How to Make Sure Your Elopement or Intimate Wedding Feels Monumental

Whatever your reason for deciding to elope or host an intimate wedding—be it the desire to have a smaller, more personal celebration or because the larger wedding you had planned was rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic—one thing’s for sure: You want this day to feel special in its own right. That shouldn’t be a difficult task, especially with the right know-how and potentially even a little help from a wedding-planning professional. In fact, elopements and small wedding are often even more meaningful than an all-out traditional celebration, according to Kate Johnson, leisure travel planner and honeymoon specialist. “As a honeymoon specialist, I like to joke to clients that the wedding is for everyone else and the honeymoon is for the two of you, but eloping, I believe, can combine both of these—it’s a wedding and honeymoon all rolled into one!” she says. “Eloping can allow for your union to be just between the two of you, as it was meant to be.”