Weddings don’t happen overnight. They start with the first date (and a lot more that follows), meet the friends, meet the parents, a proposal, an engagement, and then months or years of wedding planning. It’s both the culmination of a long journey and the start of a new one. This journey also isn’t taken by just the couple; it’s a journey supported by friends and family that helped build and strengthen the relationship to make it worthy of “I do.”
We tend to think that weddings should be a grand celebration that also has a grand attendance—a sort of declaration of “Hey! Here we are now!” It indeed is a nice way to loudly and proudly show your love but that doesn’t take away from the fact that quaint and quiet celebrations are the flipside of the same coin.
Reasons to Celebrate Intimately
There are plenty of reasons to celebrate a big wedding. For one, it’s a once in a lifetime experience so why not splurge and go extra? As a core memory, a big celebration would indeed be unforgettable.
However, while every couple might want to be wed, not every couple wants to celebrate too loudly. Intimate weddings might be the thing for you if you check out one or more of these things:
You Want More Time to Interact with Guests
Big weddings are a great chance for people from all aspects of your life to come together and have a good time. If you think about it, a well-planned grand wedding is not only a celebration for the couple but also a party for the guests where they can have fun and build connections with other guests. Not to mention, it’s very possible that you wouldn’t know who every guest is: you might know every invitee but their plus 1s or 2s might be someone you’re only acquainted with or someone you’ll only be meeting for the first time (if you get the chance to drop by their table).
In grand celebrations, the best a couple can do is to greet guests from table to table—they might even be strapped for time or guests might have to go earlier than expected so the couple might need to just give thanks and part with a speech.
However, you might be a couple who wants to focus on being able to talk to and spend time with people during the wedding. Intimate weddings are perfect for being able to spend some time sitting and chatting with every guest. You only get to invite a small number of people you know. You also won’t have a difficult time asking them to participate and join in activities like speeches, games, and dances.
You Want to Do More for Your Guests
Grand celebrations shouldn’t stop you from providing a great time for your guests but in one way or another, you’ll be spreading something thin. In our previous discussion, time with each guest might be spread thin. However things like souvenirs, experiences, and attention might also be more generalized.
If you want to be able to provide more for your guests, intimate weddings are for you. More than providing more in quantity, you can provide more in terms of intent and personalization. For a celebration of about 50 people, you can go so far as to create souvenirs personalized to how you know a person. Shirts with one word description of each guest? Mugs with their portraiture? Scarves with their embroidered names? Why not, right?
You can also personalize plates or menu items for them more easily especially for guests that have dietary restrictions. You can even go so far as to provide personalized experiences more easily like having a karaoke room for the titas and titos, a dance floor for the entourage, and a bouncy castle for the tots.
You Want a Wedding Weekend Celebration
Wedding weekends are becoming a thing; couples choose to celebrate their marriage the day before and after the wedding as well. Imagine a staycation but with all your guests with a wedding sandwiched in as the main event.
Throwing a wedding weekend is easier with an intimate guest list. It’s much easier to manage because there are fewer people to keep tabs on. It’s also more enjoyable since everyone can much easily get to know each other if they aren’t already acquainted or close. Living spaces are more manageable too, and it isn’t difficult to sit everyone for breakfast, lunch, and dinner especially in places like Hillcreek Gardens where we have accommodations and an in-house restaurant designed to house groups comfortably.
Just Really Want to Stress Less
Wanting an intimate wedding shouldn’t even need a dissertation. If you don’t like big crowds, if you want to manage more easily, if you like to plan less, and if you generally just want to stress less, those are perfectly good reasons to want an intimate wedding.
Not only are intimate weddings less stressful, you also have a better grasp of situations going into and during the wedding. Being surrounded by fewer but completely close people also means that no matter where you look, there’s always support. While at all weddings, everyone knows your name, at intimate weddings, you know everyone’s names and that can be assuring in more ways than you know.
Curated and Intimately Packaged
An intimate wedding is already less stressful on its own. It could go further into stress-free territory with the right packages. Hillcreek Gardens Tagaytay has a selection of packages that are perfectly fit for intimate weddings, starting at 50 persons. For parties of 50 persons or fewer, the Garden and Flowerhouse are venues that can comfortably house you without the venue feeling too large. Beyond 50 persons, most of our other venues can easily be used for your wedding, Garden and Flowerhouse included.
You also get the flexibility of choosing between Premier and Prestige packages. Premier is the basic package that already has all your wedding essentials in tow, including complimentary accommodations, food, photo and video, and lights, sounds to name a few. Prestige is everything on Premier but with some extras like exclusive use of grounds for prenup pictorials, wine bottles for your VIPs, use of bridal cars and more.
Intimate weddings might not have as big an attendance but they can be equally grand as any big wedding. Having an intimate wedding is more a matter of comfort, quiet class, and quality interactions. Keeping your wedding small is a big way to give more of your heart to the friends and family that have been through all the ups and downs of your couple’s journey.