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When it comes to weddings, we have a lot to say. We’re passionate about curating beautiful and meaningful micro weddings and elopements for our lovely clients. We’re just as passionate about offering advice and sharing inspiration. Read our blogs for insights into planning your own (tiny) big day that’s fun-filled and totally unique.
A small wedding is NOT Plan B.
A small wedding is not a Plan B necessitated by Covid! Though it's obviously impacted weddings in many ways the traditional wedding industry was being disrupted prior to Covid anyway.
Too many couples are locked out of marriage as they just can't financially, and often don't want to, bow to society's expectations of a big, traditional wedding. The US wedding industry alone is worth a whopping 75 billion dollars per year so it's no wonder that it fuels the myth of a wedding day as 'the best day of your life' in order to sustain that. Couples who don't want to blindly follow costly traditions and feel pressure to meet family expectations of a big bash, but also don't wish to go the impersonal route of a registry office were a bit stuck.
Sound familiar?! Enter the micro wedding or elopement. And hear the sighs of relief from couples worldwide who want a respectful, ceremony focussed wedding that accurately reflects them and their style, and their pockets!
Tiny weddings can still be aesthetically gorgeous, often more so, as couples have more budget to spend on special details for fewer guests and they are guaranteed to be less stressful in the planning.
Covid has highlighted that marriage, and weddings, are about committing to each other, and demonstrating your love to each other, as you will need to do for the rest of your life! Once you eliminate napkin folds and seating plans you really can focus on the ceremony, vows and including the traditions that are meaningful to you, and not those that are just routinely followed.
A SMALL WEDDING ISN'T PLAN B!
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A word from Rev. Craig about your wedding ceremony
The Rev. Craig Morrison is our marriage officer and will create and a deliver a wedding ceremony that is uniquely you! A motorbike riding, married dad of two adult children, Craig has solemnised over eleven hundred marriages!
Let’s hear more from Craig… I am tremendously grateful to all the couples who have trusted me with making their #SpecialDay memorable and who have taught me so much. I do a lot more than solemnise couples and register their marriages. The 'work' begins before the happy day by crafting a wedding ceremony that is uniquely perfect for them. I want the ceremony to be interesting and fun and solemn in all the right places, and entertaining and thought-provoking for their guests. Together we create a wedding ceremony that speaks to, and about their relationship journey. I do my best to keep the ceremony tight. The couple must be the focus. We want to say all that is necessary without saying anything that is superfluous. Have a look at this inspiring collection of wedding readings as a start point.
My most important role however is to help couples think through a plethora of relationship issues associated with this wonderful practice we call “marriage”. My motto is: “A wedding lasts a single day, a marriage for a lifetime.” We can safely assume that marriage is the single most significant question of our lives. Why you marry; when you marry; whom you marry; and even how you marry, are weighty matters of personhood and culture and relationship and these questions must be carefully explored!
Rev Craig G. Morrison HC in ABET (UNISA) Hons BTh (UNISA) AFTS (FedSem) Dip.Bib.Studs (CEBI)
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