“Arranging a wedding with a limited number of guests is termed as an intimate wedding. Here are some dazzling ideas to make your intimate wedding a galére with your loved ones”
Ever since the Covid-19 outbreak, intimate weddings have been a favourable option among couples to abide by the regulations of a limited number of people in a galére.
However, it doesn’t mean that intimate weddings lack the flavour and are dull in nature. Your wedding has to be the day of reminiscing memories and a lifetime album of tenderness, irrespective of the magnitude.
Unlike the big fat weddings, which are associated with everything massive and myriad, intimate weddings gives you the peace of mind for its association with everything minim. Not only that, it saves you a lot of money retaining the depth of your pocket.
In this list, WedNicely has made it possible for you to work on a limited count and magnitude of functions, and still have all the fun of a grand wedding.
Read on to find 10 amazing ideas for a dazzling intimate wedding to have awesome and flawless ceremonies with ease. Also, this list does not follow any particular order, so you can select whichever idea you feel fascinated by.
1. Intimate Wedding in a heritage location
Couples who want to have an experience of a wedding as an emperor and an empress must consider an intimate wedding in a heritage-rich location. If you are fascinated by the beauty of old palaces and temples and gardens, then you can consider an intimate wedding at any such place.
You need to first set an appointment with the authorities to permit you for your D-day. And, as and when you get the permission you are ready for a magnificent & beguiling wedding in these beautiful places, however small the headcount may be — which is also peacemaking in its own way.
2. Intimate Garden Wedding
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Garden Wedding? Are you visualising lush greens all around with blooming flowers from the branches of the trees? Or are you visualising a pavilion in the centre of the garden with a limited number of guests around you?
Whichever or however you visualise a garden setting of your wedding, it is an implausible idea to host one. A garden wedding is an afresh possible way to have a grandiose yet regulated intimate wedding.
Two more additional benefits of hosting an intimate wedding in a garden are not spending on decorative flowers for the pavilion and contributing towards not exploiting nature for the sake of beauty for a day. Lest, in a garden, you are already provided with the implicit beauty of nature.
3. Wedding amidst Wild
A wedding in the wild! Is that even an option? Absolutely yes!
If you are fond of and mesmerised by nature and forests and far away places then you should opt for a wedding in the wild. A wedding of this ilk has its own perks because only a limited number of people can move to a place where you can take the vows.
And how interesting it would be to get clicked, collect out-of-the-world stories and reminisce about your wedding in the wild after a couple of years. And to make this eccentric idea possible you can book slots in some of the resorts far from the city in the lap of absolute nature.
These resorts will be the perfect resort for all the wedding excitement and happiness you were looking for.
4. Intimate wedding on sands
For the couples who love the tides of the ocean tides touching their feet, basking under the sun below a foldable bastion, or the breathtaking view of the setting sun; a wedding on a beach is the perfect option.
Imagine how alluring it would be to take the vows and say ‘Yes, I do’, alongside the pleasing sounds of the ocean and milieu of setting or rising sun.
Exchanging garlands on the beach will always be a memory etched in your hearts that you would always want to revisit.
The lovesome pictures that you two would pose for will be the most ravishing pictures — just imagine holding hands and sinking into each other’s eyes while the sun sets behind you. It would be an immense bliss to have those pictures with only two of you in them.
5. Wedding on Yacht
Another idea of an intimate wedding for the couples who love to be around waters is a nautical wedding on a yacht. This particular kind of wedding will leave you mesmerized by the visual treats that it has to offer.
Visual treats like vivid harbours, coastal, and skyline will be etched in your soul for eternity. Everything, from the marriage ceremony on the upper deck to, a cocktail party on the lower deck, and to a diner in an adorable room can be managed on a single trip — making it easy for you to onboard guests, thus reducing the expenses of varied accommodations.
And about pictures, you just got a chance to make your very own iconic titanic pose, or the king and the queen of Atlantis, or a mermaid and a merman of the seas. These fantastic pictures will stay with you for every moment of life until eternity.
6. Wedding alongside a pool
Some of the couples would want to have a wedding in their own elegant and casual style. And a poolside wedding is a chic way to host one.
It is up to you two to decide the tone of the wedding which can be white and sparkling, vibrant and majestic, or casual and classy definition. The advantage of having a poolside wedding is, of course, a pool.
So, you have access to the cocktail party at the same venue soaking yourself in the pool following the entire evening.
7. Hill-top Intimate wedding
For the love of mountains, to-be-weds can also go for weddings in and around the breathtaking valleys, hills and mountains. There are many guest houses, resorts, or hotels in valleys that would happily want you to organise your wedding in the snowy world.
The feel and vibe of a wedding amidst hills and mountains are going to be exceptionally unique for their rich culture and practices.
Imagine waking up on your D-day in chilling cold weather to see your fiancé from the balcony of your dome. And then impressed by the hospitality offered by the resorts in their details to provide an immersive experience.
In short, a hill-top intimate wedding is itself a blissful experience.
8. In-House Intimate wedding
This could be an immensely modest way of hosting a wedding for an intimate wedding idea. In this pandemic, what could be more safe and sound than your would-be, parents and loved ones around at the comfort of your home?
This ilk of a wedding gives you a sense of familiarity, a unique sentiment, and an accomplished charm with everyone important around to mark a notable day.
The expenses of this kind of wedding will also be the bare minimum for the reason being hosted at your residence, able to manage rituals and customs like roka, sangeet, haldi cermony all at home, and around the only deeply loving people.
9. Intimate Terrace Wedding
If you are planning to have a wedding in the open air, and are not very fond of claustrophobic banquets then a terrace wedding is a perfect location for you.
The benefits of a terrace wedding are the emptiness and the grandioseness it offers for a place where everything has a sense of liberty.
Usually, these terrace venues are on a higher level of any building so that you are not bothered and are not bothering anyone with your excitement and inspired celebrations.
Since you can customise everything based on your needs, the wand of expenses and décor is totally in your hands. An intimate wedding on a terrace is the best option when it comes to a soiree for a limited number of people.
10. Virtual Wedding
This is a new form of hosting weddings because of the Covid-19 pandemic and requires basic things a normal wedding is conducted with — replacing the physical aspects.
In a total contradiction to Big Fat Indian weddings, virtual weddings are hosted by following the mandated guidelines as per the state or central government with a priest, guests, and other relatives connected via video call or live streams.
Even the invitations are sent in an e-invitation milieu, where companies like Canva, Printstop, and WedNicely will help you create a mesmerising one.
If you are in a position when you cannot push dates further and there is no place for risk then you can go for this viable transition in comparison to traditional physical meets. Because, regardless of people’s presence, their love can shower upon you from any corner of the world.
These are some of the great ideas for an intimate wedding to host considering the current scenario. Besides these, if you are looking for some exciting fun & entertainment, you can conduct these below given events to add a pinch of glitter and spices to your wedding.
1. Open Mics
To hold the entertainment graph rising you can organise open mics at your wedding.
Where in, guests and everyone would have to perform something on stage, as they are open to entertaining with anything — beholding the mic.
2. Picture Booth
From youngsters to millennials, everyone is fond of clicking pictures.
And setting up a picture booth for them will make them head over heels to click pictures for their social media.
3. Movie or TV Show evening
There’s not much population on the planet who does not drool over movies and TV shows, and we bet your guests are not part of that clan.
Since everybody likes to binge movies and TV shows, you can organise an evening totally devoted to it with a popcorn tub in one hand and coke in the other.
To wrap it up, you can add these events that would glitter your already shimmering intimate wedding. After all, guests and relatives would remember only how creative you were with events and functions to make it look like a fairy-tale.