedding day. There is a fab little bar on site, and it's ideal if you'd like to move on to a suburban restaurant after your ceremony.
THE STONEHOUSE at Taroko Farm is a a stunning heritage building with wide veranda, ample lawn, gardens and river frontage. It is located within the Modderfontein Nature Reserve just outside Sandton. They have a good variety of catering packages on offer. Suggested for weekdays as it's adjacent to a popular market on the weekends so can be a bit noisy.
VENUE OF YOUR CHOICE: Polly loves a road trip! Chat to us if you have another venue in mind.
What is the tone of your ceremony?
Micro weddings and elopements by their nature are ceremony focused.
And we are very focussed on getting you married in a way that works for you. This means you have lots, and lots of say in the tone you'd like to set. You steer the ship with regards to your ceremony being secular or Christian, formal or fun.
Anna is the secular Marriage Officer for Big Easy weddings, offering personalised celebrant style ceremonies. Rev. Craig is your Christian Marriage Officer. His big heart and abundance of experience brings a quiet calm to religious ceremonies.
WHICH PHOTOGRAPHER IS YOUR FAVE?
Photography is vitally important, we know! That's why we work with a team of peeps who are not only fabulous photographers, but superb humans too They will guide you seamlessly and happily through your shoot.
See their socials below:
Anandi HERE.
Mila HERE.
Check out Sally and Cam HERE. Videography too.
Zandalee HERE.
Aaaaaaand.... Marzaan's work is featured HERE. Videos too!
At Big Easy weddings you will enjoy 90 mins of photography to cover your ceremony, friends and family, couples and portrait shots. This is included in your package price. We catch well over 100 moments in that time, but you can add an extra hour should you want some getting ready or behind the scenes pics. You'll have a sneak peak in few days, and your edited file in about six weeks, depending on the season. Prints and photo books can be ordered directly from most photographers.
WHICH FLOWERS ARE FAB?
Florals are vital and opulent and lovely at Big Easy weddings. And recommended at our Little Easy weddings too! In keeping with our commitment to avoid overwhelm, we have bundled them into six palettes. There is much variation possible within these schemes depending on your taste and the seasonal availability of particular blooms. Enjoy aaaalll the inspo on our Pinterest boards.
Add your personal flair by selecting items from our enhancements menu:
Additional guests
Extra photography time
Additional flowers
French Champagne
Biodegradable confetti 'flutters'
Smoke bombs
A 'fancy' cake
Personalised cake topper
Stationery
Personalised photo prop
Oversized balloons
A reception meal
"I belong with you, you belong with me...
you're my sweetheart"
The Lumineers