Description
A wedding for 25 people is not a wedding for 130 with fewer chairs. Every guest is at arm’s length, the timeline collapses, the money moves to different places, and half the venues on your list are suddenly restaurants, gardens and galleries that have never hosted a wedding in their lives. Most planners work out the hard way that a small wedding takes almost as many hours as a big one, and by then they have already quoted a small fee.
The Micro-Wedding & Elopement Playbook fixes both halves of that problem: how to plan the day properly, and how to charge properly for it.
What is inside
- The three guest-count bands — elopement, micro, intimate — and what each one changes
- Six things that genuinely shift at a smaller scale, from guest visibility to per-head spend
- Discovery questions to fill in with the couple at the first meeting
- The guest list conversation written out word for word, including what to say when someone asks to be added
- An 18-point venue viability checklist for restaurants, gardens, galleries and private houses
- A supplier plan table sized for a smaller wedding
- Two printable run sheets: 25 guests with an afternoon ceremony, and a six-person elopement
- The things that get forgotten at this size, from ceremony sound to legal witnesses
- A package costing worksheet that prices three tiers from your real hours
- A one-page template for writing out your own package inclusions and boundaries
Who it is for
Wedding planners and coordinators adding a small-wedding offer, celebrants and photographers who run elopement packages, venue coordinators taking on intimate bookings, and couples planning a small wedding who want it to feel designed rather than reduced.
After you use it, you will have a package you can publish with a real fee behind it, a run sheet you can hand to any supplier, and a clear answer for the couple who asks why twenty-five guests still costs what it costs.
What’s inside
- Elopement, micro and intimate guest bands explained
- First-meeting discovery worksheet
- Guest list scripts you can say out loud
- Venue viability checklist for non-wedding spaces
- Supplier plan table
- Two printable run sheets
- Package costing worksheet for three tiers
- Your package inclusions template
