{"id":10662,"date":"2024-07-18T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/dont-want-to-spend-30000-on-a-wedding-these-philly-micro-wedding-venues-offer-packages-for-1000-or-less\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:00:43","slug":"dont-want-to-spend-30000-on-a-wedding-these-philly-micro-wedding-venues-offer-packages-for-1000-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/en\/dont-want-to-spend-30000-on-a-wedding-these-philly-micro-wedding-venues-offer-packages-for-1000-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t want to spend $30,000+ on a wedding? These Philly micro-wedding venues offer packages for $1,000 or less"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Angela Gaspar spent about $2,000 to get married last weekend.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia wedding photographer opted to forgo the extravagance that accompanies so many modern nuptials \u2014 and this year will cost U.S. couples $33,000 on average<\/a>, according to the wedding planning site Zola.<\/p>\n

In front of a handful of friends, Gaspar and her now husband, Avi Rubinsky, tied the knot at Philly Elopement Co., their new Kensington micro-wedding venue, which maxes out at 16 guests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even brainstorming for a smaller but more traditional wedding, \u201cI just started getting overwhelmed,\u201d said Gaspar, 46, of Fishtown<\/a>. \u201cThe cost, the planning, thinking of having all that attention on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple briefly considered getting married in Las Vegas,<\/a> Gaspar said. \u201cBut then we were like, \u2018Why isn\u2019t there something like this here, but cooler?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So they found a loft space and opened their own micro-wedding venue. Their yearlong lease started July 1, and the website went live last week. On Saturday, they became the first couple to get married there. They plan to spend the money they saved on a honeymoon to Iceland.<\/p>\n

Philly Elopement Co. is the latest Philadelphia venue to cater exclusively to so-called micro-weddings, or nuptials with fewer than 50 people in attendance<\/a>. These ceremonies typically aren\u2019t followed by traditional receptions, saving couples money (the venue fee alone can be $12,000 or more for larger weddings<\/a>), as well as the stress that so often accompanies the wedding planning process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: More Philly couples are hiring wedding content creators, so they and their guests can \u2018live in the moment\u2019<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Micro-weddings remain in the minority, with 13% of couples who got married last year inviting 50 or fewer people,<\/a> according to a recent survey from wedding planning site the Knot.<\/p>\n

But couples are inviting almost 40 fewer people on average than couples did at the height of the big-wedding boom in 2007, the Knot found. And there are indications that some couples are trimming their guest lists more drastically, for financial or personal reasons, as costs keep rising. <\/a><\/p>\n

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