They booked the registry office for eleven and the corner table of their favourite restaurant for one. My whole brief fitted on an index card, and it remains one of the loveliest days I have ever worked.
Where the care went
With no marquee to fill, every detail got the full attention of the budget: a bouquet built that morning, a dress with no train to manage, handwritten menus, and a photographer who shot the whole thing like a short film.
Small is not the absence of a wedding. Done deliberately, it is the concentrate.