How to make a small wedding feel special, even for virtual guests

No one wants their wedding guests to feel excluded on the big day, and that includes those joining you virtually. Here are some tips and tricks to make your live stream and small wedding feel like a major event.

What’s most important when planning a small wedding is to make it feel purposefully intimate, rather than just a big wedding that’s been hacked at, wedding planner Kate O'Dowd says.

You’ve been planning it for months, if not years, and now that your wedding day is in sight there’s another spanner in the works. Your parents insisted you invite all the aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbours and in-laws under the sun but now thanks to Covid-19 you have the fun job of restructuring your guest list and whittling it down without hurting anyone’s feelings and without losing the special feeling that's essential for a wedding day. 

You’ll do something online, of course, but what? And how can you make those joining you over video feel like they’re right in the middle of the celebrations?