The Art of the Intimate Wedding

Planning for 50 or less
Kicking off our big week of double guest posts, Nathalie Green from Pillingers Hiring Service in Sydney, Australia, shares her expertise on planning a wedding with a smaller guest list.

Wedding fashions are susceptible to many a peak and trough. I’ve noticed the big-event spectacles of old are ever-so-quietly being replaced with small-scale ceremonies. Guest lists of 20-50 are taking over meandering inventories of extended family, part-time co-workers, high school pals and the new arm candy of a distant cousin. There are many reasons for the current change in the marital tides: economic climates around the world are a tad dryer than what they have been in the past. Loved-up couples have high rents and expenses that make the idea of inviting every Tom, Dick and Harry under the family umbrella a daunting, if not impossible, task.