Description
A dinner for twenty on a stone terrace. Vows on a misty ridge at sunrise. Forty guests stepping off a boat for a three-day celebration. Smaller guest lists and far-away places have become one of the fastest-moving corners of the wedding world, and every one of these weddings needs a planner who can get the paperwork right, build a team they’ve never met and stay calm when the weather turns.
What’s inside
- Small weddings, big decisions: the wedding types couples book today, micro and intimate weddings, and elopements and adventure elopements
- Destination fundamentals: the anatomy of a destination wedding, legal, symbolic and religious ceremonies, cultures and customs, and choosing the destination and venue
- Planning from afar: destination and intimate budgets, the planning timeline, building your team abroad, and guests, travel and hospitality
- Designing small and far: designing with a sense of place, and multi-day celebrations and guest experiences
- The wedding, start to finish: wedding week on location, wedding day responsibilities, and risk, safety and when things go wrong
- Building your business: services, packages and pricing, and marketing an intimate and destination business
The Micro, Intimate & Destination Wedding Handbook fillable ebook gives you all 18 chapters, the planning recipes, The Destination Atlas and 90 worksheets as one PDF. The worksheets have typeable fields: couple questionnaires, destination shortlists, budgets, timelines, supplier vetting, guest travel plans, risk plans, packages and more. Fill them in on screen, save them, and print them whenever you need a clean copy.
What you get
- The complete book: 432 pages in full colour
- 90 fillable worksheets
- The Destination Atlas: wedding locations and checklists by region
- Instant download after purchase
- Works in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Apple Preview and most PDF apps
Built on The Wedding Academy’s Elopements, Intimate and Destination Wedding course, and written by Jac Bowie, owner and CEO of The Wedding Academy, which has trained more than 11,000 students since 2004.
Digital product: no refunds once purchased and downloaded. Please download and save your copy. You may print the worksheets for use in your own business. Please don’t share or resell the file.
Also included
- Bonus: the worksheets as a separate, lighter fillable workbook PDF, easy to print for each client
Paperback coming soon. See the whole series at weddingacademyglobal.com/books.
Who this book is for
- You want to plan micro weddings, elopements or destination weddings
- You’re a planner adding small or destination weddings to your services
- You’re a venue, celebrant or supplier working with couples from far away
Not sure yet? Read the first chapter free, worksheets included.
Questions about The Micro, Intimate & Destination Wedding Handbook
Is The Micro, Intimate & Destination Wedding Handbook an ebook or a printed book?
This listing is the ebook: a full-colour PDF you download straight after purchase. A paperback edition is coming soon. Join the waitlist on the books page.
Can I type into the worksheets?
Yes. All 90 worksheets have fillable fields. Type into them on screen, save your copy and print a fresh set whenever you need one. They work in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Apple Preview and most PDF apps on computer and tablet.
Who wrote it?
Jac Bowie, owner and CEO of The Wedding Academy, which has trained wedding professionals online since 2004. It is one of the eight books in The Wedding Academy Handbook series.
Is the book the same as the course?
No. The book is built on The Wedding Academy’s Certificate in Intimate, Micro & Destination Weddings and is yours to keep as a reference and workbook. If you want to study with The Wedding Academy and earn the certificate, enrol in the Certificate in Intimate, Micro & Destination Weddings.
Can I get a refund?
It’s a digital product, so there are no refunds once it has been downloaded. Please save your copy somewhere safe.
The Wedding Academy Handbook series: eight books by Jac Bowie for wedding planners, stylists, florists, business owners and couples. See every book in the series. Ready to study? Explore the Certificate in Intimate, Micro & Destination Weddings.












