5 Reasons a Micro Wedding Might Be the Best Decision You Make

We shot our first micro wedding in 2022. After the ceremony, everyone went back to the couple's house — first dance in the backyard, pizzas ordered for the table, the whole thing wrapped up by 9pm. It was one of the best days we've ever had on the job.

Micro weddings — typically 50 guests or fewer — took off during COVID out of necessity, but a lot of couples who went smaller discovered they actually preferred it. And now it's a genuine choice rather than a forced one.

Here's why more South Australian couples are going this route.

Your budget goes further — and to better places

Fewer guests means a smaller venue, fewer meals, and a shorter bar tab. That money doesn't just disappear — it gets reinvested into the parts of the day that actually matter to you. A better photographer. The dress you actually wanted. A honeymoon that isn't a compromise.

The math on a micro wedding often surprises people. You can have a genuinely beautiful, high-quality day for a fraction of what a large wedding costs.

You actually get to enjoy your own wedding

One of the most common things couples tell us after a big wedding is that the day was a blur. They spent so much of it doing rounds, managing family politics, and trying to give everyone their moment that they barely had time to be present in their own.

With 20 or 30 people, that pressure mostly disappears. You have real conversations. You're actually there for the day rather than running it.

The photos are different — in a good way

Smaller weddings photograph differently. There's more intimacy, more genuine moments, more time for us to be creative rather than just keeping up with the schedule. Some of our favourite images have come from micro weddings precisely because we had the breathing room to actually look for them.

Less planning, less stress

A smaller guest list means a shorter lead time with caterers, a simpler seating arrangement (or none at all), and generally fewer moving parts to manage in the months beforehand. For couples who aren't natural planners — or who just have a lot else going on — this is genuinely significant.

More honeymoon

Put it this way: the average Australian wedding costs around $36,000. A micro wedding done well might cost $12,000–$15,000. That's a significant chunk of change that could become an extra two weeks in Europe, a business class upgrade, or simply a financial cushion going into married life.

Thinking about going smaller? Come have a chat with us →