Why fewer guests make a better wedding

We started The Small Affair after our own wedding on Paros. There were very few of us. A long table, the sea, the people we loved most. It remains the best party either of us has been to, and it taught us something we have built a studio around: fewer guests make a better wedding.

A microwedding, for us, means twenty to ninety guests. Small enough that every person matters, large enough for a real celebration. And at that size, things become possible that simply do not work with two hundred people.

You can talk to everyone

Not a hurried hello between photographs, but a proper conversation, a glass shared, a story heard.

The place can be extraordinary

Many of the most beautiful houses, palaces and gardens in Spain cannot hold a large wedding. At fifty guests, they open their doors.

Every detail can be considered

Handwritten place cards, a menu built around your favourite dishes, wines chosen for each course. Attention is a finite thing, and a smaller wedding lets us spend it where it shows.

A microwedding is not a compromise. It is a different idea of what a celebration can be.

Your guests become a group

Over a weekend, people who met on Friday are old friends by Sunday. That rarely happens in a crowd.

The budget goes further

Not necessarily less, but differently: into the food, the wine, the place and the experience of each guest, rather than into scale.

We think it is the better way to celebrate.