Elopement weddings are all the craze right now and love is most certainly in the air, what with many couples opting to celebrate their big day with a small and intimate ceremony that is really special in many ways. Eloping ideally means to run away and to not return. However in the modern wedding industry, this has now become a theme for the weddings that are actually not really the bride and groom eloping at all. However needless to say they are charming and simple and really romantic. Here’s what you need to know about your wedding idea.

Pick A Small and Unique Location and Stay in It

The most important thing here is to set your mind on a destination for your wedding. The both of you will need to finalize on a destination that you would like your small ceremony to be held at and then be sure about it. The more exotic and surreal the location is the better. You may have seen couples getting married in far way lands that you probably have not even heard of sometimes. These are destinations for this type of intimate wedding. You will have to look into logistics, costs and a lot more factors when you think of a location.

It Is Not an Excuse to Negotiate

Yes, one of the key benefits of having this type of wedding is that it is just the both of you and nobody else meaning that you will have very little spending to do. However, this is also being misused to a certain extent according to industry sources, where couples keep asking for discounts and lower prices because it is a wedding of this nature. Even though you may be having an elopement wedding you cannot, for instance, ask a New York elopement photographer to lower the prices of their packages. That would not be professionally respectful to them. You will anyway be spending much less than you would, should you have had a traditional wedding so don’t be cheap with the essentials on this one.

Your Family and Friends Will Not Be There

Even though this is a theme only, you also have to know that in real for any elopement wedding you will not have your family and friends around to walk you down an aisle or anything.

If you are going to be planning for a wedding of this sort, you should always make sure that there is no qualms about this particular fact later. You should be able to get everything done on your own and you should definitely have to have the support of your partner in the planning because it is just the both of you in the wedding and your photographer. Don’t take things too seriously, well don’t take them too lightly either, but keep a healthy balance and try to enjoy the day. After all, you will both me getting married and starting the rest of your lives together. That is a true reason to celebrate and rejoice and truly enjoy what love is for the both of you.