Planning Your Northern Virginia Micro Wedding
Your Micro Wedding Guide to a Northern Virginia Tiny Wedding Ceremony
We love our DC and Baltimore wedding venues and vendors, but living a hop, skip, and jump away from Northern Virginia means even more choices when it comes to planning your micro wedding!
Northern Virginia, including Alexandria and Arlington, is a great place to host your small, intimate wedding with friends and family. These towns surrounding DC provide the same charm and beauty as DC and Baltimore but with a more laid-back feel. Here are some things to think about when planning your Northern Virginia micro wedding:
Choose the Right Venue and Embrace Local Virginia Vendors
When searching for the perfect venue for your micro wedding, choose those that cater to smaller gatherings, like a local park or a cozy restaurant. A great way to keep your micro wedding feeling local to the NoVA area is by supporting local businesses. Not sure where to find these? Not to worry! If you decide to work with The Tiny Wedding Collective, we’ll give you have access to our preferred venue list showcasing the best of the best vendors in Northern Virginia.
Our Favorite Venues For NoVA Tiny Weddings
Personalize Your NoVA Tiny Wedding Ceremony
Since you’ve decided to have a smaller guest list, you’re able to create an intimate setting that allows you to focus on the guest experience, making it more meaningful and customized. Use this opportunity to personalize your ceremony, whether it be a special location, writing your own vows, or including readings or rituals that are unique to you and your partner.
Flexible Timing for Your Northern Virginia Micro Wedding
Since you’re having a micro wedding, you may want to look into getting married during the off-season to help with venue availability and your wedding day budget. The dollar goes a bit further when you’re open to getting married in the summer or winter or on a weekday instead of a weekend day. Not only might your venue offer a discount for an off-peak micro wedding date, but your other vendors may, as well!
And if you book with The Tiny Wedding Collective, you’ll save $515 by celebrating your wedding on a weekday! Of course, we understand that off-peak dates and times of year may not always be an option for our couples - especially if you have lots of family and friends traveling in from out of town. That’s why we make our packages as affordable as possible - avoiding vendor minimums -without compromising on quality!
Check out our latest post on how to save money on your micro wedding!
Getting Married in Virginia - The Legal Stuff
Getting married in Northern Virginia does involve some logistical aspects but we try our best to make this part of the process as simple and straightforward as possible. If you hire The Tiny Wedding Collective, an officiant is included in your package, which means we’ll guide you step-by-step on how to get your marriage license and make your micro wedding official! And can I just say? Our officiants are incredible.
It’s not a “one size fits all” approach. Our officiants will meet with you ahead of time to ensure your ceremony is personal with any readings, rituals or traditions that are important to you included. Here is the link to our blog covering how to Get Your Marriage License in Virginia.
The Best Hotels To Host Your Micro Wedding Guests
While some of our couples choose to simply elope without any guests, we know that having a support system can be a really important part of celebrating a micro wedding. Sharing a list of hotels for your guests to stay at or organizing a room block ahead of time is a nice way for your guests to feel taken care of on the weekend of your wedding. Knowing you and your guests will have a comfortable and convenient place to land once the celebrating is over will be a major stress reliever.
Meeting House - a boutique hotel in Falls Church with an incredible restaurant attached and outdoor fire pits.
Hotel Indigo - an IHG hotel that feels like a boutique hotel located in the center of historic Old Town, Virginia, on the waterfront.
Hotel AKA - located in Old Town, this slightly larger hotel would be great for a wedding room block
TAKE A PEEK AT SOME OF OUR PAST MICRO WEDDINGS FOR INSPIRATION!
A Micro Wedding Reception at Virtue Feed and Grain
An Intimate Wedding Ceremony at The Carlyle House
A Virginia Summer Elopement in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Not sure where to start?
Here are some helpful posts to help you plan YOUR MICRO WEDDING:
Answers To Our Most Frequently Asked Micro Wedding Questions
Three Things to Consider Before Choosing Your Micro Wedding Venue
Should We Add Time With Our Day of Coordinator and Photographer?
Northern Virginia has a little bit of everything - from historic architecture to springtime gardens to laid-back breweries, there’s something for everyone. From Fairfax and Alexandria to Manassas, Lessburg, and Falls Church, we are so excited to help coordinate and make your small, intimate NoVA wedding a perfect day for you both.
Ready to start planning your Virginia micro wedding with us? Reach out today to get started!
PS. We love small, intimate moments and also do elopements and elopement ceremonies in Northern Virginia as well! Plus, we serve Baltimore micro wedding couples and DC couples for tiny weddings and elopements!
The Tiny Wedding Collective is a Washington DC-based all-inclusive elopement and intimate wedding planning service for DC and Baltimore, Maryland as well as Northern Virginia. A Tiny Wedding is for couples who want to celebrate their commitment in a thoughtful, stylish way but don’t want the stress and fanfare of a big, expensive wedding. Not all couples fit inside the same traditional box and it’s time that we make space for inclusivity, diversity, and creativity. To find out more about what it’s like to work with us, please fill out our contact form here.