Are you considering hosting a small wedding reception?

Throwing a smaller wedding comes off as a surprise to everyone whosoever comes across it. Most synonymous question is why would anyone want to throw a smaller wedding? The reason is obvious as nowadays over-the-top, lavish weddings are quite a common sight everywhere. But yes there are brides and grooms who prefer and cherish a more personalized, intimate ceremony.

To begin with a small wedding literally does not refer to an informal wedding or a simple or may be a cheap wedding. It is primarily associated with the size of the guest list. So, rather than inviting your best friend's great aunt from Pittsburgh, the guest list is strictly confined to a much smaller circle of close relatives and friends. But how small can be the next best question. Well, for some people, it may imply fewer than 200 people and for some, 100 people can be the cut-off mark. Not only that but it can also be less than 50 or 30 guests in total for some people.

In this regard there are a host of unique small wedding ideas that can be instrumental in making your wedding day memorable for a long time:

1. The primary motto behind an intimate wedding is to share the day with genuinely close family and friends implying that you can always make your own wedding favors. For example, a homemade goodie basket of cookies and candies or may be a personalized CDs constituting your favorite music.
2. Guests can be made to share their personal sentiments on a tablecloth by writing.
3. Personalized wedding invitations can be designed depicting a special sentiment.
4. Instead of a processional, you should make the guests to mingle with each other prior to the service over wine and cheese.
5. Hand over flower to each of your family member and have them line the aisle. So, as the bride approaches towards the altar, she collects flowers from each one of them to assemble her bouquet in order to symbolize the contributions the family has made to this union.
6. Try to incorporate as many ethnic or family traditions which may have been sidelined through the years.

In the nutshell it can be said that apart from sharing the biggest day of your life with a limited, intimate group of friends, a small wedding leverages you the freedom to focus on those areas of the wedding that are most significant to you and might otherwise have been out of your reach.