San Diego Micro Weddings

What Is a Micro Wedding?

Micro weddings typically do not exceed 50 people, and can even be as small as your nuclear family. Micro weddings have taken the wedding world by storm due to their intimate settings, flexibility to create the dream wedding you want, and what you can do with your budget.

Why Micro Weddings Are Trending

The tides are changing and more and more couples are straying away from the traditional wedding we are used to seeing. This means couples are wanting more intimate settings, the option to travel outside of their normal realm, and to be economically resourceful with their big day. There are endless possibilities to how you can plan a wedding now, so why not do it your own way?!

#1 It’s Cost-Effective

Let’s start with the budget, since this is where all couples should truly start when thinking about planning their big day! With a smaller guest list, your budget can stretch farther! Since your budget won’t have to cover as many guests’ food and beverage (the pricey part), all of the amazing floral arrangements, decor and details you’ve dreamed of can have a larger budget allotted to them! So for all the detail oriented couples, you can truly have some of those Pinterest ideas IRL!

For those who just don’t want to put a larger budget towards a wedding, so you can save for the future, micro weddings are the way to go! You can create your own experience with what, and who, matters most to you. Why should you have to forgo celebrating your marriage because of how much a wedding can cost? Instead, you can get married on the beach, in the park, or somewhere special to you by pulling a permit, and host a private dinner/party to celebrate afterwards!

#2 Greater Location Flexibility

There are SO many options for your micro wedding ceremony and reception locations. With a smaller guest count, you can virtually get married in the most beautiful places that would typically be too small to even think about. Private dinners, large homes, restaurants, small venues and more are only where your options begin!

If you love to travel, destination weddings have become so much easier due to micro weddings. Your closest family and friends would be happy to travel to celebrate your special day, and accommodations for a smaller party are easy to book and manage. From small room blocks to renting villas your micro wedding can be a micro weekend, without breaking the bank. On top of that, it can easily start or double as your honeymoon! Did someone say Italy?!

When deciding on your perfect venue, we recommend choosing a location, place or experience that is special to you and your relationship. Make it fun, and reflective of who you are as a couple, and don’t forget to check out some of our favorite San Diego micro wedding spots at the end of this article!

#3 More Customization

Let’s talk about making your micro wedding custom! As we talked about before you should always incorporate who you are as a couple into your big day. After all, it is a day about your love! Your decor can be reflective of trips you’ve taken with custom table numbers, sports you play together with favors or the dessert table, or even your lovable pets for specialty cocktail names.

Guests love activities to keep them entertained. You can add fun options to your micro wedding like a fill in the crossword seating chart, live painters, tattoo stations, and more! But what about food? With a micro wedding you book your favorite restaurant, food truck or live action stations instead of going with a large caterer. I mean who doesn’t want their favorite foods at their wedding?

#4 Reduced Stress and Planning

We all know planning a wedding can be stressful, but when you have a large guest count it becomes a second job. With a reduced guest count comes a reduced stress level! You can focus on the fun little details, instead of making sure your high school friend’s ex is sitting far enough away! Whether planning a large, medium or micro-wedding we always recommend hiring a wedding planner, so you can enjoy your planning process. Let the pros make all your dream details come to life, while you celebrate with your favorite people!

#5 Eco-Friendly

We love our planet and micro weddings do too! With a smaller wedding, we create less waste and a smaller footprint. You can choose to have your wedding at an outdoor space which will give you the option to use the surrounding beauty leading to bringing in less floral. You can even have dried floral so that you can reuse it in your home! There are many organizations that you can also donate leftover flowers or food. With a microwedding it is easier to transport these items, and be sustainable!

#6 Better Guest Experience

As we stated earlier, your small guest count will of course be your very close and special guests. This creates the perfect ambiance for your wedding experience. Your guests will feel extra important being one of the few invited to celebrate with you. In turn you will feel so much love and authenticity to your day.

#7 Room for the Unconventional

With micro weddings comes unconventional celebrations, be you and do it how you want to! There’s surprise weddings (you could make it your engagement party), hikes that have a ceremony at the top, receptions at theme parks, and pets for the bridal party. Whatever you can think of that will make you both the happiest is how you should celebrate!

Why Triton Works for Micro Weddings

Triton Charters sails through San Diego Bay giving you all the best views. They have a full service bar, plenty of space for 50 people and is a creative and unique way to celebrate your marriage!

A boat solves the two things that make a small wedding awkward: a room built for two hundred with a guest list of forty, and a ceremony and a reception in two different places. Here they are the same deck, and the view changes while you eat. Tell us your date and guest count and we’ll come back with what the day looks like.

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San Diego Micro Wedding Venues

Without further adieu, here’s our curated list of San Diego micro wedding venues — four more places we would happily send a small guest list.

Flora The Venue

Flora the Venue has the perfect décor and greenery already built in! They are all-inclusive and create the perfect fairytale space!

Nolita House

This is the perfect intimate venue. With an indoor family style table, and an outdoor garden you can use for ceremony and cocktail hour, your guests can all be in one space to celebrate your love!

The Guild Hotel

An old YMCA turned into the cutest boutique hotel, this venue has a vibey lobby bar, gorgeous outdoor patio and multiple ceremony locations. There possibilities are endless with this one!

Malarky Charters

Malarky Charters is perfect for micro weddings. Holding up to 12 guests you can have that perfectly intimate wedding you’ve dreamt of. Sailing San Diego Bay, with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room and plenty of space to celebrate on the bow, we will forever love this option!

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If you’d like to learn more about Triton’s micro weddings, check out our boat weddings page, which carries the packages, the capacities and the booking detail. To read more about getting out on the bay in general, visit our articles page.

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